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Top Ten Articles


18 March 2009

The new top ten most downloaded Soft Matter articles.

Read the most-accessed papers of January 2009 here.


Polyelectrolyte microcapsules for biomedical applications
Bruno G. De Geest, Stefaan De Koker, Gleb B. Sukhorukov, Oliver Kreft, Wolfgang J. Parak, Andrei G. Skirtach, Jo Demeester, Stefaan C. De Smedt and Wim E. Hennink, Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 282
DOI: 10.1039/b808262f
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Smart responsive surfaces switching reversibly between super-hydrophobicity and super-hydrophilicity
Fan Xia, Ying Zhu, Lin Feng and Lei Jiang, Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 275
DOI: 10.1039/b803951h
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Nematic colloids entangled by topological defects
Miha Ravnik and Slobodan umer, Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 269
DOI: 10.1039/b810933h
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Stimuli-responsive hydrogel thin films
Ihor Tokarev and Sergiy Minko, Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 511
DOI: 10.1039/b813827c
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Food structure and functionality: a soft matter perspective
Job Ubbink, Adam Burbidge and Raffaele Mezzenga, Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 1569
DOI: 10.1039/b802183j
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Colloidal delivery systems for micronutrients and nutraceuticals
Krassimir P. Velikov and Eddie Pelan, Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 1964
DOI: 10.1039/b804863k
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Diversity of structure, morphology and wetting of plant surfaces
Kerstin Koch, Bharat Bhushan and Wilhelm Barthlott, Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 1943
DOI: 10.1039/b804854a
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Non-covalently connected micelles (NCCMs): the origins and development of a new concept
Mingyu Guo and Ming Jiang, Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 495
DOI: 10.1039/b813556h
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Biologically inspired design of hydrogel-capped hair sensors for enhanced underwater flow detection
Michael E. McConney, Nannan Chen, David Lu, Huan A. Hu, Sheryl Coombs, Chang Liu and Vladimir V. Tsukruk, Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 292
DOI: 10.1039/b808839j
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Some thoughts on superhydrophobic wetting
Christian Dorrer and Jürgen Rühe, Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 51
DOI: 10.1039/b811945g
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