Soft Matter
Last updated ISSN 1744-683X
Soft Matter is published by Royal Society of Chemistry in materials science. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Soft Matter concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization
- Surfactants and Colloidal Systems
- Material Dynamics and Properties
- Polymer Surface Interaction Studies
- Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior
- Micro and Nano Robotics
- Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
- Advanced Materials and Mechanics
- Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications
- Liquid Crystal Research Advancements
Key facts
| Publisher | Royal Society of Chemistry |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1744-683X, 1744-6848 |
| Subject area | Materials Science |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 21,367 |
| Publishing since | 1887 |
| Journal website | www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/sm/index.asp |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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