📢The nomination deadline for the 2026 Soft Matter Lectureship is fast approaching!
‼️Deadline: 30th April 2026
Don't miss your chance to nominate an early career researcher who has made major contributions to soft matter research.
Learn more about the award: lnkd.in/eMhN7bEW
Nominations for the 2026 Soft Matter Lectureship are open until the end of April!
This annual award recognises an early career researcher who has made major contributions to soft matter research.
Learn more about the award, including guidelines for nominators and candidates 👉 lnkd.in/eMhN7bEW
Great to have our paper highlighted by @softmatter.rsc.org! Here’s a 🧵 explaining what its all about…
Are you working in the area of soft material mechanics?
Submissions are now open for our new collection celebrating the pioneering contributions of Professor Chung-Yuen Hui to the field
Submission deadline: 31st August 2026
Find out more about the collection here: rsc.li/4kBJgNo
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Our paper is out in this week's Soft Matter! @softmatter.rsc.org
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A glue that releases on command? @newcastleuni.bsky.social has developed a pH‑responsive polymer‑clay adhesive with reversible bonding. Added clays boost viscosity & remove the need for dual formulations. Published in @softmatter.rsc.org & shortlisted in the RSC ETC. https://rsc.li/4reavjM #ChemSky
Delighted to share the @softmatter.rsc.org 20th anniversary editorial co-written by Editor-in-Chief @aljcrosby.bsky.social bit.ly/4snb6k2! Thank you to all who have supported the journal in its first 20 years and looking forward to the next 20!
Don't miss this #OA article in Soft Matter, part of our Open Access Spotlight collection!
'Geometric frustration in twist-bend nematic droplets' by Joseph Pollard and Richard Morris @r-g-morris.bsky.social
(UNSW, Australia)
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✍️ The @bladoux.bsky.social / @rmmege.bsky.social Lab published a new article
📖 @softmatter.rsc.org
📃 Radical scaling: beyond our feet and fingers
🔗 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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...
Strain, substrate, and matrix selection for controlled growth of wood-fungi @softmatter.rsc.org #ELMs
Soft Matter is still accepting nominations for the 2026 Lectureship.
Be sure to find out more, including how to submit your nominations, on our webpage!
...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...
We're delighted to announce a call for papers for our special collection on #Biomembranes and #Biointerfaces!
Guest edited by Reinhard Lipowsky and Motomu Tanaka, this collection covers a wide range of topics including....
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)
🔗rsc.li/3WpAV4e
#SoftMatter #ChemSky #🧪
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)
🔗rsc.li/3WmmJZS
#ChemSky #SoftMatter
💥RSC CNN Paper of the Week💥
Nanoscale mechanisms of crack-tip evolution in glassy polymers: hybrid particle-continuum simulations
Müller-Plathe* (Technical University of Darmstadt)
Norouzi, Soft Matter, 10.1039/D5SM00853K
@softmatter.rsc.org
#chemsky #nanosky
Promotional graphic with text reading: Celebrating the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
In honour of the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry, we’ve curated a collection of impactful articles from across RSC journals on metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) 🏆 Free to read until the end of November 👉 pubs.rsc.org/en/jour...
In honour of the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology/Medicine, we’ve curated a collection of impactful articles from across RSC journals on peripheral immune tolerance and regulatory T cells🏆
Free to read until the end of November👉 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...
#NobelPrize
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...
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...
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
ChemSpider webinar on AI in chemistry - join us on 23 September
Do you want to stay ahead of developments in AI and learn first-hand experiences of applying them in your chemistry work?
Join leading experts to discuss best practice tips for working across disciplines.
Register now: https://rsc.li/4m2xzOU
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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!
🔗rsc.li/4nbaYRh
Guru & Sanat are Guest Editors of the 'Underpinnings of Micro- and Nanoplastics' themed collection with Tom McDonald: rsc.li/3I5vtQi #🧪
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
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
🔗rsc.li/4oUs5Zd
Read Soft Matter's 20th Anniversary collection for free until December 31st!🎈https://rsc.li/46byQys
#ChemSky #🧪
Our paper about active crystals is now out @softmatter.rsc.org! During the revisions, we added a section about triangular lattices, on which the turn-towards or turn-away interactions can be frustrated. Check it out, and see the post below!
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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
doi.org/10.1039/D5SM...
🧪 #Interfaces #Materials
💥RSC CNN Paper of the Week💥
Surface functional group dependent enthalpic and entropic contributions to molecular adsorption on colloidal microplastics
Subir* (Ball State University)
Kanu, Soft Matter, 10.1039/D5SM00488H
@softmatter.rsc.org
#chemsky #nanosky
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 #🧪