A contact-free method for generating precise patterns in polymers is an exciting advance in soft lithography. By exploiting the interactions of two polymers with an electric field, the scale of the patterns can be reduced still further.
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Herminghaus, S. Harnessing the unstable. Nature Mater 2, 11–12 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat7999
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