Vanishing Electronic Medical Implants (2 of 7) (IMAGE)

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Vanishing Electronic Medical Implants (2 of 7)

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This shows an image of resorbable electronic circuit in its first phases of dissolution. This image 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.”

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[Photo by Fiorenzo Omenetto]

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