Initial growth dynamics of 10 nm nanobubbles in the graphene liquid cell

Applied Nanoscience - Tập 11 - Trang 1-7 - 2018
QHwan Kim1, Dongha Shin1, Jungwon Park2, David A. Weitz3, Wonho Jhe1
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, Institute of Applied Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
3School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

Tóm tắt

The unexpected long lifetime of nanobubble against the large Laplace pressure is one of the important issues in nanobubble research and a few models have been proposed to explain it. Most studies, however, have been focused on the observation of relatively large nanobubbles over 100 nm and are limited to the equilibrium state phenomena. The study on the sub-100 nm sized nanobubble is still lacking due to the limitation of imaging methods which overcomes the optical resolution limit. Here, we demonstrate the observation of growth dynamics of 10 nm nanobubbles confined in the graphene liquid cell using transmission electron microscopy (TEM). We modified the classical diffusion theory by considering the finite size of the confined system of graphene liquid cell (GLC), successfully describing the temporal growth of nanobubble. Our study shows that the growth of nanobubble is determined by the gas oversaturation, which is affected by the size of GLC.

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