Water droplets direct self-assembly process in thin-film materials (EurekAlert!)

Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a technique for fabricating 3-D, single-crystalline silicon structures from thin films by coupling photolithography and a self-folding process driven by capillary interactions.
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