. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Aug 17.

Published in final edited form as: Langmuir. 2010 Aug 17;26(16):13086–13096. doi: 10.1021/la903890h

Table 2.

A comparison of swelling behavior, reported as the percent increase in weight of coupons of crosslinked elastomeric materials after soaking overnight. Traditional soft lithography mold material, poly (dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS), and PRINT mold material, perfluoropolyether (PFPE) were compared with regards to several solvents and polymerizable monomers⁷⁶.

	PDMS (weight % uptake)	PFPE (weight % uptake)
Water	0.37 ± 0.04	0.39 ± 0.16
Hexane	109.82 ± 1.41	1.72 ± 0.25
THF	145.46 ± 1.68	6.95 ± 0.08
DMSO	2.36 ± 0.50	1.98 ± 0.17
Isopropanol	17.65 ± 2.44	2.38 ± 0.06
Acetone	20.15 ± 1.05	4.81 ± 0.06
Poly (ethylene glycol) methyl ether	1.04 ± 0.45	0.36 ± 0.07
2-hydroxyethyl acrylate	1.45 ± 0.23	1.03 ± 0.22
N-Vinyl-2-pyrrolidone	5.55 ± 0.31	2.34 ± 0.27
PEG traicrylate	1.40 ± 0.06	0.31 ± 0.05