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Article Dans Une Revue European Physical Journal E: Soft matter and biological physics Année : 2022

An optimized recipe for making giant bubbles

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Large bubbles are primarily used in physics laboratories to study 2D turbulence, surface wavers, and fundamental properties of soap systems. Outside of physics, blowing large bubbles is also a part of many performances and shows. Both the scientific and artistic communities usually want to get reasonably stable foam films. The purpose of this article is to propose the main physical ingredients needed for an effective recipe to make stable films and bubbles. We propose controlled experiments to measure both the ease of generating a bubble, and its stability in different stabilizing solutions, which we choose by adding the ingredients contained in a bubble artist's recipe one by one. Our main findings are that (i) the surfactant concentration must not be too high, (ii) the solution must contain long flexible polymer chains to allow for easy bubble generation and (iii) the addition of glycerol provides improved bubble stability by preventing evaporation. Finally, we propose an efficient recipe, which takes into account these considerations.
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hal-04030450 , version 1 (15-03-2023)

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Marina Pasquet, Laura Wallon, Pierre-Yves Fusier, Frédéric Restagno, Emmanuelle Rio. An optimized recipe for making giant bubbles. European Physical Journal E: Soft matter and biological physics, 2022, 45 (12), pp.101. ⟨10.1140/epje/s10189-022-00255-6⟩. ⟨hal-04030450⟩
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