RSC – Soft Matter latest articles- Hierarchical Bayesian constitutive model selection for high-strain-rate soft material characterization Tháng 3 31, 2026Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SM01193K, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Victor Sanchez, Sawyer Remillard, Bachir Ahmed Abeid, Lehu Bu, Spencer Breyngelson, Jin Yang, Jon Estrada, Mauro RodriguezThe high-fidelity characterization of soft, tissue-like materials under ultra-high-strain-rate conditions is critical in engineering and medicine. Still, it […]Victor Sanchez
- Liquid–liquid phase separation as a structuring tool for designing anisotropic food systems Tháng 3 30, 2026Soft Matter, 2026, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D5SM01134E, Review Article Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Ashkan MadadlouAnisotropic structures formed by flow-induced deformation and arrest in aqueous two-phase system (ATPS). Increasing deformation orients the dispersed phase. Once the structure is arrested, this anisotropy is locked in and transferred to the […]Ashkan Madadlou
- Electromechanical responses in water-rich self-assembled amphiphile gels and hydrated ionogels: reassessing piezoelectric attributions Tháng 3 30, 2026Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D6SM00047A, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Erica Pensini, Alejandro MarangoniWater-rich, self-assembled amphiphile gels have recently been reported to exhibit electrical responses under mechanical deformation and hysteretic cyclic voltammetry behavior, leading to their interpretation as piezoelectric or ferroelectric soft materials....The content […]Erica Pensini
- Glass Transition and Subphase Anchoring Govern the Emergence of Viscoelasticity in Polymer Interfaces Tháng 3 30, 2026Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D6SM00064A, PaperDaniel Ashkenazi, Stelios Alexandris, Jan Vermant, Dimitris Vlassopoulos, Moshe GottliebDetermining the rheological properties and the interfacial structure–property relationships for complex fluid–fluid interfaces is crucial for understanding physiological systems, and for designing and engineering industrial processes. While it is well...The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of […]Daniel Ashkenazi
- A study on dopamine-assisted grafting of epoxidized elastomers for enhanced interfacial interaction in silica/ESBR composites Tháng 3 30, 2026Soft Matter, 2026, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D5SM01169H, PaperHaiming Chen, Huijin Li, Zongfeng Wang, Wen Zhao, Lan Cao, Weimin Yang, Guangyi LinIn the tire industry, silica has gradually replaced carbon black as a filler.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 […]Haiming Chen
- Electro-magneto-kinetic thermo-fluid-structure-interactions of viscoelastic electrolytes through soft micro-confinements Tháng 3 30, 2026Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SM00876J, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Apurba Roy, Purbarun DharA coupled electro–magneto-hydrodynamic (EMHD) framework for a viscoelastic electrolyte (of Phan–Thien–Tanner (PTT) fluid rheology) flowing through a compliant micro-confinement with linearly elastic walls is developed. The flow is driven by...The content […]Apurba Roy
- Shape Elasticity in Colloidal Bent-Core Liquid Crystals Tháng 3 29, 2026Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D6SM00016A, PaperNicholas Hackney, Joel Clemmer, Gary S. GrestCurved particles have been shown to stabilize a range of states with unique order in dense suspensions of colloidal bent core liquid crystals. The shape of the colloidal rods encourages...The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of ChemistryNicholas Hackney
- Rounded hard squares confined in a circle Tháng 3 29, 2026Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D6SM00008H, PaperZhongtian Yuan, Yao LiPacking under confinement could generate rich ordered structures through entropic effects, which is a fundamental problem in condensed matter, biophysics and material science. The influence of confinement to the anisotropic...The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of ChemistryZhongtian Yuan
- Disentangling microstructural elements of shear thickening suspensions via computer simulations of a minimal model Tháng 3 28, 2026Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SM00928F, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.William Cockrell Buchholtz, Daniel Blair, Jeffrey S. Urbach, H. A. Vinutha, Emanuela Del GadoWe use a minimal model for a dense suspension undergoing thickening and thinning to investigate microstructural changes in $2d$ simulations. Our […]William Cockrell Buchholtz
- Interfacial Adsorption Competing with Thermal Mixing in Confined Hydrogen-Bonded Polymer Bilayers Tháng 3 28, 2026Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D6SM00129G, PaperHisashi Tetsutani, Masashi Ohno, Yohei Nakanishi, Tsukasa Miyazaki, Mikihito Takenaka, Norifumi L. Yamada, Hideki Seto, Hiroyuki Aoki, Katsuhiro YamamotoIn confined polymer thin films, interfacial chain adsorption can fundamentally compete with thermally driven interdiffusion, leading to mixing behavior distinct from bulk systems. Here, we investigated ultrathin hydrogen-bonded PMMA/PVPh bilayers...The content […]Hisashi Tetsutani
- Hierarchical Bayesian constitutive model selection for high-strain-rate soft material characterization Tháng 3 31, 2026