The life and death of 'bare' viscous bubbles

Science

Volumn 279, Issue 5357, 1998, Pages 1704-1707

  Debregeas G ^a   De Gennes, P G ^b   Brochard Wyart, F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS; POLYMER; SILICONE OIL; SURFACTANT;

ARTICLE; FILM; LIQUID; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0032513351     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.279.5357.1704     Document Type: Article

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9. The time required for the slide to reach its final temperature cannot be easily determined. However, we noted that the visible onset of the hole opening was systematically of order 200 s. By limiting our observations to relatively low temperatures (T < 812°C), we could decouple this delay and the characteristic time for hole opening (on the order of 15 min to 2 hours). The rapid decrease of the viscosity with decreasing temperature makes the onset of the growth process sharp (Fig. 3A) and indicates that the whole measurement is done at a constant temperature. The biggest uncertainty comes from fluctuations in the oven temperature, which are of the order of ±0.5°C.
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13. Bursting experiments on viscous bubbles were performed at Rhône-Poulenc Research (St. Fons, France). We thank L. Vovelle and J. J. Martin for their help. We would like to acknowledge the support of H. Arribart and S. Creux, from the CNRS-St. Gobain research laboratory (Aubervilliers, France), where the experiments on glass slides were done. We are grateful to A. Buguin, R. Fondecave, and P. Martin for fruitful comments on this work.