Fig. 1: The concept and mechanism of soft demoulding.
From: Self-shrinking soft demoulding for complex high-aspect-ratio microchannels
a The conceptual schematic of soft demoulding and its typical applications. b The soft demoulding process: the template is first embedded in the matrix, then it shrinks its cross-sectional area and is peeled out when an external force is applied, and consequently, the channel is formed. c The comparison of extraction of a rigid template (conventional method) and a soft template (proposed in this work), which are shear-dominated demoulding and peeling-dominated demoulding, respectively.
