The award ceremony where Prof. Gong received the 2023 Polymer Physics Prize from the American Physical Society (APS) was introduced on the website of Faculty of Advanced Life Science.

Prof. Gong receives the Polymer Physics Prize of the American Physical Society (APS) in the APS Prizes & Awards Ceremonial Session held during the, APS Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

Mr. Qifeng Mu’s first-authored paper “Force-triggered rapid microstructure growth on hydrogel surface for on-demand functions” published on Nature Communications won the IGP 2022 Publications Award.

Our research collaborating with the medical school on brain reconstruction, published on cientific Reports, appears on Hokkaido U Web Site: Research Press Release .

Our research on a squid/synthetic polymer double-network gel, published on NPG Asia Materials, appears on Hokkaido U Web Site

Our work “Surfactant induced bilayer-micelle transition for emergence of functions in anisotropic hydrogel” has been featured in the Journal of Materials Chemistry B 2022 Most Popular Articles collection.

Prof. Gong et al.’s proposal for a JSPS Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (International Leading Research) approved for funding.