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Reconfigurable soft matter themed issue now published!

Reconfigurable soft matter systems are distinguished by their remarkable ability to sense and respond to external stimuli or changes in the environment by readjusting their morphology and/or functionality. Published last week, the Soft Matter themed issue on Reconfigurable Soft Matter highlights the new advances in designing and creating such materials. Guest Editors Anna Balazs and Joanna Aizenberg introduce the issue in their Editorial.

Here is a small sample of the excellent review, communication and full articles contained within the themed issue:

On the cover
Reviews

Communications
 Papers

Find the full issue here!
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February’s Hot Articles!

Ruijuan Wang, Maozhang Tian and Yilin Wang

This paper is free to access until 21st March


Erik Edlund, Oskar Lindgren and Martin Nilsson Jacobi
This paper is free to access until 21st March


Directed colloidal self-assembly in toggled magnetic fields

James W. Swan, Jonathan L. Bauer, Yifei Liu and Eric M. Furst

This paper is free to access until 21st March


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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


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UK Colloids 2014 is now open for abstract submissions!

Organized by the RSC Colloid and Interface Science Group and the SCI Colloid and Surface Chemistry Group, UK Colloids 2014 is taking place at the Mermaid Theatre in London on July 6th-9th 2014. The symposium is now open for registration and abstract submission.

UK Colloids 2014 is a great opportunity for UK and international researchers interested in colloid and interface science to meet, present and discuss issues related to current developments in the fields of Colloid, Interface and Biomedical Nanoparticle science. There will be plenary talks by:

  • Professor Julian Eastoe (Bristol University)
  • Professor Ray Dagastine (University of Melbourne)
  • Professor Joanna Aizenberg (Harvard University)

In addition, Professor Steve Armes (University of Sheffield) will be giving the Thomas Graham Lecture. A full list of confirmed speakers is available here

The closing date for submitting abstracts for oral and poster presentations is 15 March 2014. See here for instructions on how to submit.

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Soft Matter paper featured in ‘Product Design & Development’

A Soft Matter article by Rafael Verduzco and coworkers at Rice University has been featured in the design engineering publication Product Design & Development. In their paper Shape-responsive liquid crystal elastomer bilayers, the group demonstrate that complex surface patterns and shape changes, including patterned wrinkles, helical twisting, and reversible folding, can be achieved in liquid crystal elastomer–polystyrene bilayers. 

 

Read the Product Design & Development article here: Morphing Material Has Mighty Potential

Shape-responsive liquid crystal elastomer bilayers
Aditya Agrawal, TaeHyun Yun, Stacy L. Pesek, Walter G. Chapman and Rafael Verduzco  
Soft Matter, 2014, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/C3SM51654G

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December’s Hot Papers!

Thermoresponsive polymer-based magneto-rheological (MR) composites as a bridge between MR fluids and MR elastomers
Keshvad Shahrivar and Juan de Vicente



The cage elasticity and under-field structure of concentrated magnetic colloids probed by small angle X-ray scattering
E. Wandersman, A. Cēbers, E. Dubois, G. Mériguet, A. Robert and R. Perzynski


Topological defects of tetratic liquid-crystal order on a soft spherical surface
Yao Li, Han Miao, Hongru Ma and Jeff Z. Y. Chen

These papers are free to access until 17th January 2014

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November’s Hot Papers!

Charged membranes under confinement induced by polymer-, salt-, or ionic liquid solutions
Tom Dvir, Lea Fink, Roi Asor, Yael Schilt, Ariel Steinar and Uri Raviv

Versatile tuning of supramolecular hydrogels through metal complexation of oxidation-resistant catechol-inspired ligands
Matthew S. Menyo, Craig J. Hawker and J. Herbert Waite

Orientational order in a glass of charged platelets with a concentration gradient
Elisabeth Lindbo Hansen, Sara Jabbari-Farouji, Henrik Mauroy, Tomás S. Plivelic, Daniel Bonn and Jon Otto Fossum

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Soft Matter under Confinement Themed Issue has been published!

The Soft Matter themed issue on Soft Matter under Confinement is now available to read online! This issue brings together studies which explore the effect of confinement, whether spatial, topological, configurational or at interfaces, on the properties and behaviour of soft matter.

Find out more about the issue in the Editorial, written by Guest Editors Professor Jacob Klein (Weizmann Institute, Israel) and Dr Susan Perkin (Oxford University, UK).

The issue contains reviews

Physical modelling of the nuclear pore complex
Dino Osmanović, Ariberto Fassati, Ian J. Ford and Bart W. Hoogenboom  

communications
Super-compressible DNA nanoparticle lattices 
Sunita Srivastava, Dmytro Nykypanchuk, Mathew M. Maye, Alexei V. Tkachenko and Oleg Gang

 … and a number of previous Hot Papers!

Frustrated crystallisation and melting in two-dimensional pentagonal confinement
Thomas O. E. Skinner, Henry M. Martin, Dirk G. A. L. Aarts and Roel P. A. Dullens

Semi-flexible polymer chains in quasi-one-dimensional confinement: a Monte Carlo study on the square lattice
Hsiao-Ping Hsu and Kurt Binder

Self-organization of the bacterial cell-division protein FtsZ in confined environments
Sonia Mellouli, Begoña Monterroso, Hanumantha Rao Vutukuri, Esra te Brinke, Venkatachalam Chokkalingam, Germán Rivas and Wilhelm T. S. Huck

Oligo(aniline) nanofilms: from molecular architecture to microstructure
Thomas G. Dane, Philip T. Cresswell, Georgia A. Pilkington, Samuele Lilliu, John E. Macdonald, Stuart W. Prescott, Oier Bikondoa, Charl F. J. Faul and Wuge H. Briscoe

Find the full collection here.

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To keep up-to-date with all the latest research, sign-up to our RSS feed or Table of contents alert.

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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!

To keep up-to-date with all the latest research, sign-up to our RSS feed or Table of contents alert.

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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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