Direct-writing microporous polymer architectures - print, capture and release.

In the nature-inspired breath figure method, rafts of condensed water droplets self-organise and imprint into a permanent microporous polymer structure. This could have exciting applications in drug delivery, tissue engineering and sensors but it is extremely difficult to control or functionalise the final structure. Here, we show direct-writing of droplets onto fluid surfaces by inkjet printing as a breakthrough to dial-in a required pattern, structure and function into the polymer film.

• Publication year

  2021

• Venue

  Materials Horizons

• Publication date

  2021-01-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Materials Science, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1039/d0mh01460ePMID 34821296
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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