Soft Science

Soft Science Warmly Welcomes Nine Distinguished Scholars to Its Editorial Board

The new Editorial Board Members, listed in order of their joining, are: Prof. Joseph Wang, Prof. Chwee Teck Lim, Prof. Roozbeh Ghaffari, Prof. Raudel Avila, Prof. Tae-il Kim, Prof. Abraham Vazquez-Guardado, Prof. W. Hong Yeo, Prof. Sheng Xu, and Prof. Yury Gogotsi.

Call for Papers: Implantable Neural Interfaces: Materials, Fabrication, and Integrated Systems

Guest Editors: Prof. John A. Rogers from Northwestern University, Dr. Yiyuan Yang from National University of Singapore, Assoc. Prof. Guangfu Wu from Tongji University and Prof. Jia Huang from Tongji University.

Call for Papers: MXene-Based Flexible Electronic Devices

Guest Editors: Prof. Yury Gogotsi from Drexel University and Dr. Danzhen Zhang from Northwestern University.

Call for Papers: Stretchable Thermoelectrics: Strategies, Performances, and Applications

Guest Editors: Prof. Li-Dong Zhao from Beihang University, Prof. Zhi-Gang Chen from Queensland University of Technology, Prof. Takao Mori from National Institute for Materials Science and Prof. Yao Lu from Southern University of Science and Technology

OAE Publishing Inc. and Huazhong University of Science and Technology Establish Strategic Partnership to Advance Soft Science

In December 2025, OAE Publishing Inc. and Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) officially established a strategic partnership to jointly advance the development of Soft Science (SS).

Soft Science

Recent progress in thermal management for flexible/wearable devices

Morphing matter: from mechanical principles to robotic applications

Shape memory behaviors of 3D printed liquid crystal elastomers

Laser-induced direct graphene patterning: from formation mechanism to flexible applications

Soft conductive nanocomposites for recording biosignals on skin

Wearable and implantable aptamer sensors for physiological monitoring

Bioinspired structural coupling of superhydrophobicity and sensing for ternary interactions

Self-stratified stretchable passive cooling interface for thermal management of on-skin electronics

Articles

Degradation by design: sequentially degradable organic transistors for sustainable electronics

Wearable PANI@CoFe2O4 organohydroges for strain sensing, EMI shielding and thermal insulation

Actuation-sensing coupled plasmonic microrobots for adsorption-mediated chemical detection

Electrochemical biosensing across microsampled blood and interstitial fluid for metabolic, hormonal, and therapeutic monitoring

Stretchable thermoelectric materials for wearable health monitoring and wound treatment

Dual magnetic particles modified carbon nanosheets in CoFe/Co@NC heterostructure for efficient electromagnetic synergy

Recent progress and perspective of microwave absorption materials derived from metal-organic frameworks

A skin-wearable and self-powered laminated pressure sensor based on triboelectric nanogenerator for monitoring human motion

Flexible and Programmable Reconstruction of Organoids and Organoid-on-Chips

Implantable Neural Interfaces: Materials, Fabrication, and Integrated Systems

Microstructures