Surface Nanobubble Nucleation Visualized with TIRF Microscopy

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2012-04-12

arxiv.org/abs/1204.2633v1

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Fluid Dynamics

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Nanobubbles are observed with optical microscopy using the total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) excitation. We report on TIRF visualization using Rhodamine 6G at 5$\mu\,$M concentration which results to strongly contrasted pictures. The preferential absorption and the high spatial resolution allow to detect nanobubbles with diameters of 230\,nm and above. We present a study of the nucleation dynamics from the water-ethanol-water exchange and report the size distributions. Nanobubble nucleation is observed within 4 min after the exchange, later a stable population of nanobubbles with a surface density of 0.55 bubbles\,/$\mu$m$^2$ is formed. Interestingly, unstable, slowly dissolving nanobubbles are observed during the first stage of water-ethanol exchange; only after the ethanol-water exchange stable nanobubbles appear.

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