Patent 7291200 was granted and assigned to Miyazaki Prefecture on November, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
It is an object of the present invention to provide spherical metal particles having excellent monodispersity. The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing monodisperse spherical metal particles characterized by passing liquid metal through a porous membrane so as to disperse the resulting liquid metal particles in a continuous liquid phase.