Bubble wrap serves as sheet of tiny test tubes in resource-limited regions

Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - 10:01 in Physics & Chemistry

Popping the blisters on the bubble wrap might be the most enjoyable thing about moving. But now, scientists propose a more productive way to reuse the popular packing material—as a sheet of small, test tube-like containers for medical and environmental samples. Their report, which shows that analyses can take place right in the bubbles, appears in the ACS journal Analytical Chemistry.

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