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.