Nanobubbles exist, and are more stable than previously thought
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The green circles are the nanobubbles on a solid. The bubbles are about 10 nm high and 1000 nm across at the base. Credit: Xuehua Zhang
When William Ducker, a professor at the University of Melbourne in Australia started experiments on so-called nanobubbles that form as a gas state on the boundary between liquid and gas, he fully expected to discover two things: 1) that the nanobubbles didn’t exist, and 2) that
if they did, they would be unstable, existing for no more than a second. So it came as a surprise when the results of an experiment he performed along with Xuehua Zhang, required Ducker to admit that he was wrong. “Not only do these nanobubbles exist, but they are relatively stable, lasting for days,” he tells
PhysOrg.com.
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