Realizing Symmetry-Breaking Architectures in Soap Films
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| Publication date | 10-01-2024 |
| Journal | Physical Review Letters |
| Article number | 028201 |
| Volume | Issue number | 132 | 2 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
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| Abstract | We show here 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. |
| Document type | Article |
| Note | With supplementary files |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.132.028201 |
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