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However, emerging green technologies like micropatterned photovoltaics (PV) require high quality patterning at scale\/throughput that is hardly attainable by OPL economically and sustainably. Importantly, half-pitch resolutions on the tens of \u03bcm-scale are totally acceptable for such applications, which does not justify the use of high-end OPL. In these cases, OPL is unsuited, because it relies on disposable masks with extremely high embodied energy. While the key asset of OPL is the mask, it is the component that currently makes it low-throughput and energy\/material inefficient. Extensive efforts have been directed to develop maskless strategies, but most fall short when it comes to throughput and design flexibility.\u2028\u2028\n\nREMAP envisions a radically new and green surface patterning technique based on the spontaneous formation of reusable magnetic masks. 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