Just 18 months after the publication of its first ever issue, Soft Matter has now officially taken flight as a solo publication.
Soft Matter, a new journal from the Royal Society of Chemistry, publishes leading research on soft matter, with a particular focus on the interface between physics and chemistry.
Launched within the pages of the premier materials journal, Journal of Materials Chemistry, and available online to readers of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry and Lab on a Chip, Soft Matter has reached a wide and truly interdisciplinary audience from the start.
Speaking about Soft Matter's stunning first immediacy index (a measure of how topical and urgent papers published in a journal are) Geoffrey Maitland of Imperial College, UK, said "Soft Matter is really taking off. In addition to this recognized metric, I can see from the quality of the authors publishing that it is already attracting some of the best people in the field."
The first solo-edition of Soft Matter (January 2007 issue) features a superb collection of papers including research articles from Jay Groves, David Weaire and Ullrich Steiner and co-workers on curvature and spatial organization in biological membranes, actively moving polymers and freestanding nanowire arrays from soft-etch block copolymer templates. Read the issue for free at www.softmatter.org