特集「微細なバブルの科学と応用」
アルミナ微細孔によるナノバブル生成とバブル合体
キーワード:
nanobubble,
porous alumina film,
size distribution,
nanoparticle tracking analysis,
coalescence
2023 年 66 巻 11 号 p. 639-644
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2023 年 66 巻 11 号 p. 639-644
Nanobubbles (NBs), with their unique physicochemical properties and promising applications, have become an important research topic. Generation of monodispersed bulk NBs with specified gas content remains a challenge. We developed a simple method for generating bulk NBs, using porous alumina films with ordered straight nano-scaled holes. Nanoparticle tracking analysis (NTA) is used to confirm NB formation. The NTA data demonstrates that NB size is distributed discretely with a uniform increment factor of √2. To explain the observed characteristic size distribution of NBs, we propose a simple model in which two NBs of the same size are assumed to preferentially coalesce.
