Polymeric micro devices are gaining huge market potential in broad areas of medical
devices, diagnostic devices, drug delivery, and optical applications. Current research is …

Lithography 3D printing technologies such as stereolithography (SLA), two-photon
polymerization (TPP), digital light processing (DLP), and other approaches based on vat …

Lithium metal batteries (LMBs) have high energy density but suffer from the formation of Li
dendrites and unstable solid electrolyte interface. Herein, a three-dimensional porous Cu-Sn …

The mass production of polymeric microdevices using microinjection molding or
nanoimprinting necessitates high-performance micro/nano Ni-Co molds. However, the …

Electroless plating is the default industrial process for depositing glossy metallic coatings on
polymeric parts, most often made of acrylonitrile–butadiene–styrene (ABS) plastic …

In the replication of polymeric micro/nano structures, adhesion and friction between mould
tool and polymer cause significant feature failure. For the first time, this work developed a …

High-performance rectangular solid structures at the scale of 10–50 µm are extensively
utilized in the fields of optical engineering and bioengineering. However, producing high …

Nanotwinned (nt) Cu has received much attention because of its superior mechanical and
electrical properties, but only a few production processes can yield nt-Cu parts with uniform …

Atomic-level manufacturing is fundamentally concerned with the precise removal, addition,
and migration of material at the atomic and close-to-atomic scale (ACS). Tip-based …

In micro-injection molding, polymer/mold interface adhesion may cause severe deformation
or damage of micro features on the molded products. To reduce the interface adhesion and …