Structured spheres generated by an in-fibre fluid instability

Nature

Volumn 487, Issue 7408, 2012, Pages 463-467

  Kaufman, Joshua J ^a   Tao, Guangming ^a   Shabahang, Soroush ^a   Banaei, Esmaeil Hooman ^a,b   Deng, Daosheng S ^c   Liang, Xiangdong ^d   Johnson, Steven G ^d   Fink, Yoel ^c   Abouraddy, Ayman F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b University of Central Florida   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLE; POLYMER;

CAPILLARITY; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; COMPOSITE; EMULSION; HEATING; MANUFACTURING; PARTICLE SIZE; PROCESSING; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SPHERE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COOLING; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; EMULSION; FIBER; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES, SYNTHETIC; DELAYED-ACTION PREPARATIONS; EMULSIONS; GLASS; MICROSPHERES; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMERS; TEMPERATURE;

HARNESS;

EID: 84864187611     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11215     Document Type: Article

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