The energy efficiency of formation of photons, radicals and ions during single-bubble cavitation

Yuri T. Didenko and Kenneth S. Suslick ()
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Yuri T. Didenko: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kenneth S. Suslick: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Nature, 2002, vol. 418, issue 6896, 394-397

Abstract: Abstract It is extremely difficult to perform a quantitative analysis of the chemistry1,2 associated with multibubble cavitation: unknown parameters include the number of active bubbles, the acoustic pressure acting on each bubble and the bubble size distribution. Single-bubble sonoluminescence3,4,5,6,7 (characterized by the emission of picosecond flashes of light) results from nonlinear pulsations of an isolated vapour-gas bubble in an acoustic field. Although the latter offers a much simpler environment in which to study the chemical activity of cavitation, quantitative measurements have been hindered by the tiny amount of reacting gas within a single bubble (typically

Date: 2002
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