Engineers whip up the first long-lived nanoscale bubbles

Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 14:14 in Physics & Chemistry

With the aid of kitchen mixers, engineers at Harvard`s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have whipped up, for the first time, permanent nanoscale bubbles - bubbles that endure for more than a year - from batches of foam made from a mixture of glucose syrup, sucrose stearate, and water. Their study appears in the May 30 issue of the journal Science.

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