Competition between clustering and phase separation in binary mixtures containing SALR particles

Soft Matter, 2022, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D2SM00944G, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Gianmarco Munao, Dino Costa, Gianpietro Malescio, Jean-Marc BOMONT, Santi PrestipinoWe investigate by Monte Carlo simulations a mixture of particles with competing interactions (hard-sphere...

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Plasticized liquid crystal networks and chemical motors for the active control of power transmission in mechanical devices

Soft Matter, 2022, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D2SM00826B, PaperNatalie P. Pinchin, Chia-Heng Lin, Cecelia A. Kinane, Naoki Yamada, Abdon Pena-Francesch, Hamed ShahsavanOrthogonal actuation for power and control in untethered small-scale machines is achieved with self-powered protein chemical motors and plasticized liquid crystal networks.To cite this...

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Ionic Shape Memory Polymer Gels as Multifunctional Sensors

Soft Matter, 2022, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D2SM00515H, PaperYingjun An, Haruki Yoshida, Yuxin Jing, Tian Liang, Hidenori OkuzakiNovel ionic shape memory polymer (SMP) gels were fabricated using SMP and ionic liquid (IL) of 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide (EMI-TFSI) at different weight ratios (WIL). The shape memory...

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Molecular dynamics study of the swelling and osmotic properties of compact nanogel particles

Soft Matter, 2022, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D2SM00681B, PaperAlexandros Chremos, Jack F. Douglas, Peter J. Basser, Ferenc HorkayMolecular architecture of nanogel particle.To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above.The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry

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Helical micro-swimmer: hierarchical tail design and propulsive motility

Soft Matter, 2022, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D2SM00823H, CommunicationZ. Y. Zhang, Y. F. Wang, J. T. Kang, X. H. Qiu, C. G. WangThe hierarchical design significantly improves the propulsive motility of the helical swimming robots.To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above.The content of this RSS Feed...

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Robust folding of elastic origami

Soft Matter, 2022, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D2SM00369D, PaperMary Elizabeth Lee-Trimble, Ji-Hwan Kang, Ryan C. Hayward, Christian SantangeloSelf-folding origami, structures that are engineered flat to fold into targeted, three-dimensional shapes, have many potential engineering applications. Though significant effort in recent years has been...

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Polymorphic self-assembly of helical tubules is kinetically controlled

Soft Matter, 2022, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D2SM00679K, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.Huang Fang, Botond Tyukodi, W. Benjamin Rogers, Michael F. HaganIn contrast to most self-assembling synthetic materials, which undergo unbounded growth, many biological self-assembly processes...

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Dynamic ordering caused by a source-sink relation between two droplets

Soft Matter, 2022, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D2SM00497F, PaperChiho Watanabe, Shinpei Tanaka, Richard Julius Gotthard Löffler, Martin Hanczyc, Jerzy GoreckiTwo droplets composed of different chemicals, 1-decanol and liquid paraffin, floating on the water surface show characteristic co-responsive behavior. The presence of two different types of...

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Programming Interactions in Magnetic Handshake Materials

Soft Matter, 2022, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D2SM00604A, PaperChrisy Xiyu Du, Hanyu Alice Zhang, Tanner Glen Pearson, Jakin Ng, Paul McEuen, Itai Cohen, Michael BrennerThe ability to rapidly manufacture building blocks with specific binding interactions is a key aspect of programmable assembly. Recent developments in DNA nanotechnology and colloidal...

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Wetting Behavior of Polyelectrolyte Complex Coacervates on Solid Surfaces

Soft Matter, 2022, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D2SM00859A, PaperChristopher Balzer, Pengfei Zhang, Zhen-Gang WangThe wetting behavior of complex coacervates underpins their use in many emerging applications of surface science, particularly wet adhesives and coatings. Many factors dictate if a coacervate phase will condense...The content of this...

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