On pattern transfer in replica molding.

@article{Gordan2008OnPT,
  title={On pattern transfer in replica molding.},
  author={Ovidiu Dorin Gordan and B. N. J. Persson and Claudia M. Cesa and Dirk Mayer and Bernd Hoffmann and Sabine Dieluweit and Rudolf Merkel},
  journal={Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids},
  year={2008},
  volume={24 13},
  pages={
          6636-9
        }
}
Nano- and micromolding of elastic materials produces smoothed replicas of the mold structures. This limits the technique's resolution. Here we identified surface tension as the cause of smoothing and derived explicit equations for calculating molded feature shapes. The characteristic length scale for smoothing is given by the ratio of the interface tension to Young's modulus of the molded material. This approach offers the possibility to correct for the smoothing caused by surface tension… 
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