A laser-carved “liquid diode” at the tip of a drug-delivery catheter (IMAGE)

International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing

A laser-carved “liquid diode” at the tip of a drug-delivery catheter

Caption

A 3D Tesla microvalve fabricated by femtosecond-laser direct writing is integrated directly at the distal tip of a slender microcatheter, enabling passive, geometry-based flow rectification for more stable drug delivery.

Credit

By Luqi Li, Qiang Liu, Zhuo-Chen Ma*, Siyuan Wang, Yunlang Zhou, Chenyang Zhou, Xiaolin Wang, Xiaowei Li and Bing Han*

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