I'm patterning a gold electrode array onto PDMS.

A paper by Yongman Park [1] presents a method that gives good adhesion. You
pattern the metal on glass and then stick it to a PDMS layer.

The paper says to expose the PDMS to corona discharge. How do you do that? Why
do you do that? Is it the same as exposing to oxygen plasma?

The paper also says treat the metal on glass with
3-mereaptopropyltrimethoxysilane (3-MPTMS) in ethanol solution, but it doesn't
say why. Why would you do that?



[1] Metal Thin-Film Micropatterns Transfer on PDMS and its Application to
Capillary Electrophoresis Electrochemical Detection on PDMS Microchip.
Yongman Park
7th International Conference on Miniaturized Chemical and Biochemical Analysis
Systems

-Rick Giuly
 GA Tech Laboratory for Neuroengineering