Published June 27, 2023
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Realizing Symmetry-Breaking Architectures in Soap Films
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- 1. Uppsala University
- 2. University of Leiden
- 3. Politechnico di Turino
- 4. Polytechnico di Turino
- 5. University of Amsterdam
- 6. Wasabi Innovations
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In this paper, we show that soap films – typically expected to host symmetric molecular arrangements – can be constructed with differing opposite surfaces, breaking their symmetry, and making them reminiscent of functional biological motifs found in Nature. Using fluorescent molecular probes as dopants on different sides of the film, resonance energy transfer could be employed to confirm the lack of symmetry, which was found to persist on timescales of several minutes. Further, a theoretical analysis of the main transport phenomena involved yielded good agreement with the experimental observations.
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