Behind the Paper
The real stories behind the latest research papers, from conception to publication, the highs and the lows
Observation of higher-order non-Hermitian skin effect
An acoustic artificial crystal based on coupled ring waveguide resonators with biased loss presents spin-polarized, higher-order non-Hermitian skin effect in two dimensions.
Achieving adjustable elasticity with non-affine to affine transition
Researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong discovered a topology-correlated affinity transition in both 2D and 3D packing-derived networks. Based on this transition, they reveal the strategies to build multifunctional systems with adjustable elasticity.
Plastics turn into a metal
Researchers from the University of Tokyo have developed two-dimensional hole gas in solution-processed organic semiconductors, where an apparent insulator-metal transition has been experimentally observed for the first time. These results have just been published in Nature Materials.
