3-D Printed Materials Resemble Biological Tissues (4 of 9) (IMAGE)

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3-D Printed Materials Resemble Biological Tissues (4 of 9)

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Droplet networks printed in water. The aqueous droplets are encapsulated within a drop of oil that resides in bulk aqueous solution. This image relates to a paper that appeared in 5 April, 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Gabriel Villar at the University of Oxford in Oxford, UK, and colleagues was titled, "A Tissue-Like Printed Material."

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[Image courtesy of Gabriel Villar, Alexander D. Graham and Hagan Bayley (University of Oxford)]

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