ArticleLangmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids2020
Bulk Nanobubbles or Not Nanobubbles: That is the Question.
Article in Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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- Development of quantitative and concise measurement method of oxygen in fine bubble dispersion.PloS one · 2022Article
- Utilizing polymer-conjugate albumin-based ultrafine gas bubbles in combination with ultra-high frequency radiations in drug transportation and delivery.RSC advances · 2021Article
- Biomedical nanobubbles and opportunities for microfluidics.RSC advances · 2021Review
- Nanobubbles activate anaerobic growth and metabolism of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Influence of bulk nanobubble concentration on the intensity of sonoluminescence.Ultrasonics sonochemistry · 2021Article
- Metastable Nanobubbles.ACS omega · 2021Article
- Shaking-Induced Aggregation and Flotation in Immunoglobulin Dispersions: Differences between Water and Water-Ethanol Mixtures.ACS omega · 2020Article
- Life at the interface: Engineering bio-nanomaterials through interfacial molecular self-assembly.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Nanomedicine and nanobiotechnologyReview
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Abstract
Bulk nanobubbles are a novel nanoscale bubble system with unusual properties which challenge our understanding of bubble behavior. Because of their extraordinary longevity, their existence is still not widely accepted as they are often attributed to the presence of supramolecular structures or contaminants. Nonetheless, bulk nanobubbles are attracting increasing attention in the literature, but reports generally lack objective evidence that the observed nano-entities are indeed nanobubbles. In this paper, we use various physical and chemical analytical techniques to provide multiple evidence that the nano-entities produced mechanically in pure water by a continuous high-shear rotor-stator device or acoustic cavitation and spontaneously by water-ethanol mixing are indeed gas-filled domains. We estimate that the results presented here combined provide conclusive proof that bulk nanobubbles do exist and they are stable. This paper should help close the debate about the existence of bulk nanobubbles and, hence, enable the scientific community to rather focus on developing the missing fundamental science in this area.
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