«With further development our technique could enable endoscopic microfabrication tools that would be valuable during surgery,» says
research team leader Paul Delrot, from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.
«Switchable glass available today is quite expensive because it uses transparent conducting layers to apply a voltage across the entire glass,» said
Paul W. Leu of the University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering,
leader of the
research team.