Emergence of Preferential Flow Paths and Intermittent Dynamics in Emulsion Transport in Porous Media
This article is licensed under aCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Shima Parsa, Michael Izaguirre We investigate the dynamics of emulsions within a two-dimensional porous medium using an integrated experimental approach that combines pore-level dynamics of single emulsions and bulk transport properties of the medium.... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry (Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles)
Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles - February 29, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Shima Parsa Source Type: research
Enzymatic cleaving of entangled circular DNA drives scale-dependent rheological trajectories
Soft Matter, 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01641B, PaperPhilip Neill, Natalie Crist, Ryan McGorty, Rae Marie Robertson-Anderson DNA, which naturally occurs in linear, ring, and supercoiled topologies, frequently undergoes enzyme-driven topological conversion and fragmentation in vivo, enabling it to perform a variety of functions within the cell.... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry (Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles)
Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles - February 28, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Philip Neill Source Type: research
Shear zones in granular mixtures of hard and soft particles with high and low friction
This article is licensed under aCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Aditya Pratap Singh, Vasileios Angelidakis, Thorsten P öschel, Sudeshna Roy Granular materials show inhomogeneous flows characterized by strain localization. When strain is localized in a sheared granular material, rigid regions of a nearly undeformed state are separated by shear bands,... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry (Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles)
Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles - February 28, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Aditya Pratap Singh Source Type: research
Optical deformations of azobenzene polymers: orientation approach vs. other concepts
This article is licensed under aCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Marina Saphiannikova, Vladimir P. Toshchevikov, Nina Tverdokhleb It has been 30 years since the discovery of surface restructuring in thin azopolymer films by two independent research groups. A wide variety of topographical structures have been created by... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry (Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles)
Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles - February 28, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Marina Saphiannikova Source Type: research
Capillary-induced negative pressure is able to initiate heterogeneous cavitation
Soft Matter, 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00143E, PaperShan Chen, Hongguang Zhang, Zhenjiang Guo, Ignacio Pagonabarraga, Xianren Zhang Capillarity-induced negative pressure is of general importance for understanding the phase behaviors of liquid in small pores and cracks. A unique example is the embolism in the xylem of plants,... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry (Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles)
Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles - February 28, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Shan Chen Source Type: research
Divalent Metal Ion Modulation of a Simple Peptide-Based Hydrogel: Self-Assembly and Viscoelastic Properties
Soft Matter, 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01544K, PaperTsuimy Shao, Meissam Noroozifar, Heinz-Bernhard Kraatz Peptide self-assembly has been highly studied through understanding the pathways to forming higher order structures along with the development and application of resulting hydrogel materials. Driven by noncovalent interactions, peptide... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry (Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles)
Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles - February 28, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Tsuimy Shao Source Type: research
Differentiating aliphatic and aromatic alcohols using triazine-based supramolecular organogelators: end group-specific selective gelation with chain length of alcohols
Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00017J, PaperPriya Paul, Subhajit Saha, Kumar Biradha Studies on tripodal gelators containing triazine cores with different end groups in the presence of alcohols suggest that the same alcoholic functionality can be used for both gelation and degelation. 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 - February 27, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Priya Paul Source Type: research
Introduction to polymer networks
Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/D4SM90027H, EditorialYukikazu Takeoka Yukikazu Takeoka introduces theSoft Matter andPolymer Chemistry cross-journal themed collection on polymer networks. 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 - February 27, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Yukikazu Takeoka Source Type: research
A wireless fluorescent flexible force sensor based on aggregation-induced emission doped liquid crystal elastomers
Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01715J, PaperXiaoxue Du, Yanjun Liu, Dongyu Zhao, Helen F. Gleeson, Dan Luo Flexible strain sensors have drawn a lot of interest in various applications including human mobility tracking, rehabilitation/personalized health monitoring, and human –machine interaction, but suffer from interference of electromagnetic (EM). 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 - February 27, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Xiaoxue Du Source Type: research
Self-Assembly of Amphiphilic Asymmetric Comb-Like Copolymers with Responsive Rigid Side Chains
Soft Matter, 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00076E, PaperZhengyi Li, Weisheng Feng, Xing Zhang, Binbin Xu, Liquan Wang, Shaoliang Lin Amphiphilic asymmetric comb-like copolymers (AACCs) possess distinct self-assembly behaviours due to their unique architecture. However, the synthetic difficulties of well-defined AACCs have prohibited a systematic understanding of the architecture-morphology relationships.... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry (Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles)
Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles - February 27, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Zhengyi Li Source Type: research
Understanding interactions of plasticisers with a phospholipid monolayer
This article is licensed under aCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Emil Gustafsson, Maja S. Hellsing, Adrian R. Rennie, Rebecca Welbourn, Mario Campana, Arwel V. Hughes, Peixun Li, Tim Melander Bowden The use of DEHP (diethylhexyl phthalate) is now banned for most applications in Europe – the exception is for blood bags where its toxicity is overshadowed by the ability to... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry (Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles)
Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles - February 27, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Emil Gustafsson Source Type: research
Efficient Fabrication of Bioinspired Soft Ridged-Slippery Surfaces with Large-Range Anisotropic Wettability for Droplet Manipulation
Soft Matter, 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01766D, PaperLong Jiao, Dingqiang Tan, Yanjun Hu, Yijing Yang, Qianqian Guo, Nan Zhou, Huaping Wu, Chen Chen, Xingang Zhao, Guohua Hu The droplet lossless directional motion control on slippery surfaces holds immense promise for applications in microfluidic chips, hazardous substance detection, chemical dispensing, etc. However, a significant challenge in this domain... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry (Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles)
Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles - February 26, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Long Jiao Source Type: research
Freezing-induced topological transition of double-emulsion
This article is licensed under aCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Jochem G. Meijer, Pallav Kant, Detlef Lohse While freezing a double-emulsion, sudden topological transitions of compound droplets are observed caused by partial solidification, triggering liquid-to-vapor phase transitions. 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 - February 22, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Jochem G. Meijer Source Type: research
A mean-field theory for predicting single polymer collapse induced by neutral crowders
Soft Matter, 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01522J, PaperQuentin Chaboche, Gerardo Campos Villalobos, Giuliana Giunta, Marjolein Dijkstra, Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino, Vittore F Scolari Macromolecular crowding can induce the collapse of a single long polymer into a globular form due to depletion forces of entropic nature. This phenomenon has been shown to play a... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry (Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles)
Source: RSC - Soft Matter latest articles - February 22, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Quentin Chaboche Source Type: research
Power law creep and delayed failure of gels and fibrous materials under stress
This article is licensed under aCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Henry A. Lockwood, Molly H. Agar, Suzanne M. Fielding We introduce a simple mesoscopic model for the irreversible failure of gels and fibrous materials, and demonstrate it to capture much of the phenomenology seen in recent experiments on protein gels. 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 - February 22, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Henry A. Lockwood Source Type: research
