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THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLUID LATTICES

Endless forms fabricated

The patterning dynamics of confined immiscible fluids has inspired an elegant and versatile approach to building periodic three-dimensional multi-material architectures. The technique extends to triphasic composites, three-dimensional droplet networks and even biological tissues.

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Fig. 1: A schematic of FLUID3EAMS.

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Le Gac, S. Endless forms fabricated. Nat. Phys. 17, 767–768 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-021-01214-2

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