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Soft Matter Aspects of Cancer: Open for Submissions

17 Aug 2021

Guest Editors Drs Tanmay Lele (Texas A&M University, USA) and Anna Taubenberger (TU Dresden, Germany) would like to extend an invitation to all researchers working on the forefront of soft matter and cancer research, to contribute an article of their work to an exciting upcoming special collection of Soft Matter, dedicated to the soft matter aspects of cancer.

Submissions are open from now until 15 November 2021.

This collection will include, but is not limited to, cancer cell mechanics, mechanobiology, tissue mechanics and bioengineered models of cancer. We are happy to consider emerging technologies in the field, and both experimental and theoretical studies are welcomed.

If you wish to submit to the collection, please contact softmatter-rsc@rsc.org to receive a personal submission link.

Please note all manuscripts must be within scope for the journal and will be subject to the journal’s standard rigorous peer review procedures, managed by the journal editors.

Accepted manuscripts will be added to the online collection as soon as they are online and they will be published in a regular issue of Soft Matter.

If you have any questions, please contact us at softmatter-rsc@rsc.org

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2019 Soft Matter Outstanding Student Paper Award Winner

07 May 2020

We are pleased to introduce the Soft Matter Outstanding Student Paper Award. This new annual award recognises outstanding work published in the journal, for which a substantial component of the research was conducted by a student. Read below for more information.

Our 2019 Winner

The inaugural recipient of the 2019 Soft Matter Outstanding Student Paper award is Ms Morgan Barnes, PhD student within the Verduzco polymer group at Rice University, for her contributions towards the paper titled ‘Direct shape programming of liquid crystal elastomers’ (DOI: 10.1039/C8SM02174K).

This paper is free to read until 1^st July – click here to access!

Liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) are shape-shifting materials promising for applications ranging from biomedical devices to soft-robotics. However, programming complex (non-planar) shape changes has been a challenge. In this work, we took advantage of the double network structure of LCEs to achieve complex shape changes by balancing the first and second network crosslink densities. The initial shape is defined by the mold during the first network cure and the shape-change is programmed by mechanically deforming the LCE into the desired shape prior to the second network cure. This enabled us to create a variety of complex shape changes not previously possible, such as an LCE sheet that reversibly curls into a flower and another that morphs into the broad and sharp features of a face.

This work has previously featured in Chemistry World – read the full article here!

Eligibility

In order to be eligible for this award, the nominee must:

Have been a student at the time the research was conducted.
Be first author of a research article published in 2019 in Soft Matter.

Selection Process

In order to choose the winner of the 2019 Outstanding Student Paper Award, a shortlist of articles that were published throughout the year were selected by the editorial office and then subsequently assessed by the journal’s Editorial Board members. The winner was selected based upon the significance, impact and quality of the research.

Prize

The winner of the Outstanding Student Paper Award will receive an engraved plaque and a travel bursary of £500 to use towards a meeting of their choice.

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To have your paper considered for the 2020 Soft Matter Outstanding Student Award, simply indicate upon submission if the first author of the paper fulfils this criteria.

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We are very pleased to welcome Professor Amy Shen to the Soft Matter Editorial Board. Read more to learn all about Amy!

31 Mar 2020

Amy Shen is a professor in Micro/Bio/Nanofluidics Unit at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University in Japan. Her research is focused on microfluidics, rheology, and self-assembly, with applications in nanotechnology and biotechnology. She received the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award in 2003 and the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award in 2007. Amy was also a Fulbright Scholar in 2013. More recently, she gave the 2019 Bergveld lecture at the University of Twente, Netherlands. She is an associate editor for Micromachines, Biomedical Microdevices, and belongs to the editorial advisory boards of VIEW and Physics of Fluids. Amy is also a Series Editor for the RSC Soft Matter book series.

Learn more about Amy by reading some of her research articles below!

Flow of wormlike micellar solutions around microfluidic cylinders with high aspect ratio and low blockage ratio
Simon J. Haward, Naoyuki Kitajima, Kazumi Toda-Peters, Tsutomu Takahashi and Amy Q. Shen
Soft Matter, 2019,15, 1927-1941

Evaporation and morphological patterns of bi-dispersed colloidal droplets on hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces
R. Iqbal, B. Majhy, Amy Q. Shen and A. K. Sen
Soft Matter, 2018,14, 9901-9909

Temperature controlled tensiometry using droplet microfluidics
Doojin Lee, Cifeng Fang, Aniket S. Ravan, Gerald G. Fullerc and Amy Q. Shen
Lab Chip, 2017,17, 717-726

All these articles are currently FREE to read until the 15^th May!

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Outstanding Reviewers for Soft Matter in 2019

13 Mar 2020

We would like to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Soft Matter in 2019, as selected by the editorial team, for their significant contribution to the journal. The reviewers have been chosen based on the number, timeliness and quality of the reports completed over the last 12 months.

We would like to say a big thank you to those individuals listed here as well as to all of the reviewers that have supported the journal. Each Outstanding Reviewer will receive a certificate to give recognition for their significant contribution.

Dr Guilhem Baeza, INSA Lyon, ORCID: 0000-0002-5142-9670

Dr Philippe Coussot, Université Paris-Est, ORCID: 0000-0003-3980-0825

Dr Gerhard Gompper, Forschungszentrum Jülich, ORCID: 0000-0002-8904-0986

Prof. Lingxiang Jiang, Jinan University, ORCID: 0000-0001-5848-3904

Prof. Kaiqiang Liu, Shaanxi Normal University, ORCID: 0000-0001-7069-566X

Dr Yimin Luo, University of Delaware, ORCID: 0000-0002-9627-8722

Dr Davide Michieletto, University of Edinburgh, ORCID: 0000-0003-2186-6869

Prof. Yilin Wang, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy Sciences, ORCID: 0000-0002-8455-390X

Prof. Xuehai Yan, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, ORCID: 0000-0002-0890-0340

Dr Li Zhang, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, ORCID: 0000-0001-8525-4509

We would also like to thank the Soft Matter board and the soft matter community for their continued support of the journal, as authors, reviewers and readers.

If you would like to become a reviewer for our journal, just email us with details of your research interests and an up-to-date CV or résumé. You can find more details in our author and reviewer resource centre.

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2020 Soft Matter Lectureship awarded to Valeria Garbin

24 Feb 2020

It is with great pleasure that we announce Dr Valeria Garbin (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands) as the recipient of the 2020 Soft Matter Lectureship.

Valeria Garbin studied Physics at the University of Padua and received her PhD from the University of Trieste in Italy. She was a Rubicon fellowship in the Physics of Fluids group at the University of Twente, and a postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania, before starting her research group at Imperial College London in 2012. She joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Delft University of Technology in 2019.

Her current research focuses on soft materials under flow and deformation, particularly the extreme deformation conditions of cavitation, which are central to biomedical ultrasound and bioprocessing; and of processing flows used to create advanced materials and formulated products.

Valeria has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant, was the 2018 recipient of the McBain medal (RSC/SCI), and has been featured in “100 Women of Chemistry” by the RSC.

Learn more about Valeria’s research by reading her papers in Soft Matter:

Polymer nanocomposite capsules formed by droplet extraction: spontaneous stratification and tailored dissolution
Christiana E. Udoh, Valeria Garbin and João T. Cabral
Soft Matter, 2019, 15, 5287-5295

High-frequency linear rheology of hydrogels probed by ultrasound-driven microbubble dynamics
Akaki Jamburidze, Marco De Corato, Axel Huerre, Angelo Pommella and Valeria Garbin
Soft Matter, 2017, 13, 3946-3953

Shape oscillations of particle-coated bubbles and directional particle expulsion
Vincent Poulichet, Axel Huerre and Valeria Garbin
Soft Matter, 2017, 13, 125-133

Surface waves on a soft viscoelastic layer produced by an oscillating microbubble
Marc Tinguely, Matthew G. Hennessy, Angelo Pommella, Omar K. Matar and Valeria Garbin
Soft Matter, 2016, 12, 4247-4256

Near field capillary repulsion
Lu Yao, Lorenzo Botto, Marcello Cavallaro, Jr, Blake J. Bleier, Valeria Garbin and Kathleen J. Stebe
Soft Matter, 2013, 9, 779-786

These articles are free to read until 31 March 2020.

Thank you to everyone who nominated a candidate for the Lectureship; we received many excellent nominations, and the Editorial Board had a difficult task in choosing between some outstanding candidates.

Please join us in congratulating Valeria on winning this award!

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We are very pleased to welcome Professor Ewa Górecka to the Soft Matter Editorial Board. Read more to learn all about Ewa!

18 Feb 2020

Ewa Gorecka is a professor at the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Warsaw. Her research focuses on the study of liquid crystals, gels and nanoparticles using various X-ray diffraction and microscopic methods to study the structure of these materials at the nanoscale. She is also interested in the mechanisms of spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in soft matter. Her latest publications concern the use of X-ray diffraction methods to solve the structure of chiral phases with limited positional order.

Learn more about Ewa by reading some of her research articles below!

Calamitic and discotic liquid crystalline phases for mesogens with triangular cores
Jadwiga Szydłowska, Adam Krówczyński, Ewa Górecka and Damian Pociecha
Soft Matter, 2019, 15, 7195-7202

Molecular curvature, specific intermolecular interactions and the twist-bend nematic phase: the synthesis and characterisation of the 1-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yl)-6-(4-alkylanilinebenzylidene-4′-oxy)hexanes (CB6O.m)
Rebecca Walker, Damian Pociecha, Grant J. Strachan, John M. D. Storey, Ewa Gorecka and Corrie T. Imrie
Soft Matter, 2019, 15, 3188-3197

Organic nanotubes created from mesogenic derivatives
Vladimíra Novotná, Věra Hamplová, Lubor Lejček, Damian Pociecha, Martin Cigl, Ladislav Fekete, Milada Glogarová, Lucie Bednárová, Pawel W. Majewski and Ewa Gorecka
Nanoscale Adv., 2019, 1, 2835-2839

All these articles are currently FREE to read until the 31^st March 2020!

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Award Winners at the 31st Society of Polymer Science, Japan-Research Group on Polymer Gels Symposium

24 Jan 2020

Congratulations to award winners Siyuan Chen and Mousumi Akter (left and right of the photo, respectively) for their Soft Matter presentations at the “31st Society of Polymer Science, Japan-Research Group on Polymer Gels Symposium” held in Tokyo on 16th and 17th January 2020!

The Soft Matter presentation prizes were awarded by Chair of the event, Professor Akira Kakugo of Hokkaido University (middle of the photo).

Details of the winners can be seen below.

Siyuan Chen
Talk Title: “Protein-free insulin delivery microneedle patch integrated with temperature independent, glucose-responsive hydrogel”
Affiliation: Co-researcher at the Kanagawa Institute of Industrial Science and Technology and Researcher & Tokyo Medical and Dental University

Mousumi Akter
Talk Title: Photo-activated cargo transportation by molecular swarm robot
Affiliation: Hokkaido University

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2019 Soft Matter Outstanding Student Paper Award Winner

We are very pleased to welcome Professor Amy Shen to the Soft Matter Editorial Board. Read more to learn all about Amy!

Outstanding Reviewers for Soft Matter in 2019

2020 Soft Matter Lectureship awarded to Valeria Garbin

We are very pleased to welcome Professor Ewa Górecka to the Soft Matter Editorial Board. Read more to learn all about Ewa!

Award Winners at the 31st Society of Polymer Science, Japan-Research Group on Polymer Gels Symposium

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