2016/12/31

News in 2016

Dec/22/2016

New members joined our lab!

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 AlphagalileoResearchSEA, 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.