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Dynamic Wettability Modulation of Textured, Soft and LIS Interfaces Using Electrowetting

Contrary to the conventional expectation that electrowetting promotes droplet spreading, this study reveals that applying DC voltage to specific microtextured, lubricant-infused surfaces in a Cassie wetting state induces rapid tangential droplet ejection due to unbalanced electrocapillary forces and minimal pinning, offering a new paradigm for controlled droplet transport.

Deepak J., Suman Chakraborty, Shubham S. Ganar, Arindam Das2026-03-05✓ Author reviewed 🔬 cond-mat.soft

Fingerprint of TcT_c advancement in Li-doped Bi-2223 superconductors prepared by cationic molecular mixing within Pechini sol-gel synthesis

This study demonstrates that a Pechini sol-gel synthesis method with cationic molecular mixing can efficiently produce high-quality Li-doped Bi-2223 superconductors, achieving a maximum critical temperature of 111.4 K at 5 mol% Li doping while revealing unique layer-by-layer crystalline growth and flux creep mechanisms.

N. K. Man, Huu T. Do, Nguyen V. Tu, Nguyen V. Quy2026-03-04✓ Author reviewed 🔬 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Predicting Gaia astrometry's ability to constrain the populations of circumbinary planets

This paper predicts that upcoming Gaia data releases will detect tens to hundreds of circumbinary planets, revealing a yield significantly lower than pre-launch estimates but highly sensitive to the underlying mass and orbital period distributions, while also offering the potential to validate or refute candidates around post-common-envelope binaries.

Thomas A. Baycroft, Amaury H. M. J Triaud, Johannes Sahlmann2026-03-04✓ Author reviewed 🔭 astro-ph

Dynamics of planetary rings under thermal forces

This paper introduces the Eclipse-Yarkovsky effect, a thermal torque arising from asymmetric particle emission during planetary eclipses, and demonstrates through a continuum framework that it drives outward ring transport and can form sharp inner edges, while a competing planetary-Yarkovsky effect may cause inward migration in close-in rings.

Wen-Han Zhou, Eiichiro Kokubo, Harrison Agrusa, Gregorio Ricerchi, Aurelien Crida, David Vokrouhlicky, Yun Zhang, Ronald-Louis Ballouz2026-03-04✓ Author reviewed 🔭 astro-ph

Quantum Theory of Functionally Graded Materials

Addressing the breakdown of Bloch's theorem in spatially varying composites, this paper establishes a foundational ab initio quantum theoretical framework for functionally graded materials that derives effective field equations for modulated Bloch states, revealing non-tensorial electromagnetic properties and enabling the predictive design of optimized electronic devices such as graded p-n junctions.

Michael J. Landry, Ryotaro Okabe, Chuliang Fu, Mingda Li2026-03-03✓ Author reviewed ⚛️ quant-ph