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Condensed matter physics and materials science form a dynamic partnership, exploring how the collective behavior of atoms gives rise to the unique properties of solids and liquids. This field bridges the gap between fundamental quantum mechanics and the practical engineering of everything from flexible electronics to superconductors, turning abstract theories into tangible innovations that shape our daily lives.
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Below are the latest papers in condensed matter and materials science, organized by their most recent publication dates.
This study systematically elucidates how network topology and crosslinker distribution govern the thermoresponsive behavior, ionic sensitivity, and stability of pNIPAM microgels across varying salt concentrations, while critically evaluating the applicability of Flory-Rehner and Flory-Rehner-Donnan theoretical models to these complex systems.
This paper proposes a method for functionalizing situated robots by exposing their in-situ spun fiber webs to environmental vapors, such as pyrrole, to chemically modify their properties without complex payload integration, thereby enabling adaptive capabilities like optical absorption and potential biohybrid applications.
This paper presents a gallery of highly symmetric, three-periodic tangled nets and filaments constructed by winding helices along familiar crystal nets, offering insights into the geometric organization of periodic tangles in crystalline, molecular, and biological systems.
This paper presents a MATLAB-based multi-GPU framework that overcomes memory limitations and achieves significant speedups (up to 60x) for large-scale phase-field crystal simulations by implementing two complementary strategies for accelerating two- and three-dimensional fast Fourier transforms.
This paper reveals that yielding in athermal crystals is driven by directionally extended multimode softening, which replaces standard linear acoustic dispersion with quadratic scaling along soft directions and induces a crossover from Debye to non-Debye vibrational density of states near the yield point.
This study demonstrates that while thermodynamic voltage losses in pressurized alkaline water electrolysis increase with pressure, the concurrent reduction in bubble-induced overpotentials at higher current densities can more than compensate for this penalty, ultimately improving overall efficiency.
This paper describes a dynamic light scattering setup using diffusing wave spectroscopy, implemented in an undergraduate physics lab at TU Darmstadt, to investigate the dynamics of vertically shaken sand grains and demonstrate the similarity between jamming in athermal granular media and the glass transition in thermally driven molecular systems.
Through a systematic first-principles screening of 25 Co-based Heusler alloys, this study identifies novel candidates with giant magnetostriction, including CoSi, and establishes design principles involving Fermi level tuning and spin-orbit coupling enhancement to engineer colossal magnetostrictive effects for rare-earth-free applications.
The paper introduces MoltenFlow, a modular framework that integrates property-organized latent representations with flow-matching generative priors and gradient-based guidance to enable efficient, valid, and controllable multi-objective molecular optimization and generation within a unified latent-space framework.
Using laser-based ARPES, this study demonstrates that increasing tellurium content in Bi₂(Se₁₋ₓTeₓ)₃ topological insulators lowers the chemical potential and bulk density of states, inducing a transition to semiconducting behavior where metallic topological surface states dominate electrical transport at low temperatures.