Using polymers as tiny molecule-absorbing sponges, researchers have taken a step toward shrinking room-size chemical laboratories to the size of a crumb.
PROTEIN HOT SPOT. Each dark bar in the white area of this microchip is a polymer-covered gold bridge that can be heated. Doing so can concentrate protein from a solution applied to the chip.
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