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Nanoscale Journals @nanoscale-journals.rsc.org · 23h

In honour of the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry, we’ve curated a collection of impactful articles from across RSC journals on metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) 🏆 Free to read until the end of November 👉 pubs.rsc.org/en/jour...

Promotional graphic with text reading: Celebrating the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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Nanoscale Journals @nanoscale-journals.rsc.org · 2d

In honour of the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology/Medicine, we’ve curated a collection of impactful articles from across RSC journals on peripheral immune tolerance and regulatory T cells🏆
Free to read until the end of November👉 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...
#NobelPrize

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · 2d

Nominations for the 2026 Soft Matter Lectureship are now open!

This annual award recognises early career researchers who have made major contributions to soft matter research.

Find out more, including how to nominate, on our webpage 👉 www.rsc.org/standards-an...

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · 16d

We're delighted to announce that Ankur Gupta has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 Soft Matter Lectureship!

This award honours an early-career researcher for their contributions to the soft matter field.

Learn more about Ankur and his research on our blog 👉 blogs.rsc.org/sm/2025/09/1...

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · 19d

Check out this front cover artwork celebrating the journal's 20th anniversary!

'Turbulent-like flows in quasi two-dimensional dense suspensions of motile colloids' by Rui Luo, Alexey Snezhko & Petia Vlahovska is #OA!

🔗https://rsc.li/4mkWqh3

Explore our milestone collection: rsc.li/3VKmhV3

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Royal Society of Chemistry @rsc.org · 29d

Do you want to stay ahead of developments in AI and learn first-hand experiences of applying them in your chemistry work?

Join leading experts to discuss best practice tips for working across disciplines.

Register now: https://rsc.li/4m2xzOU

#ChemSky

ChemSpider webinar on AI in chemistry - join us on 23 September

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · Sep 3

Check out the #OA Perspective, 'Materials science underpinnings of micro and nanoplastics', by our AEs Guruswamy Kumaraswamy & Sanat Kumar et al!

🔗rsc.li/4nbaYRh

Guru & Sanat are Guest Editors of the 'Underpinnings of Micro- and Nanoplastics' themed collection with Tom McDonald: rsc.li/3I5vtQi #🧪

Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · Aug 29

Check out this #OA work, 'Photodegradation-driven microparticle release from commercial plastic water bottles' led by Alexander Laskin et al!

🔗https://rsc.li/3JGXVZg

This work is part of Soft Matter's growing 'Underpinnings of Micro- and Nanoplastics' collection: rsc.li/4g03X3r

Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · Aug 27

Don't miss this front cover article in celebration of Soft Matter's 20th Anniversary!

Martin Reifarth's review on microscale patterning via microcontact printing is #OA
🔗rsc.li/4oUs5Zd

Read Soft Matter's 20th Anniversary collection for free until December 31st!🎈https://rsc.li/46byQys

#ChemSky #🧪

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Ricard Alert Zenón @ricardalert.bsky.social · Aug 27

Our paper about active crystals is now out @softmatter.rsc.org! During the revisions, we added a section about triangular lattices, on which the turn-towards or turn-away interactions can be frustrated. Check it out, and see the post below!

pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · Aug 20

We are pleased to present the themed collection Celebrating the 60th birthday and achievements of Professor Ulli Steiner

pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

All papers are FREE to read until 30 December 2025!

Read the Editorial introducing the collection
doi.org/10.1039/D5SM...

🧪 #Interfaces #Materials

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RSC Chemical Nanoscience & Nanotechnology @rsc-cnn.bsky.social · Aug 18

💥RSC CNN Paper of the Week💥

Surface functional group dependent enthalpic and entropic contributions to molecular adsorption on colloidal microplastics

Subir* (Ball State University)

Kanu, Soft Matter, 10.1039/D5SM00488H
@softmatter.rsc.org

#chemsky #nanosky

Surface functional group dependent enthalpic and entropic contributions to molecular adsorption on colloidal microplastics

Molecular interaction with micro- and nano-plastics (MNPs) is an important chemical process that dictates the fate and transport of organic contaminants, and that of MNPs, within the aquatic environme...

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · Aug 19

Congratulations to Sujit Datta who officially received the Soft Matter Lectureship 2024 award before giving his talk on living gels formed by bacteria growing in complex fluids!

Find out more about our winner and the Lectureship award: lnkd.in/eVXXQH6n

#ChemSky #🧪

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · Aug 15

Check out the cover article for Soft Matter Issue 32! 'Oxygen deficiency drives drastic pattern transition in algal bioconvection', by Azam Gholami et al (New York University Abu Dhabi, Lewis & Clark College)

🔗https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/sm/d5sm00451a

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · Aug 13

We have now published our 'Outstanding Reviewers for Soft Matter in 2024' Editorial!

You can read the Editorial here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SM...

Thank you to all of our reviewers for helping to preserve quality and integrity in the Soft Matter literature.

🧪 #SoftMatter

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · Aug 12

Our 2024 Lectureship winner Sujit Datta will be formally presented with his award prior to his talk at ACS next week!

Where: Rock Creek Salon A (The Westin DC Downtown), USA
When: 18/08/25, 2-2:50 pm (GMT-4)

Event details: lnkd.in/eKGCZ35N
Find out more about Sujit Datta: lnkd.in/eVXXQH6n

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · Aug 10

Our recent article "Run and tumble dynamics of active Janus vesicles" in @softmatter.rsc.org has been featured on the cover of the journal.

Check out the published article: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Congrats to Vivien Willems for this nice work!

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · Aug 6

Don't miss our catch up with authors of Soft Matter Tutorial Review 'Hacktive matter: data-driven discovery through hackathon-based cross-disciplinary coding'

Visit our LinkedIn post to find out more: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Read the review: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Hacktive matter: data-driven discovery through hackathon-based cross-disciplinary coding

The past decade has seen unprecedented growth in active matter and autonomous biomaterials research, yielding diverse classes of materials capable of flowing, contracting, bundling, de-mixing, and coa...

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Maria Southall @mgiannakou.bsky.social · Jul 31

Very much looking forward to this seminar on active matter by Kathleen and Sujit! Please register below to join us! @softmatter.rsc.org

Jim White @jimwhite-rsc.bsky.social · Jul 30

Join us next Tuesday, August 5 for our next Desktop Seminar! This webinar on Active Matter will feature Kathleen Stebe (UPenn) and Sujit Datta (Caltech).

Learn more and register here: rsc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

RSC Desktop Seminar on Active Matter
Tuesday 5 August 2025 at 2pm EDT/7pm BST
Watch live or on demand!

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Oliver Steinbock @osteinbock.bsky.social · Jul 24

Our new paper describes a synthetic "cell" that moves over superhydrophobic surfaces. It consists of an H2O2 drop and a chemical garden tube that spins like a propeller or orbits around a large internal O2 bubble; bursting causes repeating cm-scale motion. @softmatter.rsc.org doi.org/10.1039/D5SM...

Co-motion of catalytic tubes and host droplets on superhydrophobic surfaces

The ability to convert chemical energy into directed motion is a defining feature of living systems and a central goal in the design of synthetic active matter. Here, we report a self-propelling syste...

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · Jul 18

We were delighted to sponsor the plenary talk given by AB Member Emanuela Del Gado at #StatPhys29 in Florence. AE Emanuela Zaccarelli also attended and introduced the journal & our exciting 20th anniversary collection!

Read the collection here: rsc.li/soft-matter-20
Free to access until 31/12/25!

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SoftBio Colloids Lab @softbiocol.bsky.social · May 26

Publication Alert!🎉
🚀🧪 New paper out! @softmatter.rsc.org @rsc.org

We show that Janus lipid vesicles can self-propel under AC electric fields, exhibiting run-and-tumble dynamics—just like bacteria, but driven by membrane-phase behavior.
👉 Read here: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art

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Abhinendra Singh @asingh-case.bsky.social · Jun 20

Pumped for the first student work published and featured on the cover of @softmatter.rsc.org. We utilize a deepGNN framework to predict the frictional contact network in dense suspensions -- the first work on the machine learning approach. A tutorial below Link pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · Jun 20

Don't miss Soft Matter cover article, 'Scalability of a graph neural network in accurate prediction of frictional contact networks in suspensions', showcasing machine learning research from Professor Abhinendra Singh’s M2MvM Laboratory (@asingh-case.bsky.social‬)

#ChemSky #OA

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Maria Southall @mgiannakou.bsky.social · Apr 2

Looking forward to attending this event in Paris in June. Who else is planning to attend? @msde.rsc.org @softmatter.rsc.org @polymerchem.rsc.org #chemsky

Molecular Systems Design & Engineering @msde.rsc.org · Apr 2

Abstract submission for the Molecular Systems Engineering Workshop in Paris is now open!

Submit by 23rd April!

With invited talks from MSDE and Soft Matter Editor-in-chiefs Claire Adjiman and @aljcrosby.bsky.social

For more information visit 👉 www.rsc.org/events/detai...

🧪 #chemsky

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