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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2026

Aerophilic debubbling.

Bert J C Vandereydt, Saurabh Nath, Kripa K Varanasi

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Reply to Lü: Aerophilic interfaces across scales.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  2. Navigating the unknown: Nanobubbles and the hidden complexity of aerophilic surfaces.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Bert J C Vandereydt *Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.
Saurabh Nath *Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.
Kripa K VaranasiDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.ORCID 0000-0002-6846-152X

Funding

Belgian American Educational Foundation (BAEF) N/AMIT | Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT LL) N/A
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gas bubbles frequently accumulate at liquid interfaces, compromising throughput, selectivity, and stability across scales from microfluidics to natural ecosystems. Here, we experimentally show that highly permeable aerophilic membranes placed on a liquid-air interface annihilate bubbles within milliseconds. This ultrafast regime appears only above a critical permeability threshold, where the flow departs from classical Darcy-driven dynamics in micropores. We quantitatively characterize this aerophilicity-mediated debubbling process by examining local interactions at the scale of single bubbles approaching the membrane and identify three asymptotic evacuation regimes, the physics of which we capture through simple scaling laws.

Indexed as

aerophilicitybubblescapilaritysoft matter

Identifiers

PMID41734076
PMCPMC12956886

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