Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

Inducing drop to bubble transformation via resonance in ultrasound

  • Duyang Zang,
  • Lin Li,
  • Wenli Di,
  • Zehui Zhang,
  • Changlin Ding,
  • Zhen Chen,
  • Wei Shen,
  • Bernard P. Binks,
  • Xingguo Geng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05949-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Bubbles tend to burst and retract into droplets. Here the authors show how a droplet can be turned into a bubble by levitating the droplets acoustically and exploiting their buckling to form gas bubbles.