Quake S R, Scherer A
Department of Applied Physics, MS 128-95, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
Science. 2000 Nov 24;290(5496):1536-40. doi: 10.1126/science.290.5496.1536.
Soft materials are finding applications in areas ranging from microfluidic device technology to nanofabrication. We review recent work in these areas, discuss the motivation for device fabrication with soft materials, and describe applications of soft materials. In particular, we discuss active microfluidic devices for cell sorting and biochemical assays, replication-molded optics with subdiffraction limit features, and nanometer-scale resonators and wires formed from single-molecule DNA templates as examples of how the special properties of soft materials address outstanding problems in device fabrication.
软材料正在微流控器件技术到纳米制造等领域得到应用。我们回顾了这些领域的近期工作，讨论了使用软材料制造器件的动机，并描述了软材料的应用。特别是，我们讨论了用于细胞分选和生化分析的有源微流控器件、具有亚衍射极限特征的复制模制光学器件，以及由单分子DNA模板形成的纳米级谐振器和导线，以此作为软材料的特殊性质如何解决器件制造中突出问题的示例。
