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Philip Ball explains how a new way of printing waterproof patterns onto a surface could be used to make laboratories the size of a microchip.

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  1. Tadanaga,K., Morinaga, J., Matsuda, A. & Minami, T. Superhydrophobic-Superhydrophilic Micropatterning on Flowerlike Alumina Coating Film by the Sol-Gel Method Chemistry of Materials 12, 590 - 592 2000.

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