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Martien Cohen Stuart talks to Russell Johnson about his research on self assembly and what he thinks are the hot topics in soft matter research. Watch the video interview on YouTube here:
If you’re interested to know more about Professor Cohen Stuart’s research you can read a selection of his articles here:
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Soft Matter will be awarding a poster prize at The International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) is holding its 31st General Assembly (GA) and Conference on Biological Sciences and Bioindustry. This meeting will be held 5th – 9th July 2012, in Suzhou, China. The theme of the conference is “Promoting Biological Sciences for a Better Life”.
Over 100 international scientists will deliver presentations on their research including plenary speeches by: Giorgio Bernardi (Italy), Zhonghe Zhou (China) and Nils Chr. Senseth (Norway).
You can find details about the conference program about registration on the conference website: http://iubs.csp.escience.cn
We are pleased to announce that Soft Matter will be awarding poster prizes at De Gennes Days on Physics of Cells – from Soft to Living Matter, to be held 2nd – 8th September 2012, in Hyères, France.
The meeting will consist of the Advanced School on Cellular Biophysics and the 2nd Conference in the EMBO Series on Cell Biophysics. Both the school and the conference will cover topics from various aspects of cell and tissue biophysics including cell mechanics, membranes, adhesion, mechanosensing, morphogenesis, transcription, and motility. Participation of young and emerging scientists is highly encouraged.
For more information, please visit www.physcell2012.com.
Soft Matter is publishing a themed issue on the ‘Soft Matter Principles of Microfluidics’ with Professor Lydéric Bocquet (University of Lyon, France), Professor Todd Squires (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) and Professor Annie Colin (Rhodia-Bordeaux1-CNRS, Bordeaux, France) acting as the guest editors.
Microfluidics has provided powerful experimental capabilities for the study of soft matter, and enabled experiments in this field that had previously been impossible. Viewing clean-room microfabrication facilities as an advanced machine shop — where your device literally emerges from your design — microfluidics enables unprecedented control over experimental conditions, such as flow types and rates in an experiment, the ability to heat and cool rapidly, to watch systems equilibrate or evolve physically or chemically, and to design an experiment to specifically isolate a particular scientific process or question. Furthermore, the small scale of microfluidic experiments enables systematic sweeps of many experimental systems, while consuming very little sample. Benefiting from fast thermal exchanges and a perfect control of residence time, microfluidics has provided new routes to process and tailor soft materials whose fabrication had been out of reach until only recently. Like the cell phone in your pocket, microfluidics has become an essential tool in most soft matter labs. It is therefore a proper time to draw a state-of-the-art picture of the intimate connections which have developed between soft matter and microfluidics: this is the aim of this themed issue Soft Matter: principles of microfluidics. By bringing together contributions from the various domains where ‘microfluidics meet soft matter’, we will obtain an impressionist view of the possibilities offered by microfluidics in soft matter and imagine the new avenues of this rapidly evolving field.
All manuscripts will be handled by the Soft Matter Editorial office and refereed in accordance to the standard procedures of the journal, and in this respect invited articles will be treated in the same way as regular submissions to the journal.
The deadline for the receipt of manuscripts for this themed issue is: 21th April 2012
Manuscripts can be submitted using the RSC’s on-line submissions service. Please contact to the editorial office if you are interested in contributing to this issue. All contributions should state in the covering letter and “comments to editors” section during submission that the manuscript is submitted for the themed issue on Soft Matter Principles of Microfluidics.
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Congratulations to Sung Hoon Kang, Saverio Spagnolie and Karen Alim for winning the Soft Matter poster prizes at the 2012 Aspen Winter Conference on Growth and Form: Pattern Formation in Biology.
The titles of the winning posters were:
Sung Hoon Kang (Harvard University):
Pattern formation by self-organization of biologically-inspired fibrous surfaces
Saverio Spagnolie (Brown University)
Helices, Waves, and Kinks: Hydrodynamic optimization of prokaryotic and eukaryotic flagella
Karen Alim (Harvard University),
Contraction driven flow in the extended vein networks of Physarum polycephalum
From left to right: Sung Hoon Kang, Saverio Spagnolie, and Karen Alim
The conference was held 2nd – 7th January 2012 at Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, Colorado, USA.
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Lennart Piculell talks to Russell Johnson about his research into charged polymers and surfactants, and discusses what he thinks are the hottest topics in fundamental soft matter research at the moment.
Watch the video interview on YouTube here:
Interested to know more about charged polymers and surfactants? Here’s a selection of Professor Piculell’s articles:
Responsive and evolving mixtures of a hydrolyzing cationic surfactant and oppositely charged polyelectrolytes,
Salomé dos Santos, Dan Lundberg and Lennart Piculell,
Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 5540-5544.
Phase diagrams come alive: understanding how to create, destroy or change ordered surfactant structures by polymerizing the counterions,
Salomé dos Santos, Lennart Piculell, Ola J. Karlsson and Maria da Graça Miguel,
Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 1830-1839.
Associative phase behaviour and disintegration of copolymer aggregates on adding poly(acrylic acid) to aqueous solutions of a PEO-PPO-PEO triblock copolymer,
Salomé dos Santos, Bob Luigjes and Lennart Piculell,
Soft Matter, 2010, 6, 4756-4767.
Reverse micelles with spines: L2 phases of surfactant ion—polyion complex salts, n-alcohols and water investigated by rheology, NMR diffusion and SAXS measurements,
Juliana Silva Bernardes, Marcelo Alves da Silva, Lennart Piculell and Watson Loh
Soft Matter, 2010, 6, 144-153.
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A selection of recent papers covering the fundamental properties of bicontinuous & cubic mesophases including cubosomes and hexosomes.
Communications
Charged carrier mobility in the cubic (Ia3d) mesophase of 1,2-bis(4 ‘-n-nonyloxybenzoyl)hydrazine (BABH-9)
Jean-Moïse Suisse, Hiroyuki Mori, Hirosato Monobe, Shoichi Kutsumizu and Yo Shimizu, Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 11086-11088
Cubosomes for ruthenium complex delivery: formulation and characterization
Gaetano Mangiapia, Mauro Vaccaro, Gerardino D’Errico, Henrich Frielinghaus, Aurel Radulescu, Vitaliy Pipich, Anna M. Carnerup and Luigi Paduano, Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 10577-10580
Papers
Controlled embedment and release of DNA from lipidic reverse columnar hexagonal mesophases
Idit Amar-Yuli, Jozef Adamcik, Shoshana Blau, Abraham Aserin, Nissim Garti and Raffaele Mezzenga, Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 8162-8168
The interaction of cubosomes with supported phospholipid bilayers using neutron reflectometry and QCM-D
Hsin-Hui Shen, Patrick G. Hartley, Michael James, Andrew Nelson, Hugo Defendi and Keith M. McLean, Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 8041-8049
Aqueous phase behaviour of choline carboxylate surfactants-exceptional variety and extent of cubic phases
Regina Klein, Gordon J. T. Tiddy, Eva Maurer, Didier Touraud, Jordi Esquena, Olivier Tache and Werner Kunz, Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 6973-6983
Preparation and biological evaluation of self-assembled cubic phases for the polyvalent inhibition of cholera toxin
Scott J. Fraser, Rachel Rose, Meghan K. Hattarki, Patrick G. Hartley, Olan Dolezal, Raymond M. Dawson, Frances Separovic and Anastasios Polyzos, Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 6125-6134
Nanostructured self-assembly materials from neat and aqueous solutions of C18 lipid pro-drug analogues of Capecitabine-a chemotherapy agent. Focus on nanoparticulate cubosomes (TM) of the oleyl analogue
Xiaojuan Gong, Minoo J. Moghaddam, Sharon M. Sagnella, Charlotte E. Conn, Xavier Mulet, Stephen J. Danon, Lynne J. Waddington and Calum J. Drummond, Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 5764-5776
Steric stabilisation of self-assembled cubic lyotropic liquid crystalline nanoparticles: high throughput evaluation of triblock polyethylene oxide-polypropylene oxide-polyethylene oxide copolymers
Josephine Y. T. Chong, Xavier Mulet, Lynne J. Waddington, Ben J. Boyd and Calum J. Drummond, Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 4768-4777
Converging layer-by-layer polyelectrolyte microcapsule and cubic lyotropic liquid crystalline nanoparticle approaches for molecular encapsulation
Chantelle D. Driever, Xavier Mulet, Angus P. R. Johnston, Lynne J. Waddington, Helmut Thissen, Frank Caruso and Calum J. Drummond, Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 4257-4266
Templating effects of lyotropic liquid crystals in the encapsulation of amyloid fibrils and their stimuli-responsive magnetic behavior
Idit Amar-Yuli, Jozef Adamcik, Cécile Lara, Sreenath Bolisetty, Jijo J. Vallooran and Raffaele Mezzenga, Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 3348-3357
DNA-lipid self-assembly: phase behavior and phase structures of a DNA-surfactant complex mixed with lecithin and water
Azat Bilalov, Ulf Olsson and Björn Lindman, Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 730-742
Enhanced uptake of an integral membrane protein, the dopamine D2L receptor, by cubic nanostructured lipid nanoparticles doped with Ni(II) chelated EDTA amphiphiles
Charlotte E. Conn, Xavier Mulet, Minoo J. Moghaddam, Connie Darmanin, Lynne J. Waddington, Sharon M. Sagnella, Nigel Kirby, Joseph N. Varghese and Calum J. Drummond, Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 567-578
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Michael J. Solomon accepted the 2011 Soft Matter Lectureship at Jülich Soft Matter Days, in Bonn, Germany. The award was presented by Professor Martien Cohen Stuart, Chairman of the Soft Matter Editorial Board.
Michael J. Solomon is Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. Solomon’s research addresses questions about the structure and function of soft matter. His group has developed methods in confocal microscopy to understand how colloids, anisotropic particles and bacteria biofilms assemble into structures such as gels and crystals, and how these structures respond to forces due to shear flow, centrifugation and electric fields.
The Soft Matter Lectureship an annual award to honour a younger scientist who has made a significant contribution to the soft matter field.
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