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Vanishing Electronic Medical Implants (7 of 7)

Caption: This shows the dissolution of a transient electronic circuit by falling droplets of water. This video relates to a paper that appeared in the September 28, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Suk-Won Hwang at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in Urbana, Ill., and colleagues was titled, “A Physically Transient Form of Silicon Electronics.”

Credit: [Video courtesy of the Beckman Institute, University of Illinois]

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