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Triple-Shape Plastics for Surgery

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the just-think-of-the-toy-possibilities dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "In Plastics' Day in Surgery, Red Herring reports that an international team of U.S. and German researchers has developed a new kind of plastic that can shift between three different shapes when the temperature increases. Even if these polymeric triple-shape materials have not emerged from the lab, they could eventually be employed as removable 'stents' and self-closing fasteners used by surgeons and more generally by the healthcare industry. The Emerging Tech ZDNet blog has additional references and pictures of these morphing plastics."

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  1. Look out Viagra... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    hello prosthetic "limb" and a warming massage oils

    haha

    (couldn't resist)