Soft Matter's Top Ten Articles

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Top Ten Articles

22 October 2008

The new top ten most downloaded Soft Matter articles.

Read the most-accessed papers of September 2008 here.

Diversity of structure, morphology and wetting of plant surfaces
Kerstin Koch, Bharat Bhushan and Wilhelm Barthlott,�Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 1943
DOI: 10.1039/b804854a
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Divalent cations stabilize the aggregation of sulfated glycoproteins in the adhesive nanofibers of the biofouling diatom Toxarium undulatum
Anthony Chiovitti, Philip Heraud, Tony M. Dugdale, Oliver M. Hodson, Roger C. A. Curtain, Raymond R. Dagastine, Bayden R. Wood and Richard Wetherbee,�Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 811
DOI: 10.1039/b715455k
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Vesicles and red blood cells in shear flow
Manouk Abkarian and Annie Viallat,�Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 653
DOI: 10.1039/b716612e
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How does the leaf margin make the lotus surface dry as the lotus leaf floats on water?
Jihua Zhang, Jinming Wang, Yong Zhao, Liang Xu, Xuefeng Gao, Yongmei Zheng and Lei Jiang,�Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 2232
DOI: 10.1039/b807857b
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Colloidal delivery systems for micronutrients and nutraceuticals
Krassimir P. Velikov and Eddie Pelan,�Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 1964
DOI: 10.1039/b804863k
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Interfacial instabilities in a microfluidic Hele-Shaw cell
Michinao Hashimoto, Piotr Garstecki, Howard A. Stone and George M. Whitesides,�Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 1403
DOI: 10.1039/b715867j
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Progess in superhydrophobic surface development
Paul Roach, Neil J. Shirtcliffe and Michael I. Newton,�Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 224
DOI: 10.1039/b712575p
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