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Author(s): Shu-Gui Yang, Xiang-bing Zeng, Feng Liu, and Goran Ungar Self-poisoning is ubiquitous in polymer crystallization but has so far manifested itself visibly only as minima in growth rate vs temperature in either monodisperse systems where, e.g., unstable folded chains obstruct crystallization of stable extended chains, or in periodically segmented chains whe… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 018101] Published Tue Jan 06, 2026

Author(s): Sameer Kumar, Niels de Graaf Sousa, and Amin Doostmohammadi The emergence of hydrodynamic bend instabilities in ordered suspensions of active particles is widely observed across diverse living and synthetic systems, and is considered to be governed by dipolar active stresses generated by the self-propelled particles. Here, using linear stability analyses and… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 268302] Published Mon Dec 29, 2025

Author(s): W. S. Fall and H. H. Wensink Understanding chirality transfer from the molecular to the macroscopic scale poses a significant challenge in soft and biological condensed matter physics. Many nanorods of biological origin not only have chiral molecular features but also exhibit a spread in contour length leading to considerable s… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 268101] Published Fri Dec 26, 2025

Author(s): Yicheng Qiang, Chengjie Luo, and David Zwicker Chemical activity is central in active matter, where local fuel consumption can lead to self-propulsion and phase separation. However, phase separation can also originate from passive physical interactions. To understand the influence of chemical activity on phase separation, we study mixtures where… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 268301] Published Wed Dec 24, 2025

Author(s): Marco Flieg, Margot Guidat, and Matthias M. May Surface states at the InP semiconductor-electrolyte interface can be switched on or off with applied potential, and detection of this phenomenon is allowed by optical anisotropy. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 268001] Published Mon Dec 22, 2025

Author(s): Félix Benoist, Mehdi Bouzid, and Martin Lenz When sheared, granular media experience localized plastic events known as shear transformations, which generate anisotropic internal stresses. Under strong confining pressure, the response of granular media to local force multipoles is essentially linear, resulting in quadrupolar propagated stresses… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 268201] Published Mon Dec 22, 2025

Author(s): Makoto Suda, Edan Lerner, and Eran Bouchbinder Glassy systems reveal a wide variety of generic behaviors, which lack a unified theoretical description. Here, we study a mean-field model recently shown to reproduce the universal nonphononic vibrational spectra of glasses under oscillatory driving forces. The driven mean-field model, featuring a d… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 258201] Published Thu Dec 18, 2025