People
Principle Investigator
Yasuhiro Ishida
Career
1996. 3. Univ. Tokyo B.D.
1998. 3. Univ. Tokyo M.D.
2001. 3. Univ. Tokyo Ph.D.
2001. 4. Univ. Tokyo Assistant Prof.
2007. 6. Univ. Tokyo Lecturer
2009. 9. RIKEN Team Leader
Publications / Honors
• Society of Polymer Science Japan Science Award (’18)
Message
May the members be blessed with health, happiness, and good results…!
Postdoctoral Researchers
Xiang Wang
Career
2012. 6. Tianjin Univ. B.D.
2014.12. Tianjin Univ. M.D.
2018. 9. Univ. Tokyo. Ph.D.
2018.11. RIKEN Postdoc Researcher
Research
2D colloidal liquid crystals
Hydrogels
Structural coloration
Publications / Honors
• J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 16396.
• The SMJS Rising Star Award (’19)
• The 7th RIKEN-NCTU Symposium Best Poster Award (’19)
Message
Nothing is more exciting than discovering something new.
Qifeng Mu
Career
2015. 6. Tiangong Univ. B.D.
2018. 6. Tiangong Univ. M.D.
2022.12. Hokkaido Univ. Ph.D.
2023. 6. RIKEN Postdoc Researcher
Research
Asymmetric system
Biomimetic material
Publications / Honors
• Nat. Commun. 2022, 13, 6213.
• ACS Appl. Mat. Inter. 2020, 12, 33152-33162.
• Langmuir 201733, 10291-10301.
Message
Practice makes perfect.
Yunlei Zhang
Career
2018. 6. Northwest Normal University B. D.
2023. 6. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Ph.D.
2023 9. RIKEN Postdoctoral Researcher
Research
Soft matter and interface forces
Biomimetic material
Publications / Honors
•Nature Communications 2022, 13,377.
•Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61,e202209741.
Message
Good Good Study, Day Day Up.
Technical Staffs
Kuniyo Yamada
Career
Kanagawa Inst. of Tech. M.D.
Technical Staff
Research
Organic synthesis
Hayato Kanai
Career
2016. 3. Saitama Univ. B.D.
2018. 3. Saitama Univ. M.D.
2022. 3. Saitama Univ. Ph.D.
2018. 4. RIKEN JRA
2021.10. RIKEN Technical Staff
Research
Chiral supramolecular liquid crystals
Trainees
Shuxu Wang
Career
2018. 6. Zhejiang Univ. B.D.
2020. 9. Univ. Tokyo M.D.
2020. 10. Univ. Tokyo. Ph.D. course
2020. 10. RIKEN JRA
Research
Rod-shaped bacteriophages
Publications / Honors
• Adv. Energy Mater. 2019, 9, 1900887.
• National Scholarship, Zhejiang Univ. (’16)
Xiaoyao Wei
Career
2016. 6. Chongqing Univ. Posts & Telecommun. B.D.
2019. 6. Southwest Med. Univ. M.D.
2020. 9. Shaanxi Univ. Sci & Technol. Ph.D. course
2023. 4. RIKEN student trainee
Research
Photonic crystals composed of cellulose nanocrystals
Publications / Honors
• Int. J. Biol. Macromol. 2023, 235, 123805.
• Nat. Commun. 2019, 10, 5762.
• Scholarship of China Scholarship Council (’23)
Message
There is more to come.
Chia Hsin Lin
Career
2019.06. NCKU. B.D.
2019.09.-2021.01. NTU. M.S. Course
2021.01 NTU. Direct Pursuit of the Ph.D. Degree
Research
Surface analysis of biointerface
Publications / Honors
• ACS Appl. Bio Mater. 2023, 6, 5695–5707.
• ACS Appl. Polym. Mater. 2023, 5, 10105–10115.
• J Food Drug Anal. 2021, 29, 544–558.
• IPC 2023 Young Scientist Poster Award
Yitong Xie
Career
2017. 6. Univ. of Jinan B.D.
2020. 6. Dalian Polytechnic Univ. M.D.
2020. 9. Chinese Academy of Forestry Ph.D. course
2023. 11. RIKEN student trainee
Research
Biomass-based polymer materials
Publications / Honors
• J. Mater. Chem. A 2022, 10, 13685-13696.
• The 33rd CCS Congress Best Poster Award (’23)
Message
Everything’s gonna be fine.
Office Administrator
Yoko Ono
Message
Hometown: Saitama
Ex Members（Ex members in academia are here）
FY 2022
FY 2021
- Koki Sano
- Colloid-based soft materials
- (Shinshu Univeersity)
- Annamalai Prathap
- Inorganic nanosheets
- (Isha Vidhya Metric Higher Secondary School)
FY 2020
- Noriyuki Uchida
- Biorelated nanomaterials
- (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)
FY 2019
- Naoto Iwata
- Bottlebrush polymers
- (Tokyo University of Science)
- Masayoshi Yanagi
- Phospholipid nanosheets
- Suzhi Cai
- Luminescent aerogels
- (Fujian Normal University)
- Liming Liu
- Semiconductor colloidal quantum dots
- Hiroko Kawano
- Graphene oxides
FY 2018
- Naoki Igarashi
- Colloid-based gels
- Zhifang Sun
- Anisotropic gel actuators
- (The University of Tokyo)
- Kenny Zhi Wei Low
- Phospholipid nanosheets
- Hideko Kono
- Office administration
FY 2017
- Kento Ueno
- Filamentous phages
- Yoshihiro Yamauchi
- Bottlebrush polymers
- (National Institute of Materials Science)
- Xiaoyu Li
- Photoresponsive nanosheets
- (Beijing Institute of Technology)
- Christian Neumann
- Au nanoparticles
- Rumi Iino
- Office administration
FY 2016
- Takenori Tose
- Supramolecular liquid crystals
- Joonil Cho
- Helical supramolecular nanomaterials
FY 2015
- Chunji Li
- Supramolecular liquid crystals
- Wei Zhang
- Supramolecular gels
- (South China University of Technology)
- Qiaochu Li
- NMR alignment media
FY 2014
- Yuka Onuma
- Mechanically anisotropic gels
- Youn Soo Kim
- Anisotropic gel actuators
- (Pohang Institute of Science and Technology)
- Changhua Li
- Anisotropically swelling gels
- (Nankai University)
- Mingjie Liu
- Mechanically anisotropic gels
- (Beihang University)
FY 2013
- Linlin Wu
- Anisotropically conducting gels
- (Nanjing Tech. University)
- Masataka Ohtani
- Carbon nanomaterials
- (Kochi University of Technology)
- Reika Luo
- Office administration
FY 2012
- Jeongho Lee
- Carbon nanotubes
- Ryoich Matsui
- Phospholipid nanosheets
- Shingo Tamesue
- Nanocomposite hydrogels
- (Utsunomiya University)
- Laura Maggini
- Carbon nanotubes
- (University of Vienna)
- Mika Hikawa
- Office administration
FY 2011
- Achalkumar A. Sudhakar
- Supramolecular polymers
- (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati)
- Vakayil K. Praveen
- Supramolecular polymers
- (CSIR-NIIST)
- Qigang Wang
- Nanocomposite hydrogels
- (Tongji University)
- Mayumi Nagata
- Office administration
Ex Members in Academia
