Engineers whip up the first long-lived nanoscale bubbles

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Micrometer-size bubble covered with approximately 50 nm hexagons. Courtesy of the Howard Stone LabScience Magazine
Micrometer-size bubble covered with approximately 50 nm hexagons. Courtesy of the Howard Stone Lab/Science Magazine

With the aid of kitchen mixers, engineers at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have whipped up, for the first time, permanent nanoscale bubbles – bubbles that endure for more than a year – from batches of foam made from a mixture of glucose syrup, sucrose stearate, and water. Their study appears in the May 30 issue of the journal Science.


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