2021/03/27 by Aymeric Roux, Roux, Aymeric, Alexis Duchesne +3 · 3 citations
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Classical Physics (physics.class-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn) #Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer #Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation #Micro and Nano Robotics #Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization #Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft) #Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2103.15637
openalex publication_date 2021/03/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Soap bubbles are by essence fragile and ephemeral. Depending on their composition and environment, bubble bursting can be triggered by gravity-induced drainage and/or the evaporation of the liquid and/or the presence of nuclei. They can also shrink due to the diffusion of the inner gas in the outside atmosphere induced by Laplace overpressure. In this paper, we design bubbles made of a composite liquid film able to neutralize all these effects and keep their integrity for more than one year in a standard atmosphere. The unique properties of this composite film are rationalized with a nonlinear model and used to design complex objects.