This week, Soft Matter accepted two of our manuscripts for publication. Both papers investigate how an elastic environment affects the dynamics of many droplets. In particular, they reveal details about elastic ripening, which is the coarsening process driving droplets towards soft regions.

We published our first pure software paper in the Journal of Open Source Science. In this paper, we describe our Python package py-pde, which helps with solving partial differential equations (PDEs).

In a new manuscript available on arXiv, Estefania presents a detailed theoretical description of droplet dynamics in elastic media.

In a brand-new paper that appeared in Nature Physics, a collaboration of the group of David Zwicker at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen and the group of Eric Dufresne at ETH Zürich demonstrate some surprising effects of polymer networks on droplet growth.

We published a manuscript on the ripening dynamics of droplets embedded in an elastic environment on arxiv in collaboration with Eric Dufresne’s group at ETH Zürich.

We wrote a perspective article that proposes two fundamental mechanisms how cells can regulate biomolecular condensates using post-translational modifications.