Frontiers in Soft Matter: Chief Editor Insights

Frontiers in Soft Matter aims to further developments in the field by bringing together experts in multidisciplinary areas such as physics, chemistry, biology, material science, engineering and nanotechnology. The journal encourages collaboration and communication across the breadth of the soft matter community in industry and academia, and the Chief Editors, respected leaders in their field, play a key role in driving this advancement.

This Research Topic showcases a selection of Review and Mini Review articles authored by the Chief Editors of Frontiers in Soft Matter, exploring recent advances in their respective specialty fields, whilst emphasizing important directions and new possibilities for future research challenges.


Please note: Contributions to this Research Topic are by Chief Editors of Frontiers in Soft Matter only. Other authors may submit to any of the open Research Topics.

Article types and fees

This Research Topic accepts the following article types, unless otherwise specified in the Research Topic description:

• Brief Research Report
• Data Report
• Editorial
• FAIR² Data
• FAIR² DATA Direct Submission
• General Commentary
• Mini Review
• Original Research
• Perspective
• ... View all formats

Articles that are accepted for publication by our external editors following rigorous peer review incur a publishing fee charged to Authors, institutions, or funders.

Article types

This Research Topic accepts the following article types, unless otherwise specified in the Research Topic description:

• Brief Research Report
• Data Report
• Editorial
• FAIR² Data
• FAIR² DATA Direct Submission
• General Commentary
• Mini Review
• Original Research
• Perspective
• Review
• Systematic Review

Keywords: Biological Soft Matter, Colloids and Emulsions, Foams, Food and Soft Materials, Gels, Granular Matter, Liquid Crystals, Polymers, Self-Assembly and Self-Organisation, #CollectionSeries

Important note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.