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Microsphere Fabrication and Applications: an Overview

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The diversity of applications for spherical materials, often referred to as hollow or solid microspheres, microballoons, shells and microcapsules, span a wide range of technologies and attracts the talents of individuals from a broad set of disciplines. Consequently, this knowledge and capability is widely dispersed. A prime objective of this symposium was to bring that diverse community together to share, for mutual benefit, that knowledge and capability. This article highlights some of these diverse technologies and applications and identifies some of the many important literature sources encountered.

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Wilcox, D.L., Berg, M. Microsphere Fabrication and Applications: an Overview. MRS Online Proceedings Library 372, 3–13 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1557/PROC-372-3

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