Method for making nanowells drawn from a misunderstanding

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - 11:31 in Physics & Chemistry

(PhysOrg.com) -- A safe, simple, and cheap method of creating perfectly etched micron and smaller size wells in a variety of substrates has been developed by researchers in Penn State’s Department of Chemical Engineering. Similar patterned surfaces are currently made using complex and expensive photolithography methods and etch processes under clean room conditions and used in the fabrication of many optical, electrical, and mechanical devices.

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