Multifunctional microstructures and preparation thereof
AssigneeEpigem Limited
InventorsTimothy George Ryan, Thomas Grierson Harvey
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Abstract
A composite multifunctional microstructure which comprises at least one functionalizing material associated with a microstructure wherein the microstructure comprises a layer of relief forming material preferably comprising an at least partially UV curable relief forming polymer having a plurlaity of relief features formed therein to provide at least one retaining feature and wherein the functionalizing material is deposited within and substantially or partially fills or lines the at least one retaining feature, method for the preparation thereof.
Claims20
Method for the production of a continuous composite comprising a multifunctional microstructure of at least one fuctionalising material selected from substantially non UV curable material obtained by growth on a marker material;
- and a relief forming material which comprises a material which is at least partially UV or thermally curable, thermally formable or chemically reactive;
- the composite is a product of a process comprising:
- micromoulding with use of an advancing line of contact along a rigid or flexible supporting layer to provide a layer of the relief forming material having a plurality of relief features and defining at least one retaining feature;
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- simultaneously or subsequently depositing the functionalising material in the at least one retaining feature, wherein functionalising material is deposited by accessing a marker material in the retaining feature with subsequent growth thereon.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.