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Matthew Blow – Flexoelectric and order-electric switching between nematic wetting morphologies
Universidade de Lisboa, PortugalVera de Oliveira Batista – A lattice-Boltzmann study of semi-permeable colloids
University of Ljubljana, SloveniaIoana Vladescu – Micro-swimmers confined to a sphere
The University of Edinburgh, UKEach student received a Soft Matter Poster Prize certificate as well as 1 year electronic subscription to the journal.
Archive for May, 2013
Conference Physics of Complex Colloids – Soft Matter Poster Prize Winners
Top 10 most-read Soft Matter articles in March
This month sees the following articles in Soft Matter that are in the top ten most accessed for March:
Solvent-assisted poly(vinyl alcohol) gelated crystalline colloidal array photonic crystals
Cheng Chen, Yihua Zhu, Hua Bao, Peng Zhao, Hongliang Jiang, Liming Peng, Xiaoling Yang and Chunzhong Lia
Soft Matter, 2011,7, 915-921
DOI: 10.1039/C0SM00923G
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
A review of fundamental properties and applications of polymer–graphene hybrid materials
Alison Y. W. Sham and Shannon M. Notley
Soft Matter, 2013, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3SM00092C
Modified gellan gum hydrogels for tissue engineering applications
Cameron J. Ferris, Kerry J. Gilmore, Gordon G. Wallace and Marc in het Panhuis
Soft Matter, 2013,9, 3705-3711
DOI: 10.1039/C3SM27389J
Bacteria–surface interactions
Hannah H. Tuson and Douglas B. Weibel
Soft Matter, 2013,9, 4368-4380
DOI: 10.1039/C3SM27705D
Stimuli-responsive hydrogels cross-linked by magnetic nanoparticles
Patrick Ilg
Soft Matter, 2013,9, 3465-3468
DOI: 10.1039/C3SM27809C
Emergent colloidal dynamics in electromagnetic fields
Jure Dobnikar, Alexey Snezhko and Anand Yethiraj
Soft Matter, 2013,9, 3693-3704
DOI: 10.1039/C3SM27363F
Complexes of oppositely charged polyelectrolytes and surfactants – recent developments in the field of biologically derived polyelectrolytes
Leonardo Chiappisi, Ingo Hoffmanna and Michael Gradzielski
Soft Matter, 2013,9, 3896-3909
DOI: 10.1039/C3SM27698H
Tunable and dynamic soft materials for three-dimensional cell culture
Matthew S. Rehmann and April M. Kloxin
Soft Matter, 2013, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3SM50217A
Single amino acid based thixotropic hydrogel formation and pH-dependent morphological change of gel nanofibers
Jayanta Nanda, Abhijit Biswas and Arindam Banerjee
Soft Matter, 2013,9, 4198-4208
DOI: 10.1039/C3SM27050E
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May’s hot papers
Cationic poly(2-oxazoline) hydrogels for reversible DNA binding
Matthias Hartlieb, David Pretzel Kristian Kempe, Carolin Fritzsche, Renzo M. Paulus, Michael Gottschaldt and Ulrich S. Schubert
Tuning colloidal association with specific peptide interactions
Alia P. Schoen, Bob Hommersom, Sarah C. Heilshorn and Mirjam E. Leunissen
How coatings with hydrophobic particles may change the drying of water droplets: incompressible surface versus porous media effects
Benoît Laborie, Florent Lachaussée, Elise Lorenceau and Florence Rouyer