Welcome to the
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

Jun/22-24/2015
Prof. Gong delivers a plenary lecture at 5th International Conference on Self-Healing Materials (ICSHM2015), Durham, North Carolina, USA.

Apr/14-17/2015--New!--
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at 10th Annual European Rheology Conference, Nantes, France.

Mar/29-Apr/2/2015--New!--
Prof. Gong organizes the 2015 Conference on Deformation, Yield and Fracture in Polymers (DYFP2015) to be held at Rolduc Abbey, Kerkrade, the Netherlands.
Conference website is now open.

Oct/15-18/2014--New!--
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at SoftComp topical workshop “FRACTURE OF SOFT MATERIALS: from soft solids to complex fluids”, Palavas-les-Flots, France.

Sep/25/2014--New!--
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at DSM Science Summit, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Sep/12/2014--New!--
Prof. Herbert Hui (Cornell University, USA) gives a talk titled "Time dependent behavior of a dual cross-link self-healing gel: theory and experiments" and Prof. Costantino Creton (ESPCI, France) gives a talk titled "Fracture and damage of filled elastomers: analogies and differences with DN gels."

Jul/8/2014
Ryuji Kiyama (Master's 1) was awarded the Best Poster Award (First Prizes) at the2014 IUPAC World Polymer Congress (MACRO 2014) in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Jul/8/2014
DSM Materials Sciences Award 2014 goes to Prof. Jian Ping Gong!

Mar/20/2014
Prof. Gong has been selected as the recipient of the prize The DSM Materials Sciences Award 2014. She will receive the award and deliver an award lecture at the IUPAC World Polymer Congress 2014 on July 8, 2014. For more details, click here.