The ''European Physical Journal E: Soft Matter and Biological Physics'' is a scientific journal focusing on the physics of soft matter and

biophysics Biophysics is an interdisciplinary science that applies approaches and methods traditionally used in physics to study biological phenomena. Biophysics covers all scales of biological organization, from molecular to organismic and populations. ...

. It publishes papers describing advances in the understanding of physical aspects of soft, liquid and living systems. This includes reports of experimental, computational and theoretical studies and appeals to the broad interdisciplinary communities including physics, chemistry, biology and materials science. Topics covered include: ;Soft matter: *

Polymer A polymer (; Greek '' poly-'', "many" + ''-mer'', "part") is a substance or material consisting of very large molecules called macromolecules, composed of many repeating subunits. Due to their broad spectrum of properties, both synthetic a ...

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polyelectrolyte Polyelectrolytes are polymers whose repeating units bear an electrolyte group. Polycations and polyanions are polyelectrolytes. These groups dissociate in aqueous solutions (water), making the polymers charged. Polyelectrolyte properties are ...

s * Liquid crystals *Macromolecular self-assembly * Colloids and

nanoparticle A nanoparticle or ultrafine particle is usually defined as a particle of matter that is between 1 and 100 nanometres (nm) in diameter. The term is sometimes used for larger particles, up to 500 nm, or fibers and tubes that are less than 10 ...

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Granular matter A granular material is a conglomeration of discrete solid, macroscopic particles characterized by a loss of energy whenever the particles interact (the most common example would be friction when grains collide). The constituents that compose gra ...

Nanodevice A molecular machine, nanite, or nanomachine is a molecular component that produces quasi-mechanical movements (output) in response to specific stimuli (input). In cellular biology, macromolecular machines frequently perform tasks essential for ...

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smart material Smart materials, also called intelligent or responsive materials, are designed materials that have one or more properties that can be significantly changed in a controlled fashion by external stimuli, such as stress, moisture, electric or magnetic ...

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Biological matter Biological material may refer to: Natural materials * Organic matter, matter that has come from a once-living organism, or is composed of organic compounds * A chemical substance present or produced in a living organism ** Biomolecule, a molecule p ...

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chromatin Chromatin is a complex of DNA and protein found in eukaryotic cells. The primary function is to package long DNA molecules into more compact, denser structures. This prevents the strands from becoming tangled and also plays important roles in r ...

, ...) *Structure and function of nanostructures * Biomimetics *

Cellular process The cell is the basic structural and functional unit of life forms. Every cell consists of a cytoplasm enclosed within a membrane, and contains many biomolecules such as proteins, DNA and RNA, as well as many small molecules of nutrients an ...

es *Multicellular systems (Tissue, organs) *Biological networks

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* Biophysics journals Physics journals Springer Science+Business Media academic journals EDP Sciences academic journals Academic journals established in 2000 Monthly journals English-language journals {{biophysics-journal-stub

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