Materials science: The abilities of instabilities

Ali Passian; Thomas Thundat

doi:10.1038/nature11383

Materials science: The abilities of instabilities

Ali Passian
, Thomas Thundat

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Abstract

A method has been developed for preparing a variety of potentially useful spherical particles, ranging from several nanometres to millimetres in diameter. It relies on the same fluid instability that causes taps to drip.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	440-441
Number of pages	2
Journal	Nature
Volume	487
Issue number	7408
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11383
State	Published - Jul 26 2012

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