EU proposes ban on straws and other single-use plastics
The European Union wants to reduce the sale of single-use plastics in supermarkets.
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
The European Union wants to reduce the sale of single-use plastics in supermarkets.
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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Minuscule pliers made of soft filaments added to the ends of optical fibres can be controlled with visible light, and could be used to grip objects tens of micrometres in size, such as some individual cells.
Piotr Wasylczyk at the University of Warsaw in Poland and his colleagues made the pliers from liquid-crystal elastomer, a soft polymer material. They bend when visible light shines through attached optical fibres.