The stamp is then brought into contact with an appropriate sheet of "paper" -a thin film of gold on a glass, silicon or polymer plate.

Soft Matter, and was co-authored by Dickey; NC State Celanese Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Jan Genzer; NC State Ph.D. student Ying Liu; and NC State undergraduate Julie Boyles.

High polymer damping materials distributed in plate and shell structures as damping layer are effective to suppress vibration.