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  • Author(s): Meera Ramaswamy, Itay Griniasty, James P. Sethna, Bulbul Chakraborty, and Itai Cohen Recently, we proposed a universal scaling framework that shows shear thickening in dense suspensions is governed by the crossover between two critical points: one associated with frictionless isotropic jamming and a second corresponding to frictional shear jamming. Here, we show that orthogonal pert… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 058203] Published Fri Feb...
  • Author(s): Maximilian C. Hübl and Carl P. Goodrich Modern experimental methods enable the creation of self-assembly building blocks with tunable interactions, but optimally exploiting this tunability for the self-assembly of desired structures remains an important challenge. Many studies of this inverse problem start with the so-called fully address… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 058204] Published Fri Feb 07, 2025
  • Author(s): Jonghyun Hwang, Mariana Altomare, and Howard A. Stone An ultrasoft material can move smoothly through a pipe, but the motion generates “furrows” on the material’s front surface. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 058205] Published Fri Feb 07, 2025
  • Author(s): Guy Elisha, Richard Gast, Sourav Halder, Sara A. Solla, Peter J. Kahrilas, John E. Pandolfino, and Neelesh A. Patankar Some biological systems exhibit both direct and retrograde propagating signal waves despite unidirectional coupling. To explain this phenomenon, we study a chain of unidirectionally coupled Wilson-Cowan oscillators. Surprisingly, we find that changes in the homogeneous global input to the chain suff… [Phys. Rev....
  • Author(s): Nicolas Judd, Angus McMullen, Sascha Hilgenfeldt, and Jasna Brujic Adhesion of soft particles with mobile linkers is of importance in colloidal self-assembly, the binding of vesicles, and tissue organization in biology. Here we derive and experimentally test an equilibrium theory that captures the adhesion of DNA-coated emulsion droplets. Notably, we identify a tra… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 058202] Published Tue Feb 04, 2025
  • Author(s): Yinong Zhao, Cristián Huepe, and Pawel Romanczuk We study a model of self-propelled particles interacting with their $k$ nearest neighbors through polar alignment. By exploring its phase space as a function of two nondimensional parameters (alignment strength $g$ and Péclet number Pe), we identify two distinct order-disorder transitions. One occur… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 058201] Published Mon Feb 03, 2025
  • Author(s): Chao Duan, Nikhil R. Agrawal, and Rui Wang Modeling ion correlations in inhomogeneous polymers and soft matters with spatially varying ionic strength or dielectric permittivity remains a great challenge. Here, we develop a new theory that systematically incorporates electrostatic fluctuations into the self-consistent field theory for polymer… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 048101] Published Fri Jan 31, 2025