Archive for October, 2013

Jennifer Lewis joins the Soft Matter Editorial Board

We are delighted to welcome Jennifer A. Lewis to the Soft Matter Editorial Board.

Jennifer Lewis is a Professor at Harvard University. She joined the faculty of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard in 2013. Prior to her appointment at Harvard, she served as the Hans Thurnauer Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and the Director of the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Her research group focuses on the directed assembly of soft functional materials. Her work has resulted in 8 patents and 125 papers to date.  She recently co-founded Electroninks Inc., a company focused on commercializing conductive inks for printed electronics, and Voxel8, Inc., which is focused on 3D printing of functional materials.   
  
Professor Lewis is the recipient of the NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow Award (1994), the Brunaeur Award from the American Ceramic Society (2003), the Langmuir Lecture Award from the American Chemical Society (2009), and the MRS Medal Award (2012).  She is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society (2005), the American Physical Society (2007), the Materials Research Society (2011), and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2012).

Welcome aboard, Jennifer!

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Top 10 most-read Soft Matter articles – Q3 2013

This month sees the following articles in Soft Matter that are in the top ten most accessed from July – September:

Soft Matter, the future
Elisabeth Ratcliffe
Soft Matter
, 2013,9, 7889-7889
DOI
: 10.1039/C3SM90100A

Amphiphilic Janus particles at fluid interfaces
Ankit Kumar, Bum Jun Park, Fuquan Tu and Daeyeon Lee
Soft Matter, 2013,9, 6604-6617
DOI: 10.1039/C3SM50239B

Soft Matter Emerging Investigators themed issue
Michael Rubinstein and Liz Dunn
Soft Matter, 2013,9, 6564-6564
DOI: 10.1039/C3SM90073H

Directed self-assembly of block copolymers in the extreme: guiding microdomains from the small to the large
Kyosung Koo, Hyungju Ahn, Sang-Woo Kim, Du Yeol Ryu and Thomas P. Russell
Soft Matter, 2013,9, 9059-9071
DOI: 10.1039/C3SM51083B

Double network hydrogels prepared from pH-responsive doubly crosslinked microgels
Thomas Lane, Julianne L. Holloway, Amir H. Milani, Jennifer M. Saunders, Anthony J. Freemont and Brian R. Saunders
Soft Matter, 2013,9, 7934-7941
DOI: 10.1039/C3SM51356D

Progess in superhydrophobic surface development
Paul Roach, Neil J. Shirtcliffe and Michael I. Newton
Soft Matter, 2008,4, 224-240
DOI: 10.1039/B712575P

Shape anisotropic colloids: synthesis, packing behavior, evaporation driven assembly, and their application in emulsion stabilization
Venkateshwar Rao Dugyala, Santosh V. Daware and Madivala G. Basavaraj  
Soft Matter, 2013,9, 6711-6725
DOI: 10.1039/C3SM50404B

Self-folding with shape memory composites
Samuel M. Felton, Michael T. Tolley, ByungHyun Shin, Cagdas D. Onal, Erik D. Demaine, Daniela Rus and Robert J. Wood
Soft Matter, 2013,9, 7688-7694
DOI: 10.1039/C3SM51003D

A review of fundamental properties and applications of polymer–graphene hybrid materials
Alison Y. W. Sham and Shannon M. Notley
Soft Matter, 2013,9, 6645-6653
DOI: 10.1039/C3SM00092C

Physical aging in polymers and polymer nanocomposites: recent results and open questions
Daniele Cangialosi, Virginie M. Boucher, Angel Alegría and Juan Colmenero
Soft Matter, 2013,9, 8619-8630
DOI: 10.1039/C3SM51077H

 

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October’s hot papers

Neighbor-induced bubble pinch-off: novel mechanisms of in situ foam generation in microfluidic channels
Rachel Liontas, Kun Ma, George J. Hirasaki and Sibani Lisa Biswal


Reversing the course of the competitive adsorption between a phospholipid and albumin at an air–water interface
Phuc Nghia Nguyen, Gilles Waton, Thierry Vandamme and Marie Pierre Krafft


Electrostatic precursor films
Seyed Reza Mahmoudi, Kazimierz Adamiak, G. S. Peter Castle and Kripa K. Varanasi 

These articles are free to access upon registration until 22nd November


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BP Castrol-RSC International Symposium on Tribology and Lubricants

This Symposium will feature two one-day meetings that will take place in Wuhan and Shanghai, China. Each meeting will feature a selection of lectures on tribology and lubricants, given by some of the world’s leading international scientists. The symposium is supported by BP Castrol and organised by BP Castrol and the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Attendance at either of the one day meetings is free, although delegates are asked to register (please click on the links below). The symposium will appeal to academics, engineers and industrial scientists with an interest in tribology and lubricants.

Tuesday 19th November 2013 – Wuhan University of Technology

 Wednesday 21st November 2013 – Shanghai Jiao Tong University

 The international speakers are:

Wilfried Bartz, Technical Academy Esslingen, Germany

James Batteas, Texas A&M University, USA

Moray Stark, University of York, UK

Robert Wood, University of Southampton, UK

Gordon Lamb, Castrol China Technology Centre, Shanghai, China

Delegates and speakers are also invited to submit articles for a web collection in RSC Advances on Tribology next year.  The deadline for submissions will be 28th February 2014 – all articles submitted will be subject to initial assessment by the editor and full peer review.  For more information please click here or contact the Editorial Office.

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