January’s Hot Papers!


Gong Guangming, Wu Juntao, Zhao Yong, Liu Jingang, Jin Xu and Jiang Lei

Free to read until 28th February


Microgel film dynamics modulate cell adhesion behavior

Shalini Saxena, Mark W. Spears Jr, Hiroaki Yoshida, Jeffrey C. Gaulding, Andrés J. García and L. Andrew Lyon

Free to read until 28th February


Robust hybrid raspberry-like hollow particles with complex structures: a facile method of swelling polymerization towards composite spheres

Xu Zhang, Xiaohui Yao, Xiaomei Wang, Lei Feng, Jiayan Qu and Pange Liu

Free to read until 28th February


Self-assembly of actin scaffolds on lipid microbubbles

George R. Heath, Radwa H. Abou-Saleh, Sally A. Peyman, Benjamin R. G. Johnson, Simon D. Connell and Stephen D. Evans

Free to read until 21st February


Tuning biaxiality of nematic phases of board-like colloids by an external magnetic field
Anke B. G. M. Leferink op Reinink, Simone Belli, René van Roij, Marjolein Dijkstra, Andrei V. Petukhov and Gert Jan Vroege

Free to read until 21st February


Surface alignment, anchoring transitions, optical properties, and topological defects in the thermotropic nematic phase of organo-siloxane tetrapodes
Young-Ki Kim, Bohdan Senyuk, Sung-Tae Shin, Alexandra Kohlmeier, Georg H. Mehl and Oleg D. Lavrentovich

Free to read until 21st February


Dynamic self-assembly of motile bacteria in liquid crystals
Peter C. Mushenheim, Rishi R. Trivedi, Hannah H. Tuson, Douglas B. Weibel and Nicholas L. Abbott

Free to read until 14th February


Structural reinforcement of microvascular networks using electrostatic layer-by-layer assembly with halloysite nanotubes
Solar C. Olugebefola, Andrew R. Hamilton, Daniel J. Fairfield, Nancy R. Sottos and Scott R. White

Free to read until 14th February


Particle shape effects on the stress response of granular packings
Athanasios G. Athanassiadis, Marc Z. Miskin, Paul Kaplan, Nicholas Rodenberg, Seung Hwan Lee, Jason Merritt, Eric Brown, John Amend, Hod Lipson and Heinrich M. Jaeger

Free to read until 14th February



Monitoring the interaction of nucleolipoplexes with model membranes
Costanza Montis, Piero Baglioni and Debora Berti

Free to read until 7th February


A cartilage-inspired lubrication system
George W. Greene, Anna Olszewska, Monika Osterberg, Haijin Zhu and Roger Horn

Free to read until 7th February


Hexagonal closest-packed spheres liquid crystalline phases stabilised by strongly hydrated counterions
Connie K. Liu and Gregory G. Warr (Open access)


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