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2024
2024/10/1
We are happy to announce that Xie-san, Tokui-san and Hama-san came to our lab as newcomers. Welcome to TSM! We have been looking forward to seeing you both here. I am sure you will be nervous because everything is new, so please feel free to talk to us.
2024/9/6
Mr. Hibiki Shiimura received the Best Poster Presentation Award at the 10th Hokkaido University Cross-Departmental Symposium . Congratulations! Click here for the photo
2024/08/5
Hokkaido University Open Campus 2024 was held on August 4 and 5, 2024. On August 5, high school students only program was held. Our laboratory held a program for high school students to synthesize gel.
Event Reports of the Faculty of Advanced Life Science
2024/07/20
Hokudai Doshin Academy (Open Lectures) 7th lecture given by Professor Takayuki Kurokawa.
2024/7/12
Division BBQ Party-JINPA was held. The day was a great success with beautiful weather and delicious Genghis Khan, oven-baked pizza, and homemade jelly. We hope all the undergraduate students enjoyed the event.
Event Reports of the Faculty of Advanced Life Science
2024/06/01
We are pleased to welcome Tomoki Yasui as the Assistant Professor of our laboratory. We look forward to working and collaborating with you.
2024/04/02
We are happy to announce that Okuzaki-san came to our lab as newcomers. Welcome to TSM! We have been looking forward to seeing you both here. I am sure you will be nervous because everything is new, so please feel free to talk to us.
2024/04/01
Professor Kurokawa's room has been moved to 2-1 on the second floor.
2024/03/25
The student room has been moved to 2-3(1) on the second floor.
2024/03/25
Congratulations to all graduating students!
Doctoral Degree: Dr. Takuya Nishimura
Master Degree: Haruka Mizutani・Keiseke Ishida・Yusuke Tsuda・Ryo Kato
Bachelor Degree: Wakana Komamura・Yoshiyuki Sato
Thank you all for your hard work!
2024/02/28
Prof. Takayuki Kurokawa will give a lecture on "Functions of Biological Tissues from a Material Perspective" at the Hokkaido University Doshin Academy in 2024.
2024/01/25
Mr. Keisuke Ishida received The Best Presentation Award at the SPSJ Hokkaido Branch Winter Meeting. Congratulations on winning the award, Ishida-san! All your efforts have paid off. I am convinced of your brilliant future.Click here for the photo
Website of Graduate School of Life Science
2024/01/01
May the New Year turn out to be the happiest and the best for you. We wish your loved ones prosperity and good health.
2023
2023/10/3
We are happy to announce that Ishida-san, Ishimoto-san and Asagi-san came to our lab as newcomers. Welcome to TSM! We have been looking forward to seeing you both here. I am sure you will be nervous because everything is new, so please feel free to talk to us.
2023/7/14
Division BBQ Party-JINPA was held. The day was filled with delicious food and the participants' smiles and happiness. We hope that every undergraduate student was exposed to a unique aspect of our research. We greatly appreciate your participation.
2023/7/13
The Department of Biological Sciences (Macromolecular Functions) is conducting lab tour for freshmen. The tour of Laboratory of Transformational Soft Matter was held on July 13, 2023.
【Biological Sciences (Macromolecular Functions) 】
https://life.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/en/mf/topic/14573
2023/6/16
Division of Biological Sciences (Macromolecular Functions), School of Science holds “DC Talk” （DC：Doctoral Course） for sophomores and juniors as part of their career path education. On June 16, 2023, Mr. Takuya Nishimura (DC3, Division of Soft Matter, Graduate School of Life Science) gave a talk to juniors.
https://life.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/en/sm/topic/14714
2023/6/10
Division of Soft Matter, Graduate School of Life Science, Online Information Session will be hosted by the division's exam committee on June 10. For details, please visit the division website.
2023/6/3
Prof. Takayuki Kurokawa will give a lecture in the “Open Lecture” program of the 65th Hokkaido University Festival, June 2 (Fri.) – June 4 (Sun.), 2023.
2023/5/20
Ms. Haruka Mizutani and Mr. Hibiki Shiimura received The Young Poster Presentation Award at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry. Congratulations! Click here for the photo
Website of Graduate School of Life Science
2023/03/23
Congratulations to all graduating students!
Masters Degree: Haruna Tsuchibora・Keiseke Mukaida
Bachelors Degree: Hibiki Shiimura・Naoki Monden・Daigo Ito
Thank you all for your hard work!
2023/3/18
Division of Soft Matter, Graduate School of Life Science, Online Information Session will be hosted by the division's exam committee on March 18. For details, please visit the division website.
2023/3/10
Prof. Takayuki Kurokawa's research, "Engineering Consideration of Fibrous Structure in Suction Pad of Aspasmichthys ciconiae” will be exhibited with a model fish, Aspasmichthys ciconiae, at the spring special exhibition to be held from March 10 to May 7, 2023, at Tochigi Nakagawa Aquatic Park.
2023/1/20
We are happy to announce that Hibiki Shiimura was awarded The Best Poster Presentation Award at the 34th Polymer Gels Group Annual Meeting in Tokyo.
Your efforts have paid off. Congratulations on winning the award, Shiimura-san! We are convinced of your brilliant future. Click here for the photo
2023/01/01
May the New Year turn out to be the happiest and the best for you. We wish your loved ones prosperity and good health.
2022
2022/11/16
A memorial panel for late Dr. Daniel King was displayed at the 31st Polymer Materials Forum held at Tower Hall Funabori on 11/15-16. Thank you to all committee members for preparing. Click here for the photo
2022/11/12
Division of Soft Matter, Graduate School of Life Science, Online Information Session will be hosted by the division's exam committee on November 12. For details, please visit the division website.
2022/10/8～9
For the first time in three years, the seminar trip was held. All enjoyed the various projects. We hope it will be held again next year. Thank you to B4 for organizing and planning this event. Click here for the Photo album
2022/10/3
We are happy to announce that Komamura-san and Sato-san came to our lab as newcomers. Welcome to TSM! We have been looking forward to seeing you both here. I am sure you will be nervous because everything is new, so please feel free to talk to us.
2022/9/30
We are happy to announce that Keisuke Mukaida was awarded an Excellent poster at 71th Symposium on Macromolecules in Hokkaido.
It's indeed a reward for all the efforts you've made. Congratulations on winning the award, Mukaida-san! I'm sure Dan-sensei would be glad. Click here for the photo
2022/8/21～25
ACS Fall Meeting took place in Chicago, IL. At the PMSE Young Investigator Symposium, 2022 PMSE Young Investigator Award commendation ceremony was held, and parents of the late Daniel King were invited to the symposium and received the award plaque.
2022/8/18
We are happy to announce that Haruna Tsuchibora was awarded an Excellent poster at 2022年度北海道高分子若手研究会・37th Summer University in Hokkaido.
You worked so hard and pushed your abilities to the limit to make this success happen. Congratulations on winning the award, Tsuchibora-san! Click here for the photo
2022/6/17
Division of Soft Matter Entrance Examination Guidelines for the Summer Selection (Master's and Doctoral for Fall 2022/Spring2023 admission) are now available on Graduate School of Life Science website.
2022/05/01
About the information of passing of Dr.King
Dr. Daniel R. King, an assistant professor in our laboratory, passed away on May 1, 2022, while scuba diving at the age of 33. We are very surprised at the sudden news of his passing, and regret the untimely departure of Dr. King, who showed great promise for the future. We, the members of our laboratory, will continue to carry on Dr. King's research philosophy and manifest his goals to leave a living proof of his life in the academic world. We pray for the eternal peace of his soul.
2022/04/28
Division of Soft Matter, Graduate School of Life Science, Online Admission Information Session will be held on June 11 at 13:00 (JST). For details, please visit the division website.
Division of Soft Matter
Japanese https://life.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/sm/event/11205
English https://life.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/en/sm/event/11207
2022/04/20
Dr. King has published a Focus Review article on the topic of macroscale double networks in Polymer Journal.
2022/03/24
Congratulations to all graduating students of the 2021FY!
PhD:
Tsuyoshi Okumura
Masters Degree:
Ryotaro Nakamura
Bachelors Degree:
Haruka Mizutani
Thank you all for your hard work!
2022/03/01
Dr. King was awarded the ACS PMSE (Polymer Materials: Science and Engineering) Young Investigators Award! He will give an honorary lecture at the ACS Fall Meeting, held from August 21-25 in Chicago, USA.
2022/02/02
Takuya Nishimura was awarded an Award for Encouragement of Research at the 31st Annual Meeting of MRS-J. Congratulations Nishimura-san!
2022/02/01
We are happy to announce that Tsuyoshi Okumura has successfully passed his Final Defense! Congratulations Dr. Okumura on a fantastic PhD!
2022/01/08
We are happy to announce the publication of a highly collaborative a new paper in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A, entitled "High strength hydrogels enable dendrite-free Zn metal anodes and high-capacity Zn–MnO2 batteries via a modified mechanical suppression effect" by R. Zhu, W. Cui, D. R. King, T. Kurokawa, and coworkers. Congratulations Zhu-san!
2022/01/01
Happy New Year! あけましておめでとうございます。今年もよろしくお願いします。
2021
2021/12/23
We celebrated the end of our first year as a group together in person by eating ジンギスカン (Lamb barbecue, a specialty of Hokkaido). The end of the year party is known as the 忘年会 (bonenkai), and is a common celebration held by all social and work groups in Japan. Thank you everyone for your hard work this year! お疲れさまでした。
2021/12/13
We have published a new paper in Macromolecules, entitled "In Situ Evaluation of the Polymer Concentration Distribution of Microphase-Separated Polyelectrolyte Hydrogels by the Microelectrode Technique" by T. Nishimura, T. Kurokawa, and coworkers. Congratulations Nishimura-san!
2021/12/02
Takuya Nishimura won an excellent poster presentation award at the 11th CSJ Chemistry Festa. Congratulations Nishimura-san!
2021/09/06
We have published a new paper at Matter, entitled "Tiny yet tough: Maximizing the toughness of fiber-reinforced soft composites in the absence of a fiber-fracture mechanism" by W. Cui, D. R. King, and coworkers. This is a collaborative work with the Laboratory of Soft and Wet Matter. Congratulations Cui-san! Please send an email to dking at sci.hokudai.ac.jp for reprints of this paper.
2021/06/24
Our new paper is now available online (open access) at Scientific Reports, entitled "Improving the strength and toughness of macroscale double networks by exploiting Poisson's ratio mismatch" by T. Okumura, D. R. King, and coworkers. Congratulations Okumura-san!
2021/05/27
Our new website is online!
2021/05/13
Dr. King has published a preview article in Chem, the chemistry partner journal of Cell. Click here to see the article and abstract, and feel free to email us for a copy of the article!
2021/04/01
Our new laboratory has formed!
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