Soft Matter Blog

Review Article: Topology of nematic liquid crystal colloids confined to two dimensions
Uroš Tkalec and Igor Muševič

Precise determination of the Poisson ratio in soft materials with 2D digital image correlation
Robyn H. Pritchard, Pascal Lava, Dimitri Debruyne and Eugene M. Terentjev

Elasticity of flexible polymers under cylindrical confinement: appreciating the blob scaling regime in computer simulations
Juin Kim, Chanil Jeon, Hawoong Jeong, Youngkyun Jung and Bae-Yeun Ha 

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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

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