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Self-adhesion of uncrosslinked poly(butadiene-co-acrylonitrile), i.e. nitrile rubber, an inhomogeneous and associative polymer

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,2978-2985
DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01630G, Paper
Valentine Hervio, Annie Brûlet, Costantino Creton, Gabriel E. Sanoja
The precursor of NBR, poly(acrylonitrile-co-butadiene), experiences thermodynamic forces for self-assembly and kinetic barriers for processing. We introduce three strategies to overcome such barriers and enable polymer self-adhesion in the bulk.
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Correction: Fabricating multi-scale controllable PEDOT:PSS arrays via templated freezing assembly

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,3021-3021
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM90038C, Correction
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Yang Lin, Junqiang Mao, Qingrui Fan, Jianjun Wang
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Hydrodynamically induced aggregation of two dimensional oriented active particles

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Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01670F, Paper
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Roee Bashan, Naomi Oppenheimer
We show that in many cases aligned active particles in a two-dimensional fluid attract and form fractal-like clusters.
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Analysis of the adhesive secreting cells of Arion subfuscus: insights into the role of microgels in a tough, fast-setting hydrogel glue

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Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00071D, Paper
Andrew M. Smith, Patrick Flammang
A model for the rapid setting of a gastropod hydrogel adhesive. Cross-linked microgels mix with microscopic packets of polysaccharides; these flow onto surfaces until the packets rupture, joining the microgels together.
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A bio-inspired co-simulation crawling robot enabled by a carbon dot-doped dielectric elastomer

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Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00029C, Paper
Yubing Han, Bori Shi, En Xie, Peng Huang, Yaozhong Zhou, Chang Xue, Weijia Wen, Huayan Pu, Mengying Zhang, Jinbo Wu
The introduction of NCDs@SiO2 cluster particles not only improves the mechanical and dielectric properties of an elastomer but also exhibits fluorescence and actuation response under the co-stimulation of UV and electricity, respectively.
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Agent-based modeling of stress anisotropy driven nematic ordering in growing biofilms

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Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01535A, Paper
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Changhao Li, Japinder Nijjer, Luyi Feng, Qiuting Zhang, Jing Yan, Sulin Zhang
Our agent-based model reveals complex spatiotemperal evolution of the morphology and internal cell ordering of Vibrio cholerae biofilms.
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Slip of a liquid crystal droplet rotator in viscous fluids

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,3066-3072
DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01028G, Paper
Keita Saito, Yasuyuki Kimura
The boundary conditions at the droplet surface depend on the surrounding solution. In glycerol solutions, slip occurs at the droplet surface and is enhanced as glycerol concentration increases.
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Conformational and static properties of tagged chains in solvents: effect of chain connectivity in solvent molecules

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,3073-3081
DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01473H, Paper
Hong-Yao Li, Bokai Zhang, Zhi-Yong Wang
The radius of gyration of tagged polymer chain: effect of chain length in solvent molecules.
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The fractal geometry of polymeric materials surfaces: surface area and fractal length scales

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,3082-3096
DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01497E, Paper
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H. Eduardo Roman, Federico Cesura, Rabia Maryam, Igor Levchenko, Katia Alexander, Claudia Riccardi
Non-treated (NT) and plasma-treated (PT) polymeric surfaces display self-affine fractal scaling. The plasma increases both the surface area and the fractal length scales, helping the design of PT interfaces with larger surface areas at the nm scale.
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Solutal Marangoni force controls lateral motion of electrolytic gas bubbles

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,3097-3106
DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01646C, Paper
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Hongguang Zhang, Yunqing Ma, Mengyuan Huang, Gerd Mutschke, Xianren Zhang
The MD and CFD indicate that the lateral solutal Marangoni force originating from an asymmetric distribution of dissolved gas causes bubbles oscillation and self-pinning effect.
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Surfactant-induced alterations in optoelectronic properties of perylene diimide dyes: modulating sensing responses in the aqueous environment

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,3044-3052
DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01694C, Paper
Animesh Pal, Nilanjan Dey
The compartmentalization effect of microheterogeneous systems, like surfactant aggregates, showcases altered optoelectronic properties of a perylene diimide-based chromogenic dye (PDI-Ala) compared to bulk water.
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Self-assembly of rod–coil–rod block copolymers in a coil-selective solvent: coarse-grained simulation results

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,3131-3142
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00251B, Paper
Chiraz Toujani, Luis A. Padilla, Nour Alhraki, Su-Mi Hur, Abelardo Ramírez-Hernández
Parameters that govern the self assembly of a symmetric triblock copolymer.
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Dilute gel networks vs. clumpy gels in colloidal systems with a competition between repulsive and attractive interactions

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,3143-3153
DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01717F, Paper
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M. Gimperlein, Jasper N. Immink, M. Schmiedeberg
Dilute and dense systems differ in the way structural properties emerge. Two regimes of percolation might be responsible for differences. Global and local structural properties give insights into these differences.
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Form II to form I transition in solution-crystallized isotactic polybutene-1

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,3191-3202
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00152D, Paper
Peng Fu, Jiaxin Huo, Jingqing Li, Claudio De Rosa, Shichun Jiang
Different polymer chains in a solution or melt have different conformations with corresponding entropy at each moment, which would be confined after crystallization.
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Destructive effect of fluctuations on the performance of a Brownian gyrator

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,3154-3160
DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01606D, Paper
Pascal Viot, Aykut Argun, Giovanni Volpe, Alberto Imparato, Lamberto Rondoni, Gleb Oshanin
The Brownian gyrator is often called a minimal model of a nano-engine performing a rotational motion, because in non-equilibrium conditions its torque, specific angular momentum  and specific angular velocity  have non-zero mean values.
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Steering droplets on substrates with plane-wave wettability patterns and deformations

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,3161-3174
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00213J, Paper
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Josua Grawitter, Holger Stark
Motivated by strategies for targeted microfluidic transport of droplets, we investigate how sessile droplets can be steered toward a preferred direction using travelling waves in substrate wettability or deformations of the substrate.
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A microrheological examination of insulin-secreting β-cells in healthy and diabetic-like conditions

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Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01141K, Paper
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Lukas Woolley, Adam Burbidge, Jan Vermant, Fotis Christakopoulos
We provide an insight into the compliance of β-cells and explore structural changes in conditions relevant to type-2 diabetes, showing an altered transport behavior and hindering the effective control of insulin secretion.
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A computational study of cell membrane damage and intracellular delivery in a cross-slot microchannel

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Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00047A, Paper
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Ruixin Lu, Peng Yu, Yi Sui
The inertial effect increases the cell deformation and membrane damage in the channel cross-slot; however, the enhancement can be reversed by the cell membrane viscosity.
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Divergent self-assembly propensity of enantiomeric phenylalanine amphiphiles that undergo pH-induced nanofiber-to-nanoglobule conversion

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Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00117F, Paper
Manas Kumar Pradhan, Nayanika Misra, Fathima Sahala, Nyaya Prakash Pradhan, Aasheesh Srivastava
Enantiomeric single phenylalanine derivatives demonstrate very different self-assembling propensity and thermodynamic parameters associated with self-assembly.
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Adsorption of semiflexible wormlike polymers to a bar and their double-chain complex formation

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Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00188E, Paper
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A. N. Semenov, I. A. Nyrkova
The quantitative transfer matrix approach and scaling arguments in terms of trains, loops, tails and supertrains allowed us to characterize the main regimes of semiflexible chain adsorption on a bar and double-chain complex formation.
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Faceted wrinkling by contracting a curved boundary

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Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01347B, Paper
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Anshuman S. Pal, Luka Pocivavsek, Thomas A. Witten
A novel mode of wrinkling avoids stretching by forming tilted, triangular facets.
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A Passive Star Polymer in a Dense Active Bath: Insights from Computer Simulations

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Soft Matter, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00144C, Paper
Ramanand Singh Yadav, Sanaa Sharma, Ralf Metzler, Rajarshi Chakrabarti
Using computer simulations in two dimensions (2D), we explore the structure and dynamics of a star polymer with three arms made of passive monomers immersed in a bath of active...
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Stable and permeable polyion complex vesicles designed as enzymatic nanoreactors

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Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00216D, Paper
Yuting Wan, Yuening Qiu, Jin Zhou, Jinbo Liu, Martien A. Cohen Stuart, Yangfeng Peng, Junyou Wang
Stable and permeable polyion complex vesicles designed as enzymatic nanoreactors.
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Enzymatic functionalization of decellularized tilapia skin scaffolds with enhanced skin regeneration

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Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01742G, Paper
Cuixia Chen, Wenwen Tao, Di Jiang, Yanyan Yang, Tiantian Liang, Qilong Gu, Yuran Xu, Junjuan Zhao, Xing Zhou, Xinglong Fan
The enzymatic dTS/RGD scaffolds, possessing medium mechanical strength, a rapid degradation rate and enough cell responsive motifs, provide a suitable microenvironment for wound healing, which make them potential in skin regeneration engineering.
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Spatiotemporal Mapping of Nanotopography and Thickness Transitions of Ultrathin Foam Films

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Soft Matter, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00048J, Tutorial Review
Chenxian Xu, Yiran Zhang, Vivek Sharma
Freshly formed soap films, soap bubbles, or foam films display iridescent colors due to thin film interference that changes as squeeze flow drives drainage and a steady decrease in film...
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Dynamic compaction of cohesive granular materials: scaling behavior and bonding structures

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Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01116J, Paper
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Max Sonzogni, Jean-Mathieu Vanson, Katerina Ioannidou, Yvan Reynier, Sébastien Martinet, Farhang Radjai
The compaction of cohesive granular materials is a common operation in powder-based manufacture of many products.
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Avalanche properties at the yielding transition: from externally deformed glasses to active systems

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Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01354E, Paper
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Carlos Villarroel, Gustavo Düring
We investigated the yielding phenomenon under different scenarios of deformation in the quasistatic limit using numerical simulations of soft particles.
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Hydrogen bonding enhanced drug–polymer interaction for efficient drug loading and delivery

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Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00003J, Communication
Xiaotian Qu, Junran Li, Yishu Yu, Jie Yang
A carrier design strategy of hydrogen bonding enhanced drug–carrier interaction is developed to prepare a polymeric nanomedicine with high drug loading content and superb loading efficiency as well as tunable nanostructures.
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Self-healing polyacrylates based on dynamic disulfide and quadruple hydrogen bonds

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Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00257A, Paper
Longjin Du, Yuting Zhong, Linying Zhao, Chengzhen Hu, Liang Shen, Yuping Yang, Jiang Zhong
Herein, a self-healing polyacrylate system was successfully prepared by introducing crosslinking agents containing disulfide bonds and monomers capable of forming quadruple hydrogen bonds through free radical copolymerization.
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Topology of ferroelectric nematic droplets: the case driven by flexoelectricity or depolarization field

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Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01042B, Communication
Yu Zou, Jidan Yang, Xinxin Zhang, Mingjun Huang, Satoshi Aya
Emerging polar nematics exhibits nontrivial topologies in confinement, controlled by the magnitude of the polarization.
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The effect of structural changes on the self-assembly of novel green pyridinium-carboxylate gemini surfactants in Langmuir and Langmuir–Blodgett films

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Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01671D, Paper
Ala’a F. Eftaiha, Abdussalam K. Qaroush, Dina M. Foudeh, Ahmad S. Abo-shunnar, Suhad B. Hammad, Khaleel I. Assaf, Matthew F. Paige
The synthesis and interfacial characterization of a series of gemini surfactants based on pyridine-n-carboxylic acids, including picolinic, nicotinic, and isonicotinic acids, in Langmuir and Langmuir–Blodgett films have been reported.
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Temperature dependence of micelle shape transitions in copolymer solutions: the role of inter-block incompatibility

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Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00331D, Paper
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M. J. Greenall, M. J. Derry
The incompatibility of the blocks in a copolymer strongly affects the temperature dependence of the micelle shape transitions in solution.
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The interplay of chirality and restricted rotation: stabilisation of chiral, frustrated mesophases over a wide thermal range

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Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00126E, Paper
Sachin A. Bhat, Channabasaveshwara V. Yelamaggad
Chiral dimers formed by linking cholesterol to phenyl 3-(4-(n-alkoxy)phenyl)propiolate via ω-oxyalkanoyloxy spacer exhibit odd–even effect, stabilizing SmA, N*, BPI/II, & TGBC* phases. TGBC* phase width increases with longer terminal tails.
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Multiple physical crosslinked highly adhesive and conductive hydrogels for human motion and electrophysiological signal monitoring

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Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00195H, Paper
Qirui Wu, Anbang Chen, Yidan Xu, Songjiu Han, Jiayu Zhang, Yujia Chen, Jianren Hang, Xiaoxiang Yang, Lunhui Guan
Ionic conducting hydrogel (ICHgel) was synthesized by doping fumed SiO2, which exhibited superior stretchability, conductivity, and adhesiveness, making it a promising bridge for effective communication between electronic devices and human tissues.
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Improved ionic current rectification utilizing cylindrical nanochannels coated with polyelectrolyte layers of non-uniform thickness

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Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00123K, Paper
Nader Nekoubin, Steffen Hardt, Arman Sadeghi
We show that a cylindrical nanochannel coated with a polyelectrolyte layer of non-uniform thickness can be a good alternative to the widely-used conical nanochannels in creating ionic current rectification.
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Deformation-dependent gel surface topography due to the elastocapillary and osmocapillary effects

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Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00139G, Paper
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Luochang Wang, Qihan Liu
Elastocapillary and osmocapillary effects can roughen a stretched surface although the elastic Poisson’s effect always flattens a stretched surface.
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Morphology of Impact Polypropylene Copolymer Extruded Cast Film Revealed by Confocal Raman Imaging

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Soft Matter, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00156G, Paper
Chunbo Zhang, Meng Xu, Minqiao Ren, Hongwei Shi, Guoming Liu, Juan Li, Xuanbo Liu, Longgui Zhang, Dali Gao
An impact polypropylene copolymer (IPC), composed of polypropylene (PP) and ethylene-propylene copolymer (EPC), was synthesized through two-stage in-reactor polymerization. A systematic investigation of the crystalline structure, thermal behavior, morphology, and...
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Lock-Key Microfluidics: Simulating Nematic Colloid Advection along Wavy-Walled Channels

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Soft Matter, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01536J, Paper
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Karolina Wamsler, Louise C Head, Tyler Nathan Shendruk
Liquid crystalline media mediate interactions between suspended particles and confining geometries, which not only has potential to guide patterning and bottom-up colloidal assembly, but can also control colloidal migration in...
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Dynamics and phase behavior of metallo-dielectric rod-shaped microswimmers driven by Alternating Current electric field

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Soft Matter, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00206G, Paper
Suvendu Kumar Panda, Srikanta Debata, Nomaan Alam Kherani, Dhruv Pratap Singh
The ability to move and self-organize in response to external stimuli is a fascinating feature of living active matter. Here, the metallo-dielectric rod-shaped microswimmers are shown to have a similar...
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A mean-field theory for predicting single polymer collapse induced by neutral crowders

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,3271-3282
DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01522J, Paper
Quentin Chaboche, Gerardo Campos-Villalobos, Giuliana Giunta, Marjolein Dijkstra, Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino, Vittore F. Scolari
Depletion forces arising from molecular crowding compact single polymers. Simulations lead to a unified description. Collapse is governed by the packing fraction of crowders and the ratio of crowder to monomer size, and can be hindered by jamming.
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Effects of salinity on the flow of dense colloidal suspensions

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,3367-3375
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00035H, Paper
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Marc Lagoin, Agnès Piednoir, Rémy Fulcrand, Antoine Bérut
We studied how the flowing dynamics of dense suspensions of silica micro-particles in microfluidic rotating drums experiments is modified when the inter-particles repulsion is progressively screened by increasing the ionic force of the suspension.
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Bending creep behaviour of various polymer films analysed by surface strain measurement

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,3248-3255
DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01566A, Paper
Jiayi Yu, Masayuki Kishino, Kyohei Hisano, Atsushi Shishido
Polymer films subjected to a static bending state exhibit temporal strain increase due to their viscoelastic nature. We quantitatively measured the surface strain change in various polymer films in real time and gained insights into the occurrence of this phenomenon.
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In silico design of misfolding resistant proteins: the role of structural similarity of a competing conformational ensemble in the optimization of frustration

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,3283-3298
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00171K, Paper
Bondeepa Saikia, Anupaul Baruah
The degree of similarity of the non-native conformations to the target plays a prominent role in designing misfolding resistant protein sequences.
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Achieving controllable and reversible snap-through in pre-strained strips of liquid crystalline elastomers

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,3256-3270
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00037D, Paper
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James T. Waters, Anna C. Balazs
Deformable, elastic materials that buckle in response to external stimuli can display “snap-through”, which involves a transition between different, stable buckled states.
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Effects of shear-induced crystallization on the complex viscosity of lamellar-structured concentrated surfactant solutions

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,3299-3312
DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01198D, Paper
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Parth U. Kelkar, Matthew Kaboolian, Ria D. Corder, Marco Caggioni, Seth Lindberg, Kendra A. Erk
Material relationships at low temperatures were determined for concentrated surfactant solutions using a combination of rheological experiments, cross-polarized microscopy, calorimetry, and small angle X-ray scattering.
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DNA liquid crystals with AIE effect toward humidity-indicating biomaterials

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,3243-3247
DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01531A, Communication
Guoqiang Zhang, Jing Zhao, Qikai Liang, Zhongtao Wu, Lei Zhang, Xiliang Luo
A DNA-containing material displaying a trackable humidity-induced change in fluorescence could accurately indicate in real time the environmental relative humidity at room temperature in 4 minutes.
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Cosolvent incorporation modulates the thermal and structural response of PNIPAM/silyl methacrylate copolymers

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,3322-3336
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00246F, Paper
Jason D. Linn, Fabian A. Rodriguez, Michelle A. Calabrese
The nanoscale structure formation and optical response of aqueous thermoresponsive polymers with reactive silane groups can be widely tuned via polymer architecture and organic cosolvent incorporation.
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Interaction between stabilized droplets of different phases in the same continuous phase of an aqueous three-phase system

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,3359-3366
DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01688A, Paper
Do-Nhu-Trang Nguyen, Léa Waldmann, Valérie Ravaine, Taco Nicolai, Lazhar Benyahia
Janus-like droplets, covered with microgel, formed after the fusion of gelatin and dextran droplets in a common poly(ethylene oxide) phase.
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Braiding, twisting, and weaving microscale fibers with capillary forces

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,3337-3348
DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01732J, Paper
Ahmed Sherif, Maya Winters Faaborg, Cheng Zeng, Michael P. Brenner, Vinothan N. Manoharan
We present a 3D-printed machine that uses repulsive capillary forces to programmably braid, twist, and weave micrometer-scale fibers.
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Pure elongation flow of an electrorheological fluid: insights on wall slip from electrorheology

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,3313-3321
DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01448G, Paper
Ishu Chaudhary, Manish Kaushal
We study the pure elongation flow behavior of an electrorheological fluid as a model soft-jammed system, wherein the extent of jamming is controlled by an externally applied electric-field. Additionally, this study offers general insight into how jamming affects slip dynamics.
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