The past decades have witnessed the flourishing of non-Hermitian physics in non-
conservative systems, leading to unprecedented phenomena of unidirectional invisibility …

Crystallography typically studies collections of point particles whose interaction forces are
the gradient of a potential. Lifting this assumption generically gives rise in the continuum …

Living systems are chiral on multiple scales, from constituent biopolymers to large scale
morphology, and their active mechanics is both driven by chiral components and serves to …

The interplay between activity and elasticity often found in active and living systems triggers
a plethora of autonomous behaviors ranging from self-assembly and collective motion to …

Odd elasticity describes active elastic systems whose stress-strain relationship is not
compatible with a potential energy. As the requirement of energy conservation is lifted from …

Odd materials feature antisymmetric response to perturbations. This anomalous property
can stem from the nonequilibrium activity of their components, which is sustained by an …

Living systems are chiral on multiple scales, from constituent biopolymers to large scale
morphology, and their active mechanics is both driven by chiral components and serves to …

Metamaterials are artificial structures with properties that are rare or non-existent in nature.
These properties are created by the geometry and interconnection of the metamaterial unit …

We report in experiment and simulation the spontaneous formation of dynamically bound
pairs of shape changing smarticle robots undergoing locally repulsive collisions. Borrowing …