TAKEOKA Research Group

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「creating the “Smart” Soft Materials」

　We are a research group in Department of Molecular Design & Engineering at Nagoya University. Our interest is to create “smart” soft materials. Soft materials such as polymers, colloids, liquid crystals and gels exhibit interesting properties that we cannot imagine. Soft materials are used in a wide range of applications such as automobile parts and airplane parts, liquid crystal displays such as televisions and smartphones, materials for regenerative medicine, and biomaterials.

　To create more sophisticated materials than traditional soft materials, we are working on the preparation of flexible, complex and smart soft materials by combining various components such as organic molecules, polymers and inorganic materials.

Yukikazu Takeoka
Associate Professor,    Department of Molecular Design & Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University

News

  • Moeka Higuchi (M1) has received a poster award at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Japan Adhesion Society.
  • Moeka Higuchi (M1) has received the Excellent Presentation Award at the Japan Adhesion Society Young Researchers Exchange Symposium.
  • Karin Ito (M2) has received the Excellent Poster Presentation Award at the annual conference of the Society of Fiber Science and Technology.
  • Karin Ito (M2) has received the Excellent On-Demand Presentation Award at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan
  • Yuya Kagami (M1) has received the Excellent Poster Presentation Award at the Japan Rubber Association Annual Conference.
  • Lab. member's photo gallery is open!
  • Moeka Higuchi (B4) has received the CJS (Chemical Society of Japan) Tokai Branch Director's Award.
  • Moe Sakamoto (M2) has received the Best Presentation Award at the 36th Symposium on Polymer Gel Research.
  • Fuuya Matsunami (M1) has received the Outstanding Presentation Award at the 23rd Industry-Government-Academia Adhesion Young Forum (the Adhesion society of Japan).
  • Karin Ito (M1) and Moe Sakamoto (M2) received the Best Poster Presentation Award at the 14th CSJ Chemistry Festa 2024, a fall project of the Chemical Society of Japan. (PDF in Japanese)
  • Gel Symposium 2024 (Okinawa, Japan) has been successfully completed.
    Gel Symposium 2024
  • He Jia Lei's (Graduated) research was introduced in the Nagoya University Research Frontline. (in Japanese)
  • Toui Furukawa (M2) has received Best Student Presentation Award at the 37th Autumn Symposium of the Ceramic Society of Japan.

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