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

  • 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.
  • Moe Sakamoto (M2) has received the Grand Prize for the Best Student Presentation at the 53rd Symposium on Biomedical Polymers.
    SPSJ2024_award
  • Toui Furukawa (M2) has received an Excellent Poster Award for the 73rd SPSJ Annual Meeting.
  • Moe Sakamoto (M2) and Toui Furikawa (M2) and Fuuya Matsunami (M1) have received a Poster Award for The 62nd Annual General Meeting of the Adhesion Society of Japan.
  • Moe Sakamoto (M2) and Toui Furikawa (M2) have received an Excellent Poster Award for the Adhesion Society of Japan, Symposium for Young Scientists.
  • Moeka Higuchi (B4) has received the Kyoyu-kai Award with outstanding academic achievement.
    Kyoyu-Kai_award
  • 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)

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