The outside front cover features a review on Imaging and manipulation of single viruses by atomic force microscopy written by M. Baclayon, G. J. L. Wuite and W. H. Roos, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
The paper featured on the inside front cover is Body-centered cubic phase in 3-arm star mesogens: a torsional tapping AFM and GISAXS study by Goran Ungar and co-workers at University of Sheffield, UK, Seoul National University, South Korea, and Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany.
The issue also includes a mammoth 5 Hot Articles:
- Light and temperature bi-responsive emulsion foams
- Heterogeneity of the electrostatic repulsion between colloids at the oil–water interface
- Lipid bilayers on topochemically structured planar colloidal crystals: a versatile platform for optical recording of membrane-mediated ion transport
- Characterisation and performance of hydrogel tissue scaffolds
- The characterisation of polygalacturonic acid-based layer-by-layer deposited films using a quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring, a dual polarization interferometer and a Fourier-transform infrared spectrometer in attenuated total reflectance mode
Read the full issue here: Soft Matter issue 21, 2010
