Related: The circulatory system and red blood cells

Because the circulatory system relies on plasma to transfer from red blood cells to the neighboring tissues, the distance between capillaries has to depend on the diffusion rates of and .

Our tissues, in that sense, are intertwined with capillaries so well that we have (almost) uniform oxygenation so that the tissues can be heathy.

How is such a dense network of capillaries organized in the tissues? It is a well-distributed 3D system of continuous closed piping intertwining through tissue.1

Could we use the same ideas to cool semiconductor chips by interlacing cooling elements between logic gates so that the heat generated is efficiently absorbed by the cooling system?

Footnotes

  1. This dense capillary structure passing through tissues seems to work well for different organs with types of tissue organized in different 3D arrangements.