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Laboratory of Soft & Wet Matter

LSW at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan～We belong to here

We are trying to uncover key design principles that Nature uses to build living things.

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Tough gel	Adhesion gel	Molded gel	Anti-fouling gel
Colorful gel	Cell scaffold gel	Low friction gel	Self-patterning gel

Dec/9-10/2013--New!--
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at 2nd Michelin-ESPCI ParisTech workshop - 2013, ESPCI, Paris, France.

Nov/17-22/2013--New!--
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at the13th Pacific Polymer Conference(PPC13), Grand Hi-Lai Hotel Arena Branch, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Oct/22-25/2013--New!--
Dr. Kurokawa delivers an invited talk at the 4th Asian Symposium on Advanced Materials: Chemistry, Physics & Biomedicine of Functional and Novel Materials (ASAM-4), National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.

Oct/18th-19th/2013--New!--
"International Symposium on Advanced Soft Materials -In Honor of the 70th Birthday of Professor Yoshihito Osada-" is held from Oct.18th to 19th, 2013 at Hokkaido University, Sapporo.

Sep/15-19/2013--New!--
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at the 3rd International Soft Matter Conference (ISMC13), University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy.

Aug/18-20/2013--New!--
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at the 15th Asian Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering Congress (APCChE2013), COEX, Seoul, Korea.

Jun/30-Jul/5/2013--New!--
Dr. Nakajima delivers an invited talk at the 7th International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT 2013), Suntec, Singapore

May/9/2013--New!--
LSW hosts Mr. Daniel R. King, PhD student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA, for 3 months this summer.

Apr/15/2013
The Behind the Scenes Live Science Piece "How Hydrogels and Japan Changed a Life" by Tiffany Suekama, NSF-JSPS Summer Internship Program visiting research fellow in 2011, is now out to the public.

Apr/7-11/2013
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at the "Marine Biosurfaces and Interfaces"Symposium at the 245th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA.

Apr/1/2013
New members joined our lab!

Dec/1-5/2012
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at the 2012 Japan-USA Seminar on Polymer Synthesis: Advances at the Interface of Sustainability and Polymer Synthesis, California, USA

Nov/20/2012-Nov/19/2014
LSW hosts a "JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships Foreign Researchers Program" visiting research fellow, Dr. Feng Luo from the Sichuan University, Chendu, China

Nov/20/2012
Prof. Yasuaki Takagi and Ms. Xi Zhang (Faculty of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido Univ) give talks titled "Development of aquaculture technologies of sturgeon in Hokkaido - Why is it important to study collagen in order to develop sturgeon aquaculture industry?" and "Biochemical characterisation and assessment of fibril-forming ability of collagens extracted from Bester sturgeon (Huso huso × Acipenser ruthenus)."

Oct/30-Nov/2/2012
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at the 6th International Workshop on Advance Materials Science and Nanotechnology (IWAMSN-2012), Ha-Long City, Northern Viet-Nam

Oct/9-12/2012
Gelsympo2012 will be held at Tsukuba International Congress Center. On October 11 Prof. Gong delivers a keynote talk.

Oct/5/2012
Prof. Gerald Pollack (University of Washington, Seattle WA, USA) gives a talk titled "The Secret Life of Water: E = H₂O "

Oct/3/2012
Three international students join LSW.

Aug/21/2012
Arifuzzaman(D3)'s artwork was chosen for the issue-cover of Soft Matter

Jul/22-27/2012
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at the 2012 Polymer Physics Gordon Conference, Mt. Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA

Jun/4-8/2012
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at the International Symposium on Polymer Physics (PP'2012), Chengdu, China

May/14/2012
Prof. Makoto Komiyama (University of Tsukuba) gives a talk titled "Manipulation of human genome by artificial restriction DNA cutter"

Apr/2/2012
New members joined our lab!

Apr/1-5/2012
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at the 15th Intl Conference on Deformation, Yield and Fracture of Polymers (DYFP2012), Rolduc Abbey, Kerkrade, The Netherlands