A Bath for Precision Printing of 3-D Silicone Structures (2 of 10) (IMAGE)

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A Bath for Precision Printing of 3-D Silicone Structures (2 of 10)

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Water is pumped through a perfusable tube network created by 3-D printing liquid silicone into a mirco-organogel support material. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 10 May 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by C.S. O'Bryan at University of Florida in Gainesville, Fla., and colleagues was titled, "Self-assembled micro-organogels for 3D printing silicone structures."

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[Credit: O'Bryan <i>et al.</i> Sci. Adv. 2017;3:e1602800]

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