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Field openers should be admired for leading the crowds. This comment is relevant to the bigger picture of Professor Sourirajan to highlight how a humble talent had selflessly founded a multicontinental major, which scaled up to US$ 50 billion in the 2021 global membrane separation market to enrich the quality of worldwide life via providing clean water.
Deductive arguments regarding the unexpected stability of nanobubbles in water include the excessive internal pressure of minuscule gas pockets. In this study, the derivation assumptions of the Young–Laplace equation are evaluated closely to discuss the possible modifications towards making conclusive remarks about the predictive power of the equation at the nano-scale.