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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2003
Emanuele Ostuni, Watertown, MA (US);
Christopher S. Chen, Baltimore, MD (US);
Donald E. Ingber, Boston, MA (US);
George M. Whitesides, Newton, MA (US);
Emanuele Ostuni, Watertown, MA (US);
Christopher S. Chen, Baltimore, MD (US);
Donald E. Ingber, Boston, MA (US);
George M. Whitesides, Newton, MA (US);
President & Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);
Children's Medical Center Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
A method of patterning materials, such as proteins, on a contoured surface by depositing them onto protrusions on a surface, and a cell containment device that may be constructed by this method, are provided. The method may involve selectively depositing a material on a substrate including a contoured surface including protrusions and recesses. By applying a first fluid to the contoured surface and allowing the first fluid to distribute across only a portion of the contoured surface, a material may be deposited on the protrusions and not the recesses, or on the recesses and not the protrusions. Such a method may be used to selectively pattern cells or other materials on substrates.