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Author(s): Wenfeng Liu, Tomer A. Sigalov, Corentin Coulais, and Yair Shokef A mechanical network of flexible links can be designed to solve a problem in matrix algebra. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 038202] Published Fri Jan 23, 2026

Author(s): Weiqiang Tang, Jinwen Liu, Katharina Doblhoff-Dier, and Jun Huang Fundamental understanding of electrical double layers (EDL) has been gleaned mostly on ideally planar electrodes, while realistic electrodes usually exhibit surface roughness on multiple scales. The influence of mesoscopic roughness (1–10 nm) is elusive, representing a cutting-edge challenge to theo… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 038001] Published Wed Jan 21, 2026

Author(s): M. Milani, E. Cavalletti, V. Ruzzi, A. Martinelli, P. Dieudonné-George, C. Ligoure, T. Phou, L. Cipelletti, and L. Ramos We exploit the controlled drying of millimeter-sized gel beads to investigate the isotropic compression of colloidal fractal gels. Using a custom dynamic light scattering setup, we demonstrate that stresses imposed by drying on the bead surface propagate homogeneously throughout the gel volume, indu… [Phys. Rev...

Author(s): Ji-Hui Pei (裴继辉) and Christian Maes Can activity be transmitted from smaller to larger scales? We report on such a transfer from a homogeneous active medium to a Newtonian spherical probe. The active medium consists of faster and dilute self-propelled particles, modeled as run-and-tumble particles in 1D or as active Brownian particles… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 038301] Published Wed Jan 21, 2026

Author(s): Shunsuke Ichii, Tetsuhiro S. Hatakeyama, and Kunihiko Kaneko Enhanced enzyme diffusion (EED), in which the diffusion coefficient of an enzyme transiently increases during catalysis, has been extensively reported experimentally, although its existence remains under debate. In this Letter, we investigate what macroscopic consequences would arise if EED exists. … [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 038401] Published Wed Jan 21, 2026

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