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Letter

Nature Materials 5, 365–369 (1 May 2006) | doi:10.1038/nmat1617

Continuous-flow lithography for high-throughput microparticle synthesis

Dhananjay Dendukuri , Daniel C. Pregibon , Jesse Collins , T. Alan Hatton & Patrick S. Doyle

Precisely shaped polymeric particles and structures are widely used for applications in photonic materials, MEMS, biomaterials and self-assembly. Current approaches for particle synthesis are either batch processes or flow-through microfluidic schemes that are based on two-phase systems, limiting the throughput, shape and functionality of the particles.