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Everything about microspheres and research utilizing precision spherical particles.

Overview of 2019 Quality Show – Quality Management in Laboratories and Manufacturing Operations

Quality Measurement Microspheres

By Allen Licha, PMP, Cospheric LLC Last month Cospheric attended the Quality Show in Rosemont, IL. As a global supplier of precision spherical particles, striving to provide the highest quality microparticles on the market, quality is a huge part of what we do at Cospheric. Performing accurate measurements is vital to our business. Metrology, the … Read more

Particle Image Velocimetry – Particle Size and Distribution

Density of Microspheres - Silver Coated Hollow Glass

Particle size: Particle size is connected to many of the other parameters of seed particles in a PIV system. With size affecting visibility, flow conformity, and being integral in relation to pixel size. A rough number for ideal particle size is 1-100um though sizes in the nm and mm?s have been used for certain PIV … Read more

Custom Janus Particles, Microspheres, Microbeads – Bichromal Particles

Custom Janus Particles - Ceramic

What are Custom Janus Particles? Janus particle is anisotropic and refers to a particle, typically of spherical shape, with two hemispheres which may vary in color, optical properties, surface tension, electrostatic charge, magnetic response, conductivity, fluorescence, reflectivity and more. Custom Janus Particles Manufacturing Cospheric LLC uses a patented process to offer a unique capability of … Read more

PIV Seeding – Microparticle Recommendations

Flow Visualization can best be accomplished with colored or fluorescent tracing particles of the same density as the fluid being studied. Very bright fluorescent micro-particles are available in densities of 1g/cc these offer not only bright testing under daylight conditions, but also the option of illumination with lasers or uv lights for increased system contrast.

Calculating microspheres per gram

During scientific experiment design and analysis it is common to need to know the number of spheres per gram of dry material. We have put together the table below to help speed up the process.

Monodisperse Silica Nanospheres and Microspheres – Dry Powder

Silica nanoparticles and nanospheres are now available in distributions of less than 10% CV in the sizes of 0.25 micron, 0.5micron, 0.75 micron, 1.0 micron, 4 micron and 8 micron.

High Density Glass Microspheres

Barium Titanate Glass microspheres are high density solid glass spheres. At a Density of 4.5g/cc these solid glass spheres can be used for many scientific applications where high density and optical clarity is needed. In addition to high density they also offer an index of refraction of more than 1.9.

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:

Density Marker Beads – Microspheres with Specific gravity of 1.065 and 1.075

In the biomedical industry researchers are sometimes looking for cells having targeted specific gravities. In order to locate these cells in test tubes it is useful to have colored marker beads which will show where the delineation between specific densities occurs. Two microsphere products having densities of 1.065 g/cc and 1.075 g/cc were recently released. These spheres are offered with density tolerances of ?0.005 g/cc enabling excellent stratification, and bright blue and red coloration for high visibility with the unaided eye.