{"id":201771,"date":"2024-12-17T01:20:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T07:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/research-explores-nanobubble-stability-and-its-real-world-implications"},"modified":"2024-12-17T01:20:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T07:20:29","slug":"research-explores-nanobubble-stability-and-its-real-world-implications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/research-explores-nanobubble-stability-and-its-real-world-implications","title":{"rendered":"Research explores nanobubble stability and its real-world implications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/research-explores-nanobubble-stability-and-its-real-world-implications.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gases are essential for many chemical reactions, and bubbles are one way for these gases to be held in solution. When compared to larger bubbles, nanobubbles have increased stability\u2014meaning that they can remain in a solution longer without popping. Due to their increased stability, they allow for higher availability of gases in solution, allowing more time for chemical reactions to occur.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Dr. Hamidreza Samouei, researchers at Texas A&amp;M University are advancing their understanding of what makes nanobubbles\u2014bubbles with diameters smaller than a single strand of hair\u2014so stable and what factors play a role in their stability. Their <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acs.jpcb.4c03973?ref=pdf\" target=\"_blank\">findings<\/a> appear in a recent issue of The Journal of Physical Chemistry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we inject gas at the industrial scale, we don\u2019t want to waste that gas. We want to maximize its use for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chemical+reactions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical reactions<\/a>,\u201d said Samouei, a research assistant professor in the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering. \u201cThat\u2019s the main purpose, to keep the gas in solution for a very, very long time, ideally infinite time; to keep the gas in solution without bursting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gases are essential for many chemical reactions, and bubbles are one way for these gases to be held in solution. When compared to larger bubbles, nanobubbles have increased stability\u2014meaning that they can remain in a solution longer without popping. Due to their increased stability, they allow for higher availability of gases in solution, allowing more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}