Soft Matter provides a unique forum for the communication of significant advances in interdisciplinary soft matter research. There is a particular focus on the interface between chemistry, physics, materials science, biology and chemical engineering. Research may report new soft materials or phenomena, encompass their design, synthesis, and use in new applications; or provide fundamental insight and observations on their behaviour. Experimental, theoretical and computational soft matter approaches are encouraged.

The scope of Soft Matter covers the following.

Soft matter assemblies, including colloids, granular matter, liquid crystals, gels & networks, polymers, hybrid materials, active matter and further examples
Soft nanotechnology, soft robotics and devices
Synthesis, self-assembly and directed assembly
Biological aspects of soft matter including proteins, biopolymers, cells and tissues
Surfaces, interfaces and interactions
Phase behaviour, coacervation and rheological behaviour
Sustainable soft materials including recycling, circular economy and end of life
Mechanistic insights and modelling

Communications
Full papers
Reviews
Tutorial reviews
Perspectives
Comments

Editor-in-Chief
Darrin Pochan, University of Delaware, USA
Associate editors
Tommy Angelini, University of Florida, USA
Alfred Crosby, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Jan Dhont, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Jianbin Huang, Peking University, China
Paul Janmey, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Sanat Kumar, Columbia University, USA
Oleg Lavrentovich, Kent State University, USA
Christos Likos, University of Vienna, Austria
Kathleen Stebe, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Dimitris Vlassopoulos, FORTH-IESL, Greece
Xuehua Zhang,University of Alberta, Canada
Editorial Board Members
Gijsje Koenderink, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Emanuela Zaccarelli, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy