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
Do you know someone who deserves recognition for their contribution to the soft matter field?
Now is your chance to propose they receive the accolade they deserve.
Soft Matter is pleased to announce that nominations are now being accepted for the Soft Matter Lectureship 2014. This annual award was established by the journal in 2009 to honour a younger scientist who has made a significant contribution to the soft matter field.
Qualification
To be eligible for the Soft Matter Lectureship, the candidate should be in the earlier stages of their scientific career, typically within 15 years of attaining their doctorate or equivalent degree, and will have made a significant contribution to the field.
Description
The recipient of the award will be asked to present a lecture three times, one of which will be located in the home country of the recipient. The Soft Matter Editorial Office will provide the sum of £1000 to the recipient for travel and accommodation costs.
The award recipient will be presented with the award at one of the three award lectures. They will also be asked to contribute a lead article to the journal and will have their work showcased on the back cover of the issue in which their article is published.
Selection
The recipient of the award will be selected and endorsed by the Soft Matter Editorial Board.
Nominations
Those wishing to make a nomination should send details of the nominee, including a brief C.V. (no longer than 2 pages A4) together with a letter (no longer than 2 pages A4) supporting the nomination, to the Soft Matter Editorial Office (softmatter-rsc@rsc.org) by 14 March 2014. Self-nomination is not permitted.
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
Xu Zhang, Xiaohui Yao, Xiaomei Wang, Lei Feng, Jiayan Qu and Pange Liu
Free to read until 28th February
All of us in the Soft Matter Editorial team would like to wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year! The Editorial office will be closed from 24th December 2013 and will reopen on 2nd January 2014.
We’re really looking forward to 2014, which will see some great themed issues in Soft Matter as well as the 2014 Soft Matter Lectureship (opening for nominations early in the year).
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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:
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.
Many congratulations to the winners at the 2013 International Symposium on Stimuli-Responsive Materials!
Chosen by an independent panel, the winners were: Akira Matsumoto (Institute of Biomaterials and Bioengineering at Tokyo Medical and Dental University) for the Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B & C poster prize, Justin Poelma for Polymer Chemistry and Saemi Oh for Soft Matter (University of California, Santa Barbara).
The symposium which focuses on the field of stimuli-responsive materials from academia, industry, and government took place in October (20 – 22) this year at the Hilton Sonoma Wine Country in Santa Rosa, CA and was co-sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Akira Matsumoto receiving his poster prize for Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B, C
Justin Poelma receiving his prize for Polmer Chemistry
Saemi Oh winning the Soft Matter poster prize
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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
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
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
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
… 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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