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 from National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan gives 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/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.