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Elsevier, Microelectronic Engineering, 5-8(87), p. 1379-1382

DOI: 10.1016/j.mee.2009.11.167

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Nanostructures for all-polymer microfluidic systems

Journal article published in 2010 by Maria Matschuk, Henrik Bruus, Niels B. Larsen ORCID
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Abstract

We present a process for fabricating nanostructured surfaces with feature sizes down to at least 50 nm and aspect ratios of 1:1 by injection molding. We explored the effects of mold coatings and injection molding conditions on the final nanostructure quality. A plasma-polymerized fluorocarbon based antistiction coating was found to improve the replication fidelity (shape and depth) of nanoscale features substantially. Arrays of holes of 50 nm diameter/35 nm depth and 100 nm/100 nm diameter, respectively, were mass-produced in cyclic olefin copolymer (Topas 5013) by injection molding. Polymer microfluidic channel chip parts resulted from a separate injection molding process. The microfluidic chip part and the nanostructured chip part were successfully bonded to form a sealed microfluidic system using air plasma assisted thermal bonding. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.