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An interdisciplinary journal focusing on innovative soft matter topics through original research and reviews.

Published by @rsc.org 🌐 Website: rsc.li/softmatter-journal
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...Asymmetric bilayer membranes, molecular dynamics simulations of lipid bilayers and nanovesicles, production of giant vesicles using microfluidics, & more!

Learn more about the collection, including how to submit, here 👉 www.rsc.org/publishing/j...
November 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Check out the inside front cover article for issue 41!
'Triacylglycerols affect the water content and cohesive strength of collagen fibrils' led by Martin Dehnert & Robert Magerle et al (Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany)

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#SoftMatter #ChemSky #🧪
October 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Don't miss the front cover article for issue 41!

'Emergence and evolution of a particulate network during gelation and coarsening of attractive #colloids' by Paniz Haghighi, Mohammad Nabizadeh & Safa Jamali (Northeastern University, USA)

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#ChemSky #SoftMatter
October 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Nominations for the 2026 Soft Matter Lectureship are now open!

This annual award recognises early career researchers who have made major contributions to soft matter research.

Find out more, including how to nominate, on our webpage 👉 www.rsc.org/standards-an...
October 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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We're delighted to announce that Ankur Gupta has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 Soft Matter Lectureship!

This award honours an early-career researcher for their contributions to the soft matter field.

Learn more about Ankur and his research on our blog 👉 blogs.rsc.org/sm/2025/09/1...
September 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Check out this front cover artwork celebrating the journal's 20th anniversary!

'Turbulent-like flows in quasi two-dimensional dense suspensions of motile colloids' by Rui Luo, Alexey Snezhko & Petia Vlahovska is #OA!

🔗https://rsc.li/4mkWqh3

Explore our milestone collection: rsc.li/3VKmhV3
September 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Check out the #OA Perspective, 'Materials science underpinnings of micro and nanoplastics', by our AEs Guruswamy Kumaraswamy & Sanat Kumar et al!

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Guru & Sanat are Guest Editors of the 'Underpinnings of Micro- and Nanoplastics' themed collection with Tom McDonald: rsc.li/3I5vtQi #🧪
September 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Check out this #OA work, 'Photodegradation-driven microparticle release from commercial plastic water bottles' led by Alexander Laskin et al!

🔗https://rsc.li/3JGXVZg

This work is part of Soft Matter's growing 'Underpinnings of Micro- and Nanoplastics' collection: rsc.li/4g03X3r
August 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Don't miss this front cover article in celebration of Soft Matter's 20th Anniversary!

Martin Reifarth's review on microscale patterning via microcontact printing is #OA
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Read Soft Matter's 20th Anniversary collection for free until December 31st!🎈https://rsc.li/46byQys

#ChemSky #🧪
August 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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We are pleased to present the themed collection Celebrating the 60th birthday and achievements of Professor Ulli Steiner

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All papers are FREE to read until 30 December 2025!

Read the Editorial introducing the collection
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🧪 #Interfaces #Materials
August 20, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Congratulations to Sujit Datta who officially received the Soft Matter Lectureship 2024 award before giving his talk on living gels formed by bacteria growing in complex fluids!

Find out more about our winner and the Lectureship award: lnkd.in/eVXXQH6n

#ChemSky #🧪
August 19, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Check out the cover article for Soft Matter Issue 32! 'Oxygen deficiency drives drastic pattern transition in algal bioconvection', by Azam Gholami et al (New York University Abu Dhabi, Lewis & Clark College)

🔗https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/sm/d5sm00451a
August 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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We have now published our 'Outstanding Reviewers for Soft Matter in 2024' Editorial!

You can read the Editorial here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SM...

Thank you to all of our reviewers for helping to preserve quality and integrity in the Soft Matter literature.

🧪 #SoftMatter
August 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Our 2024 Lectureship winner Sujit Datta will be formally presented with his award prior to his talk at ACS next week!

Where: Rock Creek Salon A (The Westin DC Downtown), USA
When: 18/08/25, 2-2:50 pm (GMT-4)

Event details: lnkd.in/eKGCZ35N
Find out more about Sujit Datta: lnkd.in/eVXXQH6n
August 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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We were delighted to sponsor the plenary talk given by AB Member Emanuela Del Gado at #StatPhys29 in Florence. AE Emanuela Zaccarelli also attended and introduced the journal & our exciting 20th anniversary collection!

Read the collection here: rsc.li/soft-matter-20
Free to access until 31/12/25!
July 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Don't miss Soft Matter cover article, 'Scalability of a graph neural network in accurate prediction of frictional contact networks in suspensions', showcasing machine learning research from Professor Abhinendra Singh’s M2MvM Laboratory (@asingh-case.bsky.social‬)

#ChemSky #OA
June 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Soft Matter's 20th anniversary was recently celebrated at the 'Advances in supramolecular gels' Faraday Discussion in Glasgow! Activities included a drinks reception & cake-cutting by former EiC Professor Darrin Pochan

Many congratulations to Geoffrey Groslambert and the other poster award winners!
May 23, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Read the first article in our 'Underpinnings of Micro- and Nanoplastics' collection!

'Mechanism of microplastic and nanoplastic emission from tire wear' (rsc.li/3RRPnQ3) is authored by Guest Editors Guruswamy Kumaraswamy & Sanat Kumar et al 🌟

Find out more about the collection: blogs.rsc.org/sm/
April 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Our themed collection on Micro- and Nanoplastics is still open for submissions! 🧪

Guest edited by Guruswamy Kumaraswamy, Sanat Kumar & Tom McDonald

Deadline: 31st August 2025

Find out more about the collection: blogs.rsc.org/sm/

#ChemSky
April 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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📢Don't miss your opportunity to nominate an early career scientist for the 2025 Soft Matter Lectureship!📢

This award is given to an early-stage career scientist who has made significant contributions to the soft matter field

Learn more about the nomination process 👉 www.rsc.org/journals-boo...
March 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Read the latest HOT articles here now! Free to access until 30th April!

Now featuring work by Davi Lazzari and Peter Keim

Read the full collection of HOT articles here 👇
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March 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Thank you to everyone who joined the APS 2025 Living Soft Matter session supported by @softmatter.rsc.org!

Below are the speakers and chair: @chemhurst.bsky.social, Kyle Bishop, Alfred Crosby, Anđela Šarić, Qian Chen and @oasaleh.bsky.social

We look forward to seeing you at future events!
March 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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📣 Soft Matter is sponsoring some activities at #APSSummit25 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the journal.

Our Editor-in-Chief @aljcrosby.bsky.social & RSC colleagues @chemhurst.bsky.social and Merlin Fox will be at the event - please come and say hello! 👋

#ChemSky #PhysicsSky #softmatter
March 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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📣 Who will you nominate for the 2025 Soft Matter Lectureship?

Nominate an early-career researcher making significant contributions to the soft matter field.

Deadline 30th April 2025.

Find out more ➡️ rsc.li/SMlec25
March 7, 2025 at 9:14 AM