Dr. Shintaro Nakagawa will be appointed as a specially appointed associate professor (C3-SMART, Next-Generation Soft Materials Co-Creation Center) on December 1, 2025. He specializes in polymer synthesis and soft material production, and is also a leading figure in scattering analysis. We are very much looking forward to conducting research together in the northern land!

Asai from B3 made cream puffs! They look like delicious soft matter. I wonder what kind of structure they will have if we do a scattering analysis.

At the Next Generation Soft Materials Co-Creation Center event held at Hokkaido University on October 2, 2025, Sakuyo Mizumoto, a fourth-year undergraduate student, gave a poster presentation. The title of the presentation was "Molecular weight limit of the ordinary equation of state for polymer solutions," and it reexamined the equation of state for the thermodynamic properties of polymer solutions from the perspective of molecular weight dependence, presenting a new analysi