About Soft Matter

• 2011 Impact factor: 4.39
• 2011 Immediacy index: 0.898
• Frequency: 48 issues per year
• Article Types: 

Communications 
Full Papers 
Reviews
Highlights
Emerging Areas
Opinions
Tutorial Reviews
Comments                

• Promotion of outstanding work on the journal blog

• International editorial board and authorship       

Who should read Soft Matter?

Soft Matter has a global circulation and interdisciplinary audience with a particular focus on the interface between physics, biology, chemical engineering, materials science and chemistry. 

Soft Matter appeals to a wide variety of researchers, but particularly to: physicists, biophysicists; bioengineers; biological scientists; biochemists; chemical engineers; materials scientists; surface scientists; physical, organic and theoretical chemists.

Scope of Soft Matter

Main research areas include:

Bulk soft matter assemblies including polymers; colloids; gels; vesicles; emulsions; films; surfactants; micelles; suspensions; liquid crystals

 

 

Soft nanotechnology and self-assembly including nanostructured polymeric matter; nanocomposites; molecular self-organisation, imprinting and recognition; supramolecular systems; encapsulation; self-assembled films and monolayers

 

Biological aspects of soft matter including biomacromolecules and biopolymers; membranes; cells; soft tissues; biocomposites; biomimetic matter

 

 

Surfaces, interfaces, and interactions including thin films; Langmuir monolayers; wetting/dewetting; soft interfaces and their interfacial properties; dynamics; rheology and hydrodynamics; pattern formation and replication

 

Theory, modelling, and simulation including soft matter dynamics in- and out-of-equilibrium; theoretical and computational models of the statistical thermodynamics of self-assembly in soft matter and biophysics