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ArticleSmall (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)2025

Electrolytic Bubble Coalescence on Hydrophobic Cavity Arrays Determines Departure Radius and Lowers Electrolyte Supersaturation.

Akash Raman, Stefan Schlautmann, Han Gardeniers, David Fernández Rivas

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Article in Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Authors and funding

4 authors.

Akash RamanMesoscale Chemical Systems Group, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0016-2539
Stefan SchlautmannMesoscale Chemical Systems Group, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands.
Han GardeniersMesoscale Chemical Systems Group, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0581-2668
David Fernández RivasMesoscale Chemical Systems Group, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4329-3248

Funding

HORIZON EUROPE European Innovation Council 801359Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Netherlands Center for Multiscale Catalytic Energy Conversion (MCEC)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bubble evolution on electrodes is a complex process that begins with the stochastic nucleation of bubbles on the electrode surface, followed by bubble growth due to diffusion and coalescence, and bubble departure. The stochasticity of bubble evolution on conventional electrodes is a significant challenge in efforts to study electrolytic bubbles. In this investigation, the growth of electrolytic hydrogen bubbles is studied on microfabricated silicon electrodes with arrays of hydrophobic cavities. These hydrophobic pits act as preferential nucleation sites for bubbles-thus lowering the degree of spatial-randomness in bubble nucleation and enabling the study of bubbles growing in the presence of coalescence with greater control. Substrates with different spacings between the hydrophobic pits were fabricated. It is shown that coalescence with neighboring bubbles strongly determines the departure radius of bubbles. Further analysis of the bubble growth rate and electrode coverage indicates that closer pits decrease the electrolyte supersaturation while increasing electrode coverage.

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bubble coalescencebubble dynamicselectrolytic bubbleshydrogen bubbleswater electrolysis

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PMCPMC12590528

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