Soft Matter (journal)
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| Soft Matter | |
|---|---|
| Discipline | Interdisciplinary |
| Language | English |
| Abbreviated title | Soft Matter |
| Publisher (country) | Royal Society of Chemistry (United Kingdom) |
| Publication history | 2005 to present |
| Website | Soft Matter home |
| ISSN | 1744-683X (print) 1744-6848 (online) |
Soft Matter is a peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing original (primary) research and review articles on the generic science underpinning the properties and applications of soft matter. Soft Matter is published monthly by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Dr Carol Stanier is the editor of Soft Matter. Ullrich Steiner, Professor of Physics of Materials at the University of Cambridge, chairs the Editorial Board. The Editorial Board comprises leading international scientists who meet regularly to discuss all scientific matters concerned with the Journal; in particular the standards necessary for the acceptance of papers for publication, the standards of refereeing, and ways and means of acquiring suitable papers for publication.
Soft Matter was launched in 2005. It is presently bound into the leading materials journal, Journal of Materials Chemistry, but it will be published independently from January 2007.
It is too early for Soft Matter to have an impact factor; however its first immediacy index of 1.022 is the highest value for any interdisciplinary journal publishing primary research in its field. [citation needed]
Bio-related papers published in Soft Matter are available in the RSC's Chemical Biology Virtual Journal. Significant and newsworthy articles appearing in Soft Matter are also featured in the RSC supplements Chemical Science, Chemical Technology and Chemical Biology.
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[edit] Subject Coverage
- Soft Matter publishes articles on the following topics
- Bulk soft matter assemblies including polymers, colloids,gels,vesicles,emulsions, films,surfactants,micelles,suspensions and liquid crystals
- Soft nanotechnology and self-assembly including nanostructured polymeric materials, nanocomposites, molecular self organisation, supramolecular systems, molecular imprinting, molecular recognition, encapsulation and self assembled films and monolayers
- Biological aspects of soft matter including biomacromolecules and biopolymers, membranes, biocomposites, and biomimetic materials
- Surfaces, interfaces, and interactions including thin films, Langmuir monolayers and Langmuir Blodgett techniques, wetting/dewetting, soft interfaces and their interfacial properties, dynamics, rheology and hydrodynamics, structure, pattern formation and replication
- Building blocks/synthetic methodology including new molecular architectures and new synthetic methodologies, and synthesis of soft materials
- Theory, modelling, and simulation including dynamics and non-equilibrium dynamics, computational and thermodynamic studies of soft materials
[edit] Article types
Soft Matter publishes the following types of articles: Research Papers (original scientific work that has not been published previously); Communications (original scientific work that has not been published previously and is of an urgent nature); Reviews (critical appraisals of topical and significant areas of research); Highlights (short review articles that single out important new developments (a single paper or group of papers) and explain the significance of the work to a broad audience) ; Emerging Areas (short accounts of a potentially important and growing new field of research); and Opinions (a personal, often speculative, viewpoint or hypothesis on a topic of current interest to the scientific community). Reviews, Highlights, Emerging Areas and Opinions are written by special invitation of the Editor or Editorial Board only.
[edit] Audience/readership
Soft Matter has a global circulation and interdisciplinary audience with a particular focus on the interface between physics, materials science, biology, chemical engineering and chemistry. Soft Matter appeals to a wide variety of researchers, but particularly to: materials scientists; surface scientists; physicists; biochemists; biological scientists; chemical engineers; physical, organic and theoretical chemists.
