Superstability of Surface Nanobubbles

Borkent, Bram M. and Dammer, Stephan M. and Schönherr, Holger and Vancso, G. Julius and Lohse, Detlef (2007) Superstability of Surface Nanobubbles. Physical Review Letters, 98 (20). p. 204502. ISSN 0031-9007

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Abstract:	Shock wave induced cavitation experiments and atomic force microscopy measurements of flat polyamide and hydrophobized silicon surfaces immersed in water are performed. It is shown that surface nanobubbles, present on these surfaces, do not act as nucleation sites for cavitation bubbles, in contrast to the expectation. This implies that surface nanobubbles are not just stable under ambient conditions but also under enormous reduction of the liquid pressure down to -6 MPa. We denote this feature as superstability.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 2007 American Physical Society
Faculty:	Science and Technology (TNW)
Research Group:	Materials Science and Technology of Polymers (MTP) Physics of Fluids (POF)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/59117
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.204502
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