RSC – Soft Matter latest articles- Theory of hybrid defects, with coupled orientational order parameters, on flat and curved surfaces May 17, 2026Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D6SM00299D, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Lincoln Paik, Jonathan V. SelingerMany physical systems involve two types of orientational order, which are coupled together. For example, ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals have coupled polar and nematic order, and tilted hexatic phases have...The […]Lincoln Paik
- Delamination and restructuring inside multilamellar lipid vesicles by a polycation: formation of multi-compartment vesicles May 17, 2026Soft Matter, 2026, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D6SM00155F, PaperRui Cao, Rishabh Jain, Ian K. Torres, Chris Oville, Anthony D. DinsmoreMultilamellar lipid vesicles delaminate and form multiple internal compartments, driven by binding and translocation of high-MW polycations from the exterior.To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above.The content of this […]Rui Cao
- Modeling the Slow Arrhenius Process (SAP) in Polymers May 17, 2026Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D6SM00305B, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Valeriy Ginzburg, Oleg V Gendelman, Riccardo Casalini, Simone Napolitano, Alessio ZacconeAmorphous glass-forming polymers exhibit multiple relaxation processes, including the structural α-relaxation associated with the glass transition and faster secondary relaxations that typically follow Arrhenius […]Valeriy Ginzburg
- Hopping Dynamics of a Tracer Particle Confined in a Fluctuating Lattice May 14, 2026Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D6SM00250A, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Seonghui Kim, Yeonho Song, Bong June Sung, Shinji Saito, Jun Soo KimWe investigate the hopping dynamics of a tracer particle in a two-dimensional fluctuating lattice using Brownian dynamics simulations. Conventional analyses based on the […]Seonghui Kim
- A Supramolecular Gel Platform for Selective Naked-Eye Recognition of Thorium(IV) Ion May 14, 2026Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D6SM00239K, PaperYanyi He, Xiao-Qi Yu, Shanshan YuThe naked-eye detection of Th4+ poses a critical analytical challenge. While stimulus-responsive hydrogels offer a potential solution by converting recognition events into visible macroscopic phase transitions, this promising mechanism has...The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of ChemistryYanyi He
- Conformal Phase-Transition Hydrogel Interfaces for High Fidelity Electrophysiological Sensing and Data-Driven Inference May 14, 2026Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D6SM00123H, PaperXuelin Li, Weiyang Tang, Mingyang Wang, Giacomo Moretti, Ji Lin, Chuanqian ShiWhile gelatin-based conductive hydrogels can acquire electrophysiological signals over multiple days, the statistical consistency and analytical utility of these long-term recordings for data-driven interpretation remain inadequately assessed.To address this, we...The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal […]Xuelin Li
- Light-tunable DNA interactions enable spatiotemporal assembly and relaxation-driven crystallization of colloids May 14, 2026Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D6SM00281A, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Etienne Ducrot, Patrick A. Hage, Ilja Karina Voets, David J. Pine, Bas Van RavensteijnSelf-assembly of colloidal particles enables the formation of complex superstructures, yet precise control over assembled structures remains challenging and assembly pathways […]Etienne Ducrot
- Liquid crystalline order delays crystallisation in mixed surfactant systems May 14, 2026Soft Matter, 2026, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D6SM00317F, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Sepideh Khodaparast, William N. Sharratt, Robert M. Dalgliesh, João T. CabralLiquid crystalline ordering in mixed SDS/DDAO surfactant systems creates a kinetically hindered intermediate state that dramatically increases crystallisation induction times.To cite this article before […]Sepideh Khodaparast
- The sinking dynamics of a solid intruder in concentrated cornstarch suspensions studied using ultra-fast Magnetic Resonance Imaging May 14, 2026Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D6SM00385K, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Nikolay Kirilov Kirov, Christopher P McLaren, Klaas P Pruessmann, Christoph Rüdiger Müller, Alexander PennThe sinking of intruders in concentrated cornstarch suspensions is governed by localized, transient dynamics that are difficult to access experimentally because […]Nikolay Kirilov Kirov
- Photo-Crosslinked Pluronic Hydrogels: Micelle Self-assembly and Thermoresponsive Behavior May 13, 2026Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D6SM00071A, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Michel Habib, João David Fragoso, Christine Joly-Duhamel, Sylvain Catrouillet, jean pierre habas, Audrey Tourrette, Tahmer Sharkawi, Sebastien BlanquerAmphiphilic block copolymers, such as Pluronic triblock copolymers, are widely employed to engineer stimuli-responsive hydrogels for applications […]Michel Habib
- Theory of hybrid defects, with coupled orientational order parameters, on flat and curved surfaces May 17, 2026
