Polymers with hydro-responsive topography identified using high throughput AFM of an acrylate microarray.

Hook, Andrew L; Yang, Jing; Chen, Xinyong; Roberts, Clive J; Mei, Ying; Anderson, Daniel G; Langer, Robert; Alexander, Morgan R et al. · Soft Matter · 2011

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Atomic force microscopy has been applied to an acrylate polymer microarray to achieve a full topographic characterisation. This process discovered a small number of hydro-responsive materials created from monomers with disparate hydrophilicities that show reversibility between pitted and protruding nanoscale topographies.