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[[Image:Creating the PDMS master.svg.png|right|thumbnail|'''Figure 1''' Creating the PDMS master<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Creating_the_PDMS_master.svg>]] | [[Image:Creating the PDMS master.svg.png|right|thumbnail|'''Figure 1''' Creating the PDMS master<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Creating_the_PDMS_master.svg>]] | ||
[[Image:Inking and contact process.png|right|thumbnail|'''Figure 2''' Inking and stamping substrate<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inking_and_contact_process.svg>]] | [[Image:Inking and contact process.png|right|thumbnail|'''Figure 2''' Inking and stamping substrate<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inking_and_contact_process.svg>]] | ||
Microcontact printing (MCP) is a technique that utilizes soft lithography to create a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) "stamp" in order to print micro-scale patterns. The concept of microcontact printing was first published in a 1993 paper written by George Whitesides and Amit Kumar of Harvard University. Their original goal was to use microcontact printing for micromachining. Since then, microcontact printing has been used for a variety of applications from biomaterial patterning to micro electronics.<sup>[2]</sup> | Microcontact printing (MCP) is a technique of [http://openwetware.org/wiki/Flow_Patterning_-_Eric_Rice_and_Wesley_Thompson flow patterning] that utilizes soft lithography to create a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) "stamp" in order to print micro-scale patterns. The concept of microcontact printing was first published in a 1993 paper written by George Whitesides and Amit Kumar of Harvard University. Their original goal was to use microcontact printing for micromachining. Since then, microcontact printing has been used for a variety of applications from biomaterial patterning to micro electronics.<sup>[2]</sup> | ||
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