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

Oct/4/2013--New!--
Prof. M. Yousuf Ali Mollah and Prof. Md. Abu Bin Hasan Susan (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh) give talks titled "Development of Novel Functional and Smart Materials for Technological Applications" and "A Novel Methodology for Preparation of Nanoparticles with Tunable Electrical, Optical, and Antibacterial Properties"

Oct/4/2013
New members joined our lab!

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

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

July/26/2013
Dr. Anatoly Zinchenko (Nagoya University) gives a talk titled "Metalization of DNA Hydrogel".

May/9/2013
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