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SUBMITTER: Kim Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4291580 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20150113
A bubble merged from two parent bubbles with different size tends to be placed closer to the larger parent. This phenomenon is known as the coalescence preference. Here we demonstrate that the coalescence preference can be blocked inside a densely packed cluster of bubbles. We utilized high-speed high-resolution X-ray microscopy to clearly visualize individual coalescence events inside densely packed microbubbles with a local packing fraction of ~40%. The surface energy release theory predicts a ...[more]