Top 10 most-read Soft Matter articles in April

This month sees the following articles in Soft Matter that are in the top ten most accessed for April:

Beyond the lipid-bilayer: interaction of polymers and nanoparticles with membranes 
Matthias Schulz, Adekunle Olubummo and Wolfgang H. Binder  
Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 4849-4864 
DOI: 10.1039/C2SM06999G  

Multilayer vesicles, tubes, various porous structures and organo gels through the solvent-assisted self-assembly of two modified tripeptides and their different applications 
Pradyot Koley and Animesh Pramanik  
Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 5364-5374 
DOI: 10.1039/C2SM25205H  

Design and properties of supramolecular polymer gels
 
Atsushi Noro, Mikihiro Hayashi and Yushu Matsushita 
Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 2416-2429 
DOI: 10.1039/C2SM25144B  

Can Janus particles give thermodynamically stable Pickering emulsions? 
Robert Aveyard  
Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 5233-5240 
DOI: 10.1039/C2SM07230K  

Sonication induced peptide-appended bolaamphiphile hydrogels for in situ generation and catalytic activity of Pt nanoparticles 
Indrajit Maity, Dnyaneshwar B. Rasale and Apurba K. Das  
Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 5301-5308 
DOI: 10.1039/C2SM25126D 

Acid-responsive organogel mediated by arene–perfluoroarene and hydrogen bonding interactions 
Huixian Wu, Ben-Bo Ni, Chong Wang, Feng Zhai and Yuguo Ma 
Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 5486-5492 
DOI: 10.1039/C2SM07281E  

Tunable plasmonic nanostructures from noble metal nanoparticles and stimuli-responsive polymers 
Ihor Tokarev and Sergiy Minko  
Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 5980-5987 
DOI: 10.1039/C2SM25069A 

Extreme wettability and tunable adhesion: biomimicking beyond nature? 
Xinjie Liu, Yongmin Liang, Feng Zhou and Weimin Liu  
Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 2070-2086 
DOI: 10.1039/C1SM07003G  
 
Alignment of perpendicular lamellae in block copolymer thin films by shearing 
Saswati Pujari, Michael A. Keaton, Paul M. Chaikin and Richard A. Register  
Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 5358-5363 
DOI: 10.1039/C2SM25270H  

Facile preparation of coating fluorescent hollow mesoporous silica nanoparticles with pH-sensitive amphiphilic diblock copolymer for controlled drug release and cell imaging 
Xiao Mei, Dongyun Chen, Najun Li, Qingfeng Xu, Jianfeng Ge, Hua Li, Baixia Yang, Yujie Xu and Jianmei Lu  
Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 5309-5316 
DOI: 10.1039/C2SM07320J  

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