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. 2013 Jul 31;3:2322. doi: 10.1038/srep02322

Figure 3. Spouted bed granulation to create porous hierarchical agglomerates.

Figure 3

(a) Schematic of a spouted bed apparatus. Dashed arrows indicate the flow of agglomerates driven by an airstream (solid arrows). Polymer solution is injected through a nozzle. The magnified inset in (a) shows the principle of polymer-coating a first-level-of-hierarchy-agglomerate. (b) Scanning electron microscopy image of a PVB-coated agglomerate of 2 levels of hierarchy.