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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Dec 15.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Mater. 2009 Jan;8(1):15–23. doi: 10.1038/nmat2344

Figure 3. Examples of designer particles with different shapes.

Figure 3

a, Cylindrical particles prepared using PRINT method82; scale bar, 5 μm (© 2008 PNAS). b, UFO-shaped particles prepared by film-stretching18; scale bar, 5 μm (© 2007 PNAS). c, Rectangular discs of SU-8 (ref. 53); scale bar, 150 μm (© 2006 NPG). d, Polymer rings90 (© 2006 NPG). e, Phagocytosis of particles depends on shape17 (© 2006 PNAS).