Does anyone know a material that is biodegradable and can be microfabricated by soft-lithography just like SU-8?

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Gaurav Lalwani

You can use lithography on polypropylene fumarate.. Its a biodegradable polymer widely used for bone tissue engineering applications.

Http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20933279

Ferry P W Melchels

Fumarate does copolymerize fast with an electron donor monomer such as N-vinyl pyrollidone however: http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar_url?hl=en&q=http://eprints.qut.edu.au/38756/1/c38756.pdf&sa=X&scisig=AAGBfm1RBfBpP5FmQUvXVKhGpRiGuOoXWQ&oi=scholarr&ei=iunlUbwB7rOJB-HxgdAI&ved=0CC8QgAMoAjAA