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Front cover
Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 693
DOI: 10.1039/b901769k

front cover image for Soft Matter, Issue 4, 2009

Inside front cover
Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 694
DOI: 10.1039/b901771m

Contents
Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 695
DOI: 10.1039/b901772k

Highlights

Advanced nanogel engineering for drug delivery
Koen Raemdonck, Joseph Demeester and Stefaan De Smedt,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 707
DOI: 10.1039/b811923f

Nanostructural features on stable microbubbles
Mark Borden,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 716
DOI: 10.1039/b815506b

Review

Structure and function revealed with submolecular resolution at the liquid–solid interface
Johannes A. A. W. Elemans and Steven De Feyter,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 721
DOI: 10.1039/b811090e

Communications

The electrostatic origin of chiral patterns on nanofibers
Graziano Vernizzi, Kevin L. Kohlstedt and Monica Olvera de la Cruz,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 736
DOI: 10.1039/b814583k

Rapid rheological screening to identify conditions of biomaterial hydrogelation
Kelly M. Schultz, Aaron D. Baldwin, Kristi L. Kiick and Eric M. Furst,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 740
DOI: 10.1039/b818178k

Highly uniform micro-cavity arrays in flexible elastomer film
Shahab Shojaei-Zadeh, Shaun R. Swanson and Shelley L. Anna,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 743
DOI: 10.1039/b808109c

Nano-donuts from pH-dependent block restructuring in amphiphilic ABA triblock copolymer vesicles at the air-water interface
Jin Young Park, Ming Liu, Jimmy Mays, Mark Dadmun and Rigoberto Advincula,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 747
DOI: 10.1039/b810149c

Papers

Semi-fluorinated phosphonic acids form stable nanoscale clusters in Langmuir–Blodgett and self-assembled monolayers
Siwar Trabelsi, Shishan Zhang, Zhongcheng Zhang, T. Randall Lee and Daniel K. Schwartz,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 750
DOI: 10.1039/b813742k

Effect of block sequence and block length on the stimuli-responsive behavior of polyampholyte brushes: hydrogen bonding and electrostatic interaction as the driving force for surface rearrangement
Kai Yu and Yanchun Han,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 759
DOI: 10.1039/b805611k

Study of blood flow impact on growth of thrombi using a multiscale model
Zhiliang Xu, Nan Chen, Shawn C. Shadden, Jerrold E. Marsden, Malgorzata M. Kamocka, Elliot D. Rosen and Mark Alber,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 769
DOI: 10.1039/b812429a

Exploring the transition from wall slip to bulk shearing banding in well-entangled DNA solutions
Pouyan E. Boukany and Shi-Qing Wang,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 780
DOI: 10.1039/b804791j

Capacity-controllable nanocarriers for metal ions
Yun Yan, Arie de Keizer, Martien A. Cohen Stuart and Nicolaas A. M. Besseling,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 790
DOI: 10.1039/b811497h

Photogelling fluids based on light-activated growth of zwitterionic wormlike micelles
Rakesh Kumar and Srinivasa R. Raghavan,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 797
DOI: 10.1039/b809452g

Click chemistry as a means to functionalize macroporous PolyHIPE
David Cummins, Christopher J. Duxbury, Peter J. L. M. Quaedflieg, Pieter C. M. M. Magusin, Cor E. Koning and Andreas Heise,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 804
DOI: 10.1039/b810823d

3-dimensional control over lamella orientation and order in thick block copolymer films
Violetta Olszowka, Larisa Tsarkova and Alexander Böker,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 812
DOI: 10.1039/b814365j

The formation of crystalline hydrogel films by self-crosslinking microgels
Jun Zhou, Guonan Wang, Manuel Marquez and Zhibing Hu,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 820
DOI: 10.1039/b814830a

Fabrication of stable anisotropic microcapsules
Huda A. Jerri, Rachel A. Dutter and Darrell Velegol,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 827
DOI: 10.1039/b816062g

Polymer stabilisation of twisted smectic liquid crystal defect states
Paul Archer and Ingo Dierking,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 835
DOI: 10.1039/b816274c

Stability of hydrogen-bonded hydroxypropylcellulose/poly(acrylic acid) microcapsules in aqueous solutions
Ying Guan, Yongjun Zhang, Ting Zhou and Shuiqin Zhou,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 842
DOI: 10.1039/b815913k

Effect of encapsulated polymers and nanoparticles on shear deformation of droplets
O. Berk Usta, Dennis Perchak, Andrew Clarke, Julia M. Yeomans and Anna C. Balazs,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 850
DOI: 10.1039/b815148b

Blooming theory of tristearin
Hiroyuki Mayama,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 856
DOI: 10.1039/b815005b

Salt-induced erosion of hydrogen-bonded layer-by-layer assembled films
Wang Lin, Ying Guan, Yongjun Zhang, Jian Xu and X. X. Zhu,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 860
DOI: 10.1039/b813614a

Counterion-mediated electrostatic interactions between helical molecules
M. Kandu, J. Dobnikar and R. Podgornik,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 868
DOI: 10.1039/b811795k

Lowering the percolation threshold of single-walled carbon nanotubes using polystyrene/poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene): poly(styrene sulfonate) blends
Marie Claire Hermant, Bert Klumperman, Andriy V. Kyrylyuk, Paul van der Schoot and Cor E. Koning,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 878
DOI: 10.1039/b814976c

Oriented assembly of anisotropic particles by capillary interactions
Eric P. Lewandowski, Jorge A. Bernate, Alice Tseng, Peter C. Searson and Kathleeen J. Stebe,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 886
DOI: 10.1039/b812257a

Modelling crystallization and melting kinetics of cocoa butter in chocolate and application to confectionery manufacturing
B. J. D. Le Révérend, P. J. Fryer and S. Bakalis,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 891
DOI: 10.1039/b809446b

Back cover
Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 903
DOI: 10.1039/b901773a