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Laboratory of Soft & Wet Matter

LSW at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 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	Antifouling gel
Colorful gel	Cell scaffold gel	Low friction gel	Self-healing gel
Self-patterning gel

Sep/20-23/2017--new--
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at European training network SUPOLEN on “Dynamics and Structure of Supramolecular Polymers: Current and Future Trends," Crete, Greece.

Aug/28-30/2017--new--
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at International Symposium on Advanced Polymeric Materials 2017 (ISAPM 2017), Changchun, China.

Jul/5-Dec/4/2017--new--
LSW hosts a visiting research fellow of "JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Reseach in Japan (Strategic Program)" and "NSF GROW Fellowship," Ms. Amber Marie Hubbard from the North Carolina State University, USA.

Jul/1/2017--new--
LSW hosts Dr. Xueyu Li, post-doctoral fellow of Global Station for Soft Matter, GI-CoRE, for one year.

Jun/26-30/2017
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at 2017 Telluride Science Research Conference (TSRC) on Polymer Physics, Telluride, Colorado, USA.

Jun/21/2017--new--
Mr. Tsuyoshi Okumura has won the SPSJ Annual Meeting Poster Award for his presentation "Creation of Novel Composite Materials Possessing a Macroscale Double-Network Structure" and Ms. Luna Kawakami has won the SPSJ Annual Meeting Poster Award for her presentation "Visualization of internal fracture of double network hydrogels by mechanochemistry."

Jun/14/2017
Dr. Nakajima's work has been chosen for the front cover of Polymer Journal.

May/30/2017--new--
It is announced on the Graduate School of Life Science webpage that a new division tentatively named Divison of Soft Matter is planned to be started in 2018 spring. Application period for the recruitment for Spring Semester 2018/Fall Semester 2018 is planned to open in late September, 2017.

May/26/2017--new--
Our recent paper published on Polymer has been featured online in Advances in Engineering's article "Supramolecular Hydrogels with Multi-Cylindrical Lamellar Bilayers: Swelling-Induced Contraction and Anisotropic Molecular Diffusion."

May/19-Nov/30/2017
LSW hosts Dr. Fanyong Yan from Tianjin Polytechnic University, China as a visiting scholar.

May/8/2017
Call for Posters Hokkaido University-ImPACT Joint Symposium "International Symposium on Advanced Soft Matter: From Single Molecule to Tough Polymers. Application is now open until the end of May. For details, visit the symposium website.

May/8/2017
LSW hosts Ms. Agathe Mocelin, Master's student at ESPCI Paris, France, for 3 months this summer.

Apr/1/2017
Our doctoral course student Takahiro Matsuda has been awarded a JSPS Reserach Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC2).

Apr/1/2017
New members joined our lab!

Mar/8/2017
Takahiro Matsuda (D2) was awarded the RSC Soft Matter Awards for his poster presentation "Mechanical Stress Triggers Productive Mechanochemical Reactions in Double Network Gel" at The 11th International Gel Symposium (GelSympo 2017).

Feb/24/2017
Our research on new "toughter-than-metal" fiber-reinforced hydrogels appears on Hokkaido U Web Site: Research Press Release.

Feb/1/2017
Application is now open toInternational Soft Matter Summer School in Hokkaido 2017. for graduate students and young researchers all over the country and the world.