The public's prudishness about the body has finally been worn down, he asserts, by Hollywood gore, television shows like CSI and museum displays presenting polymer-preserved dissected corpses.
After drying and being treated with another solvent, the polymer settles into a regular hexagonal pattern--a kind of plastic-like screen--on the crystalline surface.
The team used inexpensive, environmentally friendly, easy to access materials- a commercially available polymer that can be easily processed from dilute solutions in solvents like water.