TY - JOUR
T1 - Thermal nanoimprint lithography of polymer films on non-adhesive substrates by using mussel-inspired adhesive polymer layers
AU - Yabu, Hiroshi
AU - Saito, Yuta
AU - Shimomura, Masatsugu
AU - Matsuo, Yasutaka
PY - 2013/2/28
Y1 - 2013/2/28
N2 - In this paper, we show the first demonstration of a substrate-independent thermal nanoimprint lithography (T-NIL) process by using a mussel-inspired amphiphilic polymer as an adhesive layer. Since the thin adhesive layer comprised of the mussel-inspired amphiphilic polymer strongly bound substrates and polymer layers, surface patterns successfully transferred onto polymer layers by T-NIL process without any exfoliation even at near the glass transition temperature of the polymer. By using this biomimetic T-NIL process, surface patterns successfully transferred even onto a poly(tetrafluoroethylene) (PTFE) substrate, which is one of the most non-adhesive materials.
AB - In this paper, we show the first demonstration of a substrate-independent thermal nanoimprint lithography (T-NIL) process by using a mussel-inspired amphiphilic polymer as an adhesive layer. Since the thin adhesive layer comprised of the mussel-inspired amphiphilic polymer strongly bound substrates and polymer layers, surface patterns successfully transferred onto polymer layers by T-NIL process without any exfoliation even at near the glass transition temperature of the polymer. By using this biomimetic T-NIL process, surface patterns successfully transferred even onto a poly(tetrafluoroethylene) (PTFE) substrate, which is one of the most non-adhesive materials.
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U2 - 10.1039/c3tc00882g
DO - 10.1039/c3tc00882g
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84876901752
VL - 1
SP - 1558
EP - 1561
JO - Journal of Materials Chemistry C
JF - Journal of Materials Chemistry C
SN - 2050-7526
IS - 8
ER -