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Soft Matter

A new journal providing a forum for the communication of generic science underpinning the properties and applications of soft matter.



Soft Matter Review Articles:


Biological soft matter


This page presents review articles published in Soft Matter in 2005-2007 in the area of biological soft matter

Reviews, Highlights and Emerging Areas

Access all the Reviews, Highlights and Emerging Areas published in Soft Matter


Aggregation in -lactoglobulin
Athene M. Donald, Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 1147
DOI: 10.1039/b800106e


Vesicles and red blood cells in shear flow
Manouk Abkarian and Annie Viallat, Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 653
DOI: 10.1039/b716612e


Nanomechanics of polymer gels and biological tissues: A critical review of analytical approaches in the Hertzian regime and beyond
David C. Lin and Ferenc Horkay, Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 669
DOI: 10.1039/b714637j


Possibilities for smart materials exploiting the self-assembly of polypeptides into fibrils
Kevin Channon and Cait E. MacPhee, Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 647
DOI: 10.1039/b713013a


Peptide- and protein-mediated assembly of heparinized hydrogels
Kristi L. Kiick, Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 29
DOI: 10.1039/b711319f


Covalently immobilized biosignal molecule materials for tissue engineering
Yoshihiro Ito, Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 46
DOI: 10.1039/b708359a


Curable, biodegradable elastomers: emerging biomaterials for drug delivery and tissue engineering
Brian Amsden, Soft Matter, 2007, 3, 1335
DOI: 10.1039/b707472g


Intelligent behaviors of amoeboid movement based on complex dynamics of soft matter
Toshiyuki Nakagaki and Robert D. Guy, Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 57
DOI: 10.1039/b706317m


Giant vesicles in electric fields
Rumiana Dimova, Karin A. Riske, Said Aranda, Natalya Bezlyepkina, Roland L. Knorr and Reinhard Lipowsky, Soft Matter, 2007, 3, 817
DOI: 10.1039/b703580b


Conducting polymers – bridging the bionic interface
Gordon Wallace and Geoffrey Spinks, Soft Matter, 2007, 3, 665
DOI: 10.1039/b618204f


Cell motility on micropatterned treadmills and tracks
Kristiana Kandere-Grzybowska, Christopher J. Campbell, Goher Mahmud, Yulia Komarova, Siowling Soh and Bartosz A. Grzybowski, Soft Matter, 2007, 3, 672
DOI: 10.1039/b617308j


Enzymatic control of the self-assembly of small molecules: a new way to generate supramolecular hydrogels
Zhimou Yang, Gaolin Liang and Bing Xu, Soft Matter, 2007, 3, 515
DOI: 10.1039/b700138j


Microcontact printing of proteins for neuronal cell guidance
Andreas Offenhäusser, Simone Böcker-Meffert, Tanja Decker, Rita Helpenstein, Peter Gasteier, Jürgen Groll, Martin Möller, Anna Reska, Susanne Schäfer, Petra Schulte and Angela Vogt-Eisele, Soft Matter, 2007, 3, 290
DOI: 10.1039/b607615g


Cellular chemomechanics at interfaces: sensing, integration and response
Philippe P. Girard, Elisabetta A. Cavalcanti-Adam, Ralf Kemkemer and Joachim P. Spatz, Soft Matter, 2007, 3, 307
DOI: 10.1039/b614008d


Microcontact printing: A tool to pattern
Sami Alom Ruiz and Christopher S. Chen, Soft Matter, 2007, 3, 168
DOI: 10.1039/b613349e


Vesicles as a model for controlled (de-)adhesion of cells: a thermodynamic approach
Ana-Sunana Smith and Udo Seifert, Soft Matter, 2007, 3, 275
DOI: 10.1039/b611892e


Self-assembly and applications of biomimetic and bioactive peptide-amphiphiles
Efrosini Kokkoli, Anastasia Mardilovich, Alison Wedekind, Emilie L. Rexeisen, Ashish Garg and Jennifer A. Craig, Soft Matter, 2006, 2, 1015
DOI: 10.1039/b608929a


Curvature and spatial organization in biological membranes
Raghuveer Parthasarathy and Jay T. Groves, Soft Matter, 2007, 3, 24
DOI: 10.1039/b608631d


Soft biological materials and their impact on cell function
Ilya Levental, Penelope C. Georges and Paul A. Janmey, Soft Matter, 2007, 3, 299
DOI: 10.1039/b610522j


Nanopatterning proteins and peptides
Karen L. Christman, Vanessa D. Enriquez-Rios and Heather D. Maynard, Soft Matter, 2006, 2, 928
DOI: 10.1039/b611000b


Dynamic control of biomolecular activity using electrical interfaces
Ian Y. Wong, Matthew J. Footer and Nicholas A. Melosh, Soft Matter, 2007, 3, 267
DOI: 10.1039/b607279h


Peptide-based stimuli-responsive biomaterials
Robert J. Mart, Rachel D. Osborne, Molly M. Stevens and Rein V. Ulijn, Soft Matter, 2006, 2, 822
DOI: 10.1039/b607706d


Soft drug delivery systems
Martin Malmsten, Soft Matter, 2006, 2, 760
DOI: 10.1039/b608348j


Soft matters in cell adhesion: rigidity sensing on soft elastic substrates
Ulrich Schwarz, Soft Matter, 2007, 3, 263
DOI: 10.1039/b606409d


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


Mineralized polysaccharide capsules as biomimetic microenvironments for cell, gene and growth factor delivery in tissue engineering
David W. Green, Stephen Mann and Richard O. C. Oreffo, Soft Matter, 2006, 2, 732
DOI: 10.1039/b604786f


The spinning processes for spider silk
Xin Chen, Zhengzhong Shao and Fritz Vollrath, Soft Matter, 2006, 2, 448
DOI: 10.1039/b601286h


Spider silk as archetypal protein elastomer
Fritz Vollrath and David Porter, Soft Matter, 2006, 2, 377
DOI: 10.1039/b600098n


The living test-tube: imaging of real-time gene expression
Yaron Shav-Tal, Soft Matter, 2006, 2, 361
DOI: 10.1039/b600234j


Layers of opportunity: nanostructured polymer assemblies for the delivery of macromolecular therapeutics
David M. Lynn, Soft Matter, 2006, 2, 269
DOI: 10.1039/b517860f


Engineering the nanoparticle–biomacromolecule interface
Chang-Cheng You, Ayush Verma and Vincent M. Rotello, Soft Matter, 2006, 2, 190
DOI: 10.1039/b517354j


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


Molecular assembly of biomimetic microcapsules
Junbai Li, Helmuth Möhwald, Zhihua An and Gang Lu, Soft Matter, 2005, 1, 259
DOI: 10.1039/b506092n


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