{"id":92617,"date":"2019-06-24T17:42:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T00:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/researchers-solve-mystery-of-how-gas-bubbles-form-in-liquid"},"modified":"2019-06-24T17:42:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T00:42:53","slug":"researchers-solve-mystery-of-how-gas-bubbles-form-in-liquid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/researchers-solve-mystery-of-how-gas-bubbles-form-in-liquid","title":{"rendered":"Researchers solve mystery of how gas bubbles form in liquid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-solve-mystery-of-how-gas-bubbles-form-in-liquid.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The formation of air bubbles in a liquid appears very similar to its inverse process, the formation of liquid droplets from, say, a dripping water faucet. But the physics involved is actually quite different, and while those water droplets are uniform in their size and spacing, bubble formation is typically a much more random process.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a study by researchers at MIT and Princeton University shows that under certain conditions, bubbles can also be coaxed to form spheres as perfectly matched as droplets.<\/p>\n<p>The new findings could have implications for the development of microfluidic devices for biomedical research and for understanding the way <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/natural+gas\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">natural gas<\/a> interacts with petroleum in the tiny pore spaces of underground rock formations, the researchers say. The findings are published today in the journal <i>PNAS<\/i>, in a paper by MIT graduate Amir Pahlavan Ph.D. \u201818, Professor Howard Stone of Princeton, MIT School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation Gareth McKinley, and MIT Professor Ruben Juanes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The formation of air bubbles in a liquid appears very similar to its inverse process, the formation of liquid droplets from, say, a dripping water faucet. But the physics involved is actually quite different, and while those water droplets are uniform in their size and spacing, bubble formation is typically a much more random process. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92617","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}