Hi Jifeng,

You may want to coat your mold with "release" layer - very thin low surface
energy organic film, usually organosilane. It can be deposited on Aluminum
mold using vapor phase technique. You may use one of our MVD-100 tools in
the field, for example at UC Berkeley or Cornell University.
Please let me know if you need any help.

Boris Kobrin, Ph.D.
Director of Technology
Applied MicroStructures, Inc.
4425 Fortran Drive
San Jose, CA 95134
(408) 594-0654

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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 16:45:15 -0500
From: Jeff chen 
Subject: [mems-talk] How to release PDMS from Aluminum mold?
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Hi, all,
 I am working on the PDMS related project.
Right now, I met a problem that it is not easy to release the cured PDMS
from the Aluminum mold.
Is there any way to do that easily? Like some reagent or a Teflon layer on
mold?
Any idea about that?
 Thanks a lot.
 Best,
Jifeng