Fabrication of Patterned Surface by Soft Lithographic Technique for Confinement of Lipid Bilayer

In this paper we demonstrated that a 3D pattern can be well transferred from a silicon Master to a gold substrate using mu contact printing. In this process 1-Octadecanthiol served as an ink and printing followed by etching generated the desired pattern on the gold substrate. The prepatterned substrate was also used for lipid vesicle fusion and revealed that lipid molecules selectively bind to the gold layer.