Many thanks for your replies guys, it's most appreciated. I will start some reading around the surface tension of a bubble now. Regarding the modulus of the thin wall under load, I have performed nanoindentation using atomic force microscopy and typically obtain a Young's modulus of around 300...
I'm hoping that you may be able to help? I'm a biophysicist with an engineering-type problem that is related to pressure vessels. I'm trying to work out if there is a calculation, equation or other snippet of info that may be around that calculates the required Young's modulus of a thin elastic...