The guest editors Mike Cates and Fred MacKintosh introduce this themed issue in their editorial. You can read the full issue here.
Featured on the outside front cover is a paper on Shape- and size-dependent patterns in self-oscillating polymer gels.
The inside front cover highlights the paper Spatial mapping of the mechanical properties of the living retina using scanning force microscopy by Kristian Franze and co-workers.
The back cover showcases the work of Haiqing Liu and George D. Bachand and their paper Understanding energy dissipation and thermodynamics in biomotor-driven nanocomposite assemblies.
The themed issue also includes a massive 6 hot articles:
Emerging Area: Soft active aggregates: mechanics, dynamics and self-assembly of liquid-like intracellular protein bodies
Communication: Dynamics of a deformable self-propelled particle in three dimensions
Paper: Shape- and size-dependent patterns in self-oscillating polymer gels
Paper: Coupled oscillations in a 1D emulsion of Belousov–Zhabotinsky droplets
