On October 2, 2025, the first symposium at the Co-Creation Core for Soft Materials Aspiring Research & Translation (C 3 -SMART), titled “Co-Creation Symposium of Hokudai Soft Materials 2025,” was held. A total of 120 participants attended, and 46 poster presentations were showcased. The event featured an invited lecture by Associate Professor Reika Katsumata (University of Massachusetts Amherst), and lively discussions took place on the latest research in the field of soft ma

Assitant Professor Assistant Professor Tomoki Yasui (Faculty of Advanced Life Science) has been selected for the ACT-X program under JST Strategic Basic Research Program for FY2025.

Dr. Shinji Noguchi, Specially-Appointed Asst. Prof., received the Best Presentation Award in the special session “Open-System...

Beautiful photos and reports from the summer school classes and parties are featured. For more details, please see below....

Associate Professor Tasuku Nakajima (Faculty of Advanced Life Science) published a paper titled “Osmosis-Induced Mechanical...

Inspired by biology, researchers have achieved the highest performing underwater adhesive hydrogel technology to date through a data...

We are happy to announce that LeNet & C3-SMART will hold the seminar 2025 as below. 【Speaker】 Dr. Yasuhiko Igarashi (Tsukuba University)...

The REBOND Summer School on Polymeric Networks for Sustainable Development, co-organized by the LeNet Project (Hokkaido University) and...

We are pleased to announce Co-Creation Symposium of Hokudai Soft Materials 2025 . Soft materials refer to substances that are easily...

Title “Node” Facilitated Thermostable Mechanophores for Rapid Self-strengthening in Double Network Materials Authors Julong Jiang, Zhi...

Title Fundamental toughening landscape in soft-hard composites: Insights from a minimal framework Authors Fucheng Tian, Katsuhiko Sato,...

GI-CoRE Cooperating Hub/Soft Matter Collaborative Research Unit (SMCR), Faculty of Advanced Life Science will hold the SMCR Seminar 2024...

GI-CoRE Cooperating Hub/Soft Matter Collaborative Research Unit (SMCR), Faculty of Advanced Life Science will hold the SMCR Seminar 2025...

GI-CoRE Cooperating Hub/Soft Matter Collaborative Research Unit (SMCR), Faculty of Advanced Life Science will hold the SMCR Seminar 2025...

The summer school, organized by Rebond Project and co-hosted by LeNet has began! Dr. Gong is one of the organizers, and Dr. Nakajima and...

Associate Professor Takayuki Nonoyama Receives the 2025 Award for Young Investigator of Japanese Society for Biomaterials! The Award for...

Laboratory of Convergence Soft Matter and Laboratory of Soft & Wet Matter will be introduced on NHK E-TV’s “Science ZERO”! Research on...

Dr. Masashi Ohira has been appointed as a Postdoc at the Olsen lab (MIT, US). For more details, please visit the following URL. Dr....

Professor Jian Ping Gong (Faculty of Advanced Life Science) issued a press release titled “Development of New Self-Reinforced Materials...

The "Sakai Complex Gel Project," for which Associate Professor Lee serves as a co-investigator, has been selected for the Strategic Basic...