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April 29th, 2008 at 4:07 pm

Micro-Origami For Drug Delivery

in: Breakthrough Thinking, Great New Product, Medical Breakthrough

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Engineers have demonstrated how to make microscale origami-like containers that could be used as drug delivery devices in the body. The hinged structures were created in polysilicon and are only 30 micrometers on a side. (One inch is 25,400 micrometers.)

The team from the USC Information Sciences Institute published their “recipe” in the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering.

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