The microcapsules can be suspended in a carrier medium, so that they can be screen-printed on to surfaces including glass, plastic, fabric and even paper.

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After years of painstaking work and much trial and error, Fujino and fellow researchers discovered a way of putting the medicine inside microcapsules made of the same material as surgical thread.

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Microcapsules in the gold circuit released liquid metal in response to damage, swiftly restoring electrical conductivity, and bringing self-repairing electronic chips a step closer.

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In electrophoretic displays, tiny white and black pigment particles are given opposite electrical charges and encapsulated in microcapsules of about the diameter of a human hair.

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