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Hydrophobicity of PDMS
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Hydrophobicity of PDMS
Joshua Tice
2008-09-24
Hi,

I haven't tried this, but it looks interesting.  These researchers made
their own plasma source with a microwave and a desiccator, and they claim
they can bond PDMS with this method:

http://www.rsc.org/delivery/_ArticleLinking/DisplayHTMLArticleforfree.cfm?Journa
lCode=LC&Year=2005&ManuscriptID=b504271b&Iss=10

Josh


On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Mohd. Yusuf  wrote:

> HI,
>
>     If you dont have O2 Plasma or anything similar RIE equipment then best
> is to keep that sample under water for few hours or days. This helped me
> to a certain extent but not much.
>
> Regarding SU8 i tried that too but could not get good results. I think
> you will need O2 plasma exposure for 30-60sec to get SU8 on PDMS.
>
> All the best.
>
> Yusuf

Joshua Tice

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