Giant and explosive plasmonic bubbles by delayed nucleation

• DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1805912115
• Publication Date: 2018-07-11T20:27:00Z
• Authors: Yuliang Wang; Mikhail E. Zaytsev; Guillaume Lajoinie; Hai Le The; Jan C. T. Eijkel; Albert van den Berg; Michel Versluis; Bert M. Weckhuysen; Xuehua Zhang; Harold J. W. Zand...; Detlef Lohse
• Keywords: Microsecond; Dynamics

Significance Plasmonic microbubbles are at the center of numerous applications, including micromanipulation/nanomanipulation, biomedical diagnosis and therapy, solar energy harvesting. Controlling dynamics these is key to successfully exploiting their potential in growing number applications. Literature has vastly overlooked nucleation early microsecond by which arise. It utmost importance understand this phase, as it displays most violent precursor origin all subsequent dynamics, on many applications rely.