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Emulsifying mechanisms of phospholipids in high-pressure homogenization of perfluorocarbon nanoemulsions

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8373-8384
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00828F, Paper
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Larissa J. Lubitz, Harden Rieger, Gero Leneweit
An optimized PFC/W emulsion contains 1 mM lipid per 1% (v/v) dispersed phase for an emulsifying monolayer; higher ratios result in triple layers. Low viscosity ratios ηD/ηC ≤ 5 and low PFC volume fractions lead to smaller monodisperse droplets.
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Chemo-mechanical model of cell polarization initiated by structural polarity

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8407-8419
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00800F, Paper
Hexiang Wang, Zhimeng Jia, Yuqiang Fang
We establish a multiscale model of a cell to explore the chemomechanical mechanisms of cell polarization initiated by structural polarity. The two-dimensional vertex model is built by coupling the cytoskeletal reorganization and the Cdc42 activation.
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Bubbles and drops between circular frames: shape, force and stability analysis

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8420-8435
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00919C, Paper
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Friedrich Walzel, Jonathan Dijoux, Leandro Jacomine, Élodie Harle, Pierre Muller, Thierry Charitat, Wiebke Drenckhan
Combining experiments, simulations and theory, we provide a complete shape analysis of two bubbles held by circular frames in the parameter space of different frame radii, distances between frames and contact angle between bubbles (0°, 60° and 90°).
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Controlling wall–particle interactions with activity

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8395-8406
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00634H, Paper
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Luke Neville, Jens Eggers, Tanniemola B. Liverpool
The interaction between a disk and wall in an active nematic depends on a combination of activity and anchoring, with contractile nematics repelling disks with planar anchoring.
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Nanoconfinement effects on the dynamics of an ionic liquid-based electrolyte probed by multinuclear NMR

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8436-8445
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM01058B, Paper
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Andrei Filippov, Maiia Rudakova, Victor P. Archipov, Faiz Ullah Shah
Diffusivity is controlled by exchange of ions between “narrow” and “large” pores that results in an abnormal temperature variation. Li+ ions are solvated inside the porous glasses and their diffusivity remains slower as compared to the organic ions.
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Development of a coarse-grained molecular dynamics model for poly(dimethyl-co-diphenyl)siloxane

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8480-8492
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00875H, Paper
Weikang Xian, Amitesh Maiti, Andrew P. Saab, Ying Li
Polydimethylsiloxane and its copolymer systems have a wide range of application. We systematically develop a coarse-grained MD model for PDMS-co-PDPS system. The model preserves the structural and dynamic properties of the material quantitatively.
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Effective patchiness from critical points of a coarse-grained protein model with explicit shape and charge anisotropy

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8455-8467
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00867G, Paper
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Jens Weimar, Frank Hirschmann, Martin Oettel
Critical points of an anisotropic, coarse-grained protein model are used to detemine an “effective patchiness” by comparison to the Kern–Frenkel patchy model.
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The surface diffusivity of nanoparticles physically adsorbed at a solid–liquid interface

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8446-8454
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00992D, Paper
Troy Singletary, Nima Iranmanesh, Carlos E. Colosqui
This work proposes an analytical model considering the effects of hydrodynamic drag and energy barriers induced by liquid solvation forces to predict the in-plane translational diffusivity of a nanoparticle physically adsorbed on a wetted surface.
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Segregative phase separation of strong polyelectrolyte complexes at high salt and high polymer concentrations

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8505-8514
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00994K, Paper
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Conner H. Chee, Rotem Benharush, Lexi R. Knight, Jennifer E. Laaser
Complexes of strong polyelectrolytes prepared well above the binodal are shown to undergo hydrophobicity-driven segregative phase separation.
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Self-assembly of amphiphilic homopolymers grafted onto spherical nanoparticles: complete embedded minimal surfaces and a machine learning algorithm for their recognition

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8385-8394
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00616J, Paper
D. A. Mitkovskiy, A. A. Lazutin, A. L. Talis, V. V. Vasilevskaya
Amphiphilic macromolecules grafted onto spherical nanoparticles can self-assemble into morphological structures corresponding to the family of complete embedded minimal surfaces. They arise situationally, can coexist and transform into each other.
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Optimality and cooperativity in superselective surface binding by multivalent DNA nanostars

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8515-8523
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00704B, Paper
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Christine Linne, Eva Heemskerk, Jos W. Zwanikken, Daniela J. Kraft, Liedewij Laan
Our study shows that DNA nanostars with three binding sites (ligands) can (1) bind superselectively to surfaces based on receptor density, and (2) that interactions between ligands affect the optimum number of ligands required for superselectivity.
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Random field reconstruction of three-phase polymer structures with anisotropy from 2D-small-angle scattering data

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8493-8504
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00721B, Paper
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Stephen Kronenberger, Nitant Gupta, Benjamin Gould, Colin Peterson, Arthi Jayaraman
We present a computational method to analyze 2D small-angle scattering data from three-phase soft materials systems with structural anisotropy and output representative real-space structures of the three phases.
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Strain rate controls alignment in growing bacterial monolayers

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8468-8479
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00625A, Paper
Blake Langeslay, Gabriel Juarez
A model of cell alignment in confined growing bacterial monolayers connecting net monolayer deformation to the behavior of individual cells.
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Cell shape and orientation control galvanotactic accuracy

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Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00952E, Paper
Ifunanya Nwogbaga, Brian A. Camley
We study the physical factors that control the accuracy with which elongated cells can sense the direction of an electric field, exploring whether cells are more accurate sensors when oriented parallel to the field or perpendicular to it.
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Mechanical characterization of freestanding lipid bilayers with temperature-controlled phase

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8524-8537
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00706A, Paper
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Arash Yahyazadeh Shourabi, Roland Kieffer, Djanick de Jong, Daniel Tam, Marie-Eve Aubin-Tam
Lipid membranes formed in a microfluidic device are studied with temperature-controlled optical tweezers, revealing how mechanical properties of ripple phase and gel-fluid phase-separated membranes change when heated above the transition temperature.
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pH and glucose dual-responsive phenylboronic acid hydrogels for smart insulin delivery

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Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM01004C, Paper
Keke Yang, Hou Bo, Dewei Ma, Mingwei Peng, Qinglong Liu, Ziwen Heng, Zhongwei Gu, Xuhan Liu, Siyuan Chen
Phenylboronic acid (PBA) is a widely exploited glucose-sensitive element for constructing glucose-responsive hydrogels to enable smart insulin delivery.
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Jamming crossovers in a confined driven polymer in solution

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Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00761A, Paper
Setarehalsadat Changizrezaei, Mikko Karttunen, Colin Denniston
A polymer confined in a nanochannel undergoes a crossover to a jammed state when pushed by a large spherical colloid. We examine the system using simulations that incorporate the full hydrodynamic driving and fluctuating forces.
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Retraction: Self-assembled organic nanotubes embedding hydrophobic molecules within solid bilayer membranes

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Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM90171A, Retraction
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Naohiro Kameta, Masumi Asakawa, Mitsutoshi Masuda, Toshimi Shimizu
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Rolling and ordering of micro rods in shear flow induced by rod wall interactions

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Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00999A, Paper
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Martin Wittmann, Igor M. Kulić, Antonio Stocco, Juliane Simmchen
We use experiments and theoretical models to investigate the rolling and translational motion of rod-shaped micro particles close to a solid wall in the presence or absence of shear flow.
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Modeling nematic phase main-chain liquid crystal elastomer synthesis, mechanics, and thermal actuation via coarse-grained molecular dynamics

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Soft Matter, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00528G, Paper
Nicolas Herard, Raja Annapooranan, Todd Henry, Martin Kroger, Shengqiang Cai, Nicholas Boechler, Yelena Sliozberg
This paper presents a coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulation study of the synthesis, mechanics, and thermal actuation of nematic phase main-chain liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs), a type of soft, temperature-responsive, polymeric...
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Coupled dynamics in binary mixtures of model colloidal Yukawa systems

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Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM01123F, Paper
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Daniel Weidig, Joachim Wagner
Self- and collective dynamics in mixtures of highly charged binary colloidal particles is analyzed by Brownian dynamics simulations. For equally charged, but differently sized particles coupling effects in their long-time dynamics are observed.
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Src kinase slows collective rotation of confined epithelial cell monolayers

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Soft Matter, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00827H, Paper
Nastassia Pricoupenko, Flavia Marsigliesi, Philippe Marcq, Carles Blanch-Mercader, Isabelle A Bonnet
Collective cell migration is key during development, wound healing and metastasis and relies on coordinated cell behaviors at the group level. Src kinase is a key signalling protein for physiological...
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Enhanced gravitational trapping of bottom-heavy Janus particles over parallel microgrooves

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Soft Matter, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00989D, Paper
Yan Wen, Jiayu Liu, Wei Wang, Pik-Yin Lai, Penger Tong
We report a systematic study of barrier-crossing dynamics of bottom-heavy self-propelled particles (SPPs) over a one-dimensional periodic potential landscape $U_0(x)$, which is fabricated on a microgroove-patterned polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) substrate. From...
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Mapping deformation dynamics to composition of topologically-active DNA blends

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Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM01065E, Paper
Karthik R. Peddireddy, Ryan McGorty, Rae M. Robertson-Anderson
We leverage in situ enzymatic topological conversion and OpTiDDM to map the deformation dynamics of DNA blends with over 70 fractions of linear, ring and supercoiled molecules that span the phase space of possible topological compositions.
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Liquid crystalline collagen assemblies as substrates for directed alignment of human Schwann cells

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Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00534A, Paper
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Homa Ghaiedi, Luis Carlos Pinzon Herrera, Saja Alshafeay, Leonard Harris, Jorge Almodovar, Karthik Nayani
Collagen is a key component of the extracellular matrix (ECM) and well-oriented domains of collagen are important for mimicking the local cell environment in vitro. Here, we demonstrate macroscopic alignment on collagen in 2-D substrates and 3-D hydrogels.
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Towards a universal model for the foaming behavior of surfactants: a case study on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)

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Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00931B, Paper
Muchu Zhou, Reza Foudazi
Foam fractionation offers a promising solution for the separation of surface-active contaminants from water.
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Aging iridium oxide catalyst inks: a formulation strategy to enhance ink processability for polymer electrolyte membrane water electrolyzers

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Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00987H, Paper
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Sunilkumar Khandavalli, Jae Hyung Park, Robin Rice, Diana Y. Zhang, Sarah A. Berlinger, Guido Bender, Deborah J. Myers, Michael Ulsh, Scott A. Mauger
Steady-shear rheology showing evolution of the microstructure of iridium oxide catalyst inks of PEM water electrolyzers with aging time.
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Morphology and line tension of twist disclinations in a nematic liquid crystal

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Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM01076K, Paper
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Yihao Chen, Mina Mandić, Charlotte G. Slaughter, Michio Tanaka, James M. Kikkawa, Peter J. Collings, A. G. Yodh
This work characterizes twist disclinations in nematic liquid crystals, using confocal microscopy to measure their 3D profile and test theoretical predictions, and using magnetic fields to deform the disclinations and measure their line tension.
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Active nematic coherence probed under spatial patterns of distributed activity

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Soft Matter, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00651H, Paper
Ignasi Vélez Cerón, Jordi Ignes-Mullol, Francesc Sagues
A photoresponsive variant of the paradigmatic active nematic fluid made of microtubules and powered by kinesin motors is studied in the conventional two-dimensional interfaced form when forced under blue-light illumination....
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Banana DNA derivatives as homeotropic alignment layers in optical devices

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8561-8569
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00322E, Paper
Rafał Węgłowski, Anna Spadło, Dorota Węgłowska
In this study, DNA extracted from bananas was functionalized and used as a homeotropic alignment layer for liquid crystals.
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Dynamical crossovers and correlations in a harmonic chain of active particles

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8638-8653
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00350K, Paper
Subhajit Paul, Abhishek Dhar, Debasish Chaudhuri
We explore the dynamics of a tracer in a harmonic chain of active particles, investigating the influence of interactions. Depending upon the time-scales governed by the interaction and the persistence of activity, we explore crossovers between different scaling behaviors of its dynamics.
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Revealing microscale bulk structures in polymer–carbon nanocomposites using spin-echo SANS

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8663-8674
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00578C, Paper
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L. V. Tiihonen, M. P. Weir, A. J. Parnell, S. C. Boothroyd, D. W. Johnson, R. M. Dalgliesh, M. Bleuel, C. P. Duif, W. G. Bouwman, R. L. Thompson, K. S. Coleman, N. Clarke, W. A. Hamilton, A. L. Washington, S. R. Parnell
Spin-echo small-angle neutron scattering (SESANS) revealed structure in polymer–carbon nanocomposites over multiple length scales with unprecedented range (10 nm–16 μm). Data from two SESANS instruments and other methods were analysed with SasView.
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Tuning collective actuation of active solids by optimizing activity localization

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8570-8580
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00868E, Paper
Davi Lazzari, Olivier Dauchot, Carolina Brito
Active solids, more specifically elastic lattices embedded with polar active units, exhibit collective actuation when the elasto-active feedback, generically present in such systems, exceeds some critical value.
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Pickering emulsions for stimuli-responsive transdermal drug delivery: effect of rheology and microstructure on performance

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8621-8637
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00993B, Paper
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Simona Migliozzi, Yiting He, Maryam Parhizkar, Yang Lan, Panagiota Angeli
Elucidating the impact of microgels attributes on the microstructure, rheology and functionality of Pickering emulsions.
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Enhanced chemotaxis efficiency of Escherichia coli in viscoelastic solutions

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8675-8683
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM01094A, Paper
Shaoying Zhu, Rui He, Caijuan Yue, Rongjing Zhang, Junhua Yuan
E. coli shows enhanced chemotaxis in viscoelastic media, with faster migration and higher accumulation in attractant-rich areas compared to Newtonian conditions.
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Confined bicontinuous microemulsions: nanoscale dynamics of the surfactant film

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8692-8701
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00925H, Paper
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Margarethe Dahl, Olaf Holderer, René Haverkamp, Ingo Hoffmann, Kathleen Wood, Jessica Hübner, Thomas Hellweg, Stefan Wellert
A confined bicontinuous C10E4–D2O–n-octane microemulsion is studied using neutron spin echo spectroscopy (NSE). The pore size of the confining matrices determines the dynamics of the confined bicontinuous microemulsion.
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Hydrophobic fouling-resistant electrospun nanofiber membranes from poly(vinylidene fluoride)/polyampholyte blends

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8654-8662
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00817K, Paper
Anuja S. Jayasekara, Luca Mazzaferro, Ryan O’Hara, Ayse Asatekin, Peggy Cebe
This study reports the fabrication of non-woven fibrous membranes from electrospinning blended solutions of PVDF with a random polyampholyte amphiphilic copolymer (r-PAC) in N,N-dimethylformamide and methanol.
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Entropically and enthalpically driven self-assembly of a naphthalimide-based luminescent organic π-amphiphile in water

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8684-8691
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00986J, Paper
Sk Mursed Ali, Sujauddin Sk, Shuvajyoti Sarkar, Sayani Das, Nayim Sepay, Mijanur Rahaman Molla
Entropically and enthalpically favourable vesicular self-assembly of a naphthalimide based water soluble luminescent organic dipolar building block is reported.
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Bending of polymer films: a method for obtaining a compressive modulus of thin films

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8589-8600
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00084F, Paper
Akihiro Ohara, Ko Okumura
We constructed a theory and method for measuring the compressive modulus by combining tensile and bending tests. Elastic asymmetry was confirmed in an industrial PET film.
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Extended kinetic theory applied to pressure-controlled shear flows of frictionless spheres between rigid, bumpy planes

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8702-8715
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00831F, Paper
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Dalila Vescovi, Astrid S. de Wijn, Graham L. W. Cross, Diego Berzi
We perform discrete simulations of steady, pressure-imposed, heterogeneous flows of frictionless spheres sheared between parallel bumpy planes, and use the results to test the predictions of the extended kinetic theory of granular gases.
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Structure affinity of the Langmuir monolayer and the corresponding Langmuir–Blodgett film revealed by X-ray techniques

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8601-8609
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM01050G, Paper
Alvina V. Alexandrova, Maxim A. Shcherbina, Yuriy L. Repchenko, Yuriy M. Selivantiev, Alexander V. Shokurov, Vladimir V. Arslanov, Sofiya L. Selektor
Using X-ray techniques, crown-substituted chromoionophore Langmuir–Blodgett films were proved to preserve the fine structure and functional features of pre-organized monolayers.
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Influence of counterion type on the scattering of a semiflexible polyelectrolyte

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8610-8620
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00874J, Paper
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Anish Gulati, Jack F. Douglas, Olga Matsarskaia, Carlos G. Lopez
Understanding the influence of counterion and backbone solvation on the conformational and thermodynamic properties of polyelectrolytes in solution is one of the main open challenges in polyelectrolyte science.
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Light scattering study of algal floc growth and structure: alum vs. polymeric plant-derived flocculant

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Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00837E, Paper
Temitope Orimolade, Ngoc-Tram Le, Lyle Trimble, Bandaru Ramarao, Sitaraman Krishnan
Algal flocculation using alum shows dynamic fractal restructuring over time, while Moringa oleifera protein induces faster densification, enhancing floc strength.
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The role of macrocycles in supramolecular assembly with polymers

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Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8549-8560
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM01053A, Review Article
Ruslan Kashapov, Yuliya Razuvayeva, Elena Fedorova, Lucia Zakharova
Supramolecular self-assembly of polymers with macrocycles has attracted the attention because it enables the spontaneous creation of nanostructures with unique properties.
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Thin free-standing liquid films manipulation: device design to turn on/off gravity in flow regimes for thickness map control and for material structuring

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Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00951G, Paper
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Paolo Iaccarino, Zhe Wang, Andrea Marfuggi, Simone Russo, Vincenzo Ferraro, Giuseppe Vitiello, Sara Coppola, Ernesto Di Maio
We design a device to control liquid film drainage, able to switch between viscous-capillary and viscous-gravity regimes to stabilize thickness and modify particle arrangement, offering potential for film studies and 2D structure fabrication.
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Hydrogel-based 3D fabrication of multiple replicas with varying sizes and materials from a single template via iterative shrinking

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Soft Matter, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00835A, Paper
Eunseok Heo, Hye Been Koo, Jun Chang Yang, In Cho, Hyun-Hee Lee, Yong-Jin Yoon, Steve Park, Jae-Byum Chang
3D printing technologies have been widely used for the rapid prototyping of 3D structures, but their application in a broader context has been hampered by their low printing throughput. For...
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Co-assembly of Cellulose Nanocrystals and Gold Nanorods: Insights from Molecular Dynamics Modelling

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Soft Matter, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00871E, Paper
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Jiaxin Hou, William W Sampson, Ahu Gumrah Dumanli
A coarse-grained molecular dynamics model is developed to explore the co-assembly of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) and gold nanorods (AuNRs) under sedimentation conditions with varying vol- umetric concentration and particle-size ratios....
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Understanding Polymer-Colloid Gels: A Solvent Perspective Using Low-Field NMR

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DOI: 10.1039/D4SM01098A, Communication
Léo Hervéou, Gauthier Legrand, Thibaut Divoux, Guilhem Pablo Baeza
The present work emphasizes the relevance of low-field NMR relaxometry to investigate colloid-polymer hydrogels by probing water dynamics across a wide range of formulations between 10°C and 80°C. By examining...
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Dynamics of switching processes: general results and applications to intermittent active motion

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Ion Santra, Deepak Gupta, Kristian S Olsen
Systems switching between different dynamical phases is an ubiquitous phenomenon. The general understanding of such a process is limited. To this end, we present a general expression that captures fluctuations...
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Dynamics of polymers in coarse-grained nematic solvents

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DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00968A, Paper
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Zahra Valei, Karolina Wamsler, Alex J Parker, Therese A Obara, Alex Klotz, Tyler Nathan Shendruk
Polymers are a primary building block in many biomaterials, often interacting with anisotropic backgrounds. While previous studies have considered polymer dynamics within nematic solvents, rarely are the the effects of...
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