Background The importance of nanobubbles (NBs) is widely acknowledged, along with their
size and stability. NBs are tiny gas-filled cavities having unique physical characteristics …

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 …

During the past years, atomic force microscopy (AFM) has matured to an indispensable tool
to characterize nanomaterials in colloid and interface science. For imaging, a sharp probe …

Froth flotation is often used for fine-particle separation, but its process efficiency rapidly
decreases with decreasing particle size. The efficient separation of ultrafine particles (UFPs) …

A deep understanding of the bubble–particle attachment is critical to flotation science and
engineering. Historically, the so called “hydrophobic force” has been widely accepted to be …

Gas bubble evolution is an important phenomenon in many electrochemical processes and
it is highly sensitive to the surface properties. Here we visualize the gas bubble dynamics on …

The impact of surface treatment and modification on surface nanobubble nucleation in water
has been addressed by a new combination of fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy …

The stability of two neighboring surface nanobubbles on a chemically heterogeneous
surface is studied by molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of binary mixtures consisting of …

Micropancake, a flat domain with micrometer-scale lateral size and a few nanometer
thickness, is usually accompanied by the generation of interfacial nanobubbles at the …

To develop interfacial nanobubbles (INBs) into application fields, it is of great significance to
understand the properties of INBs and their effect on the interaction of inter-particles. In this …