Ultrasonic radiation forces are harnessed to trap and then shake clusters of spheres — mimicking the effect of temperature on cluster formation in granular systems. This assembly process has applications from the nanoscale to the macroscale.
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Drinkwater, B. An ultrasonic shake-up. Nat. Phys. 15, 423 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-019-0463-2
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