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Laser pulses engrave an unlikely surface: soap films

Laser pulses engrave an unlikely surface: soap films

Bumping up the detergent content allows a laser pulse to carve a groove in ethereal films.
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The line of dots among the vortices in a soap film were 'engraved' by laser pulses. Credit: Yu Zhao, Haitao Xu, Yu Zhao

Soap films — thin, delicate and seemingly a blink away from popping — can be engraved by lasers under the right conditions1.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00513-x

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  1. Zhao, Y. & Xu, H. Phys. Rev. Fluids 9, L022001 (2024).

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