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The abilities of instabilities

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A method has been developed for preparing a variety of potentially useful spherical particles, ranging from several nanometres to millimetres in diameter. It relies on the same fluid instability that causes taps to drip. See Letter p.463

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Figure 1: An orderly break-up.

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  1. *This article and the paper under discussion1 were published online on 18 July 2012.

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  1. Ali Passian is in the Measurement Science and Systems Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA.,

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  2. Thomas Thundat is in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2V4, Canada.,

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