Top 10 most-read Soft Matter articles – Q3 2015

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

Nanostructures in Superhydrophobic Ti6Al4V Hierarchical Surfaces Control Wetting State Transitions
Yizhou Shen, Jie Tao, Haijun Tao, Shanlong Chen, Lei Pan and Tao Wang
Soft Matter, 2015,11, 3806-3811
DOI: 10.1039/C5SM00024F  

Transition from Cassie to impaled state during drop impact on groove-textured solid surfaces
V. Vaikuntanathan and D. Sivakumar
Soft Matter, 2014,10, 2991-3002
DOI: 10.1039/C4SM00050A  

The effect of drop volume and micropillar shape on the apparent contact angle of ordered microstructured surfaces
Luciano Afferrante and Giuseppe Carbone
Soft Matter, 2014,10, 3906-3914
DOI: 10.1039/C3SM53104J 

Phase and Self-assembly Transition Induced by Glycerol-Borax Interaction in Aqueous Surfactant Two-Phase System
Ying Zhao, Yun Yan, Lingxiang Jiang, Jianbin Huang and Heinz Hoffmann
Soft Matter, 2009,5, 4250-4255
DOI: 10.1039/B911564A  

Manipulation of micro- and nanostructure motion with magnetic fields
Roger S. M. Rikken, Roeland J. M. Nolte, Jan C. Maan, Jan C. M. van Hest, Daniela A. Wilson and Peter C. M. Christianen
Soft Matter, 2014,10, 1295-1308
DOI: 10.1039/C3SM52294F  

Directed Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers: A Tutorial Review of Strategies for Enabling Nanotechnology with Soft Matter
Hanqiong Hu, Manesh Gopinadhan and Chinedum O. Osuji
Soft Matter, 2014,10, 3867-3889
DOI: 10.1039/C3SM52607K  

Wetting process in superhydrophobic disordered surfaces
Francesco Buatier de Mongeot, Daniele Chiappe, Francesco Gagliardi, Andrea Toma, Roberto Felici, Alessandro Garibbo and Corrado Boragno
Soft Matter, 2010,6, 1409-1412
DOI: 10.1039/C001234C  

Self-healing Hydrogels Containing Reversible Oxime Crosslinks
Soma Mukherjee, Megan R. Hill and Brent S. Sumerlin
Soft Matter, 2015,11, 6152-6161
DOI: 10.1039/C5SM00865D  

Introducing high gravity field to enhance infiltration of small molecules into polyelectrolyte multilayer
Xiaolin Liu, Kun Zhao, Chao Jiang, Yue Wang, Lei Shao, Yajun Zhang and Feng Shi
Soft Matter, 2015,11, 5748-5753
DOI: 10.1039/C5SM01055A  

Phase Diagram of Colloidal Hard Superballs: from Cubes via Spheres to Octahedra
Ran Ni, Anjan Prasad Gantapara, Joost de Graaf, René van Roij and Marjolein Dijkstra
Soft Matter, 2012,8, 8826-8834
DOI: 10.1039/C2SM25813G  

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