PMID- 19466769 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20090825 LR - 20090526 IS - 0743-7463 (Print) IS - 0743-7463 (Linking) VI - 25 IP - 11 DP - 2009 Jun 2 TI - Microcontact printing and lithographic patterning of electrospun nanofibers. PG - 6015-8 LID - 10.1021/la900811k [doi] AB - We describe a method for printing electrospun nanofibers from a collector onto another substrate. The electrospinning collector that we used is made of a thin layer of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) on glass with or without patterned electrodes, allowing the fabrication of either aligned or randomly deposited nanofibers. Afterwards, the electrospun fibers are printed onto a glass substrate, and such a process can be repeatedly used to obtain multilayer fibers with a good reproducibility. We also show a postprocessing method for the pattern formation of electrospun nanofibers by using standard photolithography and reactive ion etching techniques, thereby providing a way of fabricating microarrays of single fibers or distributed fiber matrices. FAU - Shi, J AU - Shi J AD - Ecole Normale Superieure, CNRS-ENS-UPMC UMR 8640, 24 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris, France. FAU - Wang, L AU - Wang L FAU - Chen, Y AU - Chen Y LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - United States TA - Langmuir JT - Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids JID - 9882736 EDAT- 2009/05/27 09:00 MHDA- 2009/05/27 09:01 CRDT- 2009/05/27 09:00 PHST- 2009/05/27 09:00 [entrez] PHST- 2009/05/27 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2009/05/27 09:01 [medline] AID - 10.1021/la900811k [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Langmuir. 2009 Jun 2;25(11):6015-8. doi: 10.1021/la900811k.