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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla are using nano-sized glass microspheres to trace explosives back to their manufacturers and help law enforcement authorities thwart terrorists. The ...

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 ...

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.

A proposal to cover Arctic sea ice with layers of tiny hollow glass spheres about the thickness of one human hair would actually accelerate sea-ice loss and warm the climate rather than creating thick ...

Dublin, May 10, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Microspheres: Technologies and Global Markets" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. This report analyzes microspheres, which are ...