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Microcontact Printing via a Polymer-Induced Liquid-Precursor (PILP) Process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Yi-yeoun Kim  and
Laurie B. Gower
Yi-yeoun Kim
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
Laurie B. Gower
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
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Abstract

Our biomimetic approach for patterned crystallization is based on the combination of the Micro-Contact Printing technique and a novel mineralization process, called the Polymer-Induced-Liquid-Precursor (PILP) process, which enables the deposition of mineral films under low-temperature and aqueous-based conditions. We demonstrate that a liquid-phase mineral precursor is deposited onto specific areas templated with self-assembled monolayers of alkanethiolate on gold, and then the patterned calcitic films grow under constrained conditions via transformation of the PILP phase, leading to control over the location and morphology of calcitic films.

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