{"id":232198,"date":"2026-02-27T05:26:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/tackling-industrys-burdensome-bubble-problem"},"modified":"2026-02-27T05:26:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:26:40","slug":"tackling-industrys-burdensome-bubble-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/tackling-industrys-burdensome-bubble-problem","title":{"rendered":"Tackling industry\u2019s burdensome bubble problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tackling-industrys-burdensome-bubble-problem.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In industrial plants around the world, tiny bubbles cause big problems. Bubbles clog filters, disrupt chemical reactions, reduce throughput during biomanufacturing, and can even cause overheating in electronics and nuclear power plants. MIT Professor Kripa Varanasi has long studied methods to reduce bubble disruption.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study, Varanasi, along with Ph.D. candidate Bert Vandereydt and former postdoc Saurabh Nath, have uncovered the physics behind a promising type of debubbling membrane material that is \u201caerophilic\u201d\u2014Greek for \u201cair-loving.\u201d The material can be used in systems of all types, allowing anyone to optimize their machine\u2019s performance by breaking free from bubble-borne disruptions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have figured out the structure of these bubble-attracting membrane materials to allow gas to evacuate in the fastest possible manner,\u201d says Varanasi, the senior author of the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In industrial plants around the world, tiny bubbles cause big problems. Bubbles clog filters, disrupt chemical reactions, reduce throughput during biomanufacturing, and can even cause overheating in electronics and nuclear power plants. MIT Professor Kripa Varanasi has long studied methods to reduce bubble disruption. In a new study, Varanasi, along with Ph.D. candidate Bert Vandereydt [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,873,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-nuclear-energy","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232198","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=232198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}