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Front cover
Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 4585
DOI: 10.1039/b923035c

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Inside front cover
Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 4586
DOI: 10.1039/b923036j

Contents
Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 4587
DOI: 10.1039/b923037h

Highlight

Entropy-driven ring-opening olefin metathesis polymerizations of macrocycles
Zheng Xue and Michael F. Mayer,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 4600
DOI: 10.1039/b913696g

Reviews

Confined polymer systems: synergies between simulations and neutron scattering experiments
Ian G. Elliott, Dennis E. Mulder, Petra T. Träskelin, John R. Ell, Timothy E. Patten, Tonya L. Kuhl and Roland Faller,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 4612
DOI: 10.1039/b910693f

Surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization—a technique to develop biofunctional coatings
Charlotte Juel Fristrup, Katja Jankova and Søren Hvilsted,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 4623
DOI: 10.1039/b821815c

Communications

A block-copolymer hydrogel encapsulates bacteriorhodopsin and produces the longest photochromic response of the membrane protein under high water content conditions
Dewang Ma, Yingchun Zhao, Jia Wu, Ting Cui and Jiandong Ding,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 4635
DOI: 10.1039/b917438a

Viscoelastic properties of confined polymer films measured via thermal wrinkling
Edwin P. Chan, Kirt A. Page, Se Hyuk Im, Derek L. Patton, Rui Huang and Christopher M. Stafford,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 4638
DOI: 10.1039/b916207k

Waist cross-linked micelles synthesized via self-assembly guiding radical polymerization
Conghui Yuan, Yiting Xu, Yuanming Deng, Jiangfeng Chen, Yanling Liu and Lizong Dai,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 4642
DOI: 10.1039/b916290a

Papers

Effect of monomer structure on the gelation of a class of metallo-supramolecular polymers
Wengui Weng, Zheng Li, Alex. M. Jamieson and Stuart J. Rowan,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 4647
DOI: 10.1039/b911166b

Shaping liquid on a micrometre scale using microwrinkles as deformable open channel capillaries
Takuya Ohzono, Hirosato Monobe, Kumi Shiokawa, Masahiro Fujiwara and Yo Shimizu,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 4658
DOI: 10.1039/b912235d

Thickness dependent hierarchical meso/nano scale morphologies of a metal-containing block copolymer thin film induced by hybrid annealing and their pattern transfer abilities
Muruganathan Ramanathan and Seth B. Darling,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 4665
DOI: 10.1039/b902114k

Topological transition dynamics in a strained bubble cluster
Anne-Laure Biance, Sylvie Cohen-Addad and Reinhard Höhler,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 4672
DOI: 10.1039/b910150k

Influence of stacking on the self-assembly and coiling of multi-chromophoric polymers based on perylenebis(dicarboximides): an AFM study
Vincenzo Palermo, Erik Schwartz, Andrea Liscio, Matthijs B. J. Otten, Klaus Müllen, Roeland J. M. Nolte, Alan E. Rowan and Paolo Samorì,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 4680
DOI: 10.1039/b912302d

Enhanced electrorheology of suspensions containing sea-urchin-like hierarchical Cr-doped titania particles
Jianbo Yin, Xiaopeng Zhao, Liqin Xiang, Xiang Xia and Zhanshu Zhang,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 4687
DOI: 10.1039/b910274d

Self-assembly of an ultra-high-molecular-weight comb block copolymer at the air–water interface
Lei Zhao, Matthew D. Goodman, Ned B. Bowden and Zhiqun Lin,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 4698
DOI: 10.1039/b912447k

Molecular level and microstructural characterisation of thermally sensitive chitosan hydrogels
K. E. Crompton, J. S. Forsythe, M. K. Horne, D. I. Finkelstein and R. B. Knott,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 4704
DOI: 10.1039/b907593c

Diffusion in evaporating solutions
A. Kabalnov and H. Wennerström,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 4712
DOI: 10.1039/b912648a

Target-selective vesicle fusion system with pH-selectivity and responsiveness
Ayumi Kashiwada, Mana Tsuboi, Toshihisa Mizuno, Takeshi Nagasaki and Kiyomi Matsuda,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 4719
DOI: 10.1039/b909503a

Robust one-component chitosan-based ultrathin films fabricated using layer-by-layer technique
Maria Bulwan, Szczepan Zapotoczny and Maria Nowakowska,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 4726
DOI: 10.1039/b909355a

Continuous and discontinuous volume-phase transitions in surface-tethered, photo-crosslinked poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) networks
Ajay Vidyasagar, Hillary L. Smith, Jaroslaw Majewski and Ryan G. Toomey,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 4733
DOI: 10.1039/b904963k

Adsorption of plasmid DNA onto lipid/polymer particle assemblies
Anne-Lise Troutier-Thuilliez, Julie Thevenot, Thierry Delair and Catherine Ladavière,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 4739
DOI: 10.1039/b911260j

Failure-mode transition in transient polymer networks with particle-based simulations
J. Sprakel, E. Spruijt, J. van der Gucht, J. T. Padding and W. J. Briels,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 4748
DOI: 10.1039/b910425a

Manipulating ordering transitions in interfacially modified block copolymers
Nripen Singh, Maëva S. Tureau and Thomas H. Epps III,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 4757
DOI: 10.1039/b908739g

Gelled polymerizable microemulsions. Part 3 Rheology
Miguel Magno, Renate Tessendorf, Bruno Medronho, Maria G. Miguel and Cosima Stubenrauch,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 4763
DOI: 10.1039/b914281a

Quantitative model for the kinetics of lyotropic phase transitions involving changes in monolayer curvature
Adam M. Squires, Charlotte E. Conn, John M. Seddon and Richard H. Templer,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 4773
DOI: 10.1039/b911762h

New insights into the relationship between internal phase level of emulsion templates and gas–liquid permeability of interconnected macroporous polymers
Shu San Manley, Nadine Graeber, Zdenek Grof, Angelika Menner, Geoffrey F. Hewitt, Frantisek Stepanek and Alexander Bismarck,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 4780
DOI: 10.1039/b900426b

Facile synthesis and self-assembly of multihetero-arm hyperbranched polymer brushes
Chao Gao and Xing Zheng,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 4788
DOI: 10.1039/b909994h

The self-aggregation behaviour of amphotericin B-loaded polyrotaxane-based triblock copolymers and their hemolytic evaluation
Xiaowen Zhang, Fuyou Ke, Jian Han, Lin Ye, Dehai Liang, Ai-ying Zhang and Zeng-guo Feng,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 4797
DOI: 10.1039/b914664d

Dynamics of oil transfer in oil-in-water emulsions
Nelly Malassagne-Bulgarelli and Kathryn M. McGrath,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 4804
DOI: 10.1039/b912742a

Electric field-induced transitions in perforated lamella of ABA triblock copolymer thin film
Dung Q. Ly, Takashi Honda, Toshihiro Kawakatsu and Andrei V. Zvelindovsky,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 4814
DOI: 10.1039/b911521h

Soft ordered mesoporous materials from nonionic isoprenoid-type monoethanolamide amphiphiles self-assembled in water
Sharon M. Sagnella, Charlotte E. Conn, Irena Krodkiewska and Calum J. Drummond,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 4823
DOI: 10.1039/b907596h

Lung surfactant microbubbles
Shashank Sirsi, Calvin Pae, David Kyung Taek Oh, Henning Blomback, Adel Koubaa, Brigitte Papahadjopoulos-Sternberg and Mark Borden,  Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 4835
DOI: 10.1039/b915065j

Back cover
Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 4843
DOI: 10.1039/b923038f