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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 30.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Healthc Mater. 2015 Nov 23;4(18):2780–2796. doi: 10.1002/adhm.201500427

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Soft lithography strategy for patterning cells. (i) A polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) stamp is inked with octadecanethiol, (ii) printed onto the gold surface, (iii) the intervening regions are passivated with a tri(ethylene glycol) diluent, (iv) matrix protein is physisorbed to hydrophobic regions, (v) cells are captured specifically to protein coated islands.