Physicists are turning their attention to delicate forms of matter, some of which appear mundane, but all of which are hard to understand. Fortunately, different materials share similar properties and problems.
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*Principles of Soft Matter, 21st Annual International Conference of the Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, 21–25 May 2001. http://cnls.lanl.gov/Conferences/POSM
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Durian, D., Diamant, H. In search of soft solutions. Nature 412, 391–392 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35086677
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