nanoH2O t1_iv83shx wrote on November 6, 2022 at 12:54 AM

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You can vary the cure ratio of pdms etc to get different flexibility. You can make a pdms film that is acrylic like.

sirkilgoretrout t1_iv89382 wrote on November 6, 2022 at 1:34 AM

Mind blown. When I was doing microfluidic devices with PDMS, I always ended up with surfaces that would collect dust and lint like a little kid’s squishy toy. They’d be great on day 1, but we usually re-made samples regularly. Our lab shifted to deep SU-8 molding in part to avoid some of these surface issues.