RSC – Soft Matter latest articles- Response to dynamic shape changes in suspensions of hard rectangles March 2, 2026Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D6SM00037A, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Denis Dertli, Thomas SpeckWhile the autonomous assembly of hard nanoparticles with different shapes has been studied extensively both in experiment and simulations, little is known about systems where particle shape can be dynamically...The content […]Denis Dertli
- Tunable Thin Elasto-Drops February 28, 2026Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SM01192B, PaperAntonin Eddi, Stéphane Perrard, Jishen ZhangWe present an experimental method to fabricate centimetric thin elastic capsules with highly uniform thickness and negligible bending stiffness using silicone elastomers. In our experiments, the capsules thickness is tunable...The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of ChemistryAntonin Eddi
- A Solvent-Topology Perspective on Hydrophobic Aggregation February 27, 2026Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SM01246E, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Vicente Domínguez-ArcaHydrophobic aggregation is often described in terms of effective attractive forces between apolar units. In aqueous and soft-matter environments, however, aggregation necessarily involves a collective reorganization of the solvent, whose...The content of this […]Vicente Domínguez-Arca
- Spatiotemporal mapping of microscale stiffness during collagen polymerization and crosslinking by optical multifrequency time-harmonic elastography February 27, 2026Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SM01259G, PaperFrank Sauer, Jakob Jordan, Tom Meyer, Pedro Dantas de Moraes, Guillaume Flé, Josef Alfons Käs, Ingolf SackOptical multifrequency time-harmonic elastography (OMTHE) was used for rapid mechanical characterization of extra-cellular matrix-derived collagen networks at micrometer resolution. OMTHE was optimized for point-wise shear wave excitation in small sample...The content of this […]Frank Sauer
- Softening of shear-thickening in suspensions by the addition of large particles February 27, 2026Soft Matter, 2026, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D5SM01144B, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Alice Pelosse, Heinrich M. JaegerAddition of very large particles softens the shear-thickening response. The magnitude of this softening increases systematically with particle size.To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI […]Alice Pelosse
- Rheological properties and shear-induced structures of ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals February 26, 2026Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SM01207D, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Ashish Chandra Das, Satyanarayana Paladugu, Oleg D. LavrentovichRecently discovered ferroelectric nematic (NF) liquid crystals are fluids with a polar orientational order. The electric polarization vector can be aligned by an electric field and by […]Ashish Chandra Das
- Machine Learning Approaches to Quantify Nanoscale Variations in the Mechanical Properties of Soft Nanoparticles February 25, 2026Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SM00943J, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Benjamin Baylis, John DutcherWe use machine learning to analyze atomic force microscopy-force spectroscopy (AFM-FS) measurements of the mechanical properties of soft nanoparticles on a hard substrate. We compare two approaches based on the...The content […]Benjamin Baylis
- Correction: Synthesis of anisotropic colloids with concave and convex structures February 25, 2026Soft Matter, 2026, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D6SM90025A, Correction Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Longfei Luo, Chengcheng Liang, Hong Zhang, Yiwu Zong, Kun ZhaoTo cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above.The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society […]Longfei Luo
- Model analysis of thixotropic polymer flow in extrusion-based additive manufacturing February 25, 2026Soft Matter, 2026, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D5SM01133G, PaperHaifeng Zhang, Qinlei Luan, Wenjun Yuan, Dongjie Liu, Fei ChenThe structural and parametric influences on flow behavior using a multi-model framework.To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above.The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of ChemistryHaifeng Zhang
- Water droplet attraction and coalescence on liquid-crystal-infused textured and porous surfaces February 25, 2026Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SM01184A, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Filip Ferš, Xiaoguang Wang, Uroš TkalecCoalescence of droplets on liquid-infused surfaces has been extensively investigated for isotropic lubricants, where interfacial and hydrodynamic responses are well described by geometry-based and mass-spring models. However, the corresponding […]Filip Ferš
- Response to dynamic shape changes in suspensions of hard rectangles March 2, 2026
