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A dense film of a conventional surfactant is quite impermeable. On the other hand, a dense film of Janus grains always has some interstices between the grains, and allows for chemical exchange between the two sides; "the skin can breathe". This may possibly be of some practical interest.

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Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
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Born: October 24, 1932
Died: May 18, 2007 (aged 74)
Bio: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes was a French physicist and the Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 1991.
Known for:
  1. The physics of liquid crystals (1974)
  2. Superconductivity of metals and alloys (1966)
  3. Simple views on condensed matter (1992)
  4. Fragile objects (1996)
  5. Introduction to polymer dynamics (1990)

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