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Lab Chip
; 6(7): 936-41, 2006 Jul.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-16804599
RESUMO
We discuss thermoforming of thermoplastic polymers for the hot-embossing lithographic (HEL) fabrication of microfluidic chips near equilibrium conditions that minimize elastic recoil for optimal motif replication. While HEL is often simplistically described as the transfer of micro- and nano-motifs into heat-softened thermoplastic materials, we describe our rational approach to selecting appropriate processing parameters.