Sink or Float? Characterization of Shell-stabilized Bulk Nanobubbles Using a Resonant Mass Measurement Technique

Overview

Journal Nanoscale

Specialty Biotechnology

Date 2019 Jan 3

PMID 30601524

Citations 33

Authors

Christopher Hernandez

Eric C Abenojar

Judith Hadley

Al Christopher De Leon

Robert Coyne

Reshani Perera

Ramamurthy Gopalakrishnan

James P Basilion

Michael C Kolios

Agata A Exner

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Abstract

Nano-sized shell-stabilized gas bubbles have applications in various fields ranging from environmental science to biomedical engineering. A resonant mass measurement (RMM) technique is demonstrated here as a new and only method capable of simultaneously measuring the size and concentration of buoyant and non-buoyant particles in a nanobubble sample used as a next-generation ultrasound contrast agent.

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