Theranostic applications require coupling of diagnosis and therapy, a high degree of specificity and adaptability to delivery methods compatible with clinical practice. The tunable physical and biological effects of selective targeting and activation of plasmonic nanobubbles (PNB) were studied in a heterogeneous biological microenvironment of prostate cancer and stromal cells. All cells were ta...

Fluid slip has been observed experimentally in microand nanoscale flow devices by several investigators @e.g., Tretheway and Meinhart, Phys. Fluids 14, L9 ~2002!; Zhu and Granik, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 096105 ~2001!; Pit et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 980 ~2000!; and Choi et al., Phys. Fluids 15, 2897 ~2003!#. This paper examines a possible mechanism for the measured fluid slip, for water flowing o...

The addition of salt can induce the slow coalescence of nanobubbles (approximately 100 nm) in an aqueous solution of alpha-cyclodextrin (alpha-CD). A combination of static and dynamic laser light scattering was used to follow the coalescence. Our results reveal that its kinetic and structural properties follow some scaling laws; namely, the average size () of the nanobubbles is related to...

Microbubbles show peculiar properties, such as shrinking collapse, long lifetime, high gas solubility, negative electric charge, and free radical production. Fluids supersaturated with various gases can be easily generated using microbubbles. Oxygen microbubble fluid can be very useful for oxygen delivery to hypoxic tissues. However, there have been no reports of comparative investigations into...

Attachment of particles and droplets to bubbles—the latter being various fine sizes created by different techniques (as described in detail)—forms the basis flotation, a process which indeed was originated from mineral processing. Nevertheless, chemistry often plays significant role this area, order for separation be effective, as stressed. This (brief) review particularly discusses wastewater ...