Patterning Reactive Microdomains inside Polydimethylsiloxane Microchannels by Trapping and Melting Functional Polymer Particles

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• 作者：Masashi Yamamoto ; Masumi Yamada ; Nobuhiro Nonaka ; Shizuka Fukushima ; Masahiro Yasuda ; Minoru Seki
• 刊名：Journal of the American Chemical Society
• 出版年：2008
• 出版时间：October 29, 2008
• 年：2008
• 卷：130
• 期：43
• 页码：14044-14045
• 全文大小：175K
• 年卷期：v.130,no.43(October 29, 2008)
• ISSN：1520-5126

文摘

This paper describes a facile technique to pattern reactive microdomains inside polydimethylsiloxane microchannels by utilizing polymer particles as the carrier of functional groups. The air/liquid interface formed in microchannels equipped with microwells exerts lateral force on the particles, trapping particles only inside the wells. We then fix the polymer matrix on the wells by melting the trapped particles to form reactive domains with flexible shapes and high resolution. We employed monodisperse poly(styrene-co-glycidyl methacrylate) microparticles having an epoxy group and patterned various types of microdomains with a resolution of several micrometers. Several tests confirmed the presence of the epoxy group and the flatness of the patterned domain. The presented scheme provides a new way of preparing highly functional microsystems by using simple operations and would be useful for various applications, including local patterning of graft polymers and the site-specific cultivation of cells in a confined space.