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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Mar 7.
Published in final edited form as: Biotechnol Bioeng. 2010 Feb 15;105(3):655–662. doi: 10.1002/bit.22552

Fig. 1. Schematic diagram of the procedures involved in the surface-directed assembly of microgels.

Fig. 1

(A) generating hydrophobic regions of OTS patterns on a hydrophilic glass by microcontact printing; (B) generating PEG-DA microgel building blocks by photolithography; (C) directed-assembly of the microgels on the hydrophilic patterns; (D) stabilization of the microgel assemblies by secondary crosslinking.