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Where physics meets chemistry meets biology for fundamental soft matter research.



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


Amplified fluorescence quenching in high ionic strength media

Hot article: Amplified fluorescence quenching in high ionic strength media

13 September 2007

John de Mello tells Soft Matter about his hot communication.


Enzyme-triggered cell attachment to hydrogel surfaces

Hot communication: Enzyme-triggered cell attachment to hydrogel surfaces

23 February 2007

Rein Ulijn tells Soft Matter about his hot communication


Bioinspired functional block copolymers

Hot paper: Bioinspired functional block copolymers

12 January 2007

Hans G. Börner and Helmut Schlaad discuss the approaches to sophisticated functional hybrid block copolymers.


Human fibrolast

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


Biological soft matter

Including reviews on cell adhesion, biomaterials and biological membranes

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