Original Article
  • Scalable Fabrication of Field’s Metal Microparticles via High-shear Thixotropic Emulsion Process

  • Seung Min Baek*, Yoo Jin Hong*, Sang Yup Kim*†

  • * Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sogang University, Seoul 04107, Republic of Korea

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Correspondence to

  • Sang Yup Kim

  • * Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sogang University, Seoul 04107, Republic of Korea

  • E-mail: sangyupkim@sogang.ac.kr