Anomalous interfacial air-bubble dynamics: the importance of electrokinetic effects in thin film drainage

气泡在许多系统中发挥着重要作用，包括塑料和纸张回收，水处理和矿物分离过程，食品，饮料，化妆品，清洁产品，阻燃剂以及河流，海洋和生物流体等自然系统。这些系统和过程的性质和行为取决于水中气泡如何相互作用和/或与其他材料相互作用。目前，我们对气泡相互作用的理解是不完整的。从这个研究项目中获得的更好的理解将导致更好的能力来控制系统和过程的属性，如上面列出的那些。

Air bubbles play important roles in numerous systems including plastics and paper recycling, water treatment and mineral separation processes, foodstuffs, beverages, cosmetics, cleaning products, fire retardants, and natural systems such as rivers, oceans and biological fluids. The properties and behaviour of these systems and processes depend on how air bubbles in water interact with each other, and/or with other materials. Currently our understanding of the bubble interactions is incomplete. The improved understanding gained from this research project will lead to better ability to control the properties of systems and processes such as those listed above.