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Soft Matter hot papers:

Soft Matter hot papers featured in this section have been rated as "outstanding" by expert reviewers in the field. Follow each link for an article about the paper or an interview with the authors. Each hot paper is free to access for a limited period of time.

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Recent hot articles, organised by subject

Discontinuous swelling behaviors of lipophilic polyelectrolyte gels in non-polar media
Toshikazu Ono, Seiji Shinkai and Kazuki Sada,�Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 748
DOI: 10.1039/b719879e

Electrocatalytically functional multilayer assembly of sulfite oxidase and cytochrome c
Roberto Spricigo, Roman Dronov, K. V. Rajagopalan, Fred Lisdat, Silke Leimk�hler, Frieder W. Scheller and Ulla Wollenberger,�Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 972
DOI: 10.1039/b717694e

In situ characterization of gas-filled microballoons using soft X-ray microspectroscopy
George Tzvetkov, Birgit Graf, Paulo Fernandes, Andreas Fery, Francesca Cavalieri, Gaio Paradossi and Rainer H. Fink,�Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 510
DOI: 10.1039/b715392a

Novel evaluation method of neutron reflectivity data applied to stimulus-responsive polymer brushes
Jianming Zhang, Tommy Nylander, Richard A. Campbell, Adrian R. Rennie, Stefan Zauscher and Per Linse,�Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 500
DOI: 10.1039/b714911e

Formation and release of circular lipid nanotubes
Tatsiana Lobovkina, Paul Dommersnes, Jean-Francois Joanny and Owe Orwar,�Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 467
DOI: 10.1039/b715771a

Electrically insulating pore-suspending membranes on highly ordered porous alumina obtained from vesicle spreading
Eva K. Schmitt, Mohammad Nurnabi, Richard J. Bushby and Claudia Steinem,�Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 250
DOI: 10.1039/b716723g

A novel elastomer/liquid crystal polymer nanocomposite created in situ from controlled radical graft-polymerization
Denis David Bendejacq, Claudine Biver and Ludwik Leibler,�Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 94
DOI: 10.1039/b711928c

Nematic phases observed in amphiphilic polyelectrolyte�surfactant aggregate solutions
Daniel M. Kuntz and Lynn M. Walker,�Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 286
DOI: 10.1039/b714859c

Controlling cell adhesion on polyurethanes
T. Joseph Dennes and Jeffrey Schwartz,�Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 86
DOI: 10.1039/b714947f

Helix self-assembly through the coiling of cylindrical micelles
Sheng Zhong, Honggang Cui, Zhiyun Chen, Karen L. Wooley and Darrin J. Pochan,�Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 90
DOI: 10.1039/b715459c