And an innovation developed at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (eth) in Zurich, in co-operation with the Swiss materials-science institute Empa, suggests this might soon become a practical reality.
Closing wounds by soldering has several important advantages, says Oscar Cipolato, a phd candidate at eth, who presented preliminary results on April 5th at the Photonics Europe conference in Strasburg, France.
And you can squeeze out an extra three or four characters if you use the German equivalent of " eth" at the end of it, " ste" or " sten" depending on the case.