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Inkjet Printing of a Micro/Nanopatterned Surface to Serve as Microreactor Arrays

  • Minxuan Kuang
  • , Lei Wu
  • , Zhandong Huang
  • , Jingxia Wang
  • , Xiuqin Zhang
  • , Yanlin Song
  • Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • CAS - Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry

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Abstract

Microreactors are of great importance for chemical reaction screening, nanoparticle synthesis, protein crystallization, DNA detection, organic synthesis, etc. Here, we reported an effective, flexible, and low-cost method for fabricating microreactor arrays by inkjet printing technology. This strategy utilizes the controllable sliding behavior of the three-phase contact line to form hydrophilic-hydrophobic micropatterns for microreactors with sizes low to several hundreds of nanometers. Reactions in the order of 1 × 10-21 mol molecules can be realized in these microreactors, and crystallization processes can also be conducted to synthesize single crystals.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)30962-30971
Number of pages10
JournalACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
Volume12
Issue number27
DOIs
StatePublished - 8 Jul 2020
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • controllable three-phase contact line
  • inkjet printing
  • micropatterned surface
  • microreactor arrays
  • nanoparticle assembly

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