Low Cost and Lithography-free Stamp fabrication for Microcontact Printing.

ABSTRACT: Microcontact printing (µCP) is a commonly used technique for patterning proteins of interest on substrates. The cells take the shape of these printed patterns. This technique is used to explore the effect of cellular morphology on their various functions such as survival, differentiation, migration, etc. An essential step for µCP is to fabricate a stamp from a silicon mould, prepared using lithography. Lithography is cost intensive and needs a high level of expertise to handle the instrumentation. Also, one stamp can be used to print patterns of one size and shape. Here, to overcome these limitations, we devised a low-cost fabrication technique using readily available objects such as injection needles and polystyrene beads. We patterned the C2C12, myoblasts cells on the shapes printed usin

SUBMITTER: Khadpekar AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6355877 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature