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Author(s): Valerio Di Lisio, Lorenzo Augusto Rocchi, and Daniele Cangialosi We employ fast scanning calorimetry to monitor the isothermal aging kinetics in glassy polymers, complemented with measurements on other glasses. Apart from following the time evolution of the glass enthalpic state, we monitor the aging kinetics of the devitrification width on heating, $\mathrm{Δ}{T… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 048201] Published Thu Jul 25, 2024

Author(s): Qionghai Chen, Xiuyang Xia, Wanhui Huang, Liqun Zhang, Ran Ni, and Jun Liu Topology isomerizable networks (TINs) can be programmed into numerous polymers exhibiting unique and spatially defined (thermo-) mechanical properties. However, capturing the dynamics in topological transformations and revealing the intrinsic mechanisms of mechanical property modulation at the micro… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 048101] Published Wed Jul 24, 2024

Author(s): Yiming Xia, Zixian Hu, Da Wei, Ke Chen, Yi Peng, and Mingcheng Yang How an alga synchronizes its two flapping cilia to propel itself is revealed in a tabletop experiment with chains of mobile robots. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 048302] Published Wed Jul 24, 2024

Author(s): Timo Knippenberg, Ashreya Jayaram, Thomas Speck, and Clemens Bechinger We investigate the structural and dynamic properties of active Brownian particles (APs) confined within a soft annulus-shaped channel. Depending on the strength of the confinement and the Péclet number, we observe a novel reentrant behavior that is not present in unconfined systems. Our findings are… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 048301] Published Tue Jul 23, 2024

Author(s): Ruben Zakine, Eric Simonnet, and Eric Vanden-Eijnden Nonequilibrium phase transitions are notably difficult to analyze because their mechanisms depend on the system’s dynamics in a complex way due to the lack of time-reversal symmetry. To complicate matters, the system’s steady-state distribution is unknown in general. Here, the phase diagram of the a… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 038301] Published Fri Jul 19, 2024

Author(s): Alex Adaka, Mojtaba Rajabi, Nilanthi Haputhantrige, Samuel Sprunt, Oleg D. Lavrentovich, and Antal Jákli The recently discovered ferroelectric nematic (${N}_{F}$) liquid crystals (LC) have been reported to show an extraordinarily large value of the real part of the dielectric constant (${ϵ}^{′}>{10}^{3}$) at low frequencies. However, it was argued by Clark et al. in Phys. Rev. Res. 6, 013195 (2024)

Author(s): Kasra Farain and Daniel Bonn Experiments on a bed of plastic beads reveal a temperature-dependent stiffening over time, which appears to be related to molecular-scale deformations. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 028203] Published Fri Jul 12, 2024