Chemically treated glass microspheres allow significant weight savings in body panels for the 2016 Chevrolet Corvette. Continental Structural Plastics Inc. has developed a sheet molding compound in ...

Microspheres have a wide range of uses in modern life. For example, the density of manufactured materials is lowered using hollow microspheres. In present-day liquid chromatography, the analyte is ...

Biomedical applications of microspheres in drug delivery and bone tissue engineering offer many advantages over other particle geometries. Microspheres can be made to have a uniform size and shape to ...

Finding ways to improve efficiency and bioavailability is key to targeted drug delivery. Although controlled release dosage medication forms are the standard, they can have certain limitations. One ...

In work that may help law enforcement officials better identify terrorists, researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla are using glass microspheres -- each about the width of a human hair -- to ...

Newly developed porous glass microspheres can be filled with absorbents to store gas and other materials. On a macro scale, these strong, reusable microspheres can be made to behave like a liquid.

Hollow Glass Microspheres are inorganic, nonmetallic spherical materials created by specific processes, commonly with diameters in the range of 10 to 250 μm and wall thicknesses of 1 to 2 μm (Figure 1 ...

Glass Bubbles are lightweight, low-density additives with very-high strength-to-density ratios. The chemically stable hollow microspheres have a pressure resistance up to 28,000 psi. The bubbles ...