Soft Matter

Soft Matter, 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SM00091B, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Beatriz Robles-Hernández, Nikolaos Patelis, Arantxa Arbe Mendez, Konstantinos Ntetsikas, Saibal Bhaumik, Nikos Hadjichristidis, Ángel Alegría, Juan ColmeneroAlthough the use of dynamic covalent bonding (DCB) is a promising method to obtain easily recyclable polymer networks, […]

Soft Matter, 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SM00087D, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Mainak Sarkar, Mohammad Tanver Hossain, Randy H. Ewoldt, Christina Laukaitis, Amy J Wagoner JohnsonDisordered fibrous matrices in living tissues are subjected to forces exerted by cells that contract to pull on matrix fibers. To […]

Soft Matter, 2025, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D4SM01521E, PaperChristine Heera Ahn, Zheqi Chen, Xianyang Bao, Zhigang SuoA polymer glass resists fatigue crack growth by deconcentrating stress. The fatigue threshold increases as the yield strength decreases.To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above.The content of this RSS Feed (c) The […]

Soft Matter, 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SM00035A, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Pratik Khandagale, Hao Lin, Liping Liu, Pradeep SharmaPiezoelectricity in biological soft tissues is a controversial issue with differing opinions. While there is compelling experimental evidence to suggest a piezoelectric-like response in tissues such as […]

Soft Matter, 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SM00073D, PaperJiayu Liu, Yankai Xu, Zihan Qiao, Shanshan Li, Xing Ma, Ting Kuang, Hepeng Zhang, Wei WangActive colloids powered by self-generated gradients are influenced by nearby solid boundaries, leading to their reorientation. In this study, the tilt angles (the angle between where an active colloid moves...The content of this RSS […]

Soft Matter, 2025, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D4SM01514B, PaperMaitri Mandal, Abhishek Ghadai, Rituparno Mandal, Sayantan MajumdarKovacs-like memory effect in a sheared colloidal glass.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 Chemistry

Soft Matter, 2025, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D5SM00272A, PaperCésar Soto-Figueroa, Tomas Galicia-Garcia, Armando Sebastián Pérez-Rodríguez, María del Rosario Rodríguez-Hidalgo, Luis VicenteNew smart dendritic-polymeric micelles to extract hormonal contraceptives from polluted aqueous environments was investigated using dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) simulations and coarse-grained models.To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation […]

Soft Matter, 2025, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D4SM01463D, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Anthony Pietz, Karin John, Uwe ThieleSubstrate mechanics is a key factor in biofilm spreading.To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above.The content of this RSS Feed […]

Soft Matter, 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SM00058K, CommunicationMichael Torres, Marciel Carvalho Gomes, José Soares de Andrade Junior, André Auto MoreiraRupture dynamics and pinch-off phenomena are fundamental for understanding instabilities in fluid dynamics and biological systems. In this study, we investigate the rupture of two-dimensional, channel-like configurations in a binary...The content of this RSS Feed (c) The […]

Soft Matter, 2025, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D4SM01211A, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Fernanda Alvarado Galindo, Joachim Venzmer, Najet Mahmoudi, Michael Gradzielski, Ingo HoffmannIn spite of the numerous studies dealing with the interaction between lipid membranes and surfactants at subsolubilizing membrane concentrations, quantifying detailled bilayer structure, as […]