Three top Indian universities will host one-day symposia during a special roadshow series to celebrate Chemical Communications’s 60th year. All three events will take place between 18-22 November, with a host of activities in store for attendees. Learn more: rsc.li/4fI2u10 #RSCIndia

Because you’re an RSC member, the Chemists’ Community Fund can help your family, too. This includes helping with one-off costs for school uniforms or necessary equipment. Call 0800 084 3451 (UK Freephone), +44 1223 853549 (Intl) or visit: rsc.li/4eP2zQd #RSCCommFund

Xinke Yu, Zhili Wan, and co-workers report a novel hierarchically structured hydrogel by supramolecular self-assembly of all-natural food-grade building blocks, glycyrrhizic acid and carrageenan. Find out more in our latest Nanoscale cover article pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Don't miss this paper by Masaki Okumura, Tomohide Saio, Takahiro Muraoka et al.! Redox-active chemical chaperones exhibiting promiscuous binding promote oxidative protein folding under condensed sub-millimolar conditions Read it here 👉 doi.org/10.1039/D4SC02… #ChemSciCovers

Read our featured back cover for #NanoscaleAdvances issue 15 here! 'Ruptures of mixed lipid monolayers under tension and supercooling: implications for nanobubbles in plants' by Stephen Ingram et al. doi.org/10.1039/D4NA00… Hanna Vehkamäki and Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki

Post-consumer cotton textiles and wood cellulose nanomaterials assembled in freeze dried and supercritically dried foams which were compositionally identical featuring significantly different properties. Check out the article by Varvara Apostolopoulou Kalkavoura et al. at pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Read our latest #OpenAccess article by Hiroki Sakagami and Tetsuya Tsuda highlighting "Fabrication of biological cushioning materials with natural wood structure by an ionic liquid-based sustainable chemistry approach", published in #RSCSustainability: doi.org/10.1039/D4SU00…

Mathematicians unlock the secrets of ouzo's cloudy transformation Loughborough University Soft Matter phys.org/news/2024-08-m…

And this appears to be the week of foams. If you want to know more about Anomalous relaxation in viscoelastic foams” please have a look at our second paper of the week, this time in Soft Matter and in reciprocal space. Spearheaded by Fabio doi.org/10.1039/D4SM00…

Our latest paper, with Gareth McKinley 🙌 Well done Konstantinos Zinelis! 😀👏 #FluidDynamics of a #viscoelastic fluid dripping onto a substrate 🔗online in Soft Matter tinyurl.com/jzm4ueau #Simulations #CFD Collab: Thomas Abadie (ChemEng Bham) Imperial ChemEng MIT MechE

Lipid/polyelectrolyte complexes – effects of the polyelectrolyte architecture on the self-assembled structures buff.ly/3T5gQyO (@Softmatter)

We are happy to announce that we will be holding a #EESSymposium on the 23rd October 2024 in London, UK. This event will bring together leading experts in the field of energy for a day of ground-breaking research presentations. Registration is now open: rsc.li/eessymposium20…

Soft Matter I have developed phoresis kernel theory for translational and rotational dynamics of passive spherical particles, active microswimmers, and potentially microrobots with a non-uniform distribution of surface phoretic mobility. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

I was excited to read this Soft Matter perspective by Heinrich Jaeger and colleagues UChiPhysics --- and it didn't disappoint! Training physical matter to matter - now published in Soft Matter pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

The 38th Conference of the European Colloid & Interface Society, held in Copenhagen, starts today and Soft Matter are pleased to be sponsoring poster prizes at the event. Be sure to check out the amazing posters at the meeting!

We’ll be at RAPS 2024 at Durham University later this week! Come and meet our Assistant Editor, Paul, and chat about publishing in Polymer Chemistry or any of the Royal Society of Chemistry journals. RAPS Organisation

The open call for our Exploring Polymer Networks: Properties, Applications, and Sustainable Solutions themed collection is ongoing! Find out more about the collection and how to submit here: linkedin.com/posts/rscmat_p…

The open call for our colloidal dynamics, interactions and rheology themed collection is still open! Find out more about the collection and how to submit your paper here➡️linkedin.com/feed/update/ur… Roberto Cerbino

The Computational Molecular Science 2024 Conference at @UniofWarick kicks off today and @SoftMatter and MSDE journal are pleased to be sponsoring poster prizes at the event. Be sure to check out the amazing posters at the meeting if you're there! #CMS2024