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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*This article and the paper under discussion1 were published online on 18 July 2012.
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Passian, A., Thundat, T. The abilities of instabilities. Nature 487, 440–441 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11383
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