Welcome to the
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.

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
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at 10th Annual European Rheology Conference, Nantes, France.

Mar/29-Apr/2/2015
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.

Mar/12/2015
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at 2015 Eastman Lecture, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.

Feb/3/2015--New!--
Dr. Takanari Inoue (Johns Hopkins University, USA) gives a talk titled "Rapidly Inducible De novo Synthesis of Hydrogels in Living Cells."

Dec/22/2014
Prof. Md. Abu Bin Hasan Susan (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh) gives a talk titled "Modification of Water Structure by Different Perturbations."

Dec/22/2014--New!--
New members joined our lab!

Oct/21/2014
Dr. Takayuki Nonoyama was awarded The Award for Encouragement of Research in IUMRS-ICA2014 at the International Union of Materials Research Societies- International Conference in Asia (IUMRS-ICA2014) in Fukuoka, Japan.