Mosaic Patterned Surfaces In article number 2206274, Yanjun Hu, Lin Li, and co-workers report a mosaic patterned surface-based chip that acquires mutually independent hardly-volatile capsular droplet arrays. The concept shows high compatibility practicability, paving the way for new microfluidic chips used in COVID-19 diagnosis other high-precision detection.

The patterned template-assisted assembly of the cubic microparticles driven by the competing capillary, Columbic, and van der Waals forces had been studied in comparison with the traditional spherical colloidal microparticles. We observed that the spherical and cubic microparticles assembled with different probability in the channels of the hydrophobic-hydrophilic patterned substrates due to di...

The neuroactive peptides SCP(B) (small cardioactive peptide B) and FMRFamide (Phe-Met-Arg-Phe-NH(2)), both originally isolated from molluscs, have potent modulatory effects upon the production of patterned motor activity in identified neurons (e.g., B5 and B19) in the buccal ganglia of the snail Helisoma. Such patterned motor activity has previously been shown to underlie feeding behavior. Micr...

This paper presents a direct contact printing method to obtain arrayed metallic nanostructures on a soft polymer substrate. It utilizes a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) mold replicated from silicon molds to transfer metallic nanopatterns onto a polymer substrate based on differences in interfacial bonding energy. Arrayed metallic nanodisks with a disk diameter down to 180 nm and a center-to-center...

We have used a very large scale integration process to generate well-defined patterns of polymerized 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA) on patterned Si(100) surfaces. An atom transfer radical polymerization initiator covalently bonded to the patterned surface was employed for the graft polymerization of HEMA to prepare the poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) (PHEMA) brushes. After immersing wafer...

Coccoid cells of the bacterial species Staphylococcus aureus have been mechanically trapped in lithographically patterned substrates and imaged under growth media using atomic force microscopy (AFM) in order to follow cellular processes. The cells are not perturbed as there is no chemical linkage to the surface. Confinement effects are minimized compared to trapping the cells in porous membrane...

We demonstrate a selective atomic layer deposition of TiO2 thin films on patterned alkylsiloxane self-assembled monolayers. Microcontact printing was done to prepare patterned monolayers of the alkylsiloxane on Si substrates. The patterned monolayers define and direct the selective deposition of the TiO2 thin film using atomic layer deposition. The selective atomic layer deposition is based on ...

Strain energy from the lattice mismatch of a heteroepitaxial system can create ‘‘self-assembled,’’ single-crystal islands irregularly arranged on the surface. Alternatively, features of tens of nanometers can be patterned on a substrate by ‘‘nanoimprinting’’ using a mold and etching. When these two techniques are combined, the small patterned features can interact with the self-assembly process...

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