Carbon particles are disclosed, as well as methods and systems for forming the particles. In one embodiment, the system may include a receiving vessel configured to receive a liquid carbon precursor and at least one orifice at a bottom of the receiving vessel and configured to release droplets of the precursor. A cooling vessel may be positioned below the receiving vessel to receive the droplets and configured to hold a coolant for solidifying the droplets into carbon precursor particles. The method may include introducing a liquid carbon precursor into a tank having a plurality of orifices defined therein such that droplets of the precursor are released from the orifices and solidifying the droplets in a cooling vessel positioned to receive the droplets from the orifices. The method may then include carbonizing the solidified droplets to form carbon particles. The particles may be solid or hollow.

A high dielectric composition for particle formation that includes a high dielectric solvent, and a high dielectric polymer dissolved into the high dielectric solvent. A method of forming particles including dissolving a high dielectric polymer in a high dielectric solvent to form a high dielectric composition, and dielectrophoretically spinning the high dielectric composition in an electrostatic field to form particles.

A high dielectric composition for particle formation that includes a high dielectric solvent, and a high dielectric polymer dissolved into the high dielectric solvent. A method of forming particles including dissolving a high dielectric polymer in a high dielectric solvent to form a high dielectric composition, and dielectrophoretically spinning the high dielectric composition in an electrostatic field to form particles.

The invention provide a manufacturing method for producing conductive adhesive with spherical graphene, and the steps comprise as following: step 1: preparing monomer, initiator, a dispersing agent and solvent to manufacture a monomer compound, and use the monomer compound to produce polymer micro ball; step 2: heating pre-treatment or plasma etching pre-treatment to the said polymer micro ball; step 3: by chemical vapor deposition, the polymer micro ball after pre-treatment from step 2 to grow graphene outside surfaces or inside polymer micro ball, and then obtain the spherical graphene; step 4: producing epoxy gel system made by epoxy, hardener and accelerant with a certain ratio mixing homogeneously; step 5: dispersing the spherical graphene from step 3 into the epoxy gel system to produce pre-material of conductive adhesive of spherical graphene; Step 6: deforming the pre-material of conductive adhesive of spherical graphene, and then obtain conductive adhesive of spherical graphene.

The invention provide a manufacturing method for producing conductive adhesive with spherical graphene, and the steps comprise as following: step 1: preparing monomer, initiator, a dispersing agent and solvent to manufacture a monomer compound, and use the monomer compound to produce polymer micro ball; step 2: heating pre-treatment or plasma etching pre-treatment to the said polymer micro ball; step 3: by chemical vapor deposition, the polymer micro ball after pre-treatment from step 2 to grow graphene outside surfaces or inside polymer micro ball, and then obtain the spherical graphene; step 4: producing epoxy gel system made by epoxy, hardener and accelerant with a certain ratio mixing homogeneously; step 5: dispersing the spherical graphene from step 3 into the epoxy gel system to produce pre-material of conductive adhesive of spherical graphene; Step 6: deforming the pre-material of conductive adhesive of spherical graphene, and then obtain conductive adhesive of spherical graphene.

Atomization processes for manufacturing a metal powder or an alloy powder having a melting point comprising of about 50° Celsius to about 500° Celsius are provided herein. In at least one embodiment, the processes comprise providing a melt of a metal or an alloy having said melting point of about 50° Celsius to about 500° Celsius through a feed tube; diverting the melt at a diverting angle with respect to a central axis of the feed tube to obtain a diverted melt; directing the diverted melt to an atomization area; and providing at least one atomization gas stream to the atomization area. The atomization process can be carried out in the presence of water within an atomization chamber used for the atomization process. In at least one embodiment, the processes provide a distribution of powder with an average particle diameter under 20 microns with geometric standard deviation of lower than about 2.0.

Atomization processes for manufacturing a metal powder or an alloy powder having a melting point comprising of about 50° Celsius to about 500° Celsius are provided herein. In at least one embodiment, the processes comprise providing a melt of a metal or an alloy having said melting point of about 50° Celsius to about 500° Celsius through a feed tube; diverting the melt at a diverting angle with respect to a central axis of the feed tube to obtain a diverted melt; directing the diverted melt to an atomization area; and providing at least one atomization gas stream to the atomization area. The atomization process can be carried out in the presence of water within an atomization chamber used for the atomization process. In at least one embodiment, the processes provide a distribution of powder with an average particle diameter under 20 microns with geometric standard deviation of lower than about 2.0.

Nano- to microscale liquid coacervate particles are provided. The liquid coacervate particles are produced by a process including stimulating a population of liquid droplets containing one or a mixture of components to induce a phase separation point of a first component, and maintaining stimulation at the phase separation point to form a coacervate domain of the first component within each of the droplets to form the liquid coacervate particles. The self-assembled nano, meso, micro and macro liquid coacervate particles and related coated substrates can have utility in drug delivery, bioanalytical systems, controlled cell culture, tissue engineering, biomanufacturing and drug discovery.

The present invention relates to a process for continuous production of partly crystalline polycondensate pellet material, comprising the steps of forming a polycondensate melt into pellet material; separating the liquid cooling medium from the pellet material in a first treatment space, wherein the pellets after exit from the first treatment space exhibit a temperature T.sub.GR, and crystallizing the pellet material in a second treatment space, wherein in the second treatment space fluidized bed conditions exist, and in the second treatment space the pellets are heated by supply of energy from the exterior by means of a process gas.

A method for producing lipid particles, including: injecting molten lipids directly into a liquid at a temperature lower than a melting point of the lipids through a liquid supply port of a two-fluid nozzle while injecting a gas directly into the liquid through a gas supply port of the two-fluid nozzle, so that the molten lipids are dispersed and atomized into particles in the liquid due to the gas and the particles are solidified to form lipid particles. The lipids have a water solubility of 10 g/L or less at 25° C. and are solid at 25° C. The two-fluid nozzle is heated to a temperature at least 10° C. higher than the melting point of the lipids. A ratio D50/Nd of a volume median diameter D50 of the lipid particles to an orifice diameter Nd of the liquid supply port of the two-fluid nozzle is 0.0017 or more and 0.17 or less.