SUPER-HYDROPHOBIC HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES, METHOD OF FORMING THEM AND MEDICAL DEVICES INCORPORATING THEM

Synthetic polymer substrates comprising a hierarchical surface structure of multiple domes and multiple pillars on said domes, wherein said substrate is a synthetic polymer film, said domes have diameters in the range from about 5 pm to about 400 pm, heights in the range from about 2.5 pm and about...

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Hauptverfasser: ISABEL RODRIGUEZ, NOHA ELMOUELHI, KEVIN COOPER, CHEE TIONG LIM, AUDREY YOKE YEE HO, HONG YEE LOW, EMMA KIM LUONG-VAN, SRIRAM NATARAJAN
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Zusammenfassung:Synthetic polymer substrates comprising a hierarchical surface structure of multiple domes and multiple pillars on said domes, wherein said substrate is a synthetic polymer film, said domes have diameters in the range from about 5 pm to about 400 pm, heights in the range from about 2.5 pm and about 500 pm, and said pillars have diameters in the range from about 20 nm to about 5 pm and aspect ratios of from about 2 to about 50, and methods of making and using them.(Fig. 2A)