Contact Printing

Contact printing enables patterning of a surface through use of a transfer template, simplifying pattern transfer and eliminating the use of more complicated photolithographic techniques. Plasma treatment enhances surface wetting properties to facilitate pattern transfer.

Article

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Patents

Lee I, Drzal LT, Lu J, and Hendricks TR. "Micropatterning of conductive graphite particles using microcontact printing*". US20130009825 A1 (2013).
Drake R, Surgenor A, Rees SB, Hannington J, O'Hare LA, and Reed S. "Deposition of thin films*". US 20070166479 (2007).
Wegner G, and Popovich N. "Diagnostic test media and methods for the manufacture thereof". US20070266871 A1 (2007).
Drake R, Surgenor A, Rees SB, Hanington J, O'Hare LA, and Reed S. "Deposition of Thin Films". WO2005033189 A1 (2005).

Masters Thesis

Barbera N. "Characterizing the Effects of Nesprin 2G and Alpha4Beta1 Integrin on the Intracellular Dynamics of Cells in a Migration Model" MS Thesis, Johns Hopkins University, 2014.
Al-Chami H. "Inkjet printing of transducers" MS Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2010.
Stadman S. "Soft lithography of functional oxide materials" MS Thesis, University of Twente, 2010.

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