文摘
Soft lithography offers a convenient set of methods for the transfer of patterns to planar and nonplanarsubstrates. Microelectrodeposition can transform thin metal patterns into self-supporting microstructures,weld components together, and strengthen microstructures after deformations. Together, soft lithographyand electrochemistry provide synergistic technologies and the basis for a strategy for converting planarpatterns into three-dimensional (3D) microstructures with complex topologies. This strategy is illustratedin the formation of folded tetrahedra, square-based pyramids, cylinders with joints, "pop-up" cubes, andlinked chains and knots.