Frontiers in Soft Matter

Mini Review

Published on 10 Aug 2026

Recent advances in stimuli-responsive hydrogels for food, biomedical, and tissue engineering applications

in Food and Soft Materials

Brijitta Joseph
Avanish Bharati
Debasish Saha

Frontiers in Soft Matter

doi 10.3389/frsfm.2026.1845065

275 views

Original Research

Accepted on 04 Aug 2026

Hierarchical Chirality Transfer and Thermally Induced Supramolecular Chirality Inversion in Cholesteryl Schiff-Base Liquid Crystal Dimers

in Liquid Crystals

Sachin Ashok Bhat
Ravishankar P N
Srikanth R Veerabhadraiah
Channabasaveshwara V. Yelamaggad

Frontiers in Soft Matter

Original Research

Accepted on 03 Aug 2026

Carbopol 940-Based Metronidazole Nanogels: Formulation, Physicochemical Characterization, In vitro Drug Release, and Antimicrobial Evaluation

in Biological Soft Matter

Sanju Sarkar
Bishal Sarkar

Frontiers in Soft Matter

111 views

Review

Published on 31 Jul 2026

Advances in Vitamin D encapsulation: from lipid formulations to polymeric nanoparticles

in Colloids and Emulsions

Eleni Axioti
Iolanda Francolini
Vincenzo Taresco
Robert J. Cavanagh

Frontiers in Soft Matter

doi 10.3389/frsfm.2026.1876336

522 views

Review

Published on 30 Jul 2026

Advanced oleogel and hydrogel systems: emerging platforms for food structuring and targeted nutrient delivery

in Food and Soft Materials

Rakhi Pandey
Garima Mathur

Frontiers in Soft Matter

doi 10.3389/frsfm.2026.1867312

517 views

Review

Published on 29 Jul 2026

Designing plant-based bigels for controlled nutrient delivery: structural and digestive perspectives

in Food and Soft Materials

Prakyath Shetty
P. Paulin Patricia
R. Sushmithasri
Ashish Rawson

Frontiers in Soft Matter

doi 10.3389/frsfm.2026.1888400

1,110 views

Mini Review

Accepted on 23 Jul 2026

Pickering Emulsions: Emulsion polymerization and systems stabilized with carbon allotropes or carbon-rich materials

in Colloids and Emulsions

ENRIQUE SALDÍVAR-GUERRA
Miguel Rosales-Guzmán
María Esther Treviño

Frontiers in Soft Matter

172 views

Review

Accepted on 23 Jul 2026

Sustainable Soft Materials for Food Packaging: Quality Preservation and Environmental Impact

in Food and Soft Materials

Sweta Joshi
Mantasha Hasan
Dhananjay Sharma
Mayuri Rastogi
Bushra Shaida
Swati Kimothi

Frontiers in Soft Matter

175 views

Mini Review

Published on 22 Jul 2026

Valorisation of floral industry by-products as sources of bioactive compounds for functionalized biopolymer-based packaging: a mini review

in Food and Soft Materials

Marika Avitabile

Frontiers in Soft Matter

doi 10.3389/frsfm.2026.1899570

454 views

Review

Accepted on 20 Jul 2026

Fruit byproducts as multifunctional biopolymer matrices for active and sustainable food packaging

in Food and Soft Materials

Henriette Monteiro Cordeiro Azeredo

Frontiers in Soft Matter

294 views

Review

Accepted on 17 Jul 2026

Multiscale Structural Modulation of Plant Proteins via Ultrasound and Electro-Physical Processing: From Extraction to Functional Food Matrices

in Food and Soft Materials

Noorain Majeed
Kaiser Younis
Owais Yousuf

Frontiers in Soft Matter

210 views

Review

Published on 15 Jul 2026

Programming selectivity in molecularly imprinted polymers

in Polymers

Hossein Omidian
Sumana Dey Chowdhury
Arnavaz Akhzarmehr

Frontiers in Soft Matter

doi 10.3389/frsfm.2026.1878644

686 views

Mini Review

Published on 08 Jul 2026

Multiscale structural effects of ultrasound and pulsed electric field processing on structure–property relationships in tomato systems: a mini-review

in Food and Soft Materials

Daniela Lorena Lamas

Frontiers in Soft Matter

doi 10.3389/frsfm.2026.1887216

535 views

Mini Review

Published on 03 Jul 2026

Artificial intelligence and machine learning-guided bio-orthogonal engineering of smart soft polymeric nanocarriers for precision drug delivery and translational nanomedicine

in Biological Soft Matter

Suman Basak

Frontiers in Soft Matter

doi 10.3389/frsfm.2026.1883618

999 views

Original Research

Published on 18 Jun 2026

Impact of high-temperature sterilization on the physicochemical and functional properties of chicken gels enriched with red algae (Palmaria palmata)

in Food and Soft Materials

Langye Jiang
Qinyi Lei
Zitong Chen
Xinlan Jiang
Shaozong Wu

Frontiers in Soft Matter

doi 10.3389/frsfm.2026.1868356

777 views

Original Research

Published on 15 Jun 2026

Destabilizing foams of reconstituted acid whey powder at an elevated temperature using calcium-chelating salts

in Foams

Nanik Purwanti
Shane Mulcahy
Eoin G. Murphy

Frontiers in Soft Matter

doi 10.3389/frsfm.2026.1781355

1,170 views

Original Research

Published on 01 Jun 2026

Effect of ultrasound-assisted emulsification on cinnamon essential oil dispersion: a strategy to improve biopolymer-based active films for sustainable food packaging

in Food and Soft Materials

Tamires Sousa de Oliveira
Luiz Carlos Corrêa-Filho
Júlya Cruz Navarro
André Mesquita Magalhães Costa
Carlos Wanderlei Piler de Carvalho
Lourdes Maria Corrêa Cabral
Otniel Freitas-Silva
Renata Valeriano Tonon

Frontiers in Soft Matter

doi 10.3389/frsfm.2026.1848142

1,103 views

Original Research

Published on 19 May 2026

Stability and bubble size of BSA foams by hydrocolloids with different physical properties

in Foams

Judith Krom
Thomas A. Vilgis

Frontiers in Soft Matter

doi 10.3389/frsfm.2026.1788714

1,408 views

Original Research

Published on 08 May 2026

Aqueous foams made from solutions of pea peptides and soybean by-products: mixture and process effects

in Foams

Noémie Ourvois-Maloisel
Claire Surel
Véronique Vié
Ludovic Paquin
Fabienne Gauffre
Arnaud Saint-Jalmes

Frontiers in Soft Matter

doi 10.3389/frsfm.2026.1804920

1,232 views

Mini Review

Published on 30 Apr 2026

Active biopolymer films from oil-in-water pickering emulsions for food preservation: a mini review

in Food and Soft Materials

Rodrigo F. Gouvêa
Cristina T. Andrade

Frontiers in Soft Matter

doi 10.3389/frsfm.2026.1827305

1,218 views

Mini Review

Published on 24 Mar 2026

Hierarchical design of hybrid carriers to control nutrient fate

in Colloids and Emulsions

Kefan Ouyang

Frontiers in Soft Matter

doi 10.3389/frsfm.2026.1815170

1,406 views

Original Research

Published on 04 Mar 2026

Foam cleaning in closed circuits: effect of surfactant type on foam structure and Bacillus subtilis spore removal from stainless steel surfaces

in Foams

Ahmad Al Saabi
Heni Dallagi
Piyush Kumar Jha
Fethi Aloui
Thierry Benezech
Christine Faille

Frontiers in Soft Matter

doi 10.3389/frsfm.2026.1750630

1,573 views

Original Research

Published on 09 Feb 2026

Edible gas marbles stabilized with cocoa particles: understanding their behavior by tuning the edible liquid phase

in Foams

Takuto Yagishita
Anne-Laure Fameau
Syuji Fujii

Frontiers in Soft Matter

doi 10.3389/frsfm.2026.1772355

1,479 views
2 citations

Original Research

Published on 13 Jan 2026

Sulfidic crosslinks in EPM: a strategy for advanced flexible EPM composites

in Polymers

Arshad Rahman Parathodika
Kinsuk Naskar

Frontiers in Soft Matter

doi 10.3389/frsfm.2026.1757443

1,956 views