Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4024-4031
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00243G, Paper

Xinxin Li, Pengxiang Wang, Xiaoyu Hou, Fang Wang, Han Zhao, Bobo Zhou, Hongwen Zhang, Hongbin Yang, Wanli Kang
Effects of NaCl on the rheological behaviour of the gemini-like surfactants and the mechanism of the effects were investigated.
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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,3891-3901
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00275E, Paper

Ryan J. Fox, M. Gregory Forest, Stephen J. Picken, Theo J. Dingemans
We observe anomalous shear thickening behavior of a lyotropic liquid crystalline polymer due to the dynamics of the nematic director.
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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,3952-3961
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00122H, Paper

Kanako Emori, Yusaku Saito, Akio Yonezu, Liangliang Zhu, Xiangbiao Liao, Xi Chen
The morphological transition of film buckling-delamination in an elastomeric bilayer spherical shell system was studied experimentally and numerically. It was changed by the film thickness, Young's modulus, and interfacial adhesion condition, etc.
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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,3962-3972
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02262G, Paper

E. N. Tsiok, E. A. Gaiduk, Yu. D. Fomin, V. N. Ryzhov
We present a molecular dynamics simulation study of the phase diagram and melting scenarios of two-dimensional Hertzian spheres with exponent 7/2.
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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,3929-3940
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02414J, Paper

Iman Mehdipour, Hakan Atahan, Narayanan Neithalath, Mathieu Bauchy, Edward Garboczi, Gaurav Sant
Transition from closely-packed to fractally-architected structures with clay addition improves homogeneity and prevents local dewatering, thus enhancing coiling stability of layer-wise extruded cementing suspensions during 3D-printing.
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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,3991-3999
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02103E, Paper

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Pearson W. Miller, Jörn Dunkel
Inspired by the robust locomotion of limbless animals, the development of soft robots capable of moving by localized swelling, bending, and other deformation modes has become a target for soft matter research over the last decade.
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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4000-4007
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02344E, Paper

Baudouin Saintyves, Bhargav Rallabandi, Theo Jules, Jesse Ault, Thomas Salez, Clarissa Schönecker, Howard A. Stone, L. Mahadevan
A fluid-immersed solid cylinder moves along a soft incline and rotates at a rate that depends on its aspect ratio and the stiffness of the incline.
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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,3973-3980
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00215A, Paper

Yifeng Cao, Nir Kampf, Weifeng Lin, Jacob Klein
Sphingomyelin boundary layers can maintain extremely low friction under high pressures both in water and at high salt concentration.
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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4043-4048
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02363A, Paper

Anaïs Gauthier, Guillaume Lajoinie, Jacco H. Snoeijer, Devaraj van der Meer
The motion of droplets levitated above a liquid surface is controlled using the menisci rising against partially immersed walls.
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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4049-4056
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02385B, Paper

Sergey V. Lishchuk, Rammile Ettelaie
The minimum possible work done upon removal of an elongated solid particle from the surface of a liquid droplet can be less than that for a sphere.
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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,3941-3951
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02545F, Paper

Aviel Chaimovich, Christian Leitold, Christoph Dellago
By computing free energies with molecular simulations, we find a general signature for protein unfolding in force spectroscopy, and in turn, we present a useful formula for experimentalists.
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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4074-4074
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM90064H, Correction

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Yangjie Xu, Jiulong Zhao, Zhilun Zhang, Jing Zhang, Mingxian Huang, Shige Wang, Pei Xie
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Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00383B, Paper

R. Adam Bilodeau, Amir Mohammadi Nasab, Dylan S. Shah, Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio
A thin, stretchable (200% linear strain), multiphase (solid–liquid) silicone composite with uniform electrical conductivity, for Joule heating and high-deformation sensing.
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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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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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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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Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00233J, Paper

Ting Lu, Hong Hu, Yuanqi Li, Qingsong Jiang, Jinlei Su, Hai Lin, Yun Xiao, Xiangdong Zhu, Xingdong Zhang
Native tissues such as nerve bundles, blood vessels and tendons have extracellular matrices with a characteristic linear orientation, which cannot be fully achieved with the current technology for the development of regenerative biomaterials.
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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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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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Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00160K, Paper

Chen Wang, Hongyuan Jiang
We study the dynamics of passive micro-objects in the active bath. The motion of micro-objects depends on the pattern of active particle aggregations.
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Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00416B, Paper

Atsushi Oda, Chiho Watanabe, Natsumi Aoki, Miho Yanagisawa
Liposome–liposome adhesion by electrostatic interactions and osmotic contraction increase membrane tension and the lipid diffusion coefficient compared to isolated liposomes.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4182-4191
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02514F, Paper

Bryan VanSaders, Sharon C. Glotzer
By designing the shape of an active particle, its transport through a dense crystal can be tailored, as well as its interaction with dislocation defects present in the host crystal.
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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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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4173-4181
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00077A, Paper

Sophie Bou, Xinyue Wang, Nicolas Anton, Redouane Bouchaala, Andrey S. Klymchenko, Mayeul Collot
New hybrid nanoparticles have been obtained by simple nanoprecipitation using fluorescent labeling of both the oily core (BODIPY) and the polymeric shell (rhodamine) thus allowing the use of electrophoresis to assess their formation and stability.
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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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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4155-4161
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00335B, Paper

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Berend van der Meer, Frank Smallenburg, Marjolein Dijkstra, Laura Filion
We show that the equilibrium Laves phase in binary hard-sphere mixtures contains an extraordinarily high concentration of antisite defects:  we find stable regions where up to 2% of the large-particle lattice sites are occupied by a small particle.
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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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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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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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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4110-4114
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00224K, Communication

Morgan Hesser, Lavenia Thursch, Todd Lewis, David DiGuiseppi, Nicolas J. Alvarez, Reinhard Schweitzer-Stenner
The tripeptide glycyl-histidyl-glycine (GHG) self-assembles into long, crystalline fibrils forming a strong hydrogel (G' ∼ 50 kPa) above a critical concentration of 40 mM upon the deprotonation of its imidazole group.
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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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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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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4299-4310
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00197J, Paper

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Ahmed Jarray, Herman Wijshoff, Jurriaan A. Luiken, Wouter K. den Otter
An efficient approach for fast screening of liquids in terms of their wetting properties.
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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4087-4104
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00199F, Review Article

Haiyang Yuan, Guangming Liu
In this review, the polymer solutions, brushes, and gels are employed to exemplify the ionic effects on synthetic polymers.
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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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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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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4142-4154
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00259C, Paper

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Karlo Komorowski, Jannis Schaeper, Michael Sztucki, Lewis Sharpnack, Gerrit Brehm, Sarah Köster, Tim Salditt
We have used time-resolved small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) to study the adhesion of lipid vesicles in the electrostatic strong-coupling regime induced by divalent ions.
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Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00145G, Paper

Santidan Biswas, Victor V. Yashin, Anna C. Balazs
Cryptic sites, which lay hidden in folded biomolecules, become exposed by applied force and form new bonds that reinforce the biomaterial.
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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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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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