Pinning Stabilizes Neighboring Surface Nanobubbles against Ostwald Ripening
Author(s) -
Benjamin Dollet,
Detlef Lohse
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
langmuir
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.042
H-Index - 333
eISSN - 1520-5827
pISSN - 0743-7463
DOI - 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b02136
Subject(s) - ostwald ripening , chemical physics , curvature , population , surface (topology) , nanotechnology , pinning force , chemistry , materials science , condensed matter physics , physics , superconductivity , geometry , mathematics , demography , critical current , sociology
Pinning of the contact line and gas oversaturation explain the stability of single surface nanobubbles. In this article, we theoretically show that the pinning also suppresses the Ostwald ripening process between neighboring surface nanobubbles, thus explaining why in a population of neighboring surface nanobubbles different radii of curvature of the nanobubbles can be observed.
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