RSC – Soft Matter latest articles- Dynamic Wetting by Concentrated Granular Suspensions December 16, 2025Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SM00987A, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Reza Azizmalayeri, Peyman Rostami, Thomas Witzmann, Christopher Klein, Günter K. AuernhammerMany functional materials, such as paints and inks used in applications like coating and 3D printing, are concentrated granular suspensions. In such systems, the […]Reza Azizmalayeri
- Electrokinetic and electro-elastic instabilities in viscoelastic microfluidic flows: Suppression and augmentation in mixing efficiency December 16, 2025Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SM00882D, PaperChandi Sasmal, T. Waghmare, Anant ChauhanViscoelastic fluids, such as polymer solutions, surfactant mixtures, colloidal suspensions, emulsions, and biological fluids like blood, are frequently transported in microfluidic systems using external electric fields. In such flows, two...The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of ChemistryChandi Sasmal
- Differential Crosslinking and Contractile Motors Drive Nuclear Chromatin Compaction December 16, 2025Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SM00812C, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Ligesh Theeyancheri, Edward Banigan, Jennifer SchwarzDuring interphase, the cell nucleus exhibits spatial compartmentalization between transcriptionally active euchromatin and transcriptionally repressed heterochromatin. In conventional nuclear organization, euchromatin is enriched in the nuclear interior, while heterochromatin-approximately […]Ligesh Theeyancheri
- Thermodynamics of microphase separation in a swollen, strain-stiffening polymer network December 16, 2025Soft Matter, 2026, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D5SM00594A, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Carla Fernández-Rico, Robert W. Style, Stefanie Heyden, Shichen Wang, Peter D. Olmsted, Eric R. DufresneWe propose a simple physical model that can predict the phase behavior of phase separated gels produced via elastic micro […]Carla Fernández-Rico
- Dynamics of phase separation in non-local elastic networks December 15, 2025Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SM00828J, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Oliver William Paulin, Yicheng Qiang, David ZwickerPhase separation of a liquid mixture embedded within an elastic network is relevant to a wide range of natural and industrial systems, including biomolecular condensates interacting with the […]Oliver William Paulin
- Probing the limits of effective temperature consistency in actively driven systems December 15, 2025Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SM00840A, Communication Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Dima Boriskovsky, Remi Goerlich, Benjamin Lindner, Yael RoichmanWe investigate the thermodynamic properties of a single inertial probe driven into a nonequilibrium steady-state by random collisions with self-propelled active walkers. The probe and walkers are […]Dima Boriskovsky
- Rotation reversal of chiral bacterial vortices December 15, 2025Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SM00889A, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Pyae Hein Htet, Eric LaugaIt is well established that many agellated bacteria, such as Escherichia coli, swim in counterclockwise circles above rigid surfaces. However, in a cylindrical microwell with asymmetric top-bottom boundary conditions, such...The […]Pyae Hein Htet
- Effects of strong, monovalent and short-ranged monomer-monomer interactions on the phase separation of polymeric macromolecules December 15, 2025Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SM01172H, PaperMasoud Mirzaei, Hossein FazliLiquid-liquid phase separation of coarse-grained model polymers of a given length is studied using Langevin dynamics simulations. Some pairs of monomers on each polymer are designated to interact via a...The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of ChemistryMasoud Mirzaei
- Boundary-Shape Driven Transitions in Vortex and Oscillatory Dynamics of Confined Epithelial Cells December 15, 2025Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SM00913H, PaperRyo Ienaga, Kazuyuki Shigeta, Tatsuya Fukuyama, Kazusa Beppu, Yusuke T. MaedaControlling the collective motion of epithelial cell populations is fundamental for understanding multicellular self-organization and for advancing tissue engineering. Under spatial confinement, cells are known to exhibit either vortex rotation...The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society […]Ryo Ienaga
- High-Throughput Mechanical Characterization of Giant Unilamellar Vesicles by Real-Time Deformability Cytometry December 12, 2025Soft Matter, 2026, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D5SM01140J, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Maximilian Kloppe, Stefan J. Maurer, Tobias Abele, Kerstin Göpfrich, Sebastian AlandReal-time deformability cytometry (RT-DC) enables high-throughput, contact-free mechanical characterization of soft microscopic objects. Here we apply this technique to giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs). To […]Maximilian Kloppe
- Dynamic Wetting by Concentrated Granular Suspensions December 16, 2025
