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Polymer Organization Chemistry Lab
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A lab that combines gels and microparticles to create flexible materials that change in color and motion.
AboutAbout the lab
Creating smart composite materials.
The Takeoka Lab studies new materials made from soft matter such as polymers, colloids, liquid crystals, and gels.
These substances are used in a wide range of applications, including car parts, liquid crystal displays, and materials for regenerative medicine.
By combining them with organic, inorganic, and biological materials, the lab aims to create "smart composite materials" that are both flexible and complex.
Key terms
- Polymer gel
- A polymer network that has swollen by absorbing liquid. It exists in a state between solid and liquid
- Structural color
- Color produced not by pigments but by fine structures about the size of the wavelength of light, as seen in soap bubbles and the wings of Morpho butterflies
- Colloidal particle
- A very small particle with a diameter of roughly 1 nanometer to 1 micrometer
NewsLab news
A master's student received the Young Researcher Excellent Presentation Award at the 36th Elastomer Symposium
A master's student received the Excellent Presentation Award at the 34th Polymer Materials Forum
Joint research with universities in Belgium, Canada, and the United States has begun, and the lab is recruiting graduate students to conduct research abroad
A master's student received the Excellent Poster Presentation Award at the 15th CSJ Chemistry Festa 2025
A master's student received the Excellent Poster Presentation Award at the 74th Symposium on Macromolecules
ResearchResearch themes
To make materials with higher functionality than conventional condensed matter, the lab combines organic, inorganic, and biological materials. It aims to build smart composite materials that combine flexibility and complexity.
*Illustrative imageSmart gels and hybrid soft materials
The lab studies gels with higher functionality than conventional polymer gels, such as sensors that detect environmental changes or specific molecules, and gels strong enough for use as biomaterials. It also makes extremely stretchable gels using a crosslinker that combines ring-shaped and rod-shaped molecules.
*Illustrative imageStructural-color materials without pigments
The lab found that structural colors sometimes do not change with viewing angle, and that black materials are important for vivid structural colors. It also showed that vivid colorants can be made from white and black materials, and is exploring applications as new colorants that do not fade.
*Illustrative imageFunctional organic–inorganic hybrid colloidal particles
The lab studies colloidal particles that manipulate light, respond to environmental changes, or recognize specific molecules. It makes materials such as "photonic balls," optically functional assemblies formed from particles of uniform size.
MembersFaculty
The Takeoka Lab's members consist of faculty, secretaries, researchers, international students, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorYukikazu Takeoka
- Project Associate ProfessorFumio Asai
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Report an errorAbout the images
The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Hydrogel-Wundauflage” Korrupt / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Smart gels and hybrid soft materials: “Superabsorber Hydrogel KSG 2917 pK” Petra Klawikowski / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Structural-color materials without pigments: “Transition of scales color on a butterfly wing (around 30x magnification)” Paweł Wałasiewicz / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Functional organic–inorganic hybrid colloidal particles: “SEM Image of Colloidal Particles” Yasrena / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (材料設計化学研究グループ): “Lab Mol Colloidal quantum dots 02” Lab mol (Ilia Litvinov) / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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