About Soft Matter

• First Issue: June 2005 
• Impact factor: 4.39
• Immediacy index: 1.183
• Published monthly
• Article Types: 

                     Communications
                     Full Papers 
                     Reviews
                     Highlights
                     Emerging Areas
                     Opinions

• Promotion of outstanding work: hot articles are featured on the Journal website
• 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, materials science, biology, chemical engineering and chemistry. 

Soft Matter appeals to a wide variety of researchers, but particularly to: materials scientists; surface scientists; physicists; biochemists; biological scientists; chemical engineers; 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 materials; 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; biocomposites; biomimetic materials

 

 

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

 

Building blocks/synthetic methodology including new molecular architectures; new synthetic methodologies; synthesis of soft materials 

 

 

Theory, modelling, and simulation including dynamics and non-equilibrium dynamics; computational and thermodynamic studies of soft materials