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There is a dimensionless parameter which enters into the equation for the evolution of supersaturation in Ostwald ripening processes. This parameter is typically a large number. Here it is argued that the consequent stiffness of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-16 Michael Wilkinson

Additives of sparingly soluble components are known to slow down or completely inhibit Ostwald ripening in dispersed systems. In this paper, our earlier model of stabilization against Ostwald ripening is revisited and extended. In a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-28 Alexey Kabalnov

Absence of Ostwald ripening has been observed in living cells, which operate out of equilibrium. Using molecular dynamics we study the behaviour of liquid droplets away from equilibrium in a system of particles interacting with each other…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-08-01 Bradley D. Keister , Saeed Najafi , Joan-Emma Shea , Krastan B. Blagoev

Understanding how multi-component liquid mixtures undergo phase separation is central to elucidating biophysical organization in the cell. Here, combining analytical and numerical results, we characterise the dynamics of mixtures with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-06 Giacomo Bartolucci , Fabrizio Olmeda

We present a systematic quasi-mean field model of the Ostwald ripening process in two dimensions. Our approach yields a set of dynamic equations for the temporal evolution of the minority phase droplets' radii. The equations contain only…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Boris Levitan , Eytan Domany

The Ostwald ripening phenomenon for gas bubbles in a liquid consists mainly in gas transfer from smaller bubbles to larger bubbles. An experiment was carried out in which the Ostwald ripening for air bubbles, in a liquid fluid with some…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-12-10 O. M. Del Cima , C. M. Rocha , A. V. N. C. Teixeira , B. R. Wienke

Ostwald ripening is a well-known physicochemical phenomenon in which smaller particles, characterized by high surface energy, dissolve and feed the bigger ones that are thermodynamically more stable. The effect is commonly observed in solid…

Underground gas storage is central to both climate mitigation and energy transition strategies, supporting both long-term carbon sequestration and seasonal hydrogen storage. A key mechanism governing the fate of injected gases is Ostwald…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-03 Mohammad Salehpour , Tian Lan , Nicolas Bueno , Md Zahidul Islam Laku , Yashar Mehmani , Benzhong Zhao

Additives of sparingly soluble components are known to slow down or completely inhibit Ostwald ripening in dispersed systems. In this paper series, our earlier model of the stabilization against Ostwald ripening is revisited and extended…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-27 Alexey Kabalnov

When liquid droplets nucleate and grow in a polymer network, compressive stresses can significantly increase their internal pressure, reaching values that far exceed the Laplace pressure. When droplets have grown in a polymer network with a…

Phase separation of biomolecular condensates promotes membrane-free compartmentalization in cells. The dynamics of these biocondensates is routinely regulated by energy-consuming processes. Here, we devise a theory pinpointing how active…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Benjamin Sorkin , Ned S. Wingreen

The ostwald ripening of bubbles is studied by molecular dynamics simulations involving up to 679 million Lennard-Jones particles. Many bubbles appear after depressurizing a system that is initially maintained in the pure-liquid phase, and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-22 Hiroshi Watanabe , Masaru Suzuki , Hajime Inaoka , Nobuyasu Ito

We explore the evolution of the aggregate size distribution in systems where aggregates grow by diffusive accretion of mass. Supersaturation is controlled in such a way that the overall aggregate volume grows linearly in time. Classical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-03-12 J. Vollmer , A. Papke , M. Rohloff

Microbubble solutions have a wide range of industrial applications, including heat transfer, agriculture, and water treatment. Therefore, understanding and controlling the size variation of bubbles is critical. In this study, we develop a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Yuki Uematsu

A central problem in cloud physics is understanding the kinetics of the growth of water droplets. It is believed that there exists a 'condensation-coalescence bottleneck' in the growth of intermediate size droplets. Here the Lifshitz-Slezov…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2012-04-18 Michael Wilkinson

Bubble solutions are of growing interest because of various technological applications in surface cleaning, water treatment, and agriculture. However, their physicochemical properties such as the stability and interfacial charge of bubbles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-05-26 Sota Inoue , Yasuyuki Kimura , Yuki Uematsu

Liquid-liquid phase separation is an important mechanism for compartmentalizing the cell's cytoplasm, allowing the dynamic organization of the components necessary for survival. However, it is not clear how phase separation is affected by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-31 Estefania Vidal-Henriquez , David Zwicker

We present a systematic extension of mean field models for Ostwald ripening in two dimensions. We derived, using a mean field type approximation, an analytic expression for pairwise interactions between the minority phase droplets. These…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Boris Levitan , Eytan Domany

Droplet deformations caused by substrate vibrations are ubiquitous in nature and highly relevant for applications such as microreactors and single-cell sorting. The vibrations can induce droplet oscillations, a fundamental process that…

We present some experimental and simulation results that reproduces the Ostwald ripening (gas diffusion among bubbles) for air bubbles in a liquid fluid. Concerning the experiment, there it is measured the time evolution of bubbles mean…

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