Soft Matter issue 8 is now online. The outside front cover features “Photochromic materials with tunable color and mechanical flexibility” by Hyun-Kwan Yang, A. Evren Özçam, Kirill Efimenko and Jan Genzer (Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 3766-3774).
Highlighted on the inside front cover is the paper “Non-lithographic electrochemical patterning of polypyrrole arrays using single-layered colloidal templates on HOPG surface: effects of electrodeposition time and field-gradient” by Jin Young Park, Pampa Dutta and Rigoberto Advincula (Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 3775-3779)
The issue also includes 5 hot articles.
Emerging Area: Emerging area: biomaterials that mimic and exploit protein motion
William L. Murphy, Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 3679-3688
Communication: “Host–guest” interaction between cyclohexasilane and amphiphilic invertible macromolecules
Ananiy Kohut, Xuliang Dai, Danielle Pinnick, Douglas L. Schulz and Andriy Voronov, Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 3717-3720
Communication: Extraordinary long range order in self-healing non-close packed 2D arrays
Stefan B. Quint and Claudia Pacholski, Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 3735-3738
Communication: Universal soft matter template for photonic applications
Luciano De Sio, Sameh Ferjani, Giuseppe Strangi, Cesare Umeton and Roberto Bartolino, Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 3739-3743
Communication: Compartment size dependence of performance of polymerase chain reaction inside giant vesicles
Koh-ichiroh Shohda, Mieko Tamura, Yoshiyuki Kageyama, Kentaro Suzuki, Akira Suyama and Tadashi Sugawara, Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 3750-3753
The back cover showcases the work of S. Torquato, Chase E. Zachary and F. H. Stillinger. Duality relations for the classical ground states of soft-matter systems (Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 3780-3793). You can read the full issue here. I hope you enjoy it.
