Water powers novel chips....!!!!!!

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"Scientists have invented the aquatic equivalent of the electronic integrated circuit. Todd Thorsen and colleagues at the California Institute of Technology in the US have made a "microfluidic chip" by carving micrometre-sized valves and channels in a slice of silicon-based compound. By directing water along these channels, the chips could be used to manipulate tiny amounts of substance for biological analysis. They could also be used to make a new kind of liquid display (T Thorsen et al Science, to be published)."

 

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