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Outstanding Reviewers for Soft Matter in 2019

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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,3845-3845
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM90069A, Editorial

We would like to take this opportunity to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Soft Matter in 2019, as selected by the editorial team for their significant contribution to the journal.
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Modeling atomic force microscopy and shell mechanical properties estimation of coated microbubbles

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Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00300J, Paper
Alkmini Lytra, Vassilis Sboros, Antonios Giannakopoulos, Nikos Pelekasis
We present an extensive comparison with experimental data of our theoretical/numerical model for the static response of coated microbubbles (MBs) subject to compression from an atomic force microscope (afm). The...
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Insight into the Unwrapping of the Dinucleosome

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Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00161A, Paper
Fatemeh Khodabandeh, Hashem Fatemi, Farshid Mohammad-Rafiee
Dynamics of nucleosomes, the building blocks of the chromatin, has crucial effects on expression, replication and repair of genomes in eukaryotes. Beside constant movements of nucleosomes by thermal fluctuations, ATP-dependent...
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Assessing the Extent of Structural and Dynamic Modulation of Membrane Lipids due to Pore Forming Toxins: Insights from Molecular Dynamics Simulations

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Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00086H, Paper
Vadhana Varadarajan, Rajat Desikan, Ganapathy Ayappa
Infections in many virulent bacterial strains are triggered by the release of pore forming toxins (PFTs), which form oligomeric transmembrane pore complexes on the target plasma membrane. The spatial extent...
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Marangoni puffs: dramatically enhanced dissolution of droplets with an entrapped bubble

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Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00093K, Paper
José M. Encarnación Escobar, Jaap Nieland, Arie van Houselt, Xuehua Zhang, Detlef Lohse
We present a curious effect observed during the dissolution process of water-immersed long-chain alcohol drops with an entrapped bubble. When the drop-water interface and the air bubble contact each other, a rapid cyclic motion that accelerates the drop's dissolution is found. We name this eye-catching phenomenon puffing.
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Self similarity of liquid droplet coalescence in a quasi-2D free-standing liquid-crystal film

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Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00457J, Paper
Christoph Klopp, Torsten Trittel, Ralf Stannarius
Flat droplets coalescing on smectic free-standing films show self-similar dynamics.
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Quantifying the non-equilibrium activity of an active colloid

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Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00398K, Paper
Sarah Eldeen, Ryan Muoio, Paris Blaisdell-Pijuan, Ngoc La, Mauricio Gomez, Alex Vidal, Wylie Ahmed
Active matter systems exhibit rich emergent behavior due to constant injection and dissipation of energy at the level of individual agents. We characterize the dissipation of single active colloids.
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Impact of wormlike micelles on nano and macroscopic structure of TEMPO-oxidized cellulose nanofibrils hydrogels

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Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00135J, Paper
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Marcelo A. da Silva, Vincenzo Calabrese, Julien Schmitt, Kazi M. Zakir Hossain, Saffron J Bryant, Najet Mahmoudi, Janet L Scott, Karen J Edler
In this work, we investigated the effect of adding surfactant mixtures on the rheological properties of TEMPO-oxidized cellulose nanofibrils (OCNF) saline dispersions. Three surfactant mixtures were studied: cocamidopropyl betaine (CAPB)/sodium...
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Formation of Fibrillar Crystals Strongly Accelerates the Form II to I Transformation of Polybutene-1

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Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00572J, Paper
Jiaqi Zhang, Chang Liu, Xintong Zhao, Zhijie Zhang, Quan Chen
This study examines shear-induced formation of fibrillar form II crystals and subsequent form II to I transformation of an isotactic polybutene-1 sample through a combination of rheology, polarized optical microscope...
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Irreversible adsorption of polymer melts and nanoconfinement effects

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Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00361A, Review Article
Simone Napolitano
Since almost a decade, a growing experimental evidence has revealed a strong correlation between the properties of nanoconfined polymers and the number of chains irreversibly adsorbed onto nonrepulsive interfaces, e.g....
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Review and reproducibility of forming adsorbed layers from solvent washing of melt annealed films

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Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00565G, Paper
Michael F. Thees, Jennifer A. McGuire, Connie B. Roth
Efforts to reproduce the “Guiselin’s experiment” procedure finds hads(t) curves to be far less reliable than implied in the literature, being strongly dependent on solvent washing conditions, consistent with how adsorption in solution is understood.
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Investigating the Role of Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) in Piezoelectric Performance of PVDF/KNN based Flexible Electrospun Nanogenerator

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Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00438C, Paper
Satyaranjan Bairagi, Wazed Ali
In the present study, the effect of varying concentrations of carbon nanotube (CNT) on the piezoelectric performance of poly (vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF)/potassium sodium niobate (KNN) based electrospun nanocomposite has been...
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Color, Structure, and Rheology of a Diblock Bottlebrush Copolymer Solution

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Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00397B, Paper
Matthew A Wade, Dylan J Walsh, Ching-Wei Johnny Lee, Elizabeth G. Kelley, Katie Weigandt, Damien Guironnet, Simon A Rogers
A structure-property-process relation is established for a diblock bottlebrush copolymer solution, through a combination of rheo-neutron scattering, imaging, and rheological measurements. Polylactic acid-b-polystyrene diblock bottlebrush copolymers were dispersed in toluene...
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Classical and Non-Classical Melatonin Receptor Agonist-Directed Micellization of Bipyridinium-Based Supramolecular Amphiphiles in Water

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Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00424C, Paper
Zhimin Sun, Lihui Xi, Kai Zheng, Zhao Zhang, Kim Baldridge, Mark Anthony Olson
The addition of molecular recognition units into structures of amphiphiles is a means by which soft matter capable of undergoing template-directed micellization can be obtained. These supramolecular amphiphiles can bind...
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Coalescence of isotropic droplets in overheated free standing smectic films

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Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02292A, Paper
Elena S. Pikina, Boris I. Ostrovskii, Sergey A. Pikin
A theoretical study of the interaction and coalescence of isotropic droplets in overheated free-standing smectic films (FSSF) is presented.
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Polymorphism of asymmetric catalysts based on amphiphilic lipopeptides in solution

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Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00245C, Paper
Juliane N. B. D. Pelin, Charlotte J. C. Edwards-Gayle, Andrea M. Aguilar, Amanpreet Kaur, Ian W. Hamley, Wendel A. Alves
The self-assembly of model [P]RWG lipopeptides (P: L-proline, R: L-arginine, W: L-tryptophan, G: L-glycine), containing one or two aliphatic octadecyl (C18) chains in water and cyclohexanone/water solutions was examined. The enantiomeric selectivity was found to be related to the assembly of catalyst molecules.
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On the pressure dependence of the thermodynamical scaling exponent γ

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Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00254B, Paper
R. Casalini, T. C. Ransom
In materials with a constant scaling parameter γS, the Isomorph γI is found to vary with pressure, demonstrating γS ≠ γI.
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Binary mixtures of active and passive particles on a sphere

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Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00281J, Communication
Bao-quan Ai, Bu-yun Zhou, Xiao-miao Zhang
According to the competition between rotational diffusion and polar alignment, we find three distinct phases: a mixed phase and two different demixed phases.
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Effect of polar amino acid incorporation on Fmoc-diphenylalanine-based tetrapeptides

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Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00320D, Paper
Alexandra Daryl Ariawan, Biyun Sun, Jonathan Pawel Wojciechowski, Ian Lin, Eric Y Du, Sophia C Goodchild, Charles Gordon Cranfield, Lars M Ittner, Pall Thordarson, Adam David Martin
Peptide hydrogels show great promise as extracellular matrix mimics due to their tuneable, fibrous nature. Through incorporation of polar cationic, polar anionic or polar neutral amino acids into the Fmoc-diphenylalanine...
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Effects of Eigen and Actual Frequencies of Soft Elastic Surfaces on droplet Rebound from Stationary Flexible Feather Vanes

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Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00315H, Paper
Chengchun Zhang, Zhengyang Wu, Chun Shen, Yihua Zheng, LIANG YANG, Yan Liu, Luquan Ren
The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of eigenfrequency and the actual frequency of the elastic surface for the droplet rebound. The elastic surface used in this...
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Layering of bidisperse charged nanoparticles in sedimentation

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Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00588F, Communication
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Xufeng Xu, Maarten Biesheuvel, Helmut Cölfen, Evan Spruijt
Binary mixtures of charged nanoparticles become layered upon centrifugation as a result of minimization of the system free energy in sedimentation-diffusion equilibrium. Different factors were investigated experimentally for their effects...
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Impact of Chiral Supramolecular Nanostructure on the Mechanical and Electrical Performances of Triphenylene-based discotic physical gels

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Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00152J, Paper
Hongli Zhang, Junjie Cheng, Qiang Zhou, Qijin Zhang, Gang Zou
Discotic π-conjugated supramolecular assemblies, especially with chiral supramolecular nanostructures, have been attracting growing research interests due to their significant optoelectronic properties and the possibilities of their applications in the new...
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Simultaneous determination of interfacial molarities of an alcohol, bromide ion, and water during an alcohol induced microstructural transition: The difference between medium and long chain alcohols.

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Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00665C, Paper
Kaixin Yao, Lijie Sun, Xiaoxuan Ding, Yuzhao Wang, Tianze Liu, Changyao Liu, Jiajing Tan, Li Zhao, Baocai Xu, Laurence S. Romsted
The transitions between surfactant aggregate structures are triggered by changes in chemical or physical stimulations, including addition of additives. Effects of added alcohols on aggregate morphologies correlate strongly with alcohol...
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A Novel degradation mechanism of the elastic modulus of wet polymer substrates under nanoindentation

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Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00645A, Paper
Ruling Chen, Zhe Wang, Shaoxian Li, Hongwei Du
We demonstrated that the formation and solidification of the continuous confined water film played a very important role in changing the elastic modulus of the wet polymer substrate during nanoindentation...
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Evaluation of the subtle trade-off between physical stability and thermo-responsiveness in crosslinked methylcellulose hydrogels

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Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00269K, Paper
Lorenzo Bonetti, Luigi De Nardo, Fabio Variola, Silvia Fare
Methylcellulose (MC) hydrogels, undergoing sol-gel reversible transition upon temperature changes, lend themselves to smart system applications. However, their reduced stability in aqueous environment and unsatisfactory mechanical properties limit the breadth...
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Self-assembly of isomeric naphthalene appended glucono derivatives: nanofibers and nanotwists with circularly polarized luminescence emission

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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4115-4120
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02542A, Paper
Zongwen Liu, Yuqian Jiang, Jian Jiang, Donghua Zhai, Decai Wang, Minghua Liu
Two isomers of naphthalene derivatives are self-assembled into nanofibers and nanotwists with CPL emission, respectively.
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Controlled shape morphing of solvent free thermoresponsive soft actuators

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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4162-4172
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00020E, Paper
Vadakkumnalath Prakasan Anju, Raghunandan Pratoori, Deepak Kumar Gupta, Rajendra Joshi, Ratna Kumar Annabattula, Pijush Ghosh
Reconfigurable actuators are designed based on chitosan and pNipam which has the capability to attain precise and programmable actuation. The current approach offers a feasible way to fabricate soft actuators with repeatable and reversible actuation.
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Experimental observation of boundary-driven oscillations in a reaction–diffusion–advection system

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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4243-4255
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02291K, Paper
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Torsten Eckstein, Estefania Vidal-Henriquez, Azam Gholami
Boundary-driven oscillations are observed experimentally in a reaction-diffusion-advection system, namely in the signaling population of Dictyostelium discoideum cells.
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Geometry underlies the mechanical stiffening and softening of an indented floating film

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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4121-4130
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00250J, Paper
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Monica M. Ripp, Vincent Démery, Teng Zhang, Joseph D. Paulsen
Using experiments, simulations, and theory, we map out the remarkably rich mechanical response of a floating polymer film to indentation.
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Lattice self-consistent field calculations of confined symmetric block copolymers of various chain architectures

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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4311-4323
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00293C, Paper
Jingxue Zhang, Jiaping Wu, Run Jiang, Zheng Wang, Yuhua Yin, Baohui Li, Qiang Wang
The effects of chain architecture on the structural details and orientation of confined lamellae formed by symmetric AB-type block copolymer melts are studied.
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Characterizing the fluid–matrix affinity in an organogel from the growth dynamics of oil stains on blotting paper

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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4200-4209
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM01965K, Paper
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Qierui Zhang, Frieder Mugele, Piet M. Lugt, Dirk van den Ende
Fluid–matrix affinity in an organogel is characterized by capillarity-induced oil release using absorbing paper.
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Phenylalanine dimer assembly structure as the basic building block of an amyloid like photoluminescent nanofibril network

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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4105-4109
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00387E, Communication
Prabhjot Singh, Nishima Wangoo, Rohit K. Sharma
Self-assembled phenylalanine dimer as the basic supramolecular structure of β-amyloid like photoluminescent nanofibrils.
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A theory for the temperature effect on the chain length dependence of the diffusivity of oligomers

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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4283-4289
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02505G, Paper
Chi Pui Jeremy Wong, Phillip Choi
Temperature effect on the size dependence of the diffusivity of oligomers is explained by free volume theory.
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Propagation of active nematic–isotropic interfaces on substrates

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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4256-4266
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02306B, Paper
Rodrigo C. V. Coelho, Nuno A. M. Araújo, Margarida M. Telo da Gama
Motivated by results for the propagation of active–passive interfaces of bacterial Serratia marcescens swarms, we used a hydrodynamic multiphase model to investigate the propagation of interfaces of active nematics on substrates.
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Ordering of binary colloidal crystals by random potentials

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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4267-4273
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00208A, Paper
André S. Nunes, Sabareesh K. P. Velu, Iryna Kasianiuk, Denis Kasyanyuk, Agnese Callegari, Giorgio Volpe, Margarida M. Telo da Gama, Giovanni Volpe, Nuno A. M. Araújo
A random potential can control the number of defects in a binary colloidal crystal.
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Effect of network homogeneity on mechanical, thermal and electrochemical properties of solid polymer electrolytes prepared by homogeneous 4-arm poly(ethylene glycols)

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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4290-4298
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00289E, Paper
Monami Tosa, Kei Hashimoto, Hisashi Kokubo, Kazuhide Ueno, Masayoshi Watanabe
The effect of network inhomogeneity in solid polymer electrolytes on its electrolyte properties was investigated by employing a model polymer network composed of a homogeneous 4-arm poly(ethylene glycol) (tetra-PEG) network and Li salt.
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Filamentous and step-like behavior of gelling coarse fibrin networks revealed by high-frequency microrheology

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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4234-4242
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02228G, Paper
Pablo Domínguez-García, Giovanni Dietler, László Forró, Sylvia Jeney
By a micro-experimental methodology, we study the ongoing molecular process inside coarse fibrin networks by means of microrheology.
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Rapid analysis of cell-generated forces within a multicellular aggregate using microsphere-based traction force microscopy

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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4192-4199
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02377A, Paper
Buğra Kaytanlı, Aimal H. Khankhel, Noy Cohen, Megan T. Valentine
We measure cell-generated forces from the deformations of elastic microspheres embedded within multicellular aggregates. Using a computationally efficient analytical model, we directly obtain the full 3D mapping of surface stresses within minutes.
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Rapid characterization of neutral polymer brush with a conventional zetameter and a variable pinch of salt

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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4274-4282
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM01850F, Paper
Mena Youssef, Alexandre Morin, Antoine Aubret, Stefano Sacanna, Jérémie Palacci
We take advantage of the nanoscopic nature of the Debye length and used it as a probe to characterize polymer brushes on colloidal particles.
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Surface-topology-controlled mechanical characteristics of triply periodic carbon Schwarzite foams

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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4324-4338
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00136H, Paper
Hao Gong, Jinjie Liu, Ke Xu, Jianyang Wu, Yang Li
Carbon Schwarzites exhibit unique mechanical characteristics that are dominated by their topologies, rather than the mass density.
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Structural characterization of fibrous synthetic hydrogels using fluorescence microscopy

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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4210-4219
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM01828J, Paper
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Johannes Vandaele, Boris Louis, Kaizheng Liu, Rafael Camacho, Paul H. J. Kouwer, Susana Rocha
The structural features of the matrix surrounding the cells play a crucial role in regulating their behavior.
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Protonated state and synergistic role of Nd3+ doped barium cerate perovskite for the enhancement of ionic pathways in novel sulfonated polyethersulfone for H2/O2 fuel cells

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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4220-4233
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00427H, Paper
R. Gayathri, M. Ramesh Prabhu
1.8 times higher current density and power density were obtained for a Nd3+ doped barium cerate membrane compared to pure SPES.
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Controlled release of entrapped nanoparticles from thermoresponsive hydrogels with tunable network characteristics

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Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00207K, Paper
Yi Wang, Zhen Li, Jie Ouyang, George Em Karniadakis
Thermoresponsive hydrogels have been studied intensively for creating smart drug carriers and controlled drug delivery.
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Sustainable sorbitol-derived compounds for gelation of the full range of ethanol–water mixtures

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Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00343C, Paper
Glenieliz C. Dizon, George Atkinson, Stephen P. Argent, Lea T. Santu, David B. Amabilino
A combination of gelators prepared from sustainable sources combine in a synergic way to widen the scope for the compounds to immobilise liquids, as shown by imaging, diffraction and rheology measurements.
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Mechanical robustness of monolayer nanoparticle-covered liquid marbles

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Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00496K, Paper
Junchao Huang, Ziheng Wang, Haixiao Shi, Xiaoguang Li
A particle shell as thin as ∼20 nm cannot protect internal liquid from wetting external solid.
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Poroelastic properties of hydrogel microparticles

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Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00191K, Paper
Joseph D. Berry, Matthew Dominic Biviano, Raymond Dagastine
Hydrogels can be formed in a number of different geometries depending upon desired function. However, due to the lack of appropriate models required to interpret experimental data, it remains unclear...
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Simulations of Interpenetrating Networks Microgel Synthesis

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Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00287A, Paper
Vladimir Yurievich Rudyak, Elena Kozhunova, Alexander V. Chertovich
In this paper we implement the sequential template synthesis of the interpenetrating network (IPN) microgels in computer simulations and study the behavior of such particles. We explore the influence of...
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Correlation of Hierarchical Structure and Rheological Behavior of Polypseudorotaxane Gel Composed of Pluronic and β-cyclodextrin

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Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00406E, Paper
kuo-chih Shih, Chien-You Su, Shing-Yun Chang, Grethe V Jensen, Chi-Chung Hua, Mu-Ping Nieh, Hsi-Mei Lai
We have identified the hierarchical (primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary) structures of a polypseudorotaxane (PPR) gel composed of Pluronic F108 and β-cyclodextrin system to be β-cyclodextrin crystalline, lamellar sheets, lamellar...
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Saddle-curvature instability of lipid bilayer induced by amphipathicpeptides: A molecular model

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Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00499E, Paper
Rachel Downing, Guilherme Volpe Bossa, Sylvio May
Amphipathic peptides that partition into lipid bilayers affect the curvature elastic properties oftheir host. Some of these peptides are able to shift the Gaussian modulus to positive values, thustriggering an...
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Investigation of Thermal Conductivity for Liquid Metal Composites Using Micromechanics-Based Mean-Field Homogenization Theory

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Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00279H, Paper
JiYoung Jung, Seunghee Jeong, Klas Hjort, Seunghwa Ryu
For the facile use of liquid metal composite (LMC) for soft, stretchable and thermal systems, it is crucial to understand and predict the thermal conductivity of the composite as a...
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