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Bubbles as osmotic membranes

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Nanoscale gas bubbles can act as selective membranes and be used to estimate the condensation coefficient of water.

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Figure 1: Nanobubbles as osmotic membranes.

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  1. and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lydéric Bocquet is at the Institut Lumière Matière, UMR5306 University Lyon 1 — CNRS, 69622 Villeurbanne, France, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, UMI 3466 CNRS-MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA,

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