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Soft Matter

An interdisciplinary journal focusing on innovative soft matter topics through original research and reviews.

Editor-in-Chief: Alfred Crosby

Open Access: Hybrid

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Soft Matter provides a unique forum for the communication of significant advances in interdisciplinary soft matter research. There is a particular focus on the interface between chemistry, physics, materials science, biology and chemical engineering.

ISSN 1744-6848

Indexed in: MEDLINE

Journal Impact factor

2.8 (2024)

First decision time (all)

29 days

First decision time (peer reviewed)

35 days

Scope

 Research may report new soft materials or phenomena, encompass their design, synthesis, and use in new applications; or provide fundamental insight and observations on their behaviour. Experimental, theoretical and computational soft matter approaches are encouraged.

The scope of Soft Matter covers the following.

  • Soft matter assemblies, including colloids, granular matter, liquid crystals, gels & networks, polymers, hybrid materials, active matter and further examples
  • Soft nanotechnology, soft robotics and devices
  • Synthesis, self-assembly and directed assembly
  • Biological aspects of soft matter including proteins, biopolymers, cells and tissues
  • Surfaces, interfaces and interactions
  • Phase behaviour, coacervation and rheological behaviour
  • Sustainable soft materials including recycling, circular economy and end of life
  • Mechanistic insights and modelling

Readership

Soft Matter has a global circulation and interdisciplinary audience.

  • Physicists
  • Biophysicists
  • Bioengineers
  • Biological scientists
  • Biochemists
  • Chemical engineers
  • Materials scientists
  • Surface scientists
  • Physical, organic and theoretical chemists


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Alfred Crosby

Alfred Crosby

Editor-in-Chief

University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Roberto Cerbino

Roberto Cerbino

Associate editor

University of Vienna

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Lorna Dougan

Lorna Dougan

Associate editor

University of Leeds

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Ewa Górecka

Ewa Górecka

Associate editor

Warsaw University

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Guruswamy Kumaraswamy

Guruswamy Kumaraswamy

Associate editor

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

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Sanat Kumar

Sanat Kumar

Associate editor

Columbia University

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Zhihong Nie

Zhihong Nie

Associate editor

Fudan University

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Amy Shen

Amy Shen

Associate editor

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology

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Lixin Wu

Lixin Wu

Associate editor

Jilin University

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Emanuela Zaccarelli

Emanuela Zaccarelli

Associate editor

Sapienza University of Rome

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Xuehua Zhang

Xuehua Zhang

Associate editor

University of Alberta

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David Díaz Díaz

David Díaz Díaz

Editorial board member

 University of La Laguna

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Dave Adams

University of Glasgow

Dongchan Ahn

Dow Chemical Company

Tommy Angelini

University of Florida

Markus Antonietti

Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces

Omar Azzaroni

UNLP

Piero Baglioni

University of Florence

Anna Balazs

University of Pittsburgh

Arindam Banerjee

Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science

Madivala Basavaraj

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Patricia Bassereau

Physico Chimie Curie Lab

Stefan Bon

University of Warwick

Jasna Brujic

New York University

Jacinta Conrad

University of Houston

Vincent Craig

Australian National University

Emanuela Del Gado

Georgetown University

Jan Dhont

Forschungszentrum Jülich

Carmen Domene

University of Bath

Zahra Fakhraai

University of Pennsylvania

Glenn Fredrickson

University of California Santa Barbara

Valeria Garbin

Delft University of Technology

Jian Ping Gong

Hokkaido University

Ian Hamley

University of Reading

Jianbin Huang

Peking University

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Lucio Isa

ETH Zürich

Paul Janmey

University of Pennsylvania

Gijsje Koenderink

Delft University of Technology

Daniela Kraft

Leiden University

Eugenia Kumacheva

University of Toronto

Oleg Lavrentovich

Kent State University

Junbai Li

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Christos Likos

University of Vienna

Dongsheng Liu

Tsinghua University

Bradley Olsen

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Rossana Pasquino

University of Naples Federico II

Susan Perkin

University of Oxford

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Sarah Perry

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Darrin Pochan

University of Delaware

David Quéré

ESPCI

Sriram Ramaswamy

Indian Institute of Science

Meital Reches

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Alejandro Rey

McGill University

Connie Roth

Emory University

Michael Rubinstein

Duke University

Sam Safran

Weizmann Institute of Science

Takamasa Sakai

The University of Tokyo

Peter Schurtenberger

Lund University

Kathleen Stebe

University of Pennsylvania

Joakim Stenhammar

Lund University

Howard Stone

Princeton University

Hajime Tanaka

University of Tokyo

Evelyne van Ruymbeke

Université catholique de Louvain

Jan Vermant

ETH Zürich

Petia Vlahovska

Northwestern University

Dimitris Vlassopoulos

FORTH-IESL

Yilin Wang

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Catherine Whitby

 Massey University

Tim White

University of Colorado

Duyang Zang

Northwestern Polytechnical University

Maria Southall

Executive Editor

Kay Burrows

Deputy Editor

Emily Skinner

Editorial Manager

Molly Colgate

Assistant Editor

Katie Morton

Assistant Editor

Charu Storr-Vijay

Assistant Editor

Alison Winder

Assistant Editor

Basita Javeed

Editorial Assistant

Allison Holloway

Publishing Assistant

Sam Keltie

Publisher

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