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12th May 2026

A liquid drop impacting a rigid non-wetting substrate starts spreading laterally (top column), whereas an elastic sphere deforms slightly and bounces off (bottom column). A new work bridges these two limits and offers a general framework for liquid-to-elastic transitions. Image copyright: Front cover image from S. Jana et al., Soft Matter 22, 2226-2236 (2026), https://doi.org/10.1039/D5SM01078K licensed under CC BY 3.0 by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

12th May 2026

Impact with Memory: How Soft Materials Bridge Liquids and Elastics

Even a familiar phenomenon like a bounce can reveal new insights into the properties of soft matter, as a new study by researchers from, among others, the SoftComp partner Durham University, UK, demonstrates... (Read more)

17th December 2025

Fig. 1: Sketch of the polarization-density phase diagram in the temperature (T)-pressure (p) thermodynamic plane obtained from classical density functional theory. Copyright: 2024 the Authors. Published by PNAS under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND).

17th December 2025

Water’s Hidden Switch: How Ferroelectricity May Trigger Its Mysterious Phase Transitions

Water behaves in strangely unique ways—even under everyday conditions—and scientists have long sought the origins of its anomalies. A new study lead by SoftComp partner Ca’ Foscari University of Venice reveals a surprising... (Read more)