Delighted to share the @softmatter.rsc.org 20th anniversary editorial co-written by Editor-in-Chief @aljcrosby.bsky.social bit.ly/4snb6k2! Thank you to all who have supported the journal in its first 20 years and looking forward to the next 20!

Don't miss this #OA article in Soft Matter, part of our Open Access Spotlight collection! 'Geometric frustration in twist-bend nematic droplets' by Joseph Pollard and Richard Morris @r-g-morris.bsky.social (UNSW, Australia) 🔗https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/sm/d5sm00530b

✍️ The @bladoux.bsky.social / @rmmege.bsky.social Lab published a new article 📖 @softmatter.rsc.org 📃 Radical scaling: beyond our feet and fingers 🔗 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

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...

Strain, substrate, and matrix selection for controlled growth of wood-fungi @softmatter.rsc.org #ELMs

Soft Matter is still accepting nominations for the 2026 Lectureship. Be sure to find out more, including how to submit your nominations, on our webpage!

We're delighted to announce a call for papers for our special collection on #Biomembranes and #Biointerfaces! Guest edited by Reinhard Lipowsky and Motomu Tanaka, this collection covers a wide range of topics including....

Check out the inside front cover article for issue 41! 'Triacylglycerols affect the water content and cohesive strength of collagen fibrils' led by Martin Dehnert & Robert Magerle et al (Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany) 🔗rsc.li/3WpAV4e #SoftMatter #ChemSky #🧪

Don't miss the front cover article for issue 41! 'Emergence and evolution of a particulate network during gelation and coarsening of attractive #colloids' by Paniz Haghighi, Mohammad Nabizadeh & Safa Jamali (Northeastern University, USA) 🔗rsc.li/3WmmJZS #ChemSky #SoftMatter

💥RSC CNN Paper of the Week💥 Nanoscale mechanisms of crack-tip evolution in glassy polymers: hybrid particle-continuum simulations Müller-Plathe* (Technical University of Darmstadt) Norouzi, Soft Matter, 10.1039/D5SM00853K @softmatter.rsc.org #chemsky #nanosky

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...#NobelPrize

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

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...

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...

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

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

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 #🧪

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

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 #🧪

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... bsky.app/profile/rica...

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

💥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

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 #🧪

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

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

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

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!

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...

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

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...

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!

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

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...

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

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

New group article led by J. Fojo in @softmatter.rsc.org @rsc.org on 2D percolated networks of colloidal rods! This article forms part of the collection in honour of our collegue Stefan Egelhaaf. Thank to eveyone who made it possible! @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social

Polymer Chemistry were very pleased to sponsor the London Polymer Group annual symposium along with @rscapplied.rsc.org & @softmatter.rsc.org A big congratulations to Yeyang Sun and Sinead McCabe for being awarded the poster prize and Xiang Xu for winning the oral presentation prize🎉🧪 #LPG2025

Soft Matter's 20th anniversary was recently celebrated at the 'Advances in supramolecular gels' Faraday Discussion in Glasgow! Activities included a drinks reception & cake-cutting by former EiC Professor Darrin Pochan Many congratulations to Geoffrey Groslambert and the other poster award winners!

Read the first article in our 'Underpinnings of Micro- and Nanoplastics' collection! 'Mechanism of microplastic and nanoplastic emission from tire wear' (rsc.li/3RRPnQ3) is authored by Guest Editors Guruswamy Kumaraswamy & Sanat Kumar et al 🌟 Find out more about the collection: blogs.rsc.org/sm/

Don't miss our 15th Anniversary regional spotlight collection showcasing some of our most popular papers from authors based in the Americas! Featuring reviews and research from the past 15 years of Polymer Chemistry! Read the full collection here 👉 pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

Two weeks to go to nominate an early career colleague for the 2025 Soft Matter lectureship! 📣🏆

Our themed collection on Micro- and Nanoplastics is still open for submissions! 🧪 Guest edited by Guruswamy Kumaraswamy, Sanat Kumar & Tom McDonald Deadline: 31st August 2025 Find out more about the collection: blogs.rsc.org/sm/ #ChemSky

Reading @softmatter.rsc.org on a Saturday morning starts the weekend in a great way. This paper taught me some new lessons this morning: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

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

Just over one week left to register for the @rsc.org Faraday Discussion on #Supramolecular #Gels. Join speakers including Darrin Pochan and Thorri Gunlaugsson and discuss the very latest research! @faradaydiscussions.rsc.org @softmatter.rsc.org

📢Don't miss your opportunity to nominate an early career scientist for the 2025 Soft Matter Lectureship!📢 This award is given to an early-stage career scientist who has made significant contributions to the soft matter field Learn more about the nomination process 👉 www.rsc.org/journals-boo...

Read the latest HOT articles here now! Free to access until 30th April! Now featuring work by Davi Lazzari and Peter Keim Read the full collection of HOT articles here 👇 rsc.li/sm-hot-artic...

Thank you to everyone who joined the APS 2025 Living Soft Matter session supported by @softmatter.rsc.org! Below are the speakers and chair: @chemhurst.bsky.social, Kyle Bishop, Alfred Crosby, Anđela Šarić, Qian Chen and @oasaleh.bsky.social We look forward to seeing you at future events!

Join us at Burlington House on 20th May for our #RSCSustainabilitySymposium and hear insights from RSC Sustainability Editorial Board members and invited speakers on sustainable technologies and cleaner chemical solutions. Register by 6th May: rsc.li/RSCSusSym25 #ChemSky

📣 Soft Matter is sponsoring some activities at #APSSummit25 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the journal. Our Editor-in-Chief @aljcrosby.bsky.social & RSC colleagues @chemhurst.bsky.social and Merlin Fox will be at the event - please come and say hello! 👋 #ChemSky #PhysicsSky #softmatter