We're delighted to announce that @wanglabuiuc.bsky.social has been selected as the winner of the 2026 Biomaterials Science Lectureship! Read more about Hua's research on our blog 👉 blogs.rsc.org/bm/2026/05/0... Congratulations to Hua and thank you to everyone who submitted nominations!

📢FINAL CALL to nominate for the 2026 Soft Matter Lectureship!📢 ‼️Deadline this Thursday- 30 April 2026 Please do not miss your chance to nominate an early career researcher! Learn more about the award & how to nominate: lnkd.in/eMhN7bEW

📢Last chance to nominate for the 2026 Soft Matter Lectureship!📢 Do not miss your chance to nominate an early career researcher who has made major contributions to soft matter research! ‼️Deadline: 30th April 2026 Learn more about the award and how to nominate: lnkd.in/eMhN7bEW

📢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…

Soft Matter@softmatter.rsc.org · 8mo ago

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) 🔗https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/sm/d5sm00530b

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 #ChemSky

Our paper is out in this week's Soft Matter! @softmatter.rsc.org pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Ed Banigan@irate-physicist.bsky.social · last yr.

Ligesh Theeyancheri, Jen Schwarz, and I have a new preprint out presenting a nonequilibrium mechanism that can spatially segregate dense polymer from less compacted polymer, e.g., heterochromatin and euchromatin. arxiv.org/abs/2507.17883

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) 🔗https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/sm/d5sm00530b

✍️ 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

Strain, substrate, and matrix selection for controlled growth of wood-fungi

Fungal fermentation offers a promising approach for the development of engineered living materials (ELMs). The design of the substrate materials to support and enhance fungal growth in both 2D and 3D ...

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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!

Soft Matter@softmatter.rsc.org · 10mo ago

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 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

Nanoscale mechanisms of crack-tip evolution in glassy polymers: hybrid particle-continuum simulations

Understanding nanoscale crack mechanisms in polymers is important for predicting their macroscopic properties. However, high localized stress near the crack tip introduces nonlinear and time-dependent...

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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

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 #ChemSky

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! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... bsky.app/profile/rica...

Lattice-dependent orientational order in active crystals

Via mechanisms not accessible at equilibrium, self-propelled particles can form phases with positional order, such as crystals, and with orientational order, such as polar flocks. However, the interpl...

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Ricard Alert Zenón@ricardalert.bsky.social · last yr.

New preprint! When forming a crystal, active particles that turn either towards or away from each other end up aligning along directions determined by the crystalline lattice. In these active crystals, orientational and positional order are coupled. Work by Till Welker! arxiv.org/abs/2506.16501

We are pleased to present the themed collection Celebrating the 60th birthday and achievements of Professor Ulli Steiner pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/... All papers are FREE to read until 30 December 2025! Read the Editorial introducing the collection doi.org/10.1039/D5SM... 🧪 #Interfaces #Materials