RSC – Soft Matter latest articles- Ca 2+ /Zn 2+ Alginate Hydrogel Electrolyte for High-Performance Zinc-Ion Batteries November 21, 2025Soft Matter, 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SM00906E, PaperQiaoyu Ma, Chengcheng Yin, Zhongyang Wang, Guanbin Duan, Degang Zhao, Shuhua YangThe growing energy crisis has intensified the focus on green energy, sparking widespread interest in aqueous zinc-ion batteries. However, their development has been hindered by issues of zinc anode. Here,...The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal […]Qiaoyu Ma
- Synthesis of tough and fluorescent hydrogels with synergistic associations of tetraphenylethane fluorogen and polymethylene spacer November 21, 2025Soft Matter, 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SM00950B, PaperCuihong Ma, Ye Tian, Qing Li, Yang Chen, Miao Du, Cong Du, Qiang Zheng, Zi Liang WuIncorporating hydrophobic associations into hydrophilic networks as energy dissipation units is an efficient strategy to toughen hydrogels. However, the micro-segregated structures often lead to turbid hydrogels with poor optical properties....The content of this […]Cuihong Ma
- Radical scaling: beyond our feet and fingers November 21, 2025Soft Matter, 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SM00996K, PaperMarc Antoine Fardin, Mathieu Hautefeuille, Vivek SharmaScaling laws arise and are eulogized across disciplines from natural to social sciences for providing pithy, quantitative, 'scale-free', and 'universal' power law relationships between two variables. On a log-log plot,...The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of ChemistryMarc Antoine Fardin
- Following the structural changes of triolein films during lipolysis November 21, 2025Soft Matter, 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SM00820D, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Ben Humphreys, Philipp Gutfreund, Andrew Robert McCluskey, Thomas Arnold, Jesper Vind, Tommy NylanderA major challenge hampering the industrial and biological exploitation of lipases is the self-limiting effect of the lipolytic reaction. Defying sustained attention […]Ben Humphreys
- Efficient silicon-containing di-chain anionic surfactants for stabilizing oil-water interfaces in microemulsions November 21, 2025Soft Matter, 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SM00817D, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Adhip Rahman, Julian Eastoe, Ilona Serafin, Georgina Moody, Saachi Sennik, Dania Binti M. Khairuldin, Sarah E. Rogers, Robert M Dalgliesh, Sylvain PrevostNew di-chain anionic surfactants containing silicon (Si) atoms in the hydrophobic chain-tips (trimethylsilyl […]Adhip Rahman
- Polar and apolar light-induced alignment of ferroelectric nematic at photosensitive polymer substrate November 21, 2025Soft Matter, 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SM00997A, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Ruslan M. Kravchuk, Oleksandr Kurochkin, Vassili Nazarenko, Volodymyr Sashuk, Mykola Kravets, Bijaya Basnet, Oleg D. LavrentovichSurface alignment of a recently discovered ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal (NF) is usually achieved by buffed polymer films, which […]Ruslan M. Kravchuk
- Dynamic-Kinetic Crossovers in Colloidal and Multiphase Systems Induced by Nanoscale Interfacial Features November 20, 2025Soft Matter, 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SM01002K, Review ArticleDhiraj Nandyala, Carlos E. ColosquiThe evolution of colloidal and multiphase systems can transition from dynamic regimes, governed by classical transport equations with well-defined damping coefficients, to anomalously slow relaxation described by rate equations when...The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of ChemistryDhiraj Nandyala
- Molecular dynamics analysis of hyaluronic acid-albumin complexes: Effect of the HSA-to-HA ratio on structure and stability November 19, 2025Soft Matter, 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SM00838G, PaperPiotr Bełdowski, Maciej Przybyłek, Sandra Śmigiel, Adam Mazurkiewicz, Damian Bełdowski, Ramith Ramu, Aneta D. Petelska, Andra Dėdinaitė, Per M. ClaessonHyaluronic acid (HA) and human serum albumin (HSA) are essential components of synovial fluid, playing critical roles in joint lubrication and function. This study examines the influence of the HSA-to-HA...The […]Piotr Bełdowski
- Role of interaction anisotropy in polymer cononsolvency: insights from the Flory-Huggins-Potts framework November 18, 2025Soft Matter, 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SM00767D, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Satyen Dhamankar, Michael A. WebbCononsolvency occurs when mixing two good solvents creates poor-solvent conditions for polymers over specific composition ranges, causing macroscopic phase separation or microscopic chain collapse. Despite its technological and biophysical relevance,...The […]Satyen Dhamankar
- Hidden ordered structure of clay nanosheets in binary colloids of niobate and clay nanosheets disclosed by small-angle neutron scattering November 18, 2025Soft Matter, 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SM01056J, PaperTeruyuki Nakato, Riki Kato, Wataru Ishitobi, Emiko Mouri, Hiroki Iwase, Nobuyoshi Miyamotoinary colloids of two different nanosheet species are promising systems for novel integrated materials because of their multicomponent and multiphase coexistence utilizable to novel smart materials. Among the binary colloids,...The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal […]Teruyuki Nakato
- Ca 2+ /Zn 2+ Alginate Hydrogel Electrolyte for High-Performance Zinc-Ion Batteries November 21, 2025
