From Micro- to Nanofabrication with Soft Materials

Soft materials are finding applications in areas ranging from microfluidic device technology to nanofabrication. We review recent work in these areas, discuss the motivation for device fabrication with soft materials, and describe applications of soft materials. In particular, we discuss active micr...

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Published in:Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 2000-11, Vol.290 (5496), p.1536-1540
Main Authors: Quake, Stephen R., Scherer, Axel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Analytical biochemistry: general aspects, technics, instrumentation
Analytical, structural and metabolic biochemistry
Biological and medical sciences
Biomedical Engineering - instrumentation
Biomedical Engineering - methods
Biotechnology - instrumentation
Biotechnology - methods
Elastomers
Electronic Equipment
Electronics
Engineering - instrumentation
Engineering - methods
Fluidics
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Geometry
Lithography
Manufacturing
Materials
Materials science
Mechanics
Miniaturization
Molding
Molecular electronics
Molecules
Nanotechnology
Optics and Photonics
Organic Chemistry
Polymers
Pumps
Reviews
Scientific Concepts
Silicon
Technology - instrumentation
Technology - methods
Templates, Genetic
Topology
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Summary:Soft materials are finding applications in areas ranging from microfluidic device technology to nanofabrication. We review recent work in these areas, discuss the motivation for device fabrication with soft materials, and describe applications of soft materials. In particular, we discuss active microfluidic devices for cell sorting and biochemical assays, replication-molded optics with subdiffraction limit features, and nanometer-scale resonators and wires formed from single-molecule DNA templates as examples of how the special properties of soft materials address outstanding problems in device fabrication.
ISSN:0036-8075
1095-9203
DOI:10.1126/science.290.5496.1536