Archive for October, 2011

‘Biomimetic Soft Matter’ Themed Issue published this week

“Biomaterials are often soft materials. There is now growing interest in designing, synthesizing and characterising soft materials that mimic the properties of biological materials such as tissue, proteins, DNA or cells…” Read the full Editorial by Guest Editor, Ian Hamley. 

View the whole Biomimetic Soft Matter Themed Issue on-line now.

The issue contains Review articles across the following topics of biomimetic soft matter:

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Top Ten most-read Soft Matter articles in August

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

Editorial: dynamics and rheology of complex fluid–fluid interfaces 
Gerald G. Fuller and Jan Vermant 
Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 7583-7585 
DOI: 10.1039/c1sm90055b 

Peptide nanotubes: molecular organisations, self-assembly mechanisms and applications 
Céline Valéry, Franck Artzner and Maité Paternostre 
Soft Matter, 2011, Advance Article 
DOI: 10.1039/c1sm05698k 

Janus particles 
Andreas Walther and Axel H. E. Müller 
Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 663-668 
DOI: 10.1039/b718131k 

Templated self-assembly in three dimensions using magnetic levitation 
Filip Ilievski, Katherine A. Mirica, Audrey K. Ellerbee and George M. Whitesides 
Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 9113-9118 
DOI: 10.1039/c1sm05962a 

Photoresponsive polymersomes as smart, triggerable nanocarriers 
Etienne Cabane, Violeta Malinova, Sindhu Menon, Cornelia G. Palivan and Wolfgang Meier 
Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 9167-9176 
DOI: 10.1039/c1sm05880k 

Adsorption of core-shell nanoparticles at liquid–liquid interfaces 
Lucio Isa, Esther Amstad, Konrad Schwenke, Emanuela Del Gado, Patrick Ilg, Martin Kröger and Erik Reimhult 
Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 7663-7675 
DOI: 10.1039/c1sm05407d 

Multicomponent hydrogels from enantiomeric amino acid derivatives: helical nanofibers, handedness and self-sorting 
Bimalendu Adhikari, Jayanta Nanda and Arindam Banerjee 
Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 8913-8922 
DOI: 10.1039/c1sm05907f 

Hydrophilic and superhydrophilic surfaces and materials 
Jaroslaw Drelich, Emil Chibowski, Dennis Desheng Meng and Konrad Terpilowski 
Soft Matter, 2011, Advance Article 
DOI: 10.1039/c1sm05849e 

Short peptide based hydrogels: incorporation of graphene into the hydrogel 
Bimalendu Adhikari and Arindam Banerjee 
Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 9259-9266 
DOI: 10.1039/c1sm06330h 

Self-assembly of designer biosurfactants 
Debora Berti, Costanza Montis and Piero Baglioni 
Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 7150-7158 
DOI: 10.1039/c1sm05197k 

Why not take a look at the articles today and blog your thoughts and comments below.

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Corners in Nematics

Read here for free until 28 October

Landau-de Gennes theory has been used to tackle the behaviour of faceted particles embedded in a nematic liquid crystal matrix, in this Hot Paper from researchers at McGill University, Canada. The 2D model used is based on the Landau-de Gennes equations of nematodynamics in the absence of flow. A critical feature in the liquid crystal-faceted particle system is the presence of corners, which are always decorated by active surface defects or are connected to other corners by disclination strings that have line tension.

P. M. Phillips, N. Mei, L. Reven and Alejandro Rey, Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 8592-8604.

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