Contact networks and force transmission in aggregates of hexapod-shaped particles
This article is licensed under aCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Trieu-Duy Tran, Saeid Nezamabadi, Jean-Philippe Bayle, Lhassan Amarsid, Farhang Radjai Hexapods, consisting of three mutually orthogonal arms, have been utilized as a representative nonconvex shape to demonstrate the impact of interlocking on the strength properties of granular materials. Nevertheless, the... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry (Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles)
Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles - March 16, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Trieu-Duy Tran Source Type: research

Axonal tension contributes to consistent fold placement
This article is licensed under aCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Xincheng Wang, Shuolun Wang, Maria Holland Cortical folding is a critical process during brain development, resulting in morphologies that are both consistent and distinct between individuals and species. While earlier studies have highlighted important aspects of... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry (Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles)
Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles - March 16, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Xincheng Wang Source Type: research

Destructive effect of fluctuations on the performance of a Brownian gyrator
Soft Matter, 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01606D, PaperPascal Viot, Aykut Argun, Giovanni Volpe, Alberto Imparato, Lamberto Rondoni, Gleb Oshanin The Brownian gyrator (BG) is often called a minimal model of a nano-engine performing a rotational motion, judging solely upon the fact that in non-equilibrium conditions its torque, specific angular... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry (Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles)
Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles - March 15, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Pascal Viot Source Type: research

Steering droplets on substrates with plane-wave wettability patterns and deformations
This article is licensed under aCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Josua Grawitter, Holger Stark Motivated by strategies for targeted microfluidic transport of droplets, we investigate how sessile droplets can be steered toward a preferred direction using travelling waves in substrate wettability or deformations of... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry (Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles)
Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles - March 15, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Josua Grawitter Source Type: research

In silico design of misfolding resistant proteins: the role of structural aspect of competing conformational ensemble for optimization of frustration
Soft Matter, 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00171K, PaperBondeepa Saikia, Anupaul Baruah Most state of the art in silico design methods fail due to misfolding of designed sequences to a conformation other than the target. Thus, a method to design misfolding resistant... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry (Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles)
Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles - March 14, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Bondeepa Saikia Source Type: research

Probing Wrapping Dynamics of Spherical Nanoparticles by 3D Vesicles Using Force-based Simulations
Soft Matter, 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01600E, PaperDidarul Ahasan Redwan, Ke Du, Xin Yong Nanoparticles present in various environments can interact with living organisms, potentially leading to deleterious effects. Understanding how these nanoparticles interact with cell membranes is crucial for rational assessment of their... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry (Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles)
Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles - March 14, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Didarul Ahasan Redwan Source Type: research

Dynamics of spreading of an asymmetrically placed droplet near a fluid –fluid interface
Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/D3SM00685A, PaperMadhurima Reddy, Madivala G. Basavaraj, Sumesh P. Thampi Two-dimensional numerical simulations are carried out to study the spreading dynamics of a droplet placed in the vicinity of a fluid –fluid interface. 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 Society of Chemistry (Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles)
Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles - March 13, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Madhurima Reddy Source Type: research

Soft Wetting: An Analytical Model for Pillar Topography- and Softness-Dependent Droplet Depinning Force
Soft Matter, 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00128A, PaperYouhua Jiang, Zhujiang Wang The extent to which a droplet pins on a textured substrate is determined by the dynamics of contact line and the liquid-vapor interface. However, the synergistical contribution of contact line... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry (Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles)
Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles - March 13, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Youhua Jiang Source Type: research

Bending creep behaviour of various polymer films analysed by surface strain measurement
Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01566A, PaperJiayi Yu, Masayuki Kishino, Kyohei Hisano, Atsushi Shishido Polymer films subjected to a static bending state exhibit temporal strain increase due to their viscoelastic nature. We quantitatively measured the surface strain change in various polymer films in real time and gained insights into the occurrence of this phenomenon. 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 Society of Chemistry (Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles)
Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles - March 13, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Jiayi Yu Source Type: research

Self-adhesion of uncrosslinked poly(butadiene-co-acrylonitrile), i.e. nitrile rubber, an inhomogeneous and associative polymer
Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01630G, PaperValentine Hervio, Annie Br ûlet, Costantino Creton, Gabriel E. Sanoja The precursor of NBR, poly(acrylonitrile-co-butadiene), experiences thermodynamic forces for self-assembly and kinetic barriers for processing. We introduce three strategies to overcome such barriers and enable polymer self-adhesion in the bulk. 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 Society of Chemistry (Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles)
Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles - March 12, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Valentine Hervio Source Type: research

Correction: Fabricating multi-scale controllable PEDOT:PSS arrays via templated freezing assembly
This article is licensed under aCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Yang Lin, Junqiang Mao, Qingrui Fan, Jianjun Wang 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 Society of Chemistry (Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles)
Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles - March 12, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Yang Lin Source Type: research

The form II - form I transition in solution crystallized isotactic polybutene-1
Soft Matter, 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00152D, PaperPeng Fu, Jianxin Huo, Jingqing Li, Claudio De Rosa, Shichun Jiang Different polymer chains in solution or melt have different conformation with corresponding entropy at each moment, which would be confined after crystallization. The equilibrium concept based conformation or conformational entropy... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry (Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles)
Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles - March 12, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Peng Fu Source Type: research

A capillary-induced negative pressure is able to initiate heterogeneous cavitation
Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00143E, PaperShan Chen, Hongguang Zhang, Zhenjiang Guo, Ignacio Pagonabarraga, Xianren Zhang With molecular dynamics simulations we reveal that capillarity is able to induce spontaneous cavitation, for which heterogeneous nucleation can be described with classical nucleation theory. 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 Society of Chemistry (Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles)
Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles - March 11, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Shan Chen Source Type: research

Phenylboronate-salicylate ester cross-linked self-healing hydrogel composed of modified hyaluronan at physiological pH
This article is licensed under aCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Ryotaro Miki, Tsutomu Yamaki, Masaki Uchida, Hideshi Natsume A self-healing hydrogel can be easily prepared at physiological pH by using phenylboronic acid-modified hyaluronic acid and salicylic acid-modified hyaluronic acid. 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 Society of Chemistry (Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles)
Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles - March 11, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Ryotaro Miki Source Type: research

Self-Assembly of Rod-Coil-Rod Block Copolymers in a Coil-Selective Solvent: Coarse-Grained Simulation Results
Soft Matter, 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00251B, PaperChiraz Toujani, Luis A. Padilla, Nour Alhraki, Sumi Hur, Abelardo Ramirez-Hernandez The solution self-assembly of amphiphilic polymers provides a versatile approach to design novel nanostructured materials. Multiblock polymers, particularly those composed of liquid crystalline and coil blocks, are of significant interest... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry (Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles)
Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles - March 11, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Chiraz Toujani Source Type: research