{"id":215429,"date":"2025-06-05T01:23:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T06:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/symmetry-breaking-in-meniscus-splitting-boundary-conditions-reveal-surprising-behavior"},"modified":"2025-06-05T01:23:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T06:23:27","slug":"symmetry-breaking-in-meniscus-splitting-boundary-conditions-reveal-surprising-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/symmetry-breaking-in-meniscus-splitting-boundary-conditions-reveal-surprising-behavior","title":{"rendered":"Symmetry breaking in meniscus splitting: Boundary conditions reveal surprising behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/symmetry-breaking-in-meniscus-splitting-boundary-conditions-reveal-surprising-behavior2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everything in nature has a geometric pattern\u2014from the tiger\u2019s stripes and spirals in flowers to the unique fingerprints of each human being. While these patterns are sometimes symmetrical, most of such patterns lack symmetry, which leaves us with one major question: How do such unsymmetrical patterns emerge in nature?<\/p>\n<p>Studies report that drying environments cause water evaporation and can lead to the formation of asymmetric patterns during biological growth through a phenomenon called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/symmetry\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">symmetry<\/a> breaking.\u201d Although reported through mathematical studies, these studies lack physical-chemical experiments that replicate this phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>A recent study at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), led by Associate Professor Kosuke Okeyoshi and doctoral student Thi Kim Loc Nguyen, uncovers the mechanisms behind symmetry breaking during a process called meniscus splitting in evaporating polymer solutions. The findings of the study were <a href=\"https:\/\/advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/advs.202503807\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Advanced Science<\/i> on June 3, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything in nature has a geometric pattern\u2014from the tiger\u2019s stripes and spirals in flowers to the unique fingerprints of each human being. While these patterns are sometimes symmetrical, most of such patterns lack symmetry, which leaves us with one major question: How do such unsymmetrical patterns emerge in nature? Studies report that drying environments cause [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}