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Nov/12/2022
Division of Soft Matter Entrance Examination Guidelines for the Summer Selection (Master's and Doctoral for Spring 2023/Fall 2023 admission) are now available on Graduate School of Life Science website.
Nov/7/2022
Dr. Md. Anamul Haque's artwork has been featured on the front cover of Journal of Matrials Chemistry B Volume 10 Number 41.
Nov/4/2022
Yuki Inoue (M1) was awarded the Excellent Presentation Award for Poster Session for his presentation "Materials possessing brain-like long-term dynamic memory controlled by the phase separation intensity" at a student-run international symposium "The 8th International Life-Science Symposium" in Hokkaido University.
Oct/11/2022
APS announces that the 2023 Polymer Physics Prize will go to Dr. Jian Ping Gong.
Oct/1/2022
New member joined our lab!
Sep/27/2022
We have received a visit by Counsellor for Science and Technology at French Embassy in Japan. For details, visit here..
Sep/15/2022
Mr. Wenqi Yang (D2)was honored to be awarded The JLCS Best Paper Award from the Japanese Liquid Crystal Society for his paper "Perovskite Nanosheet Hydrogels with Mechanochromic Structural Color" published on Angewandte Chemie International Edition in January 2021.
Sep/16/2022
Mr. Wenqi Yang (D2) won The JLCS Kousai Poster Award for his poster presentation “Mechanochromic Inorganic Nanosheet Gel with Structural Color" at Japanese Liquid Crystal Conference 2022.
Sep/14/2022
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at Long Feng Science Forum Seminar Series (online).
Sep/4/2022
Mr. Shou Ohumura (M2) was awarded the RSC Soft Matter Poster Award for his poster presentation Squid/Polyacrylamide anisotropic DN gel with high fracture toughness" at the 13th International Gel Symposium (Gel Symosium 2022).
Aug/21-25/2022
ACS Fall Meeting took place in Chicago, IL. In the PMSE Young Investigator Symposium, 2022 PMSE Young Investigator Award commendation ceremony was held, and parents of the late Daniel King were invited to the symposium and received the award plaque.
Jul/20-21/2022
Prof. Gong gives an invited course at Summer School SOFTMAT2022 in Cargèse, France.
Jul/12-22/2022
GI-CoRE will jointly hold an international summer school on soft matter "Summer School SOFTMAT2022" with ESPCI, France. For details, visit the summer school website.
Jun/21/2022
Mr. Masahiro Yoshida won the SPSJ Annual Meeting Poster Award for his presentation "Nanoscale Direct Observation of Network Rupture in Hydrogel using Mechanoradical Polymerization."
Jun/11/2022
Division of Soft Matter, Graduate School of Life Science, Virtual Info Sessions will be hosted by the division's exam committee. For details, please visit the division website.
Jun/6/2022
Division of Soft Matter Entrance Examination Guidelines for the Summer Selection (Master's and Doctoral for Fall 2022/Spring2023 admission) are now available on Graduate School of Life Science website.
May/25/2022
For the Livestream of Dr. King's funeral Mass scheduled for June 6, viewers just need to go to the church's website at Saint Maria Goretti Catholic Church Hatfield. Partway down the page you will see a Facebook link. This takes the viewer to the livestream and archive.
May/24/2022
Dr. Daniel R. King's funeral Mass to be scheduled for June 6 at 11 am Eastern US time at St. Maria Goretti Parish, Hatfield, PA. If you are far away and/or unable to attend in person, it will be live-streamed for anyone who would like to see it. The instructions will be available later.
May/12/2022
Dr. Tasuku Nakajima receives the SRJ Young Researcher Award for 2021.
May/8/2022
LSW and TSM will hold a memorial gathering for Dr. Daniel R. King on Sunday, May 5th at the University Centennial Hall. The event is open to all who would like to attend and remember Dr. King. For those unable to attend, a live stream will be available. For details, visit here.
May/2/2022
It is with deep sadness and heavy hearts that we inform you of the death of our colleague and good friend, Dr. Daniel R. King. He passed away unexpectedly in an accident on May 1st. Everyone at LSW and TSM is still in utter shock and disbelief. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family during this difficult time. May he rest in peace.
Apr/23/2022
Prof. Gong delivers a keynote lecture at Accounts of Materials Research: Asia-Pacific Summit (online).
Apr/1/2022
Dr. Nakajima has been awarded the title of Distinguished Researcher at Hokkaido University.
Apr/1/2022
New member joined our lab!
Mar/19/2022
Division of Soft Matter, Graduate School of Life Science, Virtual Info Sessions will be hosted by the division's exam committee. For details, please visit the division website.
Mar/4/2022
Congratulations to Dr. Hailong Fan, currently a member of WPI-ICReDD Gong Group, winning the Award for Encouragement of Research in Polymer Science, The Society of Polymer Science, Japan (2021).
Mar/1/2022
Congratulations to our former member Dr. Daniel King for receiving the ACS Polymer Materials division 2022 Young Investigators Award!
Mar/1/2022
Dr. Xueyu Li has received an assistant professor position at Faculty of Advanced Life Science.
Feb/10/2022
Mr. Yong Zheng's first-authored papers "How chain dynamics affects crack initiation in double-network gels" published on PNAS and "Nanophase Separation in Immiscible Double Network Elastomers Induces Synergetic Strengthening, Toughening, and Fatigue Resistance" published on Chemistry of Materials won the IGP 2021 Publications Award.
Dec/22/2021
Prof. Gong receives the 74th Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ) Award.
Dec/19-20/2021
Prof. Gong delivers invited talks at Pacifichem 2020 (online).
Dec/16/2021
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at Polymer Physics & Polymer Spectroscopy (P3S) Webinar hosted by the Martin-Luther-University in Halle-Wittenberg (online).
Nov/26/2021
Dr. Takayuki Nonoyama receives the 76th (2021) CerSJ Awards for Advancements in Ceramic Science and Technology.
Nov/22/2021
Dr. Youfeng Yue's artwork has been chosen as a back cover of Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan Volume 94 Number 9.
Nov/11/2021
Division of Soft Matter Entrance Examination Guidelines for the Winter Selection (Master's and Doctoral for Spring/Fall 2022 admission) are now available on Graduate School of Life Science website.
Nov/6/2021
Division of Soft Matter, Graduate School of Life Science, Virtual Info Sessions will be hosted by the division's exam committee. For details, please visit the division website.
Oct/5/2021
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at Virutal Duke Soft Matter Symposium on Polymer Networks hosted by the Duke Materials Initiative.
Oct/1/2021
New members joined our lab!
Jun/22/2021
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at The 13th International Symposium on Polyelectrolytes (ISP2020) (online).
Jun/15/2021
Drs. Yanan Ye and Md. Anamul Haque's artwork has been chosen as a supplementary cover of ACS Macro Letters Volume 10 Number 6.
Jun/12/2021
Division of Soft Matter, Graduate School of Life Science, Virtual Info Sessions will be hosted by the division's exam committee. For details, please visit the division website.
Jun/8/2021
Division of Soft Matter Entrance Examination Guidelines are now available on Graduate School of Life Science website.
May/27/2021
Prof. Kurokawa's new lab's website is open.
May/24-28/2021
Prof. Gong delivers two invited talks at The 48th World Polymer Congress (IUPAC-MACRO2020+) (online).
May/20/2021
Prof. Gong receives the 33rd Award of the Society of Rubber Science and Technology, Japan.
Apr/23/2021
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at Biohydrogels 2021 (online).
Apr/14/2021
Our recent paper published on Macromolecules has been featured online in Advances in Engineering's article "A facile mechanochemical technique to visualize polymer chain breakage in hydrogel."
Apr/6/2021
Dr. Tasuku Nakajima receives The 2021 The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: The Young Scientists' Prize. The Award Ceremonoy taking place on April 14th will be live-streamed from MEXT's auditorium.
April/5-7/2021
Prof. Gong and Dr. King deliver invited talks at the Spring ACS 2021 National Meeting "Macromolecular Science at the Dawn of its Second Century" Symposium and "Fundamentals of Polymer Mechanics" Symposium.
Apr/1/2021
Prof. Kurokawa opens a new lab "Laboratory of Transformational Soft Matter." Dr. Daniel R. King moves to the new laboratory. Prof. Kurokawa's new lab will launch its own website soon.
Apr/1/2021
New technical staff and graduate students joined our lab.
Mar/31/2021
Soft Matter Global Station, GI-Core successfully finished the program on March 31. The program will be reorganized to continue as a Soft Matter Collaborative Research Unit, Frontier Research Center for Advanced Material and Life Science, Faculty of Advanced Life Science from April 1st.
Mar/30/2021
Our research on a DN gel that can rapidly reprogram differentiated cancer cells into CSCs, published on Nature Biomedical Engineering, appears on Hokkaido U Web Site: Research Press Release . It also appears on EurekAlert! and NewsAtlas.
Mar/26/2021
Our webinar series "International Webinar on Gels and Networks" will take place on March 26. Dr. Youn Soo Kim from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea will give the sixth lecture " Improved network formation in polyelectrolyte complex hydrogels via suppression of micellization." For details, please visit the webinar website.
Mar/20/2021
Division of Soft Matter, Graduate School of Life Science, Virtual Info Sessions will be hosted by the division's exam committee. For details, please visit the division website.
Mar/15/2021
Dr. Daniel R. King wins the Award for Encouragement of Research in Polymer Science, The Society of Polymer Science, Japan (2020)
Mar/3/2021
Prof. Gong gives an invited talk on "Hydrogels: Challenges and Opportunities" in the ACS Macro Letters 10th Anniversary Webinar Series: Polymer Physics/Physical Chemistry.
Feb/15/2021
Our webinar series "International Webinar on Gels and Networks" will take place on February 15. Prof. Xiang Li from the University of Tokyo will give the fifth lecture "Nanostructures of polymer gels – towards highly homogeneous gels." For details, please visit the webinar website.
Feb/12/2021
Mr. Wei Cui's first-authored paper ""Fiber‐Reinforced Viscoelastomers Show Extraordinary Crack Resistance That Exceeds Metals" published on Advanced Materials and Mr. Kazuki Fukao's first-authored paper " Effect of Relative Strength of Two Networks on the Internal Fracture Process of Double Network Hydrogels As Revealed by in Situ Small-Angle X-ray Scattering" published on Macromolecules won the IGP 2020 Publications Award.
Feb/5/2021
Our webinar series "International Webinar on Gels and Networks" will take place on February 5. Prof. Yvette Tran from ESPCI Paris, France will give the fourth lecture "Responsive hydrogel thin films: design and functionalities." For details, please visit the webinar website.
Jan/29/2021
Our webinar series "International Webinar on Gels and Networks" for the researchers and students in the field of gel sciences in Japan and Europe (and other countries) will take place on January 29th. Prof. Evelyne van Ruymbeke from Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium will give the third lecture "Rouse processes in the linear viscoelastic response of transient polymer networks." For details, please visit the webinar website.
Jan/3/2021
LSW hosts a "JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships Foreign Researchers Program" visiting research fellow, Dr. Miléna Lama from Sorbonne University, France.
Jan/1/2021
One of our articles "Fiber‐Reinforced Viscoelastomers Show Extraordinary Crack Resistance That Exceeds Metals" has been highlighted in Advanced Materials's Virtual Issue "Women in Materials Science" as an outstanding work within Materials Science created under the lead of a female principal investigator.
Dec/18/2020
New members joined our lab!
Dec/9/2020
Prof. Gong gives an invited talk on "Self-Growing and Strengthening of Double Network Hydrogels by Mechanical Training" in the EML webinar.
Dec/1/2020
LSW hosts Dr. Dong Shi, post-doctoral fellow of Global Station for Soft Matter, GI-CoRE.
Nov/27/2020
Our webinar series "International Webinar on Gels and Networks" for the researchers and students in the field of gel sciences in Japan and Europe (and other countries) will take place on November 27. Prof. Takamasa Sakai from The University of Tokyo will give the second lecture "Developments in the Fundamental Physics of Polymer Gels and Application as Biomaterials." For details, please make contact with Dr. Daniel R. King. The abstract is available online from the Webinar Series website.
Nov/16/2020
We, along with professors at ESPCI, France and The University of Tokyo, are organizing a series of webinars "International Webinar on Gels and Networks" for the researchers and students in the field of gel sciences in Japan and Europe (and other countries). Prof. Kurokawa will give the first lecture "Activity Measurement of Polyelectrolyte in Hydrogels by Microelectrode Technique." For details, please make contact with Dr. Daniel R. King. The abstract is available online from the Webinar Series website.
Nov/12/2020
Our new gel showing an instant thermal stiffening has been featured on Open Access Government's article "Materials science: Reverse glass transition in a polymeric hydrogel material".
Nov/11/2020
Division of Soft Matter Entrance Examination Guidelines for the Winter Selection (Master's and Doctoral for Spring/Fall 2021 admission) are now available on Graduate School of Life Science website.
Nov/1/2020
Dr. Tasuku Nakajima receives JST PRESTO (Sakigake) project grant, on the topic: Establishment of principals for novel polymeric material "extremely prestretched network."
Oct/27/2020
Dr. Matsuda and Ms. Kawakami's artwork has been chosen as a supplementary cover of Macromolecules Volume 53 Number 20.
Jul/28/2020
Our research on hydrogel's memorizing-forgetting behavior has been featured in New Atlas's article "Memorizing and forgetting" gel mimics the human brain".
Jul/28/2020
Our research on hydrogel's memorizing-forgetting behavior has been featured in The Science Times's article "Japanese Scientists Discover How Hydrogels 'Mimic Biological Functions'".
Jul/28/2020
Our research on hydrogel's memorizing-forgetting behavior, published on Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), appears on Hokkaido U Web Site: Research Press Release . It also appears on EurekAlert!
Jun/25/2020
Dr. Kazuki Fukao's paper has been chosen for the front cover of the Journal of Materials Chemistry B Volume 8 Number 24.
Jun/9/2020
Division of Soft Matter Entrance Examination Guidelines are now available on Graduate School of Life Science website.
May/20/2020
Our new gel showing an instant thermal stiffening has been featured on research outreach's article "This polymer hardens as it heats up".
Apr/30/2020
Our work "Tough Particle‐Based Double Network Hydrogels for Functional Solid Surface Coatings" published in Advanced Materials Interfaces, is one of the journal's top 10% downloaded paper among work published between January 2018 and December 2019.
Apr/30/2020
Our works "A Facile Method to Fabricate Anisotropic Hydrogels with Perfectly Aligned Hierarchical Fibrous Structures," "Hydrophobic Hydrogels with Fruit‐Like Structure and Functions," "Tough Hydrogels with Fast, Strong, and Reversible Underwater Adhesion Based on a Multiscale Design," "Instant Thermal Switching from Soft Hydrogel to Rigid Plastics Inspired by Thermophile Proteins ," published in Advanced Materials, are one of the journal's top 10% downloaded papers among work published between January 2018 and December 2019.
Apr/28/2020
Dr. Hailong Fan's artwork has been chosen to appear on the front cover of Macromolecules Volume 53 Number 8.
Apr/1/2020
Dr. King's proposal for a JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists approved for funding. A brief explanation is available on the JSPS-KAKENHI website.
Apr/1/2020
Dr. Takayuki Nonoyama has been promoted to Specially Appointed Associate Professor at Faculty of Advanced Life Science. Dr. Hailong Fan has received a specially appointed assistant professor position at WPI-ICReDD, Creative Research Institution (CRIS).
Apr/1/2020
LSW hosts Dr. Tomoki Yasui for one year, a visiting research fellow of "Research Fellowship for Young Scientists from JSPS."
Mar/12/2020
Our research on a new underwater adhesive has been selected as one of the 50 most read Nature Communications articles in chemistry and materials sciences published in 2019.
Feb/25/2020
Mr. Fukao's artwork has been chosen to appear on the front cover of Macromolecules Volume 53 Number 4.
Feb/7/2020
Ms. Zhen Tao's first-authored paper ""Fabrication of Tough Hydrogel Composites from Photoresponsive Polymers to Show Double-Network Effect" published on ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Mr. Martin Frauenlob's first-authored paper "Modulation and Characterization of the Double Network Hydrogel Surface-Bulk Transition" published on Macromolecules, and Mr. Takahiro Matsuda's first-authored paper "Fabrication of Tough and Stretchable Hybrid Double-Network Elastomers Using Ionic Dissociation of Polyelectrolyte in Nonaqueous Media" published on Chemistry of Materials won the IGP 2019 Publications Award.
Jan/28/2020
Our new gel showing an instant thermal stiffening has been featured on Innovation News Network's article "Meet the phase-separation polymeric gel".
Jan/27/2020
Dr. Nonoyama's artwork has been chosen to appear on the back cover of Advanced Materials Volume 32 Number 4.
Jan/20/2020
Dr. Nakajima gives an invited talk at the 2020 Gordon Research Conference on Multifunctional Materials and Structures, Ventura, CA, USA.
Jan/17/2020
For Chinese-speakers, our group works in 2019 are summarized on WeChat Official Accounts Platform's article "Frontier of Polymer Science."
Jan/7/2020
Our colorful gel has been featured on c&en's article "Chemistry in Pictures: Stretchy structural color."
Jan/6/2020
LSW hosts Mr. Jikun Wang, PhD student at Cornell University, USA for 10 days this winter.
Dec/16/2019
New members joined our lab!
Dec/13/2019
Dr. King gives an invited talk at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Dec/6/2019
Our research on a new gel showing an instant thermal stiffening has been featured in New Atlas' article "Thermophile-inspired gel gets 1,800 times harder when heated."
Dec/4/2019
Our research on a new gel showing an instant thermal stiffening, published on Advanced Materials, appears on Hokkaido U Web Site: Research Press Release. It also appears on EurekAlert! Science News.
Dec/3/2019
Our research on a new gel showing an instant thermal stiffening has been featured in Research Highlights article for Nature Reviews Materials "Toughened up."
Dec/1/2019
New member joined our lab!
Nov/27/2019
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at ESPCI Paris, France.
Nov/18/2019
Our research on a new underwater adhesive has been chosen to feature on the Nature Communications Editors' Highlights Webpage on Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology.
Nov/18/2019
LSW hosts Ms. Mingwei Jiang, Bachelor's student at Tsinghua University, China for 1 week this winter.
Nov/12/2019
Our research on a new underwater adhesive has been featured in Daily Mail Online's article "Sticky sea-tuation: Scientists develop underwater glue that works like static electricity to stick objects together in seconds".
Nov/12/2019
Our research on a new underwater adhesive, published on Nature Communications, appears on Hokkaido U Web Site: Research Press Release. It also appears on EurekAlert! Science News.
Nov/11/2019
Division of Soft Matter Entrance Examination Guidelines for the Second Selection (Master's and Doctoral) are now available on Graduate School of Life Science website.
Nov/7/2019
Dr. Takahashi's artwork has been chosen to appear on the inside front cover of Journal of Materials Chemistry B Volume 7 Number 41.
Oct/20/2019
Dr. Nonoyama gives an invited talk at Shaanxi University of Science & Technology, Xi'an, China.
Oct/18/2019
Dr. Nonoyama gives an invited talk at the China-Japan Joint Symposium for Young Polymer Scientists, Xi'an, China.
Oct/1/2019
New members joined our lab!
Sep/21/2019
Mr. Murakawa's artwork has been chosen to appear on the front cover of Journal of Materials Chemistry B Volume 7 Number 35.
Sep/9/2019
Division of Soft Matter Entrance Examination Guidelines for Fall Selection (Master's only) are now available on Graduate School of Life Science website.
Sep/5/2019
Prof. Gong delivers a plenary lecture at the 7th Asian Symposium on Advanced Materials (ASAM-7), Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Beijing, China.
Sep/4/2019
Dr. King's article, "Far from Home: Life as a Soft Matter Researcher Abroad" was published as a "Backstory" in the latest issue of "Matter." In this essay he discusses topics pertaining to living and working abroad.
Sep/1/2019
During the fall and winter terms, LSW hosts Mr. Vincent van der Doef, Master's student at Wageningen University, The Netherlands, for half a year.
Aug/7/2019
Prof. Kurokawa gives an invited talk at the International Congress on Pure & Applied Chemistry (ICPAC Yangon 2019), Yangon, Myanmar.
Jul/31/2019
Dr. Takahiro Matsuda has won the "Polymer Chemistry Poster Prize " at MechanoChemBio 2019 for his presentation "Mechano-induced network remodelling of a hydrogel via mechanoradical polymerization."
Jul/24/2019
Prof. Gong gives an invited course at DoDyNet Summer School, Centro Multimediale Mario Cacace, Capri, Italy.
Jul/22/2019
Dr. King gives an invited talk at the ECI Colloidal, Macromolecular and Biological Gels II, Cork, Ireland.
Jul/17/2019
Global Station for Soft Matter (GSS) will hold an international symposium on soft matter deformation and function. In the symposium, there will be a special session for the the second symposium of Dr. Clark Research Symposium series. Prof. Alfred Crosby from UMass Amherst will give a talk, titled "Materials Mechanics for Impulsive Movement." For details, visit the GSS website.
Jul/1-5/2019
Hokkaido University WPI-ICReDD hosts an exhibition booth at the World Conference of Science Journalists (WCSJ) 2019 held in Lausanne, Switzerland. LSW offers gel samples and a movie on our gels (available on YouTube). Check out what it was like on the Hokkaido University twitter account.
Jul/1/2019
Dr. Nonoyama and Dr. King give invited talks at Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.
Jun/29/2019
Dr. Nonoyama and Dr. King give invited talks at the Joint Meeting of the 5th International Symposium of Flexible and Stretchable Electronics 2019 (ISFSE 2019) and the 5th International Workshop on Soft Machines and Mechanics 2019 (IWSMM 2019), Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.
Jun/27/2019
Our work "Fabrication of Tough and Stretchable Hybrid Double-Network Elastomers Using Ionic Dissociation of Polyelectrolyte in Nonaqueous Media" has been selected as a Top 20 Most Downloaded Articles for the previous 30 days on Chemistry of Materials.
Jun/20/2019
Dr. Hui Guo's artwork has been chosen to appear on the inside front cover of Advanced Materials Volume 31 Number 25.
Jun/17/2019
Prof. Bryan Coughlin (The University of Massachusetts Amherst) gives a talk, titled "Polymer Membranes: Designing next generation separators and transport mediators for energy generating devices." This is the first symposium of Dr. Clark Research Symposium series.
Jun/16/2019
Prof. Gong gives an invited talk at the 3nd International Symposium for Advanced Gel Materials & Soft Matters, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, China.
Jun/14/2019
Our work "Energy-Dissipative Matrices Enable Synergistic Toughening in Fiber Reinforced Soft Composites," published in Advanced Functional Materials is one of the journal's top downloaded recent papers!
Jun/14/2019
Dr. Huang's artwork has been chosen to appear on the back cover of Journal of Materials Chemistry A Volume 7 Number 22.
Jun/7/2019
Division of Soft Matter Entrance Examination Guidelines are now available on Graduate School of Life Science website.
Mar/30/2019
Dr. Takayuki Nonoyama receives the Award for Encouragement of Research in Polymer Science, The Society of Polymer Science, Japan (2018)
May/10/2019
Dr. Mokarram Hossain (Swansea University, United Kingdom) gives a talk, titled "Polymers under multiple loadings : From material characterisations to computational modelling."
May/8/2019
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at the POLY 2019: Sixth International Symposium Frontiers in Polymer Science, Budapest, Hungary.
May/7/2019
LSW hosts Mr. Jiunn Hong PO, Master's student at ESPCI Paris, France, for 4 months this summer.
Apr/17/2019
Prof. Jian Ping Gong receives The 2019 Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: Prizes for Science and Technology.
Apr/1/2019
Dr. Tasuku Nakajima has been promoted to Associate Professor at Faculty of Advanced Life Science. Dr. Kunpeng Cui has received a specially appointed assistant professor position at WPI-ICReDD, Creative Research Institution (CRIS).
Apr/1/2019
New members joined our lab!
Mar/22/2019
Prof. Gong gives an invited course at Xing-Da Lecture, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Mar/19/2019
Each article of the Hokkaido University's research magazine series "Tackling Global Issues vol. 1 (issued in March, 2018)," spotlighting the research field of soft matter, featuring an interview with Prof. Gong and a roundtable discussion with worldwide notable soft matter scientists, has been published every week on the Hokkaido University "Research Highlight. For details, visit Contents in the web version.
Mar/7/2019
Dr. Yashima's artwork has been chosen to appear on the back cover of Soft Matter Volume 15 Number 9.
Feb/8/2019
Mr. Takahiro Matasuda's first-authored paper "Mechanoresponsive self-growing hydrogels inspired by muscle training" published in Science and Ms. Yanan Ye's first-authored paper Tough and Self‐Recoverable Thin Hydrogel Membranes for Biological Applications published in Advanced Functional Materials won IGP 2018 Publications Award.
Feb/5/2019
Our recent paper published on Science has been featured in Der Chemische Reporter's article "Hydrogel wächst mit seinen Aufgabe."
Feb/4/2019
Our recent paper published on Science has been featured in Physics World's article "Hydrogel material flexes its muscles."
Feb/3/2019
Our recent paper published on Science has been featured in Chemistry Worldt's article "Self-growing polymers repair themselves when fractured."
Feb/1/2019
Hokkaido Summer Institute (HSI2019) online application is now open!
Feb/1/2019
Our recent paper published on Science has been featured in Wissenschaft aktuell's article "Fitnesstraining für künstliche Fasern."
Feb/1/2019
Our research on self-growing materials that strengthen in response to force, published on Science, appears on Hokkaido U Web Site: Research Press Release. It also appears on EurekAlert! Science News.
Feb/1/2019
Our research on self-growing materials that strengthen in response to force has been featured on Science: Perspective.
Jan/31/2019
Our recent paper published on Science has been featured in Chemical & Engineering News's article "Stretchy hydrogel heals like muscle.”
Jan/31/2019
Our recent paper published on Science has been featured in New Scientist's article "Self-growing material could make muscles that become stronger with use."
Jan/14/2019
LSW hosts Mr. Mincong Liu, PhD student at Cornell University, USA for 5 days this winter.
Jan/7/2019
The website for the Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI-ICReDD) has been published.
Dec/14/2018
New members joined our lab!
Dec/13/2018
At CRIS building, we will hold a symposium inviting Dr. Reika Katsumata from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, consisting of Research Seminar on "Decoupling of segmental and entire chain dynamics under nanoconfinement" and Outreach Symposium on "Working in Academia as a Foreigner."
Dec/7/2018
2019 summer, we will offer a course on "G018: Soft Interface & Soft Mechanics (Polymer Physics)" (cap: 30) for graduate students all over the country and the world in the Hokkaido Summer Institute (HSI2019). Application will be open from February 1st, 2019.
Dec/7/2018
Dr. Takahashi's artwork has been chosen to appear on the back cover of Advanced Materials Interfaces Volume 5 Number 23.
Dec/5/2018
Dr. King delivers an invited talk at Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA.
Dec/1/2018
New member joined our lab!
Nov/26/2018
Dr. King delivers an invited talk at the MRS Fall 2018 Meeting: The Future of Materials Science Academia—Preparing for a career in Higher Education, Boston, MA, USA.
Nov/13/2018
Division of Soft Matter Entrance Examination Guidelines 2019 are now available on Graduate School of Life Science website.
Dec/30-Nov/13/2018
Prof. Kurokawa delivers an invited talk at the International Congress on Pure & Applied Chemistry (ICPAC) Langkawi 2018, Langkawi, Malaysia.
Oct/18/2018
Our work "Energy-Dissipative Matrices Enable Synergistic Toughening in Fiber Reinforced Soft Composites," published in Advanced Functional Materials was one of the journal’s top 20 most downloaded recent papers!
Oct/17-19/2018
Dr. Nonoyama delivers an invited talk at the Bangladesh Chemical Congress 2018, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Oct/9/2018
Selected to be a part of the World Premier International Research Initiative (WPI), MEXT, Japan, Hokkaido University has launched the "Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (ICReDD)". Prof. Gong will be serving as Principal Investigator. For details, visit the Hokkaido University Press Release.
Oct/1/2018
New members joined our lab!
Oct/1/2018
During the fall and winter terms, LSW hosts Ms. Yuki Meier, Master's student at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, for half a year, and Mr. David Delgado, Ph.D. student at Northwestern University, IL, USA, and Lei Wu, Master's student at Zhejiang University, China, for 3 months.
Sep/24-28/2018
With support from the Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Martin Frauenlob (D2) participates in a summer school in Italy. Report of International Experience "Summer course on Cell Mechanobiology in Udine" is available on Graduate School of Life Science website.
Sep/10/2018
Division of Soft Matter Entrance Examination Guidelines for Fall Selection are now available on Graduate School of Life Science website.
Sep/1/2018
New member joined our lab!
Aug/1/2018
Ms. Ye's artwork has been chosen to appear on the frontispiece of Advanced Functional Materials Volume 28 Number 31.
Jul/2/2018
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at the MACRO2018 World Polymer Congress, Cairns, Australia.
Jul/1/2018
Our recent paper published on Advanced Materials has been featured in ChemistryViews's article"Clingfish-Inspired Hydrogel Sticks Underwater."
Jun/20/2018
Mr. Ryuji Kiyama has won the Excellent Poster Presentation Award for his presentation "Direct observation of single polymer strand based on double network strategy" at the Polymer networks and gels 2018 (PNG2018).
Jun/18/2018
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at the 82nd Prague Meeting on Macromolecules - Polymer Networks and Gels 2018 and 24th Polymer Network Group Meeting (PNG2018), Prague, Czech Republic.
Jun/16/2018
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at the 4th International Workshop on Soft Machines and Mechanics, Xi'an, China.
Jun/18/2018
LSW hosts Dr. Anaïs Giustiniani, post-doctoral fellow of Global Station for Soft Matter, GI-CoRE, for two years.
Jun/14/2018
Mr. Ken-ichi Hoshino has won the Best Poster Award for his presentation "Effect of Swelling on Network Elasticity of Hydrogel: from Shrinking State to Highly Swollen State" at the 13th International Symposium on Polymer Physics (PP'2018).
Jun/14/2018
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at PP'2018, Xi'an, China.
Jun/8/2018
Division of Soft Matter Entrance Examination Guidelines are now available on Graduate School of Life Science website.
Jun/14/2018
Dr. King delivers an invited talk at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.
May/7/2018
LSW hosts Ms. Julie Brun, Master's student at ESPCI Paris, France, for 3 months this summer.
Apr/1/2018
New members joined our lab!
Mar/26/2018
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at the 17th Intl Conference on Deformation, Yield and Fracture of Polymers (DYFP2018), Kerkrade, The Netherlands.
Mar/23/2018
Hokkaido University's research magazine series "Tackling Global Issues vol. 1" spotlights the research field of soft matter, featuring an interview with Prof. Gong and a roundtable discussion with worldwide notable soft matter scientists. For details, visit Hokkaido Univeristy website or ISSUU.
Mar/2/2018
A video abstract for our article published on Advanced Materials is accessible on YouTube: “A Method to Fabricate Anisotropic Hydrogels with Perfectly Aligned Hierarchical Fibrous Structures.” This work has been chosen for the frontispiece of the Journal.
Mar/1/2018
Prof. Gong delivers a plenary lecture at the Adhesion Society 41st Annual Meeting and 6th World Congress on Adhesion and Related Phenomena (WCARP), San Diego, CA, USA.
Feb/27/2018
Mr. Ping Rao has won the 2018 Adhesion Society Annual Meeting & the 6th World Congress on Adhesion and Related Phenomena "Distinguished Poster" Award for his presentation "Tough Hydrogel for Underwater Adhesion."
Feb/12/2018
Our research on new "tougher-than-metal" fiber-reinforced hydrogels was featured on the Spanish TV channel Antena 3 TV's "El Hormiguero." Dr. Daniel King's appearance begins at about 44 minutes.
Feb/9/2018
Mr. Kazuki Fukao's first-authored paper "Anisotropic Growth of Hydroxyapatite in Stretched Double Network Hydrogel" published in ACS Nano won IGP 2017 Publications Award.
Feb/7-9/2018
Dr. Nonoyama delivers an invited talk at the Pure and Applied Chemistry International Conference 2018 (PACCON2018), Hat Yai, Thailand.
Jan/26/2018
Division of Soft Matter, the new division of Graduate School of Life Science, has opened its website.
Jan/18/2018
Dr. Mredha's artwork has been chosen to appear on the frontispiece of Advanced Materials Volume 30 Number 9.
Dec/18/2017
New members joined our lab!
Nov/24/2017
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at the French National Conference on Polymers, Paris, France.
Nov/7/2017
Our research on new "tougher-than-metal" fiber-reinforced hydrogels was featured on German science TV program "Galileo." The article title is: " Das stärkste Gel der Welt.
Nov/7/2017
A new member joined our lab!
Oct/18/2017
LSW hosts Dr. Tsutomu Indei, post-doctoral fellow of Global Station for Soft Matter, GI-CoRE, for one year.
Oct/10/2017
A new member joined our lab!
Oct/2/2017
A new member joined our lab!
Sep/28/2017
Dr. Nonoyama delivers an invited talk at the 6th Asian Symposium on Advanced Materials (ASAM-6), Hanoi, Vietnam.
Sep/20/2017
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at European training network SUPOLEN on “Dynamics and Structure of Supramolecular Polymers: Current and Future Trends," Crete, Greece.
Sep/1/2017
A new member joined our lab!
Aug/28/2017
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at International Symposium on Advanced Polymeric Materials 2017 (ISAPM 2017), Changchun, China.
Aug/21/2017
Prof. Gong delivers a plenary lecture at the 2nd International Symposium for Advanced Gel Materials & Soft Matters (ISAGMSM), Guiyang, China.
Jul/30-Aug/5/2017
Global Station for Soft Matter, GI-CoRE holds "Hokkaido Summer Institute & International Soft Matter Summer School in Hokkaido 2017." For details, visit the summer school website.
Jul/23/2017
Dr. Sun delivers an invited talk at the 2017 Gordon Research Conference on Science of Adhesion, South Hadley, MA, USA.
Jul/18/2017
New division on soft matter starts April 2018" For details, visit the website (tentative url) of Division of Soft Matter, Graduate School of Life Science.
Jul/18/2017
Our research on new "five times stronger than carbon steel" material was featured on Radio Sputnik. The program title is "This material may be used as an artificial tendon or ligament" - Jian Ping Gong.
Jul/5-Dec/4/2017
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
LSW hosts Dr. Xueyu Li, post-doctoral fellow of Global Station for Soft Matter, GI-CoRE, for one year.
Jul/1/2017
Dr. Takayuki Kurokawa has been promoted to Professor at Faculty of Advanced Life Science.
Jun/30/2017
Dr. Nonoyama’s proposal for a JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory) approved for funding. A brief explanation is available on the JSPS-KAKENHI website.
Jun/30/2017
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area) "Soft Crystals: Science and Photofunctions of Easy-Responsive Systems with Felxibility and Higher-Ordering" approved for funding. A brief explanation for Prof. Gong Team's proposal "Fabrication of Soft Photonic Crystals for Novel Functions” is available on the JSPS-KAKENHI website.
Jun/29/2017
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at 2017 Telluride Science Research Conference (TSRC) on Polymer Physics, Telluride, Colorado, USA.
Jun/21/2017
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/20/2017
Our research on new "tougher-than-metal" fiber-reinforced hydrogels was featured on the CNN "Vision－The future of Japan." The article title is: Revolutionary gel is five times stronger than steel.
Jun/14/2017
Dr. Nakajima's work has been chosen for the front cover of Polymer Journal.
May/31/2017
Prof. Gong et al.'s proposal for a JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) approved for funding. A brief explanation is available on the JSPS-KAKENHI website.
May/30/2017
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
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/23/2017
Dr. King delivers an invited talk at Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China.
May/19-Nov 21/2017
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/11/2017
Dr. Chun-Jen Huang (National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan) give a talk, titled "Functional Electrolyte Materials in Biomedical Applications."
Apr/3/2017
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at the 50th Anniversary of Macromolecules Sympo at the 253rd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA.
Apr/1/2017
Dr. Nakajima's proposal for a JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A) approved for funding. A brief explanation is available on the JSPS-KAKENHI website.
Apr/1/2017
Our doctoral course student Takahiro Matsuda has been awarded a JSPS Reserach Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC2).
Apr/1/2017
LSW hosts Dr. Hui Guo, post-doctoral fellow of Global Station for Soft Matter, GI-CoRE, for one year.
Apr/1/2017
New members joined our lab!
Mar/13/2017
Dr. Sun delivers an invited talk at the March Meeting 2017 of the American Physical Society, New Orleans, LA, USA.
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).
Mar/3/2017
Our research on a new kind of "toughter-than-metal" fiber-reinforced hydrogel has been quoted in Science Alert
Feb/24/2017
Our research on new "toughter-than-metal" fiber-reinforced hydrogels appears on Hokkaido U Web Site: Research Press Release.It also appears on EurekAlert! Science News
Feb/3/2017
Dr. King delivers an invited talk at the Pure and Applied Chemistry International Conference (PACCON) 2017, Bangkok, Thailand.
Feb/1/2017
Application is now open to International Soft Matter Summer School in Hokkaido 2017 for graduate students and young investigators all over the country and the world. (closed)
Jan/27/2017
Dr. Tetsuharu Narita (ESPCI ParisTech, France) give a talk, titled "High frequency microrheology by dynamic light scattering techniques for polymer solutions and gels."
Jan/27/2017
Prof. Atsushi Takahara and Dr. Ken Kojio (Kyushu University) give talks, titled "Anti-fouling Surface Design through Nature-Inspired Approaches" and "Molecular aggregation structure analysis of polymer materials using synchrotron radiation x-ray diffraction/scattering technique," respectively.
Dec/22/2016
New members joined our lab!
Dec/7/2016
Global Station for Soft Matter, GI-CoRE is pleased to present a summer school program International Soft Matter Summer School in Hokkaido 2017 for graduate students and young researchers all over the country and the world. If you are interested in applying for the program, see here.
Nov/18/2016
Riku Takahashi (D2) was awarded the Excellent Presentation Award for his oral presentation "Fabrication of Low-Melting Alloy Composite Hydrogels towards Obtaining Advanced Functional Materials" at a student-run international symposium "The 4th International Life-Science Symposium (ILSS)" in Hokkaido University.
Nov/18/2016
We have been recognized as one of the most highly prolific authors for Macromolecules.
Nov/15/2016
Prof. Hugh R. Brown (University of Wollongong, Australia) gives a talk titled "Modelling the Failure of Multiple Network Gels and Elastomers at the Chain Level."
Oct/14/2016
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at the 1st International Symposium On Advanced Gel Materials & Soft Matters, ISAGMSM, Xijiao Hotel Beijing, Beijing, China.
Oct/13/2016
Dr. Kurokawa and Dr. Sun deliver invited talks at Beihang University, Beijing, China.
Oct/1/2016
New member joined our lab!
Sep/30/2016
Prof. Hiroshi Jinnai (Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University) gives a talk titled "Challenges for nano-scale imaging of polymeric nanostructures by electron microscopy."
Sep/30/2016
Prof. Masao Doi (Center of Soft Matter Physics and its Applications, International Research Center, Beihang University, Beijing, China) gives a talk titled "Onsager Principle -A Useful Principle in Soft Matter Dynamics."
Sep/28/2016
Dr. Jonathan T. Pham (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany) gives a talk titled "Elastocapillary deformations: preparing nanoparticle helices and understanding soft materials contact."
Jul/29/2016
Dr. King delivers an invited talk at University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, USA
Jul/25/2016
Our research on a new kind of hydrogel that bonds spontaneously and strongly to defected bones has been quoted in Orthopedics This Week.
Jul/14/2016
Our research on a new kind of hydrogel that bonds spontaneously and strongly to defected bones appears on Hokkaido U Web Site: Research Press Release. It also appears on Alphagalileo, ResearchSEA, and AAAS EurekAlert! Science News.
Jun/28/2016
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at the 11th International Symposium on Polyelectrolytes (ISP 2016), Moscow, Russia
Jun/28/2016
Dr. Sun delivers an invited talk at the 11th International Symposium on Polyelectrolytes (ISP 2016), Moscow, Russia
Jun/15/2016
Ms. Yanan Ye has won the SPSJ Annual Meeting Poster Award for her presentation "Ultra-thin and tough physical hydrogels with double network structure."
Jun/13-15/2016
The First International Symposium on Advanced Soft Matter: Celebrating the kick off of the Global Station for Soft Matter (GSS), GI-CoRE Hokkaido University will be held at Hokkaido University. For details, please visit the GSS website.
Jun/7/2016
Mr. Takahashi's artwork has been chosen to appear on the front cover of Soft Matter Volume 12 Number 23.
Jun/1/2016
The Global Station for Soft Matter is joined by 24 new members from the U.S., France, and Hokkaido University. See the GSS website "Members."
May/30-Aug 6/2016
LSW hosts a member of the DFG-GRK 1865 "Hydrogel-based Microsystems", Mr. Christian Kessler from TU Dresden, Germany
May/26/2016
Dr. Tasuku Nakajima receives Award for Encouragement of Research in Polymer Science, The Society of Polymer Science, Japan(2015) .
Apr/5/2016
Hokkaido University has released "Research Frontiers." Click here to view Prof. Gong's research profile page:Cutting-edge Soft Materials Created With Hydrogels.
Apr/1/2016
Our doctoral course student Ryuji Kiyama has been awarded a JSPS Reserach Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC1).
Apr/1/2016
Hokkaido University Institute for Collaborative Reserach and Education (GI-CoRE) has launched a new global station: Global Station for Soft Matter. Prof. Gong, Dr. Kurokawa, Dr. Nakajima, Dr. Nonoyama, Dr. Sun, and Dr. King are cross-appointed to GI-CoRE.
Apr/1/2016
New members joined our lab!
Mar/31/2016
Our work "Yielding Criteria of Double Network Hydrogels" has been selected as a February's Top 20 Most Downloaded Articles on Macromolecules.
Mar/23/2016
Our work "Swim bladder collagen forms hydrogel with macroscopic superstructure by diffusion induced fast gelation" has been selected as a Hot Article for 2015 on Journal of Materials Chemistry B.
Dec/18/2015
New member joined our lab!
Dec/15/2015
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at Pacifichem 2015, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Dec/12/2015
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at the 14th Pacific Polymer Conference (PPC-14), Kauai, Hawaii, USA
Dec/11/2015
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at the 14th Pacific Polymer Conference (PPC-14), Kauai, Hawaii, USA
Nov/26/2015
Md. Tariful Islam Mredha (D3) and Chanchal Kumar Roy (D3) were awarded the Excellent Presentation Award at a student-run international symposium "The 3rd International Life-Science Symposium (3rdILSS 2015)" in Hokkaido University.
Nov/7/2015
LSW hosts a "JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships Foreign Researchers Program" visiting research fellow, Dr. Kunpeng Cui from University of Science and Technology of China, China.
Oct/20/2015
Dr. King's artwork has been chosen to appear on the inside front cover of Materials Horizons Volume 2 Number 6.
Oct/19/2015
New member joined our lab!
Oct/18/2015
Prof. Gong delivers a plenary lecture at the 2015 National Polymer Congress, Suzhou, China
Oct/14/2015
Prof. Michael S. Silverstein (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) gives a talk titled "Highly Porous Polymer Systems Through Emulsion Templating."
Oct/6/2015
LSW hosts a "JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships Foreign Researchers Program" visiting research fellow, Dr. Md. Anamul Haque from University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Oct/1/2015
New member joined our lab!
Sep/29/2015
Prof. Dr. Dirk W. Grijpma (University of Twente, The Netherlands) gives a talk titled "Combinatorial Preparation of Biodegradable Polymer Networks and Tissue Engineering Scaffolds."
Sep/2/2015
Our work has been featured in Chemistry World's article "Shrinking hydrogel reinforces fabric for soft yet strong material."
Aug/18-21/2015
Prof. Gong delivers a plenary lecture at the Seventh International Symposium on Engineering Plastics (EP’2015), Xining, China
Jul/23/2015
Dr. Wei Hong (Iowa State University, USA) gives a talked titled "A Model for Phase Separation in Gels."
Jul/12/2015
LSW hosts Mr. Jialing Chen, Bachelor's student at Zhejiang University, China for 1 month this summer.
Jun/22-24/2015
Prof. Gong delivers a plenary lecture at 5th International Conference on Self-Healing Materials (ICSHM2015), Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Jun/19/2015
LSW hosts Dr. Wei Hong, Associate Professor at Iowa State University, USA, as a guest associate professor for 2 months this summer.
Jun/17/2015
Our recent paper on the deformation of a gel with lipid bilayers has been featured as a key scientific article on Advances in Engineering.
Jun/9/2015
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at Structured Soft and Biological Matter Symposium, Durham, UK.
Jun/2/2015
New member joins our lab!
May/7/2015
LSW hosts Ms. Anouk L'Hermitte, Master's student at ESPCI ParisTech, France, for 3 months this summer.
Apr/14-17/2015
Prof. Gong delivers a plenary lecture at 10th Annual European Rheology Conference, Nantes, France.
Apr/1/2015
Our doctoral course student Riku Takahashi has been awarded a JSPS Reserach Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC1).
Apr/1/2015
Prof. Gong has been awarded the title of Distinguished Professor at Hokkaido University.
Apr/1/2015
New members joined our lab!
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
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 members joined our lab!
Oct/29/2014
Prof. Gong delivers a keynote lecture at the 3rd DSM Symposium on Materials Sciences, Shanghai, China.
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.
Oct/16/2014
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at SoftComp topical workshop “FRACTURE OF SOFT MATERIALS: from soft solids to complex fluids”, Palavas-les-Flots, France.
Oct/2/2014
Dr. Wei Min Huang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) gives a talk titled "Water/moisture-content dependent shape memory/change effect in hydrogels and their applications."
Oct/2/2014
The Cabinet Office Impulsing Paradigm Change through Disruptive Technologies Program (ImPACT) "Realizing Ultra-Thin and Flexible Tough Polymers (Program Manager: Prof. Kohzo Ito)" approved for funding. Prof. Gong joins the program as a project manager.
Oct/1/2014
LSW hosts for 1 year Mr. Ao-kai Zhang, PhD student at Southeast University, China, and Ms. Ran Shi, PhD student at Dalian University of Technology, China.
Oct/1/2014
New members join our lab!
Sep/25/2014
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at DSM Science Summit, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Sep/12/2014
Our research on a mechano-actuated, soft photonic hydrogel with an ultrafast response time appears on Hokkaido U Web Site: Research Press Release.
Sep/12/2014
Our research on a macroscopically anisotropic hydrogel appears on Hokkaido U Web Site: Research Press Release.
Sep/12/2014
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."
Sep/2/2014
Dr. Yoshimi Tanaka (Yokohama National University Graduate School of Environment and Information Science) gives a talk titled "Solvent effects on gel fracture."
Aug/14/2014
"Control superstructure of rigid polyelectrolytes..." paper chosen as This Week's Featured Image in Nature Communications.
Aug/4/2014
Dr. Tasuku Nakajima has been chosen as the awardee of the 2013 Hokkaido University Commendation for Excellent Teaching.
Jul/20-25/2014
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at 2014 Tribology Gordon Research Conference, Bentley University, South Waltham, MA, USA.
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.
July/8/2014
DSM Materials Sciences Award 2014 goes to Prof. Jian Ping Gong!
July/8/2014
Prof. Gong delivers an award lecture at the IUPAC World Polymer Congress 2014, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
July/3/2014
Dr. Takeji Hashimoto, Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University and Visiting Researcher of Quantum Beam Science Directorate, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, gives a talk titled "Open Nonequilibrium Phenomena in Polymer Physics: Cascading Time Evolutions of Various Dissipative Patterns for Creation of Shish-kebab Crystalline Texture and Extended Chain Crystals from Stable Polymer Solutions."
June/8-12/2014
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at 11th International Symposium of Polymer Physics (PP2014), Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
June/5/2014
Prof. J. P. Hinestroza (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY USA) gives a talk titled "Making fibers from polymers that usually do not make fibers and new metrology tools to probe their properties."
May/12-15/2014
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at IUTAM Symposium on Mechanics of Soft Active Materials, Butler Auditorium of the Neaman Institute at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa.
May/7/2014
LSW hosts Mr. Corentin Durand, Master's student at ESPCI ParisTech, France, for 3 months this summer.
Apr/30-May/2/2014
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at the PSTC Tape Summit TECH 37, Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center, Nashville, USA.
Apr/11/2014
Dr. Zishun Liu (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China) gives a talk titled "Mechanics of Soft Materials -Large Deformation Kinetics of Hydrogels and Predicting Mechanical and Physical Properties of Silica Aerogels using Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Analytical Approach."
Apr/1/2014
Dr. Nakajima's proposal for a JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) approved for funding. A brief explanation is available on the JSPS-KAKENHI website.
Apr/1/2014
Dr. Nonoyama's proposal for a JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) approved for funding. A brief explanation is available on the JSPS-KAKENHI website.
Apr/1/2014
New members joined our lab!
Mar/20/2014
Prof. Gong has been selected as the recipient of the prize The DSM Materials Sciences Award 2014. She receives the award and delivers an award lecture at the IUPAC World Polymer Congress 2014 on July 8, 2014.For more details, click here.
Feb/14-16/2014
Hokkaido University hosts an exhibition booth at the 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting held in Chicago. Drop by our booth "One of the TOUGHEST GELS in the World."
Dec/19/2013
New members joined our lab!
Dec/9-10/2013
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at 2nd Michelin-ESPCI ParisTech workshop - 2013, ESPCI, Paris, France.
Nov/17-22/2013
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
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/28/2013
Ihsan(D3)'s artwork has been chosen to appear on the inside front cover of J of Mater Chem B.
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/28/2012
Dr. Kurokawa and Prof. Gong join a research team "Biomimetics Design" in Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas "Innovative Materials Engineering Based on Biological Diversity." A brief explanation is available on the JSPS-KAKENHI website.
Jun/4-8/2012
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at the International Symposium on Polymer Physics (PP'2012), Chengdu, China
May/31/2012
Prof. Gong et al.'s proposal for a JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) approved for funding. A brief explanation is available on the JSPS-KAKENHI website.
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
Jan/6/2012
East Asia Young Scientists Gel Symposium 2012 to be held at Hokkaido Univ Centennial Hall
Dec/22/2011
Dr. Hsian-Rong Tseng, UCLA and Dr. Yu, RIKEN give talks at LSW
Dec/1/2011
Prof. Michel Cloitre , ESPCI(France) gives a talk at LSW
Sep/15-16/2011
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at the 2011 Taiwan-Japan Bilateral Polymer Symposium, Hsinchu, Taiwan
July/24-29/2011
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at the Gordon Research Conference on Adhesion Science 2011, Lewiston, Maine, USA
Jun/21-Aug/23/2011
LSW hosts an NSF-JSPS Summer Internship Program visiting research fellow, Ms. Tiffany Suekama from the University of Kansas, USA
May/16/2011
HP renewal
May/9-11/2011
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at the 5th Basel International Knee Congress and Instructional Course, Basel, Switzerland
January/9-13/2011
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at the Macromolecular Materials Gordon Research Conference, Ventura, CA, USA
Dec/15-20/2010
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at the Pacifichem 2010, Honolulu, Hawaii
Dec/8/2010
Prof. Gong's interview on Macro2010:43rd IUPAC World Polymer Congress has been released on YouTube
Jul/11-16/2010
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at the Macro2010: 43rd IUPAC World Polymer Congress, Scottish Exhibition & Congress Centre, Glasgow, UK
Jun/30/2010
Dr. Toshikazu Takata of Tokyo Tech gives a talk at LSW
Jun/21/2010
Prof. Françoise M. Winnik, Univ of Montreal gives a talk at LSW
June/6-10/2010
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at the 9th Intl Sympo of Polymer Physics (PP'2010), Ji'nan, China
May/27/2010
Dr. Takayuki Kurokawa receives Award for Encouragement of Research in Polymer Science; The Society of Polymer Science, Japan(2009)
Mar/15-19/2010
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at the Focus Session on Polymer Network Mechanics at the 2010 APS March Meeting, Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR, USA
Feb/15/2010
Drs. Dieter Wirz and Olivier Braissant, Univ of Basel give talks at LSW
Jan/8/2010
The 5th LSW Symposium to be held at Hokkaido Univ Centennial Hall
Dec/8/2009
Dr. Tetsuharu Narita, CNRS Researcher of ESPCI Tech Paris gives a talk at LSW
Nov/2/2009
Dr. Marc Fermigier, Executive Vice President of ESPCI Tech Paris gives a talk at LSW
Oct/21-30/2009
Dr. Miklos Zrinyi, Professor of Semmelweis Univ gives an intensive course for graduate students
Oct/23/2009
Dr. Euginia Kumacheva, Professor of Toronto Univ gives a talk at LSW
Oct/11-14/2009
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at the 2nd Asian Symposium on Advanced Materials (ASAM-2), Fudan University in Shanghai, China
Oct/1/2009
Hokkaido University International Graduate Program for Research Pioneers in Life-Sciences (IGP) application due in late November
Sep/25/2009
Dr. Koji Kaya and Dr. Yoshihito Osada of RIKEN give talks at LSW
Sep/1-4/2009
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at the Third Switzerland-Japan Workshop on Biomechanics 2009 (SJB 2009), Hotel Europe, Engelberg, Switzerland
Apr/6-9/2009
Prof. Gong delivers an invited talk at the 14th Intl Conference on Deformation, Yield and Fracture of Polymers, Rol Duc Abbey, Kerkrade, The Netherlands
September/1/2008
Information for prospective international graduate students posted.
June/25/2008
Update of Admission Annoucement released.
May/28/2008
Annoucement on Graduate Programs Admission Infomation for 2008 released.
August/6-8/2007
Gelsympo2007 will be held at The University of Tokyo.
May/28/2007
Annoucement on Graduate Programs Admission Infomation for 2008 released.
April/13/2007
Prof. GONG appeared on Science Channel
March/16/2007
Prof. Osada's farewell lecture will be held. (posted 2007. 3. 6)
January/12/2007
The 2nd LSW Symposium will be held at Hokkaido University.
December/4/2006
We will be holding the 2nd LSW Symposium on January 12, 2007
September/27/2006
Gelsympo2007 is scheduled to be held in August, 2007 at The University of Tokyo.
June/28/2006
Biological Sciences Division's Graduate Programs Admission Inforamtion.
June/20/2006
Prof. Gong et al's proposal for a JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Specially Promoted Research approved for funding. A brief explanation is available on the JSPS-KAKENHI website.
May/25/2006
Prof. Gong has won The Award of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan.
April/10/2006
Our department and faculty of Science will be reorganized since this April, 2006. Staffs --- Section of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University. Grad students --- Division of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University. Undergrad students --- Department of Biological Sciences, School of Science, Hokkaido University.
March/2/2006
The 1st LSW Symposium was held at Hokkaido University.
October/15-18/2005
GelSympo2005 was held at Hokkaido University. (first circular | GelSympo2005 Program)
October/14/2005
New website launched.
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