Polymer scientists and physicists, inspired by curly leaves, develop new technique for shaping thin gel sheets
Thursday, March 8, 2012 - 15:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Inspired by nature's ability to shape a petal, and building on simple techniques used in photolithography and printing, researchers have developed a new tool for manufacturing three-dimensional shapes easily and cheaply, to aid advances in biomedicine, robotics and tunable micro-optics. Researchers have just described their new method of halftone gel lithography for photo-patterning polymer gel sheets.