For the commercial PDMS kit, what you could do is curing it at certain
temperature for certain time; if not necessary, increase the curing time.

Usually, using SU-8 as mold to replicate PDMS structure needs a demolding agent,
which decreases surface energy of the mold. If without that demolding layer, the
PDMS would stick to the mold, which looks like the PDMS is not cured completely.

Guo Xun

-----Original Message-----
From: Amani Salim [mailto:amanis@ece.umn.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 7:04 AM
To: mems-talk@memsnet.org
Subject: [mems-talk] PDMS curing problem

Dear colleagues,

I use Su8 as a mold, its basically Su8 with small micron holes, most of the
area is Su8, I seem to have curing problem with PDMS on the mold, although
a 10;1 ratio was used

any suggestions would be helpful,

Amani Salim
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