Sentences with word «nanobubbles»

Separately, these findings provide insight into nanobubble dynamics that could allow researchers to take advantage of the unique properties of hydrates.

«If the decomposition of the methane hydrate phase is fast enough, which depends on temperature, the methane gas in the aqueous phase forms nanobubbles,» said Saman Alavi, one of the lead researchers on the project.

Now a team of Canadian researchers from the University of British Columbia and National Research Council of Canada is studying the role that methane nanobubbles might play in the formation and dissociation of natural gas hydrates — crystalline lattices of hydrogen - bonded water molecules with gas molecules nestled between.

Lukianova - Hleb E, Hanna E, Hafner J, Lapotko D. Tunable plasmonic nanobubbles for cell theranostics.

An increase in the sensitivity of scattering imaging can be achieved through generating PNBs around NPs, as we demonstrate above, because the scattering of such vapor nanobubbles is brighter than that of gold NPs [37,38,47,51].

Gaining a better understanding of how nanobubbles impact their formation and dissociation could help design procedures to more efficiently and safely harvest hydrates for natural gas capture.

Not only are nanobubbles there, they seem to be everywhere.

But nanobubbles persist.

Whether or not nanobubbles formed during decomposition was influenced, among other factors, by the temperature — higher heat made the hydrate dissociate more quickly.

Next, the researchers plan to more thoroughly investigate the composition and long - term fate of nanobubbles resulting from hydrate decomposition.

The in vivo performance of plasmonic nanobubbles as cell theranostic agents in zebrafish hosting prostate cancer xenografts.

They consist of a special type of magnesium with some natural organic acids that, upon interacting with water, breaks open the bonds of H2O, creating a cloud of H2 nanobubbles, with the bonus side product of magnesium ions.

As a result rainbow plasmonic nanobubbles can be considered as a novel platform for developing cell level diagnostic, therapeutic and theranostic solutions for treating various pathologies such as prostate cancer.

When methane was released from the hydrate into the liquid state faster than it could diffuse out, it became supersaturated and formed nanobubbles.

If a hydrate dissociates fast enough, it leads to the formation of nanobubbles.

That's where the nanobubbles come into play: through their simulations, the researchers found that if temperature and pressure conditions were favorable for hydrate formation, methane nanobubbles in the aqueous solution sped up the rate at which the hydrate formed.

Quite apart from anything else, basic physics said that the «nanobubbles» at the heart of Pan's magic brew simply don't exist.

Nanobubbles might explain why.

Nanobubbles can revive polluted lakes, clean computer chips and might even make wonder drugs.

«Nanobubbles may bring more methane into contact with water and enhance hydrate formation efficiency,» said Alavi.

See First Images of Nanobubbles

Nanobubbles: tiny air bubbles on colloid surfaces.

Keywords: Plasmonic nanobubble, gold nanoparticle, laser, photothermal, prostate cancer, theranostics.

But that nanobubble may be bursting.

We conclude that the suggested method of cell theranostics with «rainbow plasmonic nanobubbles» demonstrates the following advantages over other methods of photothermal excitation of plasmonic NPs and PNBs:

The developed mechanism was termed «rainbow plasmonic nanobubbles.»