Mechanism of disintegration of biological cells in ultrasonic cavitation
- 1 May 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Biotechnology & Bioengineering
- Vol. 19 (5), 649-660
- https://doi.org/10.1002/bit.260190504
Abstract
On the basis of elastic waves released by imploding cavitation bubbles, a mechanism for biological cell disintegration in high intensity ultrasounds has been proposed. Comparison of this mechanism with the published results on yeast cells shows many points of agreement suggesting that yeast cell disintegration in ultrasonic cavitation occurs by shear stresses developed by viscous dissipative eddies arising from shock waves.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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