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.