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Publishing frequency: 48 issues per year
Immediacy index: 0.823
Indexed in MEDLINE
Editor-in-Chief: Darrin Pochan
Scope
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. 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.
- Bulk soft matter assemblies, including colloids, granular matter, liquid crystals, networks, polymers, hybrids and active matter
- Soft nanotechnology and self-assembly
- Biological aspects of soft matter
- Surfaces, interfaces and interactions
- Mechanistic insights and modelling
Editor-in-Chief
Darrin Pochan, University of Delaware, USA
Associate editors
Tommy Angelini, University of Florida, USA
Alfred Crosby, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Jan Dhont, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Ewa Górecka, Warsaw University, Poland
Jianbin Huang, Peking University, China
Paul Janmey, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Sanat Kumar, Columbia University, USA
Zhihong Nie, Fudan University, China
Amy Shen, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Dimitris Vlassopoulos, FORTH-IESL, Greece
Emanuela Zaccarelli, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Xuehua Zhang,University of Alberta, Canada
Editorial Board Members
Gijsje Koenderink, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Dave Adams, University of Glasgow, UK
Dongchan Ahn, The Dow Chemical Company, USA
Markus Antonietti, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany
Omar Azzaroni, UNLP, Argentina
Piero Baglioni, University of Florence, Italy
Anna Balazs, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Arindam Banerjee, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India
Madivala Basavaraj, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
Patricia Bassereau, Physico Chimie Curie Lab, France
Jasna Brujic, New York University, USA
Jacinta Conrad, University of Houston, USA
Vincent Craig, Australian National University, Australia
Carmen Domene, University of Bath, UK
Zahra Fakhraai, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Glenn Fredrickson, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Emanuela Del Gado, Georgetown University, USA
Valeria Garbin, Imperial College London, UK
Jian Ping Gong, Hokkaido University, Japan
Ian Hamley, University of Reading, UK
Lucio Isa, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Eugenia Kumacheva, University of Toronto, Canada
Oleg Lavrentovich, Kent State University, USA
Junbai Li, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Christos Likos, University of Vienna, Austria
Dongsheng Liu, Tsinghua University, China
Tom McLeish, University of York, UK
Bradley Olsen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Rossana Pasquino, The University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Susan Perkin, University of Oxford, UK
Sarah Perry, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
David Quéré, ESPCI, France
Sriram Ramaswamy, Indian Institute of Science, India
Meital Reches, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Alejandro Rey, McGill University, Canada
Connie Roth, Emory University, USA
Michael Rubenstein, Duke University, USA
Sam Safran, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Takamasa Sakai, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Peter Schurtenberger, Lund University, Sweden
Kathleen Stebe, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Joakim Stenhammar, Lund University, Sweden
Howard Stone, Princeton University, USA
Hajime Tanaka, University of Tokyo, Japan
Evelyne van Ruymbeke, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Jan Vermant, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Petia Vlahovska, Northwestern University, USA
Yilin Wang, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Catherine Whitby, Massey University, New Zealand
Tim White, University of Colorado, USA
Duyang Zang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Maria Southall, Executive Editor, Journals, ORCID 0000-0002-7935-6231
Hannah Kerr, Deputy Editor, Journals
Emily Skinner, Editorial Production Manager, Journals
Laura Ghandhi, Development Editor, Journals
Daniella Ferluccio, Publishing Editor, Journals
Fiona Iddon, Publishing Editor, Journals
Sophie Redman, Editorial Assistant, Journals
Allison Holloway, Publishing Assistant, Journals
Sam Keltie, Publisher, Journals, ORCID 0000-0002-9369-8414
Article templates
To help authors publish their research with us we host our Soft Matter LaTeX template in the Overleaf authoring tool. Overleaf simplifies LaTeX authorship by enabling collaborators to easily prepare and edit their manuscripts with realtime format previewing, simple document sharing and collaboration, and user support and LaTeX help.
With one-click, the PDF of your manuscript and a ZIP file of the LaTeX source files are sent directly to the Soft Matter submission system without the need to download and re-upload files, making the process quicker and easier.
A free introductory course is available to authors who are new to LaTeX and Overleaf. Our Microsoft Word templates are located in our author guidelines.
Journal guidelines
There are no specific requirements regarding formatting of submissions; we recommend using the Royal Society of Chemistry template but this is not a requirement for submission. All articles accepted for publication in our journals are edited and typeset to our house style by professional editors; we will format the final publication for you.
The following guidelines are journal specific. For general guidance on preparing an article please visit our Prepare your article and Resources for authors pages, the content of which is relevant to all of our journals.
Readership information
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
Soft Matter Lectureship
This Lectureship recognises early career researchers, within 12 years of their PhD, who have made a significant contribution to the field of soft matter.
This award is presented annually. Nominations are now open until 30th November 2020. The winner will be announced in the spring.
Nominations are welcome from anyone, and are to be sent to the Editorial Office with a brief CV and letter supporting the nomination.
Nominations are then shortlisted and the winner selected by the Soft Matter Editorial Board.
The recipient of this award receives: a contribution of £1,000 to support the presentation of the recipients research at an international conference. Also, a framed certificate and an invitation to submit a research article to Soft Matter, which, if accepted, will be showcased free of charge on the front cover.
Latest recipient: Valeria Garbin, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
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Subscription information
Soft Matter is part of collections RSC Gold and Materials Science
Online only 2021: ISSN 1744-6848, £1,567 / $2,761
*2019 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2020)
** Average time from receipt to first decision in 2020
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