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  Effect of solvent structure on the Wien effect and ionic correlations at the nanoscale

  In this study, we examine how the structure of the solvent affects the correlations and conductivity of moderately concentrated electrolytes. We describe polar solvents with a nonlocal permittivity, ε(k), which we then incorporate into (...)

  
  
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  Compositional memory matters for early molecular systems

  The error catastrophe refers to the proliferation of nonfunctional molecules in conditions where molecular replication has low accuracy, which is likely to correspond to conditions present at the Origin of Life. This error catastrophe can be (...)

  
  
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  pH gradient-driven deformation of a crista-like vesicle

  The inner membrane of mitochondria presents folds, the cristae, which are the production place of ATP. This synthesis is catalized by transmembrane proteins and relies on a flow of protons confined to the surface of the membrane. We posit that, (...)

  
  
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  Spreading and absorption of silicone oil droplets on silicone elastomer films

  When a liquid droplet completely wets a hard substrate, its spreading dynamics follow Tanner’s law, with the droplet radius growing as the one-tenth power of time. Here, we investigate how these dynamics change when silicone oil droplets spread (...)

  
  
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  Tunable Poly(butylene oxide)-stat-polyglycidol Copolymers for Microfluidic-Assisted Nanoprecipitation Nanoparticle Design

  The self-assembly of amphiphilic copolymers into well-defined nanoparticles depends on the interplay among polymer composition, solvent exchange kinetics, and processing conditions. In this study, we explore the anionic ring-opening (...)

  
  
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  Symmetry-driven artificial phononic media

  Phonons are quasiparticles associated with mechanical vibrations in materials. They are at the root of the propagation of sound and elastic waves, as well as of thermal phenomena, which are pervasive in our everyday life and in many (...)

  
  
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  Transition to Collective Motion in Nonreciprocal Active Matter: Coarse Graining Agent-Based Models into Fluctuating Hydrodynamics

  Two hallmarks of nonequilibrium systems, from active colloids to animal herds, are agent motility and nonreciprocal interactions. Their interplay creates feedback loops that lead to complex spatiotemporal dynamics crucial to understand and (...)

  
  
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  Stability conditions of chemical networks in a linear framework

  Autocatalytic chemical reaction networks can collectively replicate or maintain their constituents despite degradation reactions only above a certain threshold, which we refer to as the decay threshold. When the chemical network has a Jacobian (...)

  
  
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  Generalized exceptional points in nonlinear and stochastic dynamics

  We study a class of bifurcations generically occurring in dynamical systems with nonmutual couplings ranging from models of coupled neurons to predator-prey systems and nonlinear oscillators. In these bifurcations, extended attractors such as (...)

  
  
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  Nonreciprocally coupled spin glasses: Exceptional-point-mediated phase transitions and aging

  Disordered systems can exhibit a dramatic slowdown of their dynamics called aging. Contrary to the established understanding that this phenomenon is destroyed by nonreciprocal interactions, we here show that the outcome crucially depends on the (...)

  
  

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