How to remove stickiness of Sylgard?

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Jasper Giesler

Hey

Maybe check these procedures:

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0004572

Gajasinghe, R.W.R.L., Senveli, S.U., Rawal, S., Williams, A., Zheng, A., Datar, R.H., Cote, R.J. and Tigli, O., 2014. Experimental study of PDMS bonding to various substrates for monolithic microfluidic applications. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 24(7), p.075010.

Hope this helps!

Jasper

Alan F Rawle

Kurbanova Aliya

You do not state what siloxane concentration you are using - perhaps it's way too high? I think you need to have about 0.1 - 1% siloxane in the hexane applied ideally by spin coating. See attached.