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Pretty peptide patterns
20 November 2009
The smallest building blocks to date have been used to make fractal patterns
Soft Matter's most accessed articles
18 November 2009
Soft Matter 'Top 5' series: most accessed articles
Soft Matter Award 2010: Call for Nominations
17 November 2009
Nominations are now being accepted for the Soft Matter Award 2010!
Interview: Beyond the inorganic boundaries
16 November 2009
Ian Manners talks about polymerisations, interfaces, and living in Wales
Magnetic yeast cells
12 November 2009
A single step method makes magnetic yeast cells that are easy to position inside chips
Macro2010 Call for Papers now open!
13 November 2009
11 - 16 July 2010, SECC, Glasgow, UK. Oral abstract deadline - 29 January 2010. Poster abstract deadline - 9 April 2010.
Integrative Biology now in MEDLINE
11 November 2009
Integrative Biology has now been selected by the National Library of Medicine to be indexed and included in their database, MEDLINE.
Sticky polymers for wound healing
23 October 2009
Promise for tissue regeneration therapy as temperature-responsive gels help move cells from A to B
Soft Matter's top 5 most cited physics articles
22 October 2009
Soft Matter 'Top 5' series: most cited physics articles
Instant insight: Making synthetic cells
05 October 2009
Cell and organelle mimics typically perform one simple function. Frank Caruso and colleagues contemplate more complicated systems
Nanoscale issue 1 now online!
29 September 2009
Read the first issue of new journal Nanoscale free online
Soft Matter's top 5 most cited biological articles
22 September 2009
Soft Matter 'Top 5' series: most cited biological articles
Interview: Making soft matter
16 September 2009
Martien Cohen Stuart on soft matter, music and fruit trees
Liquid crystals bend over backwards for electricity
10 September 2009
US scientists are a step closer to producing a new generation of energy conversion devices based on liquid crystals
A slide show for drug discovery
08 September 2009
Hydrogel slide offers key advantages over traditional microarray platforms
Twist of fate for two-to-one assemblies
28 August 2009
Unique nanospiral structures could be useful for miniaturising optoelectronics
Soft Matter's top 5 most cited chemistry articles
18 August 2009
Soft Matter 'Top 5' series: most cited chemistry articles
Membrane Biophysics: Soft Matter, 2009, 17, 3129-3363
Read the Membrane Biophysics themed issue here
New flagship journal Chemical Science announced
20 October 2009
A new dynamic home for research across the chemical sciences, fronted by Princeton's David MacMillan, to be launched
Sound waves push particles
14 August 2009
Acoustic tweezers manipulate cells into patterns on a microchip
First Nanoscale articles published online
12 August 2009
Read the first Advance Articles for new journal Nanoscale free online
The Frontiers of Polymer Science awards meeting
On the 21st July, The Macro Group UK held its annual awards meeting the 'Frontiers of Polymer Science', where four annual awards were presented.
Soft Matter Award 2009
29 July 2009
Emanuela Zaccarelli has been presented with the Soft Matter Award 2009
Jelly component sparks innovation for tissue repair
28 July 2009
A food additive is finding an alternative use in hydrogels for tissue engineering
Soft Matter's top 5 most published authors
27 July 2009
Soft Matter 'Top 5' series: most published authors
Buckling down to make microgears
20 July 2009
Thin films can buckle round curved substrates to form gears for micromachines
Nano-earthquake to shake up drug screening
16 July 2009
A thumbnail-sized chip is mimicking the turbulent conditions a drug experiences on its journey through the body
Superhydrophobicity saves scalding
14 July 2009
Clothes could repel hot water with a Teflon-carbon nanotube composite coating
Probing protein aggregation
02 July 2009
NMR used to follow Alzheimer's-linked tau protein as it tangles
Brewing a drug delivery platform
26 June 2009
A tea compound has been used to prepare a drug-releasing film with anticancer properties
Soft Matter - still number one!
22 June 2009
2008 has been another great year for Soft Matter, as hot off the press Impact Factor data from ISI® shows.
Soft Matter's top 5 most accessed articles
22 June 2009
In celebration of the journal's fifth birthday, you can read the most accessed article from each of the past 5 years FREE for one month.
Printing artificial cells
19 June 2009
In a step towards cell mimics, an inkjet printer is being used to make lipid-coated balls containing proteins
Stiff resolution for cells
17 June 2009
Implications for cancer diagnosis as US researchers suggest ridged channels will separate hard and soft cells
Soft Matter Emerging Investigators
12 June 2009
Now published - an issue highlighting the work of up-and-coming soft matter scientists
101 uses for guar gum
10 June 2009
A gum normally used as a food thickening agent could be used to make temperature sensors
Polymer Content at RSC Publishing
05 June 2009
Find out where to submit your polymer related research.
New Soft Matter Editorial Board members
03 June 2009
The Soft Matter Editorial Board has four new members.
New journal announced: Polymer Chemistry
01 June 2009
A new journal encompassing all aspects of synthetic and biological macromolecules, and related emerging areas.
Celebrating 5 years of Soft Matter
28 May 2009
We are offering a range of 'top 5' articles FREE each month in celebration of the journal's fifth birthday.
Soft Matter Award 2009: Winner Announced
21 May 2009
The winner of the Soft Matter Award 2009 has been announced as Emanuela Zaccarelli
Instant insight: Agents of destruction
20 May 2009
Ivan Parkin and Michael Wilson from University College London, UK, look at how to make hospital-acquired infections a thing of the past
Instant insight: Squashing cancer cells
18 May 2009
Could stretching cells be the way to diagnose cancer? Claudia Brunner takes a biomechanical approach to medicine
Pulling membranes off cells
11 May 2009
German scientists are ripping cells apart to study their elasticity
IUPAC 2009 Programme Now Available
28 April 2009
Speakers and titles of lectures for the congress taking place 2-7 August 2009 in Glasgow, UK are now online. Early booking deadline - 5 June 2009.
New Editorial Board Chair
22 April 2009
Soft Matter is delighted to welcome its new Editorial Board Chair: Professor Martien Cohen Stuart
Biocompatible polymers keep the blood flowing
07 April 2009
Korean scientists have found an effective way of making biocompatible implants
Microfluidics doesn't shock cells
07 April 2009
Frozen cells are more likely to survive with the help of microfluidic technology
Magnets control drug release
30 March 2009
A smart tissue-like biomaterial that can release drugs in response to a magnetic trigger has been created by UK scientists
A new twist on actuator architecture
24 March 2009
Spiral opals change colour and shape in response to their chemical environment
Polymer's coats multi-task in drug delivery
17 March 2009
Polymer spheres with a sugar coating on the outside and plastic coating on the inside may be better living cell mimics and drug delivery vessels
Making capillaries with candy floss
10 March 2009
An artificial vascular system has been made using candy floss as a template
Expanding routes for drug delivery
10 March 2009
Peptide-triggered particles that release cargos when they meet an enzyme could find use delivering drugs in the body
Nanowire forests repel liquids
24 February 2009
An oil-repelling surface could prevent leaks from pipelines, say Chinese researchers
Soft Matter biophysics promotion - articles free to download for one month!
23 February 2009
A selection of Soft Matter articles on biophysics topics have been made free for you to download for one month from 23 February 2009.
Picture perfect particles
20 February 2009
Complex 3D microparticles made using a new microfluidic method could be used in tissue engineering
Biofilms under control
17 February 2009
Microbe communities shun an artificial sweetener for a means to study biofilm growth
Faraday Discussion 143: Soft Nanotechnology
16 February 2009
Forthcoming meeting: Speakers include Richard A L Jones (Sheffield) and George Whitesides (Harvard). Early booking and poster deadline - 14 April 2009.
Food additive promotes tissue regeneration
02 February 2009
A fast acting, injectable hydrogel could be used to regenerate cartilage in injured patients
Plucking proteins from single cells
28 January 2009
£5 million EPSRC initiative delivers a microfluidic tool to mine membrane proteins from cells
Spray-on stem cells for synthetic tissue?
26 January 2009
Bio-electrospray technique places stem cells with pinpoint precision
Call for Nominations for RSC Prizes and Awards 2010
22 September 2009
Make a nomination for an RSC Prize or Award
Spotting the flu virus
15 January 2009
US chemists can 'see' if patients have been infected with the flu virus
Instant insight: Chemical connections
05 January 2009
Building a protein can be likened to a jigsaw puzzle. Stephen Kent puts the pieces together
A raincoat that keeps us cool
22 December 2008
A new water repellent coating for aluminium foil could prolong the lifetime of air conditioning units, say researchers in China.
Lights on for drug delivery
17 December 2008
Chinese scientists have developed fluorescent drug delivery vehicles that can be used to monitor drug release
Instant insight: Polymers move smartly
04 December 2008
Hans-Jörg Schneider and Kazuaki Kato introduce polymers that respond to chemical and biological stimuli through movement
Drug delivery on target
17 November 2008
A peptide found in tumour cells can trigger the release of drugs from a novel nanocarrier, claim South Korean scientists
Polymers strut their stuff under the spotlight
11 November 2008
Chemists in Japan have created light-driven polymer films that walk like inchworms and move like robotic arms
Shine a light for separation
07 November 2008
UK scientists have used light to separate complex chemical mixtures
Dendrimers deliver the goods to tackle virus infection
03 November 2008
A dendrimer that delivers antibodies into cells has potential for infectious disease treatment, say US scientists
Soft Matter Physics Promotion - Articles free to download for the month of November!
31 October 2008
A selection of Soft Matter articles on physics topics have been made free for you to download for the whole of November.
Soft Matter Award 2009: Call for Nominations
24 October 2008
Number one journal Soft Matter is now accepting nominations for the first Soft Matter Award
RSC at the MRS
24 October 2008
Visit Booth 124 at the Fall MRS 2008 in Boston, USA to find out all the latest news from RSC Publishing
Top Ten Articles
19 August 2009
The new top ten most downloaded Soft Matter articles. Read the most-accessed papers of July2009 here.
Tiling yields model tissue
01 October 2008
US scientists are mimicking tissue by fixing together tiles of cells
Like water off a duck's back
29 September 2008
Scientists have made a range of structures that mimic water-repellant surfaces found in nature 
Cells take direction from virus
18 September 2008
Liquid crystalline scaffold imparts order on cell arrangement
Colloids light the way to printable electronics
15 September 2008
Cheap electronic devices can be printed using commercial printing presses thanks to light-emitting colloidal inks
New Soft Matter Advisory Board members
12 September 2008
The Soft Matter Advisory Board has twelve new members.
How water leaves lotus leaves
09 September 2008
The mystery of how superhydrophobic lotus leaves remain completely dry whilst floating on water has been solved by Chinese scientists
Hot article: droplet interface bilayers
05 September 2008
Hagan Bayley and colleagues at Oxford University review the development of droplet interface bilayers for the study of membrane proteins.
Rewriting the biochemistry textbooks
22 August 2008
Calculations validate alternative to a much-published enzyme mechanism
Faraday Discussion 144: Multiscale Modelling of Soft Matter
12 August 2008
Submit an abstract for your chance to present your work at the conference in July 2009 and be published in Faraday Discussions. Deadline - 19 September 2008
An open and shut case for palladium
01 August 2008
A synthetic pore that lets sodium cross membranes is 'a significant step towards tissue-mimetic materials,' say UK scientists
Soft Matter - double the frequency!
01 August 2008
Soft Matter will double its frequency to 24 issues per year, starting from 2009.
Artificial cells seek out disease
30 July 2008
Scientists in the US have made an artificial cell that can locate sites of disease within the body
Multifunctional polymers click together
08 July 2008
Side chains of copolymers can now be clicked into place thanks to a new method developed by Dutch researchers
Interview: Model membranes
02 July 2008
Patricia Bassereau tells Michael Brown about the importance of the membrane in cellular functions
Faraday Discussion 143: Soft Nanotechnology
15 June 2009
Submit an abstract for your chance to present your work at the meeting (June 2009, London, UK) and be published in Faraday Discussions. Deadline - 18 July 2008
Chemistry in the New World of Bioengineering and Synthetic Biology
25 June 2008
A new conference exploring the interfaces between the physical sciences and biology. Early bird registration deadline 18 July
Dunking doughnuts into cells
25 June 2008
Rubber-ring-shaped particles may soften the blow from cancer treatments
Soft Matter still top journal in the field
18 June 2008
With its best ever impact factor of 4.7, Soft Matter is still the number one journal in the field.
Chocolate's sweet secrets
09 June 2008
Studying microstructural changes in chocolate could help confectioners stop that shiny surface from turning an unappetising dull grey
Plastic coats wrap up gene delivery
25 April 2008
UK chemists have used smart polymers to deliver DNA into cells.
Instant insight: Swellable gels fix bad backs
16 April 2008
Brian Saunders and Tony Freemont discuss a new approach for treating back pain using injectable microgel implants
Instant insight: Crossing the cell membrane
16 April 2008
Shana Kelley reveals how cell-penetrating peptides deliver the goods when it comes to biology and medicine.
Driving water droplets uphill
02 April 2008
Lab-on-a-chip technology could soon simplify a host of applications, thanks to a new way to move droplets up vertical surfaces on flexible chips.
Unbalanced polymers offer route to ultrathin films
31 March 2008
Chinese scientists have demonstrated a different way to make multilayer thin films.
Growing cells in patterns
26 March 2008
Using a simple stamping method, American chemists are creating cell patterns on ordinary microscope coverslips.
Free access in April
14 March 2008
Online access to RSC journals provided for customers for the whole of April
Chemistry in the New World of Bioengineering and Synthetic Biology
28 February 2008
A new conference exploring the interfaces between the physical sciences and biology. Oral abstract deadline - 7 March 2008
Discontinuous swelling behaviors of lipophilic polyelectrolyte gels in non-polar media
22 February 2008
Read Kazuki Sada’s hot communication on the swelling of lipophilic polyelectrolyte gels
New Soft Matter Editorial Board members
03 June 2009
The Soft Matter Editorial Board has four new members.
Electrocatalytically functional multilayer assembly of sulfite oxidase and cytochrome c
08 February 2008
Read Ulla Wollenberger’s hot paper on an electrocatalytically functional multilayer
Peptide coupling for potential cancer targeting
07 February 2008
Putting peptide coats on virus shells could lead to targeted medical imaging in cancer diagnostics, according to US chemists.
Discriminating ligands select square DNA
05 February 2008
Why does DNA fold into squares? Pyridine ligands could help scientists trying to explain how these G-quadruplexes function.
Laser beam hits tiny target
30 January 2008
Chemists looking to analyse single cells have combined lab-on-a-chip techniques with lasers to burst the cells open.
Liquid lenses
21 January 2008
Liquid lenses that can fit in a microchip are now possible, say researchers in the US.
In situ characterization of gas-filled microballoons using soft X-ray microspectroscopy
18 January 2008
Read George Tzvetkov’s hot paper on gas-filled microballoons
Novel evaluation method of neutron reflectivity data applied to stimulus-responsive polymer brushes
18 January 2008
Read Per Linse’s hot paper on stimulus-responsive polymer brushes
Get set
16 January 2008
Researchers from the US have discovered that soy bean oil could be used as a renewable feedstock for gels and resins.
Viral cargo delivery
14 January 2008
US chemists have used a virus capsule to package and release molecules, which could lead to targeted delivery of therapeutic compounds
Cell research goes acoustic
02 January 2008
Canadian scientists are creating waves to study cell behaviour on surfaces.
Formation and release of circular lipid nanotubes
02 January 2008
Read Owe Orwar’s hot communication on circular lipid nanotubes
Electrically insulating pore-suspending membranes on highly ordered porous alumina obtained from vesicle spreading
02 January 2008
Read Claudia Steinem’s hot communication on pore-suspending membranes on porous alumina
A novel elastomer/liquid crystal polymer nanocomposite created in situ from controlled radical graft-polymerization
02 January 2008
Read Denis Bendejacq’s hot paper on elastomer/liquid crystal polymer nanocomposites
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