Crystal Tide Wave
Crystal Tide Wave
Vivian Rachel Feig, Pier Giuseppe Rivano, Benjamin Neal Muller, Ashka Tejendra Patel, Sanghyun Park, Caroline Dial, Savannah Jinhee Kim, Giovanni Traverso
Koch Institute at MIT
The image is an implant designed to slowly release a drug for over a year. It is made from active pharmaceutical ingredients that have been self-assembled into a solid structure from an injectable liquid formulation. By using high-resolution microscopy to get detailed information about the implant’s structure on multiple length-scale, this image helps us understand what variables determine the size, shape, and porosity of implants that are self-assembled after injection.