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2025-12-09T14:51:55+01:000000005531202512

New Doctoral Network: Edible Soft Matter (ESM)

The new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network – Edible Soft Matter is a highly interdisciplinary programme dedicated to tackling key challenges in food and environmental transitions... (Read more)

2025-12-08T15:45:52+01:000000005231202512

3D reconstruction of a flower-shaped liposome showing phase separated “petals” harboring coacervate “buds”. Copyright: The Authors. Published in Chen C. et. al, ACS Nano (2025) by the American Chemical Society. This publication is licensed under CC-BY 4.0 .

2025-12-08T15:45:52+01:000000005231202512

Programmable Compartmentalisation in Synthetic Cells

The formation and regulation of biomolecular condensates is central to many cellular processes and remains a key challenge in the construction of synthetic cells. Researchers from SoftComp partner Wageningen University & Research in... (Read more)

2025-11-25T17:30:47+01:000000004730202511

Two charged rods in water and counterions, generated with AI, ChatGTP, by the authors of the paper

2025-11-25T17:30:47+01:000000004730202511

Rod-Shaped Colloids Form Wigner Crystal

A long-standing scientific belief has been overturned: researchers from a SoftComp collaboration including Ca’ Foscari Univ. of Venice, Italy, and Univ. of Bordeaux, France, have observed a Wigner crystal forming in rod-like colloidal... (Read more)

2022-03-09T14:59:42+01:000000004231202203

$Figure 1: Simulated state diagram illustrating various membrane structures for different Peclet numbers (Pe) characterizing particle propulsion strength and volume fractions (ϕ) of active particles. The three main regimes are tethering (red symbols), fluctuating (blue symbols) and bola/prolate (brown symbols) vesicle shapes. Each dot containing a grid pattern indicates the position of the nearest snapshot within the shape diagram. Simulations mimic a nearly tensionless flaccid vesicle. Copyright: authors$

2022-03-09T14:59:42+01:000000004231202203

From Soft Active Systems to Synthetic Cells

Scientists from the ETH Zurich and Forschungszentrum Jülich highlight their recent collaborative study on a novel active system of self-propelled particles (SPPs) enclosed in a lipid vesicle, which exhibits dramatic shape changes resembling... (Read more)