Soft Matter hot papers:
Biological soft matter
Soft Matter hot papers featured in this biological soft matter section have been rated as "outstanding" by expert reviewers in the field. Follow each link to read the paper, or an interview with the authors.
Electrocatalytically functional multilayer assembly of sulfite oxidase and cytochrome c
Roberto Spricigo, Roman Dronov, K. V. Rajagopalan, Fred Lisdat, Silke Leimkühler, Frieder W. Scheller and Ulla Wollenberger, Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 972
DOI: 10.1039/b717694e
Nanopatterning by protein unfolding
Tiziana Svaldo-Lanero, Amanda Penco, Mirko Prato, Maurizio Canepa, Ranieri Rolandi and Ornella Cavalleri, Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 965
DOI: 10.1039/b800621k
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
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
Controlling cell adhesion on polyurethanes
T. Joseph Dennes and Jeffrey Schwartz, Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 86
DOI: 10.1039/b714947f
Hot article: Amplified fluorescence quenching in high ionic strength media
13 September 2007
John de Mello tells Soft Matter about his hot communication.
Hot communication: Enzyme-triggered cell attachment to hydrogel surfaces
23 February 2007
Rein Ulijn tells Soft Matter about his hot communication
Hot paper: Bioinspired functional block copolymers
12 January 2007
Hans G. Börner and Helmut Schlaad discuss the approaches to sophisticated functional hybrid block copolymers.
Hot paper: Integrins and syndecan-4 make distinct, but critical, contributions to adhesion contact formation
04 January 2007
Martin Humphries tells Soft Matter about his hot paper in the Proteins and Cells at Functional Interfaces theme issue.
Undulation instability in block-copolymer lamellae subjected to a perpendicular electric field
Mark W. Matsen, Soft Matter, 2006, 2, 1048
DOI: 10.1039/b611064a
Curvature and spatial organization in biological membranes
Raghuveer Parthasarathy and Jay T. Groves, Soft Matter, 2007, 3, 24
DOI: 10.1039/b608631d
Engineered networks of oriented microtubule filaments for directed cargo transport
Robert K. Doot, Henry Hess and Viola Vogel, Soft Matter, 2007, 3, 349
DOI: 10.1039/b607281j
Anion hopping of (and on) functional oligoarginines: from chloroform to cells
Naomi Sakai, Shiroh Futaki and Stefan Matile, Soft Matter, 2006, 2, 636
DOI: 10.1039/b606955j
Soft matters in cell adhesion: rigidity sensing on soft elastic substrates
Ulrich Schwarz, Soft Matter, 2007, 3, 263
DOI: 10.1039/b606409d
Three computational methods for studying permeation, selectivity and dynamics in biological ion channels
Shin-Ho Chung and Ben Corry, Soft Matter, 2005, 1, 417
DOI: 10.1039/b512455g
Type I collagen, a versatile liquid crystal biological template for silica structuration from nano- to microscopic scales
David Eglin, Gervaise Mosser, Marie-Madeleine Giraud-Guille, Jacques Livage and Thibaud Coradin, Soft Matter, 2005, 1, 129
DOI: 10.1039/b503019f
Development and application of diazirines in biological and synthetic macromolecular systems
Anton Blencowe and Wayne Hayes, Soft Matter, 2005, 1, 178
DOI: 10.1039/b501989c
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