BioCompatability of Metal Coated Spheres
For those scientists who are looking to use silver coated materials such as silver coated microspheres in biomedical applications, it is important to understand whether they are bio-compatable. A selection of abstracts and article references related to the biocompatability of silver follow:
High Index of Refraction Retroreflective Glass Microspheres
Barium Titanate Glass Microspheres are excellent for use as a functional retro reflective additive to paints and coatings. Spheres with sizes of about 50 micron (~0.002 inches) mean diameter provide a small enough size for most coatings while offering a large enough size to reflective a significant amount
Patent Review: Process for forming hollow glass spheres up to 5mm
A process for forming hollow glass micro-spheres with walls of controllably variable thickness in a size range of 50 to 5,000 microns, embodying (1) preparation of a water slurry of finely particulated, high temperature and low temperature glass formers; (2) prilling the slurry in a vertical spray drying tower; (3)
Advantages of Borosilicate Glass Microspheres in 0.03mm to 0.2mm sizing
Borosilicate glass offers advantages over standard soda lime glass microbeads.
- Roundness is >90% (Soda lime >85%)
- Density is the lowest of most glasses at 2.2g/cc (Soda Lime 2.5g/cc)
- Very low thermal expansion coefficient 32×10-7/?C (for 30-300?C) (Soda Lime:
Magnetic Microspheres – New Size Ranges Offered
Cospheric announces new particle size ranges for its BKPMS, Paramagnetic Microsphere product.
Thanks to customer demand for narrower particle size ranges of paramagnetic microspheres. Cospheric has added the following sizes to its extensive inventory of microspheres offered in the dry powder form:
