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Front cover
Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 1745
DOI: 10.1039/b907082f

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Inside front cover
Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 1746
DOI: 10.1039/b907083b

Contents
Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 1747
DOI: 10.1039/b907085k

Highlights

Random packing of model polymers: local structure, topological hindrance and universal scaling
Manuel Laso, Nikos Ch. Karayiannis, Katerina Foteinopoulou, Marc L. Mansfield and Martin Kröger,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 1762
DOI: 10.1039/b820264h

Active soft glassy rheology of adherent cells
Philip Kollmannsberger and Ben Fabry,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 1771
DOI: 10.1039/b820228a

Review

Surface engineering of macroporous polypropylene membranes
Ling-Shu Wan, Zhen-Mei Liu and Zhi-Kang Xu,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 1775
DOI: 10.1039/b813600a

Communications

Cellulose decorated cavities on ultrathin films of PMMA
Eero Kontturi, Leena-Sisko Johansson and Janne Laine,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 1786
DOI: 10.1039/b901059a

Bending of peptide nanotubes by focused electron and ion beams
Nidhi Gour and Sandeep Verma,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 1789
DOI: 10.1039/b901228a

Self-assembly of amorphous biophotonic nanostructures by phase separation
Eric R. Dufresne, Heeso Noh, Vinodkumar Saranathan, Simon G. J. Mochrie, Hui Cao and Richard O. Prum,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 1792
DOI: 10.1039/b902775k

Papers

Structural polymorphism in heterogeneous cytoskeletal networks
Oliver Lieleg, Kurt M. Schmoller, Christian J. Cyron, Yuxia Luan, Wolfgang A. Wall and Andreas R. Bausch,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 1796
DOI: 10.1039/b814555p

Dynamic cell behavior on synthetic hydrogels with different charge densities
Yong Mei Chen, Rie Ogawa, Akira Kakugo, Yoshihito Osada and Jian Ping Gong,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 1804
DOI: 10.1039/b818586g

Miktoarm stars of poly(ethylene oxide) and poly(dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate): manipulation of micellization by temperature and light
Felix A. Plamper, Jason R. McKee, Antti Laukkanen, Antti Nykänen, Andreas Walther, Janne Ruokolainen, Vladimir Aseyev and Heikki Tenhu,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 1812
DOI: 10.1039/b822143j

Complex formation and other phase transformations mapped in saturated phosphatidylcholine/DSPE-PEG2000 monolayers
Monica M. Lozano and Marjorie L. Longo,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 1822
DOI: 10.1039/b820070j

Global signaling of localized impact in chemo-responsive gels
Olga Kuksenok, Victor V. Yashin and Anna C. Balazs,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 1835
DOI: 10.1039/b821838b

At the boundary to banana-shaped liquid crystals: polar properties of phases formed by new asymmetric achiral four-ring bent-core mesogens
Wolfgang Weissflog, Ulrike Dunemann, Sonja Findeisen-Tandel, Maria Gabriela Tamba, Horst Kresse, Gerhard Pelzl, Siegmar Diele, Ute Baumeister, Alexey Eremin, Stefan Stern and Ralf Stannarius,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 1840
DOI: 10.1039/b819758j

Synthesis and characterization of block copolymers comprising a polyrotaxane middle block flanked by two brush-like PCL blocks
Xinming Tong, Xiaowen Zhang, Lin Ye, Ai-ying Zhang and Zeng-guo Feng,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 1848
DOI: 10.1039/b818819j

A new method for maintaining homogeneity during liquid–hydrogel transitions using low molecular weight hydrogelators
Dave J. Adams, Michael F. Butler, William J. Frith, Mark Kirkland, Leanne Mullen and Paul Sanderson,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 1856
DOI: 10.1039/b901556f

Towards a general organogelator: combining a versatile scaffold and an efficient linking process
Giacomo Ghini, Luisa Lascialfari, Claudia Vinattieri, Stefano Cicchi, Alberto Brandi, Debora Berti, Francesca Betti, Piero Baglioni and Matteo Mannini,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 1863
DOI: 10.1039/b819345b

Formation and material properties of giant liquid crystal polymersomes
Elyes Mabrouk, Damien Cuvelier, Lea-Laetitia Pontani, Bing Xu, Daniel Lévy, Patrick Keller, Françoise Brochard-Wyart, Pierre Nassoy and Min-Hui Li,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 1870
DOI: 10.1039/b815817g

Friction between like-charged hydrogels—combined mechanisms of boundary, hydrated and elastohydrodynamic lubrication
Shinsuke Oogaki, Go Kagata, Takayuki Kurokawa, Shinya Kuroda, Yoshihito Osada and Jian Ping Gong,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 1879
DOI: 10.1039/b815102d

Assembling and de-assembling micelles: competitive interactions of cyclodextrins and drugs with Pluronics
Cécile A. Dreiss, Ekene Nwabunwanne, Rong Liu and Nicholas J. Brooks,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 1888
DOI: 10.1039/b812805g

Forces of interaction between surfaces bearing looped polymer brushes in good solvent
Jose Alonzo, Jimmy W. Mays and S. Michael Kilbey II,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 1897
DOI: 10.1039/b812534a

Smart microgel catalyst with modulatory glutathione peroxidase activity
Xin Huang, Yanzhen Yin, Yong Tang, Xiaolong Bai, Zhiming Zhang, Jiayun Xu, Junqiu Liu and Jiacong Shen,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 1905
DOI: 10.1039/b816888a

Coarse-grained model for polybenzylether dendritic molecules
Juan J. Freire,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 1912
DOI: 10.1039/b818245k

A photo-modulatable material for probing cellular responses to substrate rigidity
Margo T. Frey and Yu-li Wang,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 1918
DOI: 10.1039/b818104g

Rheological investigation of single-walled carbon nanotubes – induced structural ordering in CTAB solutions
Ofra Ben-David, Einat Nativ-Roth, Rachel Yerushalmi-Rozen and Moshe Gottlieb,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 1925
DOI: 10.1039/b820404g

Like-charge interactions between colloidal particles are asymmetric with respect to sign
Esther W. Gomez, Nathan G. Clack, Hung-Jen Wu and Jay T. Groves,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 1931
DOI: 10.1039/b821510c

Oscillatory rheology of aqueous foams: surfactant, liquid fraction, experimental protocol and aging effects
S. Marze, R. M. Guillermic and A. Saint-Jalmes,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 1937
DOI: 10.1039/b817543h

Back cover
Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 1947
DOI: 10.1039/b907086a