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

  • An article introducing the special issue of Soft Matter magazine by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), in which Professor Takeoka served as guest editor, was published.(PDF)
  • Gel Sympo2024 will be held at Bankoku Shinryokan in Okinawa. All oral speakers will be invited speakers. We are looking for poster presentations by young researchers and students. (https://gelsymposium.com)
  • Toui Furukawa (M1) has received a Poster Award for the Young Adhesive Forum.
  • Moe Sakamoto (M1) has received the Oral Presentation Award at the Elastomer Discussion Group. (PDF in Japanese)
    Toui Furukawa (M1) has received a Poster Award at the Fiber Science Society Autumn Research Presentation.
  • Toui Furukawa (M1) and Moe Sakamoto (M1) have received the poster award at the Tokai Polymer Research Group Lecture Meeting (Summer Research Meeting).
    Moe Sakamoto (M1) has received the Oral Presentation Award at the Ceramic Association Autumn Symposium.
  • A paper by Mr. He (D) has published in Adv. Opt. Matter.
    This research has been covered by numerous international medium.
  • Moe Sakamoto (M1) has received a Poster Presentation Award for the 72nd SPSJ Annual Meeting. (PDF in Japanese)

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