Soft Materials

Soft materials of the future

Soft materials play a key role in the development of future technologies for a better, more sustainable world. Be it in the interface and integration between synthetic components and humans, in personalised medicine and diagnostics or the sustainable processing and recycling of objects around us – soft materials will be there. Deformable and responsive materials constituted by polymers, gels, micro and nanoparticles, droplets and bubbles, and integrated with biological systems including proteins, cells and bacteria offer tremendous potential for new research and innovative applications. ‘Soft Materials’ spans across multiple domains: from synthesis and characterisation to processing and applications. Core topics include: polymeric materials, gels & hydrogels, suspensions, liquid crystals, microfluidics, food materials, active materials, micro & nanorobotic systems, droplets, emulsions and liposomes.

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