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Novel, cylindrical, ribbon-like membranes are formed when colloidal particles adsorb at the air-water interfaces of droplets confined between two glass plates (Fig. a). We have found that the ease with which such ribbon membranes bend depends on particle shape.
In the past few years, the theory of topological band structures has been generalized beyond topological insulators to include topological semimetals, including Weyl semimetals, Dirac semimetals and other “symmetry protected” topological states. HgTe is a semimetal in which the degeneracy of the conduction and valence band at the G point is protected by symmetry. In their early work on topolo