生物兼容蛋白水凝胶微图案的光刻平版印刷

通过简易的紫外光刻平版印刷技术,对无化学修饰的生物兼容性良好的天然牛白蛋白的水相光刻胶进行微图案化加工,获得了可用作微光栅器件的蛋白质微条纹结构,表征了蛋白质凝胶微条纹图案的宏观性状.结果表明,其折射散射彩虹色明显,单束激光经过后的衍射条纹对称度高,可获得11级衍射条纹.通过改变参数实现了条纹的可控褶皱.将图案化的蛋白水凝胶膜用于肝癌细胞的培养,实现了细胞图案化排布.     

微图案化钙磷盐膜层的电化学构筑及其生物性能

基于表面分子自组装和光催化转印技术,在TiO2膜层表面获得超亲/超疏水阵列微图案模板,结合电化学沉积技术,成功制备了微图案化钙磷盐膜(CaP)层.扫描电子显微镜(SEM)和电子探针分析(EPMA)结果表明,通过超亲/超疏水阵列微图案模板可构筑高空间分辨的微图案化钙磷盐膜层.微图案化钙磷盐膜层的体外MG-63细胞培养证实,细胞对钙磷盐膜层微单元有强烈的选择性粘附作用,从而可望控制细胞在微单元中的贴壁生长,实现高通量评价细胞行为.     

利用Langmuir-Blodgett技术构筑表面微结构的方法*

由于表面纳/微结构在微电子和生物学等领域有着广泛的应用前景,其构筑方法引起了人们越来越多的关注。目前已经发展出了多种表面纳/微结构的构筑方法,然而在大面积上构筑表面结构仍然是一个非常重要的研究课题。自组装技术作为一种无模板的构筑方法,在这方面发挥了重要作用。本文着重介绍了近年来利用Langmuir-Blodgett（LB）技术在表面图案化中的应用。文中介绍了纳/微米级条带结构、岛状结构及纳米线状结构的构筑方法,其中条带结构的形成方向可以平行或垂直LB膜的转移方向。这些结构的构筑不仅可以用传统的两亲性分子,还可以用纳米粒子和纳米线等作为构筑材料。同时简单介绍了以LB技术构筑的表面纳/微米级结构在不同领域中的应用。     

喷墨打印高精度图案研究进展

近年来, 功能材料的图案化及其在高性能光电器件的应用研究受到了广泛关注. 与传统图案化方法相比, 喷墨打印技术更容易实现大面积复杂图案的直接书写和复合功能材料的图案化, 且制备简便, 成本低廉, 使其成为最受关注的图案化方法之一. 综述了近年来喷墨打印制备高精度图案的研究进展. 包括通过优化墨滴的化学组成、调控基材的化学或物理结构以及改进喷墨设备等方法以提高喷墨打印分辨率; 以及通过控制液滴内部的毛细流动和三相接触线的移动抑制喷墨液滴的“咖啡环”效应, 以实现均质打印. 文章最后展望了喷墨打印制备高精度图案的研究发展方向. 这些工作对于实现高性能器件的制备具有重要意义.     

利用去湿现象制备图案化的离子刻蚀聚合物保护层

微米和纳米尺度的图案化表面的制备在微电子、光学、生物、化学和材料科学等领域具有重要的科学意义和应用价值 [1～ 3 ] .由于需要复杂昂贵的设备和苛刻的工作环境 ,光刻技术难以广泛应用于微电子以外的领域 ,因此 ,发展简单、便宜、适用于普通实验室 (尤其是化学实验室 )的表面图案化技术已成为一个涉及众多学科领域的课题 .在近年来不断涌现出来的物理、化学和生物的表面图案化技术 [4～ 6]中 ,最具代表性的是由 Whitesides等 [7]发明的以表面具有微观图案的聚二甲基硅氧烷 (PDMS)弹性体作为模具或印章的软光刻技术 .结合溶胶 -凝胶、…     

硅基图案化TiO2表面微结构的制备和表征

结合微接触印刷术和TiO₂沉积成膜技术,在单晶硅表面成功地制备了具有微米级图案结构的TiO₂薄膜,并利用XPS,SEM和AFM对其表面性质和结构进行了表征.该硅基图案化TiO₂微结构在光电转化、微机电和光催化等领域中的应用具有重要意义.     

利用光响应钌配合物的动态配位键调控表面功能

综合评述了光响应钌配合物的动态配位键在调控表面功能中的应用, 介绍了以可见光或近红外光为光源的光响应钌配合物在表面图案化、 控制蛋白质表面吸附及调控表面浸润性三方面的应用, 讨论了光响应钌配合物的动态配位键在动态表面构筑中的独特优势, 对其未来应用进行了展望.     

二维平面细胞微图案化技术及其生物学应用

可以控制细胞粘附形状、大小的方法统称为细胞图案化技术.这些方法结合微纳米制备、表面化学、电化学和光化学等手段可以动态控制细胞的粘附、迁移、分化及其相互作用,为细胞生物学研究提供了一个新平台.本文介绍了二维平面细胞图案化的各种方法,并对其优缺点进行了总结,评述了细胞图案化技术在细胞生物学基础研究、组织工程以及基于细胞的生物传感器领域的应用.     

以Pluronics为第二组分制备聚乳酸蜂窝状规整多孔薄膜

以聚乳酸（PLA）为成膜材料,以两亲三嵌段共聚物PEO-PPO-PEO（Pluronics）为第二组分,利用水辅助法成功地制备了聚乳酸蜂窝状多孔膜.研究了环境湿度、溶液浓度和所用PLA分子量对多孔膜结构的影响.结果表明,加入第二组分PEO-PPO-PEO能有效地促进规整蜂窝结构的形成.蛋白质吸附实验结果进一步证明了PEO-PPO-PEO组分在孔洞内壁的富集,由此构建了阻抗蛋白质吸附的图案化功能结构表面.     

光刻蚀法制备水凝胶微图案及其应用

采用光刻技术, 通过光引发单体聚合, 在硅烷化破片表面原位制备水凝胶微图案. 该法简便易行, 无需复杂的仪器设备和操作过程, 且所制微图案具有较好的稳定性. 通过细胞微图案化和液滴微结构制备展示了该技术的实用性和潜在的应用方向.     

Fabrication and applications of the protein patterns

Protein has been widely used for fabricating patterned structures since it is one of the most important macromolecules in living organisms,and protein patterns possess potential applications in many fields such as medical diagnosis,tissue engineering,biosensors,and medical screening.At present,there are two fashions to fabricate protein patterns:one is grafting the protein to the microstructure which is prepared by micro-fabrication techniques;the other one is achieving the patterned protein structures directly.Here we provide an overview on current status of the fabrication techniques and the applications of the protein patterns,and then give an outlook on the development of the fabrication techniques and the prospective applications of the protein patterns in future research.     

Patterned surfaces for biological applications: A new platform using two dimensional structures as biomaterials

With the highly interdisciplinary of research and great development of microfabrication techniques, patterned surfaces have attracted great attention of researchers since they possess specific regularity and orderness of structures.In recent years,series of two dimensional patterned structures have been successfully fabricated,and widely used in anti-reflection,anti-fogging,self-cleaning,and sensing,etc.In the meantime,patterned structures have been gradually used in biologically relative fields such as biomaterials,aiming to deepen the perception of organism and understand the vital movements of human body.In this review,we provide a brief introduction on current status of techniques for two dimensional patterns fabrication,the applications of patterned surfaces in biologically related fields,and give out a prospective on the development of these patterned surfaces in the future.     

Novel 3-D structures in polymer films by coupling external and internal fields

A route to produce novel three-dimensional structures in thin films is demonstrated. Such structures are most difficult to produce in a simple manner without the use of multiple fabrication steps. Here, we show the generation of 3-D cage-type structures using a combination of electrohydrodynamic instabilities and dewetting in a polymer/polymer/air trilayer. Removal of one of the components by use of a selective solvent or by degradation of one of the components reveals the formation of a three-dimensional structure, where one polymer is encased in the other. Thus, by coupling an external field with a surface field inherent to the polymers, a novel fabrication strategy is shown that has clear applications in microfluidics and microelectromechanical systems with extensions to patterned surfaces and structured fluids, like block copolymers.     

Directed formation of micro- and nanoscale patterns of functional light-harvesting LH2 complexes

The precision placement of the desired protein components on a suitable substrate is an essential prelude to any hybrid "biochip" device, but a second and equally important condition must also be met: the retention of full biological activity. Here we demonstrate the selective binding of an optically active membrane protein, the light-harvesting LH2 complex from Rhodobacter sphaeroides, to patterned self-assembled monolayers at the micron scale and the fabrication of nanometer-scale patterns of these molecules using near-field photolithographic methods. In contrast to plasma proteins, which are reversibly adsorbed on many surfaces, the LH2 complex is readily patterned simply by spatial control of surface polarity. Near-field photolithography has yielded rows of light-harvesting complexes only 98 nm wide. Retention of the native optical properties of patterned LH2 molecules was demonstrated using in situ fluorescence emission spectroscopy.     

Fabrication of patterned nanofibrous mats using direct-write electrospinning

Due to the numerous advantages of nanofibers, there is a strong demand in various fields for nanofibrous structures fabricated by electrospinning. However, the process is currently beset by troublesome limitations with respect to geometric and morphological control of electrospun nanofibrous mats. This study presents a direct-write electrospinning process and apparatus with improved focusing and scanning functionalities for the fabrication of various patterned thick mats and nanofibrous patterns with high geometric fidelity, supported by a number of experimental results. Consequently, various patterned nanofibrous mats were fabricated using the developed method. Additionally, the fabricated mat was successfully used for cell patterning as a bioengineering application. The proposed method is expected to significantly improve the properties and functionalities of nanofibrous mats in a variety of applications.     

Supported lipid bilayer composition microarray fabricated by pattern-guided self-spreading

We report on the fabrication of a microarray of supported lipid bilayers (SLBs) with different chemical compositions and demonstrate its biosensing application. The technique utilizes the phenomenon of lipid self-spreading on a patterned surface, which offers complete positional selectivity for a supported lipid bilayer. We describe the fabrication of parallel 10-μm-wide lines, each filled with an SLB with a unique composition, at 5 μm intervals. Structures obtained with our new technique are finer and more highly integrated than previously reported structures that employ the vesicle fusion technique on patterned surfaces. We also detected specific binding between biotin and streptavidin with high contrast, indicating that the microarray is valuable for biosensing applications.     

Fabrication of fibrous patterned architectures with controlled deposition and multidirectional alignment

In recent years, the ability to produce nanofibrous patterned architectures by electrospinning has exposed a wide range of potential applications in biomedical and industrial fields. Directional alignment, controlled deposition, and density variation into the patterns are desirable for many applications such as tissue engineering scaffolds and micro/nano‐electronic devices. In this study, we introduce a versatile method for fabrication of various kinds of nanofibrous deposition patterns with the help of microprocessor based control system for switching collector electrodes. By controlling the concurrent activation time of two adjacent electrodes, we demonstrated that amount of fibers going into the pattern can be adjusted and alignment in electrospun fibers can be obtained. We also revealed that the deposition density of electrospun fibers in different areas of patterned architectures can be varied. This advanced technique can have a significant impact in enhancing the technology of electrospinning and can help develop new applications in health sciences and industrial sectors. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Rapid fabrication of microchannels using microscale plasma activated templating (microPLAT) generated water molds

Poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) is a common material used in fabricating microfluidic devices. The predominant PDMS fabrication method, soft lithography, relies on photolithography for fabrication of micropatterned molds. In this technical note, we report an alternative molding technique using microscale PLasma Activated Templating (microPLAT). The use of photoresist in soft lithography is replaced by patterned water droplets created using microPLAT. When liquid PDMS encapsulates patterned water and then solidifies, the cavities occupied by water become structures such as microchannels. Using this method, device fabrication is less time consuming, more cost efficient and flexible, and ideal for rapid prototyping. An additional important feature of the water-molding process is that it yields structural profiles that are difficult to achieve using photolithography.     

Formation of hybrid 2D polymer-metal microobjects

This paper describes a fabrication strategy based on polymer brushes (20-150 nm thick) and soft lithographic techniques, for creating hydrophobic, cross-linked, laterally patterned polymer films. The hydrophobicity of the resulting micrometer-scale "quasi-2D" objects is shown to allow the polymer to act as an etch resist. By adjusting the etching time, we demonstrate that underetching of the gold from underneath the edges of the laterally patterned films can be used to create free-standing polymer-gold hybrid structures. These structures retain their structural integrity when lifted wholly or partially from the substrate and can hence be imaged in suspension. Characterization of the quasi-2D objects was carried out using atomic force microscopy (AFM), ellipsometry, optical microscopy, and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). A continuous film, containing embedded polymer-gold objects, can be lifted, folded, and re-deposited onto a substrate without damaging the conductivity of the embedded metallic objects.