Soft Matter Journal

Overview

publication venue for

• How smectic-A and smectic-C liquid crystals resolve confinement-induced frustration in spherical shells. 2024
• Soft matter physics of the ground beneath our feet. 2024
• Fabric-based jamming phase diagram for frictional granular materials 2024
• Modulating photothermocapillary interactions for logic operations at the air-water interface 2024
• The association of structural chirality and liquid crystal anchoring in polymer stabilized cholesteric liquid crystals 2024
• Rheology of oligomer melts in the nematic and isotropic states 2023
• Characterizing rheological properties and microstructure of thioester networks during degradation 2023
• Characterizing rheological properties and microstructure of thioester networks during degradation 2023
• Asymmetric rectified electric and concentration fields in multicomponent electrolytes with surface reactions 2023
• Soft, flexible pressure sensors for pressure monitoring under large hydrostatic pressure and harsh ocean environments 2023
• The contribution of network elasticity to electro-optic response in polymer stabilized cholesteric liquid crystals 2023
• Effect of surface tension on elastocapillary wrinkling of interfacially adsorbed hydrogel disks with photothermally programmed swelling profiles 2023
• Coupled bond dynamics alters relaxation in polymers with multiple intrinsic dissociation rates 2023
• Two-dimensional diffusiophoretic colloidal banding: optimizing the spatial and temporal design of solute sinks and sources 2023
• Poroviscoelasto-plasticity of agarose-based hydrogels 2023
• Geometry-controlled instabilities for soft-soft adhesive interfaces 2022
• Robust folding of elastic origami 2022
• Surface alignment of ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals (vol 17, pg 8130, 2021) 2022
• Formation of rolls from liquid crystal elastomer bistrips 2022
• Rheology of liquid crystalline oligomers for 3-D printing of liquid crystalline elastomers 2022
• Electro-optic characteristics of stabilized cholesteric liquid crystals with non-liquid crystalline polymer networks 2022
• Charging dynamics of electrical double layers inside a cylindrical pore: predicting the effects of arbitrary pore size 2021
• A network model of transient polymers: exploring the micromechanics of nonlinear viscoelasticity. 2021
• Surface alignment of ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals 2021
• Force-dependent bond dissociation explains the rate-dependent fracture of vitrimers 2021
• Chiral self-sorting of active semiflexible filaments with intrinsic curvature 2021
• Post-synthesis modification of slide-ring gels for thermal and mechanical reconfiguration 2021
• A shape-persistent arylene ethynylene macrocycle with a multiple acetamide modified cavity: synthesis and gelation 2021
• Elastomeric nematic colloids, colloidal crystals and microstructures with complex topology 2021
• Moving while you're stuck: a macroscopic demonstration of an active system inspired by binding-mediated transport in biology 2021
• Permanent and reversibly programmable shapes in liquid crystal elastomer microparticles capable of shape switching 2021
• Collective motion of driven semiflexible filaments tuned by soft repulsion and stiffness 2020
• Diffusiophoresis: from dilute to concentrated electrolytes 2020
• Photo-tunable hydrogel mechanical heterogeneity informed by predictive transport kinetics model 2020
• Topological solitons, cholesteric fingers and singular defect lines in Janus liquid crystal shells 2020
• End-to-end machine learning for experimental physics: using simulated data to train a neural network for object detection in video microscopy 2020
• Frustration between two- and three-dimensional smectic ordering leads to a biaxial nematic phase 2020
• Simultaneous control of Gaussian curvature and buckling direction by swelling of asymmetric trilayer hydrogel hybrids 2020
• Localizing genesis in polydomain liquid crystal elastomers 2020
• Diffusion of multiple electrolytes cannot be treated independently: model predictions with experimental validation 2019
• Force fluctuations at the transition from quasi-static to inertial granular flow 2019
• Structure and dynamics of a two-dimensional colloid of liquid droplets 2019
• Generic packing motifs in vapor-deposited glasses of organic semiconductors 2019
• On the blistering of thermo-sensitive hydrogel: the volume phase transition and mechanical instability. 2019
• Photo-responsive liposomes composed of spiropyran-containing triazole-phosphatidylcholine: investigation of merocyanine-stacking effects on liposome-fiber assembly-transition 2019
• Dynamic competition of inflation and delamination in the finite deformation of thin membranes 2019
• Polymer stabilization of cholesteric liquid crystals in the oblique helicoidal state 2018
• Formation of high aspect ratio wrinkles and ridges on elastic bilayers with small thickness contrast 2018
• Overcurvature induced multistability of linked conical frusta: how a 'bendy straw' holds its shape 2018
• Formation of lipid vesicles in situ utilizing the thiol-Michael reaction 2018
• A supramolecular hydrogel prepared from a thymine-containing artificial nucleolipid: study of assembly and lyotropic mesophases 2018
• Assembly of P3HT/CdSe nanowire networks in an insulating polymer host 2018
• Patterning nonisometric origami in nematic elastomer sheets 2018
• Chiral lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals composed of disodium cromoglycate doped with water-soluble chiral additives 2018
• Adaptable liquid crystal elastomers with transesterification-based bond exchange reactions 2018
• Buckling patterns in biaxially pre-stretched bilayer shells: wrinkles, creases, folds and fracture-like ridges 2017
• High strain actuation liquid crystal elastomers via modulation of mesophase structure 2017
• Temperature dependent evolution of wrinkled single-crystal silicon ribbons on shape memory polymers 2017
• Repulsion-attraction switching of nematic colloids formed by liquid crystal dispersions of polygonal prisms 2017
• Two-dimensional island emulsions in ultrathin, freely-suspended smectic liquid crystal films 2017
• Blue-shifting tuning of the selective reflection of polymer stabilized cholesteric liquid crystals 2017
• Programmable, reversible and repeatable wrinkling of shape memory polymer thin films on elastomeric substrates for smart adhesion 2017
• Heterogeneity is key to hydrogel-based cartilage tissue regeneration 2017
• Liquid crystal elastomers: emerging trends and applications 2017
• Voxel resolution in the directed self-assembly of liquid crystal polymer networks and elastomers 2017
• Assembly of hard spheres in a cylinder: a computational and experimental study 2017
• Controlling and predicting droplet size of nanoemulsions: scaling relations with experimental validation 2016
• Enhanced mechanical properties of photo-clickable thiol-ene PEG hydrogels through repeated photopolymerization of in-swollen macromer 2016
• Evolution of hierarchical porous structures in supramolecular guest-host hydrogels 2016
• Fracture toughness of hydrogels: measurement and interpretation 2016
• Grayscale gel lithography for programmed buckling of non-Euclidean hydrogel plates 2016
• Highly parallel acoustic assembly of microparticles into well-ordered colloidal crystallites 2016
• Microscopic origins of anisotropic active stress in motor-driven nematic liquid crystals 2016
• Nanoemulsions: formation, properties and applications 2016
• Photosensitivity of reflection notch tuning and broadening in polymer stabilized cholesteric liquid crystals 2016
• Thermomechanics of a temperature sensitive covalent adaptable polymer with bond exchange reactions 2016
• Tuning tissue growth with scaffold degradation in enzyme-sensitive hydrogels: a mathematical model 2016
• Anisotropic molecular hopping at the solid-nematic interface 2015
• Capillary rupture of suspended polymer concentric rings 2015
• Colloidal spirals in nematic liquid crystals 2015
• Effects of oxygen on light activation in covalent adaptable network polymers 2015
• Elastomeric and soft conducting microwires for implantable neural interfaces 2015
• Living on the edge: transfer and traffic of E-coli in a confined flow 2015
• Mechanism of electrically induced photonic band gap broadening in polymer stabilized cholesteric liquid crystals with negative dielectric anisotropies 2015
• Multiple shape memory polymers based on laminates formed from thiol-click chemistry based polymerizations 2015
• Nucleation and growth of a helical nanofilament (B4) liquid-crystal phase confined in nanobowls 2015
• Photo-induced bending in a light-activated polymer laminated composite 2015
• Physico-chemical confinement of helical nanofilaments 2015
• Topology optimization for the design of folding liquid crystal elastomer actuators 2015
• Chiral random grain boundary phase of achiral hockey-stick liquid crystals 2014
• Creases on the interface between two soft materials 2014
• Design of polarization-dependent, flexural-torsional deformation in photo responsive liquid crystalline polymer networks 2014
• Magnetically responsive gourd-shaped colloidal particles in cholesteric liquid crystals 2014
• Measuring cellular forces using bis-aliphatic hydrazone crosslinked stress-relaxing hydrogels 2014
• Nonuniform growth and topological defects in the shaping of elastic sheets 2014
• Reentrance in an active glass mixture 2014
• Single-molecule diffusion in a periodic potential at a solid-liquid interface 2014
• The energy release rate of a pressurized crack in soft elastic materials: effects of surface tension and large deformation 2014
• The role of substrate pre-stretch in post-wrinkling bifurcations 2014
• Topological defects in cholesteric liquid crystals induced by monolayer domains with orientational chirality 2014
• Alignment of helical nanofilaments on the surfaces of various self-assembled monolayers 2013
• Contributions of local mobility and degree of retention of native secondary structure to the stability of recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) in glassy lyophilized formulations 2013
• Elementary building blocks of nematic disclination networks in densely packed 3D colloidal lattices 2013
• Enhanced photoacoustic response with plasmonic nanoparticle-templated microbubbles 2013
• Field-directed assembly of patchy anisotropic microparticles with defined shape 2013
• Modeling the mechanics of covalently adaptable polymer networks with temperature-dependent bond exchange reactions 2013
• Monitoring degradation of matrix metalloproteinases-cleavable PEG hydrogels via multiple particle tracking microrheology 2013
• Nanoconfinement of guest materials by helical nanofilament networks of bent-core mesogens 2013
• Photocrosslinking-induced phase separation in evaporative solvents: formation of skin layers and microspheres 2013
• Self-assembled hydrophobic surface generated from a helical nanofilament (B4) liquid crystal phase 2013
• Spiral layer undulation defects in B7 liquid crystals 2013
• Swelling-Driven Rolling and Anisotropic Expansion of Striped Gel Sheets (vol 9, pg 8264, 2013) 2013
• Swelling-driven rolling and anisotropic expansion of striped gel sheets 2013
• Torsional mechanical responses in azobenzene functionalized liquid crystalline polymer networks 2013
• A constitutive model for the large deformation of a self-healing gel 2012
• Creasing instability of elastomer films 2012
• Dynamic high contrast reflective coloration from responsive polymer/cholesteric liquid crystal architectures 2012
• Effect of crosslinking and long-term storage on the shape-memory behavior of (meth)acrylate-based shape-memory polymers 2012
• Elastic interactions between colloidal microspheres and elongated convex and concave nanoprisms in nematic liquid crystals 2012
• Harnessing snap-through instability in soft dielectrics to achieve giant voltage-triggered deformation 2012
• Lipid monolayer dilatational mechanics during microbubble gas exchange 2012
• Magnitude and presentation of mechanical signals influence adult stem cell behavior in 3-dimensional macroporous hydrogels 2012
• Mechanisms of multi-shape memory effects and associated energy release in shape memory polymers 2012
• Prediction of temperature-dependent free recovery behaviors of amorphous shape memory polymers 2012
• Production of particles of therapeutic proteins at the air-water interface during compression/dilation cycles 2012
• Shear-thinning hydrogels for biomedical applications 2012
• Soft biodegradable polymersomes from caprolactone-derived polymers 2012
• Stokes-Einstein and desorption-mediated diffusion of protein molecules at the oil-water interface 2012
• Surfactant-DNA interactions at the liquid crystal-aqueous interface 2012
• Thermally responsive rolling of thin gel strips with discrete variations in swelling 2012
• Three-dimensional complex-shaped photopolymerized microparticles at liquid crystal interfaces 2012
• Using the dynamics of fluorescent cations to probe and map charged surfaces 2012
• Adsorption mechanism of single amino acid and surfactant molecules to Au {111} surfaces in aqueous solution: design rules for metal-binding molecules 2011
• Direct observation of two-dimensional nematic and smectic ordering in freely suspended films of a bolaamphiphilic liquid crystal 2011
• Dynamics of protein aggregation at the oil-water interface characterized by single molecule TIRF microscopy 2011
• Facile one-pot synthesis of polymer-phospholipid composite microbubbles with enhanced drug loading capacity for ultrasound-triggered therapy 2011
• Interface structure of the dark conglomerate liquid crystal phase 2011
• Light-activated shape memory of glassy, azobenzene liquid crystalline polymer networks 2011
• Liquid crystals of aqueous, giant graphene oxide flakes 2011
• Patterning hydrogels in three dimensions towards controlling cellular interactions 2011
• Three-dimensional imaging of liquid crystal structures and defects by means of holographic manipulation of colloidal nanowires with faceted sidewalls 2011
• Vertical pattern decay and lateral in-phase capillary breakup of nanoimprinted bilayer polymer films 2011
• Controlled two-photon photodegradation of PEG hydrogels to study and manipulate subcellular interactions on soft materials 2010
• Controlled two-photon photodegradation of PEG hydrogels to study and manipulate subcellular interactions on soft materials 2010
• Effects of triaxiality on the growth of crack-like cavities in soft incompressible elastic solids 2010
• Hierarchical polymer patterns driven by capillary instabilities at mobile and corrugated polymer-polymer interfaces 2010
• Kinetic study of swelling-induced surface pattern formation and ordering in hydrogel films with depth-wise crosslinking gradient 2010
• Liquid crystalline polymer cantilever oscillators fueled by light 2010
• Mechanics of curvilinear electronics 2010
• Modelling and confocal microscopy of biopolymer mixtures in confined geometries 2010
• Nucleation, growth, and hysteresis of surface creases on swelled polymer gels 2010
• Poroelastic swelling kinetics of thin hydrogel layers: comparison of theory and experiment 2010
• Solvent induced transition from wrinkles to creases in thin film gels with depth-wise crosslinking gradients 2010
• Spatially controlled hydrogel mechanics to modulate stem cell interactions 2010
• Capillary instability in nanoimprinted polymer films 2009
• Hydrophilic elastomeric biomaterials based on resilin-like polypeptides 2009
• Liquid crystal anchoring transformations induced by phase transitions of a photoisomerizable surfactant at the nematic/aqueous interface 2009
• Lung surfactant microbubbles 2009
• Nanostructural features on stable microbubbles 2009
• Polymer stabilization of phototunable cholesteric liquid crystals 2009
• Semi-fluorinated phosphonic acids form stable nanoscale clusters in Langmuir-Blodgett and self-assembled monolayers 2009
• Sequential crosslinking to control cellular spreading in 3-dimensional hydrogels 2009
• Tuning the assembly of amphiphilic block copolymers through instabilities of solvent/water interfaces in the presence of aqueous surfactants 2009
• A high frequency photodriven polymer oscillator 2008
• Creasing instability of surface-attached hydrogels 2008
• Formation of double helical and filamentous structures in models of physical and chemical gels 2008
• Swelling of a cluster phase in Langmuir monolayers containing semi-fluorinated phosphonic acids 2007

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• 03 Chemical Sciences, 09 Engineering, 02 Physical Sciences