Seminars – Global Station for Soft Matter

No.	Name of Lecturer	Date	Seminar Title
1	Costantino Creton Professor, ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University, and CNRS, France Global Station for Soft Matter, GI-CoRE, Hokkaido University	2020.2.12	Quantitative Bond Scission in Fracture of Soft Materials
2	Tetsuharu Narita Research Associate, ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University, and CNRS, France Associate Professor, Global Station for Soft Matter, GI-CoRE, Hokkaido University	2020.1.21	Recent Advancements in Diffusing-Wave Spectroscopy for Polymer Dynamics: High Frequency Microrheology and Dynamic Mapping
3	Chung-Yuen Hui Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, USA Global Station for Soft Matter, GI-CoRE, Hokkaido University	2020.1.14	The Single Filament Fragmentation Test
4	Wei Hong Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, China Department of Aerospace Engineering, Iowa State, USA University Professor, Global Station for Soft Matter, GI-CoRE, Hokkaido University	2020.1.14	Fracture of Viscoelastic Solids
5	Yong Wang Professor, Pennsylvania State University, USA	2019.11.18	Biomimetic Materials for Protein and Cell Delivery
6	Angela Pitenis Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA	2019.9.19	Water Content and Lubricity of Aqueous Gels
7	Bryan Coughlin The University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA	2019.6.17	Polymer membranes: Designing next generation separators and transport mediators for energy generating devices
8	Alba Marcellan ESPCI Paris/Sorbonne University, France Associate Professor, Global Station for Soft Matter, Hokkaido University	2019.5.16	Mechanical properties of tissue-like gels produced by injection of spray-dried
9	Mokarram Hossain Senior Lecturer, College of Engineering, Swansea University, Wales, UK	2019.5.10	Polymers under multiple loadings: From material characterisations to computational modelling
10	Tetsuharu Narita Research Associate, ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University, and CNRS, France Associate Professor, Global Station for Soft Matter, GI-CoRE, Hokkaido University	2019.3.11	Mechanical properties of tough hydrogels having permanent and tunable transient crosslinks
11	Jun Yamamoto Soft Matter Physics Group, Kyoto University	2019.3.11	Slippery interfaces on the thin polymer alignment layers
12	Costantino Creton ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University, and CNRS, France Professor, Global Station for Soft Matter, GI-CoRE, Hokkaido University	2019.1.9	Mechanophores to reveal molecular scission on DN elastomers, Adhesion under water: from molecular interactions to macroscopic adhesion
13	Chung Yuen Hui Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, USA	2019.1.9	Mechanics of an adhesive tape in a zero degree peel test: effect of large deformation and material nonlinearity
14	Hanqing Jiang Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, USA	2018.12.17	Multiphysics Modeling and Experiments of Functional Materials: Hydrogels, Batteries, and Origamis
15	Qiang Fu Professor, College of Polymer Science and Engineering, Sichuan University, China	2018.8.2	Low-temperature sintering of stereocomplex-type polylactide nascent powder: from compression molding to injection molding
16	Mingbo Yang Professor, College of Polymer Science and Engineering, Sichuan University, China	2018.8.2	Core-Shell Structure and the Toughness of PA6/MEPDM/HDPE ternary blends
17	Wei Hong Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, China Department of Aerospace Engineering, Iowa State University, USA Professor, Global Station for Soft Matter, GI-CoRE, Hokkaido University	2018.7.17	Polymerized Ionic Liquids and Ionic Semiconductors
18	Weiyi Lu Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University, USA	2018.7.9	Liquid nanofoam-functionalized hydrogel with enhanced strength and deformability
19	Alba Marcellan Pierre and Marie Curie University, France Associate Professor, Global Station for Soft Matter, GI-CoRE, Hokkaido University	2018.5.14	Mechanical Behavior at Single Fiber Scale
20	Xiaoyu Li, Longhai Guo College of Material Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China	2018.4.26	Synthesis of Core/Shell Latex Particles and Their Application
21	Dominique Hourdet CNRS, ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Sorbonne-Université, France Professor, Global Station for Soft Matter, GI-CoRE, Hokkaido University	2018.4.10	Responsive Gelation in Aqueous Media
22	Thomas Salez CNRS, University of Bordeaux, France Assistant Professor, Global Station for Soft Matter, GI-CoRE, Hokkaido University	2018.4.10	Soft and Wet is Different
23	Costantino Creton Professor, ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University, and CNRS, France Global Station for Soft Matter, GI-CoRE, Hokkaido University	2018.1.12	Mechanochemistry to Detect Stresses
24	Tetsuharu Narita Associate Professor, ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University, and CNRS, France Global Station for Soft Matter, GI-CoRE, Hokkaido University	2017.11.13	Rheological Properties of Physical and Chemical Gel of a Giant Polysaccaride ‘sacran’- Effect of Chain Rigidity
25	Takeshi Ueki Senior Researcher, Mechanobiology Group, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)	2017.11.8	A Platform for Soft Materials Science: Self-assembly, Dissipative Structure, and Self-organization of Block Copolymers
26	Takashi Nakanishi Group Leader, Frontier Molecules Group, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)	2017.11.8	Functional Molecular Liquids: Alkylated-π Molecular Design, Liquid Physical and Optoelectronic Properties
27	Anke Lindner Professor, ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University, and University Paris Diderot, France Global Station for Soft Matter, GI-CoRE, Hokkaido University	2017.10.26	E-coli Suspensions, a Model Active Fluid
28	Tsutomu Indei Postdoctoral Researcher, Global Station for Soft Matter, GI-CoRE, Hokkaido University	2017.10.20	Rheological Studies of Associating Polymer Gels
29	Wei Hong Associate Professor, Iowa State University, USA Global Station for Soft Matter, GI-CoRE, Hokkaido University	2017.7.14	Mechanics of a Magneto Self-Healing Soft Composite
30	Cécile Monteux Associate Professor, ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University, and CNRS, France Global Station for Soft Matter, GI-CoRE, Hokkaido University	2017.7.10	Generation and Stability of Foams Made from Physical Gels
31	Costantino Creton Professor, ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University, and CNRS, France Global Station for Soft Matter, GI-CoRE, Hokkaido University	2017.4.14	An Experimental Investigation of Fracture in Filled Natural Rubber
32	Chun-Jen Huang Professor, National Central University, Taiwan	2017.4.11	Functional Electrolyte Materials in Biomedical Applications
33	Alba Marcellan Associate Professor, ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University, and Pierre and Marie Curie University, France Global Station for Soft Matter, GI-CoRE, Hokkaido University	2017.3.3	Some Strategies for Gel Toughening: from Polymer Adsorption onto Solid Nanoparticles to Polymer Coil-to-globule Transition Acting as Reinforcing Filler
34	Hugh R. Brown Professor Emeritus, University of Wollongong, Australia	2016.11.15	Modelling the Failure of Multiple Network Gels and Elastomers at the Chain level
35	Hiroshi Jinnai Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University	2016.9.30	Challenges for Nano-scale Imaging of Polymeric Nanostructures by Electron Microscopy
36	Jonathan T. Pham Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany	2016.9.28	Elastocapillary deformations: preparing nanoparticle helices and understanding soft materials contact
37	Kazue Kurihara Professor, Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University	2016.8.31	Study on friction materials using surface force measurement