US Patent:
20070105972, May 10, 2007
Inventors:
Patrick Doyle - Boston MA, US
Daniel Pregibon - Cambridge MA, US
Dhananjay Dendukuri - Cambridge MA, US
Assignee:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge MA
International Classification:
H05B 6/68
Abstract:
In a method for synthesizing polymeric microstructures, a monomer stream is flowed, at a selected flow rate, through a fluidic channel. At least one shaped pulse of illumination is projected to the monomer stream, defining in the monomer stream a shape of at least one microstructure corresponding to the illumination pulse shape while polymerizing that microstructure shape in the monomer stream by the illumination pulse.