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Making Honeycomb Microcomposites by Soft Lithography
Author(s) -
Xu Bing,
Arias Francisco,
Whitesides George M.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1521-4095(199904)11:6<492::aid-adma492>3.0.co;2-i
Subject(s) - materials science , honeycomb , honeycomb structure , lithography , microelectromechanical systems , liga , composite material , ultimate tensile strength , core (optical fiber) , nanotechnology , optoelectronics , fabrication , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology
Small structures tuned in terms of moduli and vibrational damping for use, for example, in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) can be fabricated by soft lithography as an alternative to complex and expensive processes such as LIGA. The honeycomb structures produced consist of a metal or polymer core of variable geometry (see Fig.) sandwiched between two sheets of high tensile material to give structures with high strength‐to‐weight ratios.