Issue 7, 2020

Measuring temperature effects on nanobubble nucleation via a solid-state nanopore

Abstract

In this study, we designed SiNX solid-state nanopores to detect the temperature effect on the hydrogen nanobubble formation. Here, we integrated a temperature controller with the highly sensitive nanopore. As the temperature decreases from 25 °C to 5 °C, the occurrence of the nanobubble nucleation inside a 12.3 nm SiNX nanopore confined space decreased from 102 s−1 to 23 s−1, and the life-time of nanobubbles increased from 1.16 ms to 4.78 ms. The results further gave the activation energy for nanobubble nucleation which was 8.1 × 10−20 J with a 12.3 nm SiNX nanopore. Our method provides an efficient analytical tool for revealing the temperature-dependent nanobubble nucleation, which further benefits the fundamental understanding of nanobubble nucleation.

Graphical abstract: Measuring temperature effects on nanobubble nucleation via a solid-state nanopore

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
07 Jan 2020
Accepted
05 Feb 2020
First published
06 Feb 2020

Analyst, 2020,145, 2510-2514

Measuring temperature effects on nanobubble nucleation via a solid-state nanopore

Q. Li, Y. Ying, S. Liu, Y. Hu and Y. Long, Analyst, 2020, 145, 2510 DOI: 10.1039/D0AN00041H

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