Fabrication of a Wrinkled Surface on Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Using a Thermal Curing Process

We describe the fabrication of a spontaneous wrinkled surface on poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS). The wrinkled surface on an elastic PDMS substrate was fabricated by thermally shrinking liquid PDMS coated on a cured PDMS layer during a simple thermal curing process. Optical and atomic force microscopy, deflections of PDMS cantilever beams on the wrinkled surface, and contact angles of water droplets on the wrinkled surface were used to quantitatively investigate the wrinkled patterns on the PDMS layer. The morphology of cells seeded on the fabricated wrinkled surface was observed.