Soft materials are usually defined as materials made of mesoscopic entities, often self-
organised, sensitive to thermal fluctuations and to weak perturbations. Archetypal examples …

As its name implies, soft matter science deals with materials that are easily deformed. These
materials, which include polymers, gels, colloids, emulsions, foams, surfactant assemblies …

This book presents a compilation of self-contained chapters covering a wide range of topics
within the broad field of soft condensed matter. Each chapter starts with basic definitions to …

The number of applications of informatics or data‐driven discovery is growing in many fields,
including materials science. The large amount of data that is readily available, combined …

Soft condensed matter is a relatively new topic. Condensed matter has typically referred to
more traditional liquids, which have a long history of study, or to solids, which have focused …

The soft matter research started more than one hundred years ago. Over a century, the
correlated subjects have been examined extensively. People not only keep updating many …

Soft matter with diverse functionalities that are easily designable has fascinated tremendous
research interests in the past several decades. Nevertheless, the inherent confluence of time …

A comprehensive, modern introduction to soft matter physics Soft matter science is an
interdisciplinary field at the interface of physics, biology, chemistry, engineering, and …

Soft matter has evolved considerably since it became recognized as a unified field. This has
been driven by new experimental, numerical and theoretical methods to probe soft matter …

This topical issue contains a selection of original material presented at the first International
Soft Matter Conference held in Aachen, Germany, October 2007. All articles of this topical …