Soft Matter, 2020, 16,3914-3920
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00109K, Paper

Anshuman Pasupalak, Li Yan-Wei, Ran Ni, Massimo Pica Ciamarra
Epithelial cell tissues undergo a solid–liquid transition, e.g. as the motility of the cells increases. We find an intermediate hexatic phase in between the solid and the liquid ones, and the transition to follow the KTHNY scenario.
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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,3921-3928
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02498K, Paper

Diego Berzi, Stefano Buzzaccaro
We experimentally investigate the gravitational-driven motion of a heavy object inside a vertical 2D assembly of identical, plastic cylinders arranged in a regular, triangular lattice.
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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,3846-3868
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00222D, Review Article

Wei Wang, Xianglong Lv, Jeffrey L. Moran, Shifang Duan, Chao Zhou
This review article provides practical, experimentally relevant details on six common types of active colloids useful for soft matter research.
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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, 16,3973-3980
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, 16,4065-4073
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00019A, Paper

Aparna Swain, Nafisa Begam, Sivasurender Chandran, M. S. Bobji, J. K. Basu
We demonstrate a new method to study the viscosity of PNC thin films, consisting of polymer grafted nanoparticles (PGNPs) embedded in un-entangled homopolymer melt films, using atomic force microscopy based force–distance spectroscopy.
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Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4008-4023
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00031K, Paper

Giacomo Mariani, Jean-Rémy Colard-Itté, Emilie Moulin, Nicolas Giuseppone, Eric Buhler
The collective rotation of light-driven molecular motors actuates the structural changes and macroscopic contraction of the chemical gels.
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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, 16,3886-3890
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00295J, Communication

Shawn H. Chen, Amanda J. Souna, Christopher L. Soles, Stephan J. Stranick, Edwin P. Chan
In this work, a microballistic impact test called laser induced projectile impact test (LIPIT) was used to study the perforation behavior of polycarbonate thin films to demonstrate the importance of film thickness on the film's ballistic limit.
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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, 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/D0SM00457J, Paper

Christoph Klopp, Torsten Trittel, Ralf Stannarius
Flat droplets coalescing on smectic free-standing films show self-similar dynamics.
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Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00110D, Paper

Ye Yuan, Wei Deng, Shuixiang Li
Normalized free volume collapses on normalized particle size in polydisperse-sized packings for a given non-spherical particle.
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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, 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 h_ads(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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Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00202J, Communication

Matan Yah Ben Zion, Yaelin Caba, Ruojie Sha, Nadrian C. Seeman, Paul M. Chaikin
We outline a simple yet general equilibrium technique for a scalable, high-purity, hybrid-colloidal synthesis with controlled valency. The method is applicable for liquid and solid particles and to a range of particle interactions.
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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/D0SM00422G, Communication

Hui Jie Zhang, Li Ni Wang, Xuechuan Wang, Qingxin Han, Xiangyou You
Mechanically robust protein-based hydrogels are strongly desired but their construction remains a significant challenge. In this work, gelatin, together with methacrylic acid, is used to construct a novel hydrogen-bonded hydrogel...
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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/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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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, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00254B, Paper

R. Casalini, T. C. Ransom
In materials with a constant scaling parameter γ_S, the Isomorph γ_I is found to vary with pressure, demonstrating γ_S ≠ γ_I.
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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/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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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/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, 16,4131-4141
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00052C, Paper

Callie I. Higgins, Jason P. Killgore, Frank W. DelRio, Stephanie J. Bryant, Robert R. McLeod
Photo-tunable hydrogel mechanical heterogeneity using a single resin is presented here, informed by a predictive transport kinetics and swelling model.
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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, 16,4121-4130
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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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, 16,4105-4109
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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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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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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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, 16,4274-4282
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, 16,4210-4219
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, 16,4142-4154
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/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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