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Top Ten most-read Soft Matter articles in September

28 Oct 2011

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

Biomimetic soft matter
Ian W. Hamley
Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 9533-9534
DOI: 10.1039/c1sm90064a

Structural properties of soluble peptide amphiphile micelles
Amanda Trent, Rachel Marullo, Brian Lin, Matthew Black and Matthew Tirrell
Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 9572-9582
DOI: 10.1039/c1sm05862b

Light-responsive block copolymer vesicles based on a photo-softening effect
Bin Yan, Xia Tong, Patrick Ayotte and Yue Zhao
Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 10001-10009
DOI: 10.1039/c1sm06041d

A pH-responsive coiled-coil peptide hydrogel
Nicholas L. Fletcher, Christina V. Lockett and Annette F. Dexter
Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 10210-10218
DOI: 10.1039/c1sm06261a

Confined self-assembly of cylinder-forming diblock copolymers: effects of confining geometries
Bin Yu, Baohui Li, Qinghua Jin, Datong Ding and An-Chang Shi
Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 10227-10240
DOI: 10.1039/c1sm05947e

Zwitterionic surfactant/cyclodextrin hydrogel: microtubes and multiple responses
Lingxiang Jiang, Yun Yan and Jianbin Huang
Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 10417-10423
DOI: 10.1039/c1sm06100c

Preparation of stable superhydrophobic mesh with a biomimetic hierarchical structure
Taechang An, Seong J. Cho, WooSeok Choi, Jin Ho Kim, Soo Taek Lim and Geunbae Lim
Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 9867-9870
DOI: 10.1039/c1sm06238g

Mesoporous vesicles from supramolecular helical peptide as drug carrier
Sibaprasad Maity, Poulami Jana, Suman Kumar Maity and Debasish Haldar
Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 10174-10181
DOI: 10.1039/c1sm05958k

All-aqueous core-shell droplets produced in a microfluidic device
Iwona Ziemecka, Volkert van Steijn, Ger J. M. Koper, Michiel T. Kreutzer and Jan H. van Esch
Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 9878-9880
DOI: 10.1039/c1sm06517c

Phase behavior of binary mixtures of block copolymers and a non-solvent in miniemulsion droplets as single and double nanoconfinement
Roland H. Staff, Patrick Rupper, Ingo Lieberwirth, Katharina Landfester and Daniel Crespy
Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 10219-10226
DOI: 10.1039/c1sm05988b

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Hot Article: Delamination followed by Cracking

24 Oct 2011

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Colloidal dispersions dried in thin capillaries exhibit a fascinating array of cracks. Researchers in this Hot Article present experiments where the cracks are preceded by delamination in which the particle packed region debonds from the walls of the capillary before cracking. Their results highlight the importance of substrate deflection in describing the dynamics of drying.

Delamination of drying nanoparticle suspensions
Arijit Sarkar and Mahesh S. Tirumkudulu
Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 8816-8822
DOI: 10.1039/C1SM05734K

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Announcing the Mechanics and Physics of Hydrogels themed issue

20 Oct 2011

Soft Matter is planning to produce a themed issue on Mechanics and Physics of Hydrogels in 2012. Please e-mail the editorial office if you would like to contribute an article. The Guest Editors of the issue are Professor Jian Ping Gong (Hokkaido University, Japan) and Professor Wei Hong (Iowa State University, USA).

The Soft Matter themed issue on Mechanics and Physics of Hydrogels aims at bringing together contributions from many perspectives in order to draw a multidisciplinary state-of-the art picture of the field. We have published several themed issues on other important emerging topics in recent years, and it now seems particularly timely to publish a focused set of articles covering Mechanics and Physics of Hydrogels. The themed issue will mainly focus on the following topics:

• Development of new hydrogels with enhanced coupling properties and/or mechanical performance
• Discovery of physical or multi-physical phenomena of hydrogel systems
• Innovative experimental designs for better characterization of hydrogel behaviors
• Models that capture or predict various hydrogel behaviors, and promote the understanding of underlying mechanisms
• Papers on other topics related to the mechanics of hydrogels will also be considered

The deadline for the receipt of manuscripts for this themed issue is 20th February 2012

Manuscripts can be submitted using the RSC’s on-line submissions service. Please clearly mark that the manuscript is submitted for the themed issue on Mechanics and Physics of Hydrogels.
Please would you inform the editorial office by e-mail as soon as possible if you plan to submit to the issue. We would like to have a list of authors who intend to contribute as soon as possible.

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Soft Matter issue 21 out now!

19 Oct 2011

The latest issue of Soft Matter is now online. You can read the full issue here:

SM Issue 21 OFC

The outside front cover features an article on Extensional Opto-rheometry with Biofluids and Ultra-dilute Polymer Solutions by Simon J. Haward, Vivek Sharma and Jeffrey A. Odell.

Binding of 6-mer single-stranded homo-nucleotides to poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene): specific hydrogen bonds with guanine is the article highlighted on the inside front cover by Bruno Teixeira-Dias, David Zanuy, Jordi Poater, Miquel Solà, Francesc Estrany, Luis J. del Valle and Carlos Alemán.

Issue 21 contains the following Highlight and Review articles:

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Rheology of carnivorous plant secretions

17 Oct 2011

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Sundew plants (Drosera) capture insects using tiny drops of a viscoelastic fluid. Researchers have used simple capillary thinning microrheometry to study the rheology and non-Newtonian flow behaviour of these mucilage drops. They have provided new insight into the ‘capture mechanism’ of the sundew plant, also suggesting that this biofluid could be a model material for processing biodegradable fibers.

Rheology of carnivorous plant secretions

Microrheometry of sub-nanolitre biopolymer samples: non-Newtonian flow phenomena of carnivorous plant mucilage
Philipp Erni, Matthieu Varagnat, Christian Clasen, Jérôme Crest and Gareth H. McKinley
Soft Matter, 2011,
DOI: 10.1039/C1SM05815K

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Top Ten most-read Soft Matter articles in July

09 Sep 2011

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

Soft microorigami: self-folding polymer films
Leonid Ionov
Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 6786-6791
DOI:10.1039/c1sm05476g

Biopolymers in nanopores: challenges and opportunities
Hemant Kumar, Yves Lansac, Matthew A. Glaser and Prabal K. Maiti
Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 5898-5907
DOI:10.1039/c0sm01517b

Stimulus responsive nanogels for drug delivery
Liusheng Zha, Brittany Banik and Frank Alexis
Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 5908-5916
DOI:10.1039/c0sm01307b

Janus particles at an oil–water interface
Bum Jun Park, Teresa Brugarolas and Daeyeon Lee
Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 6413-6417
DOI:10.1039/c1sm05460k

Biomimetic morphogenesis of micropottery: helical coiling of mesostructured silica nanofibers
Longping Zhou, Jianfeng Ye, Guosong Hong and Limin Qi
Soft Matter, 2011, Advance Article
DOI:10.1039/c1sm05593c

Fabrication and evaluation of reduction-sensitive supramolecular hydrogel based on cyclodextrin/polymer inclusion for injectable drug-carrier application
Jiahui Yu, Honglei Fan, Jin Huang and Jinghua Chen
Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 7386-7394
DOI:10.1039/c1sm05426k

Bio-inspired anisotropic micro/nano-surface from a natural stamp: grasshopper wings
Tong Zhang, Mingzhu Li, Bin Su, Changqing Ye, Kan Li, Weizhi Shen, Li Chen, Zhongxin Xue, Shutao Wang and Lei Jiang
Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 7973-7975
DOI:10.1039/c1sm05366c

Self-assembly of double hydrophilic block copolymers in concentrated aqueous solution
Adam Blanazs, Nicholas J. Warren, Andrew L. Lewis, Steven P. Armes and Anthony J. Ryan
Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 6399-6403
DOI:10.1039/c1sm05771e

Mechanics of random fiber networks—a review
R. C. Picu
Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 6768-6785
DOI:10.1039/c1sm05022b

Biomimetic microlens array with antireflective “moth-eye” surface
Doo-Hyun Ko, John R. Tumbleston, Kevin J. Henderson, Larken E. Euliss, Joseph M. DeSimone, Rene Lopez and Edward T. Samulski
Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 6404-6407
DOI:10.1039/c1sm05302g

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