Microcontact Printing Resources

Prominent Publications

1) Avasthi P, Essock-Burns T, Garcia III G, Gehring J, Matus DQ, Mets DG, York R. (2023). Gotta catch ‘em all: Agar microchambers for high-throughput single-cell live imaging. https://doi.org/10.57844/arcadia-v1bg-6b60

Stamps used:

30 um Wide x 30 um Long x 10 um Spacing x 30 um Tall

30 um Wide x 120 um Long x 10 um Spacing x 30 um Tall

100 um Diameter x 100 um Spacing x 40 um Tall

2) Martinez-Armenta C et al, The Critical Role of Hypoxia in the Re-Differentiation of Human Articular Chondrocytes, Cells, 2022

Stamps used: 250 microns diameter x 250 microns spacing x 250 microns tall

3) Zhou KC, McNabb RP, Qian R, Degan S, Dhalla A, Farsiu S, and Izatt JA, Computational 3D microscopy with optical coherence refraction tomography, Optica, 2022

Stamps used:

5 microns diameter x 5 microns spacing x 5 microns tall

4) Pal K, Zhao Y, Wang Y, Wang X, Ubiquitous membrane-bound DNase activity in podosomes and invadopodia, Journal of Cell Biology, 2021

Stamps used:

5 microns diameter x 5 microns spacing x 5 microns tall

5) Dirar Q, Russell T, Liu L, Ahn S, Dotti G, Aravamudhan S, Conforti L, and Yun Y, Activation and degranulation of CAR-T cells using engineered antigen-presenting cell surfaces, PLOS One, 2020

Stamps used:

5 microns diameter x 5 microns spacing x 5 microns tall

6) Iqbal MS and Zhan W, Electrochemically Triggered Interfacial Deposition/Assembly of Aqueous Suspended Colloids, ChemElectroChem 2020, 7, 1–11

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/celc.201902143

Stamps used:

10 microns diameter x 10 microns spacing x 10 microns tall

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7) Daniel D, Florida Y, Lay CL, Koh XQ, Sng A, Tomczak N, Quantifying surface wetting properties using droplet probe AFM, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2020, 12, 42386−42392.

Stamps used:

5 microns diameter x 5 microns spacing x 5 microns tall

8) Reese C, Thompson BJ, Logan PK, Stafford CM, Blanton M, and Patton DL, Sequential and one-pot post-polymerization modification reactions of thiolactone-containing polymer brushes, 28 September 2019

DOI: 10.1039/c9py01123d

Stamps used:

5 microns wide x 10 microns spacing x 10 microns tall

9) Rigo S, Gunkel-Grabole G, Meier W, and Palivan CG, Surfaces with Dual Functionality through Specific Coimmobilization of Self-Assembled Polymeric Nanostructures, Langmuir, October 2018

DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b02812

Stamps used: 5 microns wide x 5 microns spacing x 10 microns tall

10) Kieun Seong, Kyongjun Kim, Si Yun Park, and Youn Sang Kim, Micro-patterned ZnO semiconductors for high performance thin film transistors via chemical imprinting with a PDMS stamp, Chemical Communications 49(27):2783-5, March 2013.

11) Matthew A. Meitl, Zheng-Tao Zhu, Vipan Kumar, Keon Jae Lee, Xue Feng, Yonggang Y. Huang, Ilesanmi Adesida, Ralph G. Nuzzo, John A. Rogers, Transfer printing by kinetic control of adhesion to an elastomeric stamp, Nature Materials 5, 33-38 (2006)

12) Y Xia and GM Whitesides, Self-assembled Monolayer Films: Microcontact Printing, Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology (2001)

13) Y Xia and GM Whitesides, Soft Lithography, 1998

14) David J. Graber, Thomas J. Zieziulewicz, David A. Lawrence, William Shain, and James N. Turner, Antigen Binding Specificity of Antibodies Patterned by Microcontact Printing, Langmuir 19, p. 5431 (2003)

15) Jongho Park and Beomjoon Kim, 3D micro patterning on a concave substrate for creating the replica of a cylindrical PDMS stamp, Microelectronic engineering 98, 540-543 (2012)

16) Kieun Seong, Kyongjun Kim, Si Yun Park, and Youn Sang Kim,  Micro-patterned ZnO Semiconductors for High Perform ance Thin Film Transistors via Chemical Imprinting with PDMS Stamp, ChemComm, March 2013

17) Huixiang Zhong, Liuyang Xuan, Dandan Wang, Jianhua Zhou, Yan Li, and Qing Jiang, Generation of a co-culture cell micropattern model to simulate lung cancer bone metastasis for anti-cancer drug evaluation, RSC Advances, 2017

18) Shivani Sathish, Sébastien G. Ricoult, Kazumi Toda-Peters, and Amy Q. Shen, Microcontact printing with aminosilanes: creating biomolecule micro- and nanoarrays for multiplexed microfluidic bioassays, The Analyst 2017

19) Rossella Castagna, Alessandro Bertucci, Eko Adi Prasetyanto, Marco Monticelli, Dario Valter Conca, Matteo Massetti, Parikshit Pratim Sharma, Francesco Damin, Marcella Chiari, Luisa De Cola, and Riccardo Bertacco, Reactive Microcontact Printing of DNA Probes on (DMA-NAS-MAPS) Copolymer-Coated Substrates for Efficient Hybridization Platforms, Langmuir 2016

20) Jinhai Li, Lisong Xu, Soyoun Kim, and Alexander A. Shestopalov, Urethane-acrylate polymers in high-resolution contact printing, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2016

21) Venugopal Santhanam and Ronald P. Andres, Microcontact Printing of Uniform Nanoparticle Arrays, Nano Letters, 2004.

22) Andrew H Cannon, Jacob D Hochhalter, Geoffrey F Bomarito, and Timothy Ruggles, Micro Speckle Stamping: High Contrast, No Basecoat, Repeatable, Well-Adhered, Society of Experimental Mechanics, 2016

23) Dalinda Liazoghli, Alejandro D. Roth, Peter Thostrup, and David R. Colman, Substrate Micropatterning as a New in Vitro Cell Culture System to Study Myelination, ACS Chem. Neurosci. 2012, 3, 90−95

Wikis and Communities

Microcontact Printing on Wikipedia

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Historical Perspective

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Safety Data Sheet

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