Three decades of ultrasound contrast agents: a review of the past, present and future improvements

P Frinking, T Segers, Y Luan, F Tranquart - Ultrasound in medicine & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Initial reports from the 1960s describing the observations of ultrasound contrast
enhancement by tiny gaseous bubbles during echocardiographic examinations prompted …

Microbubble agents: New directions

E Stride, T Segers, G Lajoinie, S Cherkaoui… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2020 - Elsevier
Microbubble ultrasound contrast agents have now been in use for several decades and their
safety and efficacy in a wide range of diagnostic applications have been well established …

The science of foaming

W Drenckhan, A Saint-Jalmes - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2015 - Elsevier
The generation of liquid foams is at the heart of numerous natural, technical or scientific
processes. Even though the subject of foam generation has a long-standing history, many …

Dripping, jetting and tip streaming

JM Montanero, AM Gañán-Calvo - Reports on Progress in …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Dripping, jetting and tip streaming have been studied up to a certain point separately by both
fluid mechanics and microfluidics communities, the former focusing on fundamental aspects …

Bubble puzzles: from fundamentals to applications

D Lohse - Physical review fluids, 2018 - APS
For centuries, bubbles have fascinated artists, engineers, and scientists alike. In spite of
century-long research on them, new and often surprising bubble phenomena, features, and …

Industrial application of microbubble generation methods for recovering fine particles through froth flotation: A review of the state-of-the-art and perspectives

MU Jung, YC Kim, G Bournival, S Ata - Advances in Colloid and Interface …, 2023 - Elsevier
The depletion of high-grade and coarse-grain ores has led to an increasing demand for the
development of efficient separation technologies for low-grade and fine-grain ores …

Bubble formation and breakup dynamics in microfluidic devices: A review

T Fu, Y Ma - Chemical Engineering Science, 2015 - Elsevier
Bubbles are always encountered for gas–liquid two-phase flow in microchannels, and have
potential applications in chemical engineering, polymer engineering, food engineering, and …

Generation of microbubbles with applications to industry and medicine

J Rodríguez-Rodríguez, A Sevilla… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
We provide a comprehensive and systematic description of the diverse microbubble
generation methods recently developed to satisfy emerging technological, pharmaceutical …

Microbubble formulations: synthesis, stability, modeling and biomedical applications

A Upadhyay, SV Dalvi - Ultrasound in medicine & biology, 2019 - Elsevier
Microbubbles are increasingly being used in biomedical applications such as ultrasonic
imaging and targeted drug delivery. Microbubbles typically range from 0.1 to 10 µm in size …

Stabilization and fabrication of microbubbles: applications for medical purposes and functional materials

M Lee, EY Lee, D Lee, BJ Park - Soft matter, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Microbubbles with diameters ranging from a few micrometers to tens of micrometers have
garnered significant attention in various applications including food processing, water …