Nanobubbles Users Symposium

About The Event

Nanobubbles have created a new frontier of science and engineering that is changing how entire industries utilize and treat their water. Due to their size and structure, nanobubbles possess distinct properties that make them particularly effective at improving water quality, enhancing water treatment processes, and improving productivity in industrial and agricultural applications. Nanobubbles behave differently from larger bubbles because they’re nanoscopic. All of their beneficial attributes — stability, surface charge, neutral buoyancy, oxidation, etc. — are the result of their size. These unique features enable nanobubbles to participate in physical, biological, and chemical reactions while also providing the most efficient gas transfer. Nanoparticle tracking analysis (NTA) is particularly adept at the detection and analysis (size, size distribution, number concentration) of the relatively low concentration nanobubble structures of extremely small size (compared to ‘conventional’ bubbles). Electrophoretic Light scattering (ELS) furthermore analyses the nanobubble zeta potential anywhere from a few nanometers to 100 micrometers in diameter. This helps scientists understand nanobubbles’ colloidal stability through Zeta potential measurements and allows them to measure the overall effective charge of nanobubbles. Zeta potential is an important aspect of bubble stability. It should be measured because the charge of nanobubbles can determine their ability to bind and remove contaminants and other particles in a liquid.