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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 119, Issue 26, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.264502
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- Nanoparticles for Subsurface Engineering Industrial Affiliates Program at the University of Texas at Austin (Baker Hughes)
- Nanoparticles for Subsurface Engineering Industrial Affiliates Program at the University of Texas at Austin (GE Company)
- Nanoparticles for Subsurface Engineering Industrial Affiliates Program at the University of Texas at Austin (Nissan Chemical America)
- Nanoparticles for Subsurface Engineering Industrial Affiliates Program at the University of Texas at Austin (Foundation CMG)
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We show that smaller gas bubbles grow at the expense of larger bubbles and all bubbles approach the same surface curvature after long times in porous media. This anticoarsening effect is contrary to typical Ostwald ripening and leads to uniformly sized bubbles in a homogeneous medium. Evolution dynamics of bubble populations were measured, and mathematical models were developed that fit the experimental data well. Ostwald ripening is shown to be the driving mechanism in this anticoarsening phenomenon; however, the relationship between surface curvature and bubble size determined by the pore-throat geometric confinement reverses the ripening direction.
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