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• The effect of weathering environments on microplastic chemical identification with Raman and IR spectroscopy: Part II. Polystyrene, polyethylene terephthalate, and nylon 6 April 7, 2026
  Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SM01102G, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Samantha Phan, Jonathan Ratmahal, Christine LuscombeThe use of spectroscopic techniques to identify microplastics found in the environment is challenging because weathered microplastics undergo chemical changes that make their spectra drastically different from their pristine […]
  Samantha Phan
• Recyclable flexible sensors based on digital-light-processing 3D printing of a thermoplastic elastomer and facile transfer of pencil-marked graphite films April 7, 2026
  Soft Matter, 2026, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D6SM00058D, PaperLinkai Wang, Meichen Liu, Dan Guo, Feng Jin, Chenyang Bi, Hui Zhang, Liang Jiang, Shaojuan Chen, Zhong XiongThe elastomer strain sensor fabricated via digital-light-processing 3D printing and transfer of a pencil pattern can be recycled.To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation […]
  Linkai Wang
• Symmetry-breaking motility of an active hinge in a crowded channel April 6, 2026
  Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SM00622H, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Leonardo Garibaldi Rigon, Y. BaekA recent experiment [Son et al., Soft Matter, 2024, 20, 2777-2788] showed that self-propelled particles confined within a circular boundary filled with granular medium spontaneously form a motile cluster that...The […]
  Leonardo Garibaldi Rigon
• Diffusion of rod-like particles in complex fluids April 6, 2026
  Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D6SM00101G, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Władysław Sokołowski, Huma Jamil, Karol MakuchDiffusion of particles in complex fluids and gels is difficult to describe and often lies beyond the scope of the classical Stokes-Einstein relation. One of the main lines of […]
  Władysław Sokołowski
• Wrinkles, rucks, and folds formed in a heavy sheet on a frictional surface April 6, 2026
  Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D6SM00062B, PaperKeisuke Yoshida, Hirofumi WadaSoft elastic sheets resting on rigid surfaces develop wrinkles, rucks, and folds due to the combined influence of elasticity, gravity, and contact interactions. Despite their ubiquity, the principles governing their...The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
  Keisuke Yoshida
• Rational design of amphiphilic pyrrolidinium derivatives: structure–activity correlation and alkyl chain tuning for superior antimicrobial activity April 6, 2026
  Soft Matter, 2026, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D6SM00050A, PaperElmira A. Vasilieva, Darya A. Kuznetsova, Roman A. Babkin, Denis M. Kuznetsov, Anna P. Lubina, Alexandra D. Voloshina, Dilyara N. Valeeva, Lucia Ya. ZakharovaA novel homologous series of amphiphilic pyrrolidine derivatives, 1-alkyl-1-(2-(hexyl carbamoyloxy)ethyl)pyrrolidinium bromides (CPS-n-6, where n = 12, 14, 16, and 18), were synthesized and characterized.To cite this […]
  Elmira A. Vasilieva
• Morphological Transitions in the Crystallization-Driven Self-Assembly of Narrowly Distributed π-Conjugated Triblock Copolymer April 6, 2026
  Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D6SM00165C, PaperBin Huang, Donglai Tian, Zhubin Liu, Yanchen Deng, Guiyou Wang, Aiguo HuCrystallization-driven self-assembly (CDSA) of π-conjugated block copolymers enables precise control over micellar morphology. However, generalizable strategies for preparing π-conjugated polymers with narrow dispersity (Đ < 1.3) to ensure reproducible self-assembly...The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal […]
  Bin Huang
• Effective interfacial tension of a film solidified during the collision of a molten wax droplet with a water surface April 5, 2026
  Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D6SM00010J, PaperSo Kitsunezaki, Rina Nakashioya, Chihiro Uemura, Akio NakaharaWe investigated collision processes of droplets of paraffin wax melt with a water surface. We found that when the water temperature is significantly lower than the melting temperature of the...The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
  So Kitsunezaki
• Dynamics of emulsion drop impact, spreading and evaporation: Effect of internal phase gelation April 5, 2026
  Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D6SM00195E, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Mario Cordova-Gonzalez, Parisa Bazazi, S. Hossein HejaziThe dynamics of drop impact, spreading, and evaporation on solid surfaces are fundamental to many processes, including agricultural spraying, printing, combustion, and coating. While these behaviors are well […]
  Mario Cordova-Gonzalez
• Quantitative Prediction of Oil–Water Interfacial Tension in Surfactant Systems Using Dissipative Particle Dynamics April 5, 2026
  Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D6SM00083E, Paper Open Access &nbsp This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Rachel Hendrikse, Carlos Amador, Mathew Davies, Mark Richard WilsonWe present a dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) model for surfactants at oil-water interfaces, parametrised directly against experimental data. The model is applied to pure and mixed […]
  Rachel Hendrikse