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



Soft Matter hot papers


Liquid crystals


Soft Matter hot papers featured in this liquid crystal 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. 


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

Surface ordering and capillary phenomena of confined hard cut-sphere particles

Hot paper: Surface ordering and capillary phenomena of confined hard cut-sphere particles

15 May 2007

Amparo Galindo tells Soft Matter about her hot paper


Influence of the core structure on the development of polar order and superstructural chirality in liquid crystalline phases formed by silylated bent-core molecules: lateral substituents

Hot paper: Influence of the core structure on polar order and superstructural chirality in liquid crystalline phases

29 January 2007

R. Amaranatha Reddy and Carsten Tschierske discuss their hot paper on bent-core liquid crystals.


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

Liquid crystals

Including reviews on liquid crystalline elastomers, liquid crystal phases and photoswitching in liquid crystals

Hot paper archive

Recent hot articles, organised by subject