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Front cover
Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 3529
DOI: 10.1039/b918649m

front cover image for Soft Matter, Issue 19, 2009


Inside front cover
Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 3530
DOI: 10.1039/b918650f

Contents
Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 3531
DOI: 10.1039/b918652m

Highlights

Advances and challenges in smart and functional polymer vesicles
Jianzhong Du and Rachel K. O'Reilly,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 3544
DOI: 10.1039/b905635a

Coupling of soft technology (layer-by-layer assembly) with hard materials (mesoporous solids) to give hierarchic functional structures
Katsuhiko Ariga, Qingmin Ji, Jonathan P. Hill and Ajayan Vinu,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 3562
DOI: 10.1039/b909397d

Review

Impact strength of polymer-clay nanocomposites
Biqiong Chen and Julian R. G. Evans,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 3572
DOI: 10.1039/b902073j

Communications

Composite soft-matter nanoscale objects: Nanocylinder-templated assembly of nanospheres
Ke Zhang, Huafeng Fang, Zhou Li, Jun Ma, Sophia V. Hohlbauch, John-Stephen A. Taylor and Karen L. Wooley,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 3585
DOI: 10.1039/b908871g

A schizophrenic gradient copolymer: switching and reversing poly(2-oxazoline) micelles based on UCST and subtle solvent changes
Richard Hoogenboom, Hanneke M. L. Lambermont-Thijs, Mark J. H. C. Jochems, Stephanie Hoeppener, Claire Guerlain, Charles-André Fustin, Jean-François Gohy and Ulrich S. Schubert,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 3590
DOI: 10.1039/b912491h

Carbon nanofiber/polyetherimide composite membranes with special dielectric properties
Gang Sui, Bin Li, Graham Bratzel, Loren Baker, Wei-Hong Zhong and Xiao-Ping Yang,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 3593
DOI: 10.1039/b904030g

Tunable attractive and repulsive interactions between pH-responsive microgels
Jae Kyu Cho, Zhiyong Meng, L. Andrew Lyon and Victor Breedveld,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 3599
DOI: 10.1039/b912105f

Red blood cell thermal fluctuations: comparison between experiment and molecular dynamics simulations
John P. Hale, Gianluca Marcelli, Kim H. Parker, C. Peter Winlove and Peter G. Petrov,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 3603
DOI: 10.1039/b910422d

Polymersomes hydrophilic brush scaling relations
Thomas P. Smart, Oleksandr O. Mykhaylyk, Anthony J. Ryan and Giuseppe Battaglia,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 3607
DOI: 10.1039/b908731a

Papers

Solid-supported thin elastomer films deformed by microdrops
Ramon Pericet-Camara, Günter K. Auernhammer, Kaloian Koynov, Simone Lorenzoni, Roberto Raiteri and Elmar Bonaccurso,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 3611
DOI: 10.1039/b907212h

Rheological properties of bent-core liquid crystals
C. Bailey, K. Fodor-Csorba, J. T. Gleeson, S. N. Sprunt and A. Jákli,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 3618
DOI: 10.1039/b907261f

Polymer stabilization of phototunable cholesteric liquid crystals
Timothy J. White, Rebecca L. Bricker, Lalgudi V. Natarajan, Svetlana V. Serak, Nelson V. Tabiryan and Timothy J. Bunning,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 3623
DOI: 10.1039/b906758b

Mesophases of soft-sphere aggregates
Homin Shin, Gregory M. Grason and Christian D. Santangelo,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 3629
DOI: 10.1039/b904103f

Mesoscale structure of diffusion-limited aggregates of colloidal rods and disks
Jacob R. Rothenbuhler, Jung-Ren Huang, Brian A. DiDonna, Alex J. Levine and Thomas G. Mason,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 3639
DOI: 10.1039/b909740f

Interaction of sodium dodecyl sulfate and high charge density comb polymers at the silica/water interface
Mauro Moglianetti, Richard A. Campbell, Tommy Nylander, Imre Varga, Biswarajan Mohanty, Per M. Claesson, Ricardas Makuka and Simon Titmuss,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 3646
DOI: 10.1039/b905270d

Growth of fibrous aggregates of silica nanoparticles: Fibre growth by mimicking the biogenic silica patterning processes
Muhammad Nawaz Tahir, Filipe Natalio, Rüdiger Berger, Matthias Barz, Patrick Theato, Heinz-Christoph Schröder, Werner E. G. Müller and Wolfgang Tremel,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 3657
DOI: 10.1039/b905178c

Effect of template on the formation of phase-inversed molecularly imprinted polymer thin films: an assessment
Nicholas W. Turner, Natalie Holmes, Carrie Brisbane, Andrew B. McGeachie, Michael C. Bowyer, Adam McCluskey and Clovia I. Holdsworth,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 3663
DOI: 10.1039/b902468a

Alignment control of liquid crystal molecules using crack induced self-assembled grooves
Tzu-Chieh Lin, Li-Chen Huang, Tsu-Ruey Chou and Chih-Yu Chao,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 3672
DOI: 10.1039/b911567f

Spatial resolution in chitosan-based programmable biomolecular scaffolds
Susan L. Buckhout-White and Gary W. Rubloff,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 3677
DOI: 10.1039/b820356c

Mechanical properties of individual microgel particles through the deswelling transition
Sara M. Hashmi and Eric R. Dufresne,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 3682
DOI: 10.1039/b906051k

Reversible dry micro-fibrillar adhesives with thermally controllable adhesion
Seok Kim, Metin Sitti, Tao Xie and Xingcheng Xiao,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 3689
DOI: 10.1039/b909885b

Multiple free energy minima in systems of confined tethered polymers—toward soft nanomechanical bistable elements
Yu Zhang, Juan J. de Pablo and Michael D. Graham,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 3694
DOI: 10.1039/b909147e

Manipulating the thermoresponsive behaviour of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) 3. On the conformational behaviour of N-isopropylacrylamide graft copolymers
Choong-Kooi Chee, Barry J. Hunt, Stephen Rimmer, Ramune Rutkaite, Ian Soutar and Linda Swanson,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 3701
DOI: 10.1039/b903356d

The role of hydration in the wetting of a soluble polymer
Cécile Monteux, Astrid Tay, Tetsuharu Narita, Yannick De Wilde and François Lequeux,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 3713
DOI: 10.1039/b907015j

The effect of salt on the association between linear cationic polyelectrolytes and sodium dodecyl sulfate
Ágnes Ábrahám, Amália Mezei and Róbert Mészáros,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 3718
DOI: 10.1039/b903158h

Solvent-free construction of self-assembled 1D nanostructures from low-molecular-weight organogelators: sublimation vs. gelation
Daniela S. Tsekova, José A. Sáez, Beatriu Escuder and Juan F. Miravet,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 3727
DOI: 10.1039/b902516b

Red blood cell deformation in microconfined flow
Giovanna Tomaiuolo, Marino Simeone, Vincenzo Martinelli, Bruno Rotoli and Stefano Guido,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 3736
DOI: 10.1039/b904584h

Polystyrene grafting from silica nanoparticles via nitroxide-mediated polymerization (NMP): synthesis and SANS analysis with the contrast variation method
Chloé Chevigny, Didier Gigmes, Denis Bertin, Jacques Jestin and François Boué,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 3741
DOI: 10.1039/b906754j

The supramolecular structure of melanin
Andrew A. R. Watt, Jacques P. Bothma and Paul Meredith,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 3754
DOI: 10.1039/b902507c

Synthesis, thermomorphic characteristics, and fluorescent properties of poly[2,7-(9,9-dihexylfluorene)]-block-poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-block-poly(N-hydroxyethylacrylamide) rod-coil-coil triblock copolymers
Sung-Tso Lin, Keita Fuchise, Yougen Chen, Ryosuke Sakai, Toshifumi Satoh, Toyoji Kakuchi and Wen-Chang Chen,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 3761
DOI: 10.1039/b907764b

Back cover
Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 3771
DOI: 10.1039/b918653k