Recent advances in fundamentals and applications of nanobubble enhanced froth flotation: A review

D Tao - Minerals Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Nanobubbles are tiny in size but huge in importance for many scientific fields and
applications in biology, agriculture, medicine, environment and engineering. Literature on …

Stability of surface and bulk nanobubbles

BH Tan, H An, CD Ohl - Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, 2021 - Elsevier
The existence of stable nanoscopic gaseous domains in liquids, or nanobubbles, has
attracted both skepticism and intrigue since classical theory predicts that spherical gas …

Aqueous dispersions of nanobubbles: Generation, properties and features

A Azevedo, R Etchepare, S Calgaroto, J Rubio - Minerals Engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
Nanobubbles (NBs) have interesting and peculiar properties such as high stability, longevity
and high surface area per volume, leading to important applications in mining-metallurgy …

Nip the bubble in the bud: a guide to avoid gas nucleation in microfluidics

I Pereiro, AF Khartchenko, L Petrini, GV Kaigala - Lab on a Chip, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Gas bubbles are almost a routine occurrence encountered by researchers working in the
field of microfluidics. The spontaneous and unexpected nature of gas bubbles represents a …

How bulk nanobubbles might survive

BH Tan, H An, CD Ohl - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
The existence of bulk nanobubbles has long been regarded with scepticism, due to the
limitations of experimental techniques and the widespread assumption that spherical …

Recent advances for understanding the role of nanobubbles in particles flotation

F Zhang, L Sun, H Yang, X Gui, H Schönherr… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Traditional froth flotation is the primary method for the separation and upgrading of fine
mineral particles. However, it is still difficult for micro-fine and low-quality minerals to …

Self-propelled detachment upon coalescence of surface bubbles

P Lv, P Peñas, H Le The, J Eijkel, A van den Berg… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
The removal of microbubbles from substrates is crucial for the efficiency of many catalytic
and electrochemical gas evolution reactions in liquids. The current work investigates the …

Aeration and dissolution behavior of oxygen nanobubbles in water

S Xue, Y Zhang, T Marhaba, W Zhang - Journal of colloid and interface …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Hypothesis Nanobubbles (NBs) in water elicit unique physicochemical and
colloidal properties (eg, high stability and longevity). Aeration kinetics and dissolution …

Surface nanobubbles: Theory, simulation, and experiment. A review

PE Theodorakis, Z Che - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2019 - Elsevier
Surface nanobubbles (NBs) are stable gaseous phases in liquids that form at the interface
with solid substrates. They have been particularly intriguing for their high stability that …

Surface nanobubbles are stabilized by hydrophobic attraction

BH Tan, H An, CD Ohl - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
The remarkably long lifetime of surface nanobubbles has perplexed researchers for two
decades. The current understanding is that both contact line pinning and supersaturation of …