Welcome to Gong Laboratory！

Gong Laboratory is a new laboratory built in April 2015. Our current research interest is centered around the synthesis, 3D printing and applications of high-performance crystalline gels with multiple functionality as temperature-responsivity, shape memory, thermal energy (heat/cold) storage, etc. We are also chanlleging the synthesis and application of crystaline gel particle, crystalline gel fiber, crystalline gel nonwoven faric, thermalsensitive shrinkage film and crystalline gel micro-/nano-porous membrane.

Feel free to visit us or contact us if you are interested in our research or just our lab.

News


Year： 2025(R7)

2025-12-05
【Conference】At the 13th International Conference on Smart Systems Engineering (SmaSys) 2025 (December (Fri), Yonezawa, Japan), Toshiya Yamasaki, a second-year master's student, gave a poster presentation.
・3P19 〇Toshiya Yamasaki, Jin Gong, Effects of Monomer Ratios on the Adhesion properties of P(DEAE-co-DA) Gels to Polytetrafluoroethylene. (Poster)   SmaSyn2025 (Yamasaki)
2025-12-03
【Conference】At the 21st Asian Workshop on Polymer Processing (AWPP2025)(December 1(Mon)～4(Thu), Kanazawa Culture Hall), Jin gave an oral presentation.
・2A07 Toshiya Yamasaki, 〇Jin Gong, Synthesis and Characteristics of Polymer Gels with High Adhesion to Polytetrafluoroethylene（Oral）  AWPP2025＠Kanazawa
2025-12-01
【Conference】Atthe 1st International Online Conference on Gels (IOCG 2025 Conference)(December 3(Wed)～5(Fri), Online), Toshiya Yamasaki, a second-year master's student, gave a poster presentation.
・〇Toshiya Yamasaki, Jin Gong, A High Adhesion Polymer Gel for Polytetrafluoroethylene（Poster)
2025-10-27
【Conference】Atthe Fiber Society’s Autumn 2025 Conference(October 27(Mon)-28(Tue), Yamagata Terrsa), Jin gave tow presentationsan. One is oral and the orther is poster.
・1D04 Shunsuke Kondo, Aoi Ichinoseki, Toshiya Yamasaki, Koh Yoshida, 〇Jin Gong, Hiroshi Ito, Extraction and Characterization of Fibers Derived from Hagfish Exudate（Oral）
・1P127 Yuta Kawanishi, Souta Sugimoto, 〇Jin Gong, Fabrication of Core–Shell P(DMAA co EA) Gel Fibers and Nonwoven Fabrics（Poster）  The Fiber Society’s Autumn 2025 Conference＠Yamagata
2025-10-22
【Conference】Atthe 15th CSJ Chemistry Festival 2025(October 22(Wed)-24(Fri), Tower Hall Funabori, Tokyo), Toshiya Yamasaki, a second-year master's student, gave a poster presentation.
・P2-077 〇Toshiya Yamasaki, Jin Gong, Evaluation of adhesive strength of P(DEAE-co-DA) gel to polytetrafluoroethylene（Poster）  The 15th CSJ Chemistry Festival 2025＠Tokyo（M2 Yamasaki）
2025-10-22
【Group Event】Imoni party (welcome party). We held an imoni party to welcome four new third-year students and one research student.    芋煮会2025
2025-10-21
【Paper】The co-authored paper titled "Hydrogel formation by liquid–solid phase transition of hagfish intermediate filament protein condensates", with Prof. Hideki Nabika and Assco. Prof. Yasunori Watanabe of Faculty of Science, Yamagata University, was accepted and published in Soft Matter.
DOI https://doi.org/10.1039/D5SM00939A.
2025-10-06
【Notice】​​An international student from China, Fanxaing Zhou, has become a new member of our group as an undergraduate research student.
2025-09-29
【Notice】Four college juniors from Department of Polymeric and Organic Materials Engineering joined us. The new school term gets starting today
2025-09-26
【Notice】Jin went to Ainan Town, Ehime Prefecture, to collect samples for the marine field test (participating as part of the Moonshot Ito Project).   Field test 2025 1  Field test 2025 2
2025-09-08
【Group Event】We held a two-day mid-term group research meeting for the first half of the year 2025 on the 8th and 9th September.
2025-09-06
【Conference, Invited Lecture】At 2025th Joint Meeting of the Tohoku Area Chemistry Societies（September 9(Sat)～7(Sun), Yonezawa Campus, Yamagata University）, Jin and Toshiya Yamasaki, a second-year master's student, gave an invited lecture and a poster presentation, respectively.
・9/6 Toshiya Yamasaki, 〇Jin Gong*, Polymer Gels with High Adhesion to Polytetrafluoroethylene（＊in English，Invited Talk, 06G4）
・9/7 〇Toshiya Yamasaki, Jin Gong*, Synthesis and Characterization of Polymer Gels Exhibiting High Adhesiveness to Polytetrafluoroethylene（Poster,2P096）  2025th Joint Meeting of the Tohoku Area Chemistry Societies(Yamasaki)   2025th Joint Meeting of the Tohoku Area Chemistry Societies(Jin, Yamasaki)
2025-08-22
【Academic Exchange】Jin participated in the 4th Yamagata University Interdisciplinary Exchange Conference and presented a poster introducing our laboratory's research on "functional polymer gels."  Group photo from the 4th Yamagata University Interdisciplinary Exchange Conference
2025-08-04
【Conference, Invited Lecture】Jin gave an invited talk at The Eleventh International Symposium on Engineering Plastics (EP’2025)（Auguest 3(Sun)～6(Wed)）held in Harbin, China。
・8/4 Koh Yoshida, Toshiya Yamasaki, Koki Suzuki, Aoi Ichinoseki, Hiroshi Ito*, 〇Jin Gong*, Enhancing the Marine Biodegradability of Polycaprolactone by Blending with Marine-derived Protein Fillers.（Invited Talk）   EP2025@Harbin(Jin)
2025-08-02
【Event】Many people came to the event this year as well. Thank you very much. The students in the lab also worked hard on the preparations and explanations. Thank you everyone!   Opencampus2025
2025-07-08
【Conference】Koh Yoshida, a second-year doctoral student, gave a poster presentation at The 19th Pacific Polymer Conferences (PPC19)(July 6 (Sun)～10（Thu）, Fukuoka, Japan)
・08P041a 〇Koh Yoshida, Toshiya Yamasaki, Jin Gong, Hiroshi Ito, Enhancing the Marine Biodegradability of Polycaprolactone with Protein Fillers Derived from Jellyfish（Poster）   PPC19＠Fukuoka（D2 Koh Yoshida）
2025-06-30
【Conference】Toshiya Yamasaki, a second-year master's Student, gave a poster presentation at the 63rd Annual Meeting of The Adhesion Society of Japan, held from June 30 to July 1, 2025, at the Sendai International Center Exhibition Building.
・P43A 〇Toshiya Yamasaki1, Jin Gong, Adhesion Strength of P(DEAE-co-DA) Gel to Poly(tetrafluoroethylene) and Elucidation of the Mechanism (poster)
Yamasaki participated in the 63rd Annual Meeting of The Adhesion Society of Japan
2025-05-19
【Conference】 Three students from our gruop took ondemand presentations at 74rd SPSJ Annual Meeting, which was held online druing May 19(Mon)-23(Fri), 2025.
・OC0616 〇Toshiya Yamasaki1, Jin Gong, Polymer Gels with High Adhesive Strength to Polytetrafluoroethylene（OnDemand）
・OC0907 〇Yutaro Ueno, Jin Gong, Super-oleophobicity of Polycarbonate Surfaces Created Using Fluorine-based Gels（OnDemand）
・OE0124 〇Aoi Ichinoseki, Koki Suzuki, Toshiya Yamasaki, Koh Yoshida, Jin Gong, Hiroshi Ito, Enhance Marine Biodegradability of Polycaprolactone through Incorporation of Natural Protein Fibers Produced by the Marine Organism Hagfish（OnDemand）
2025-04-25
【Group Event】 Mr. Togashi Kazuma, a second-year high school student who has been a student at Yamagata Prefectural Yonezawa Kojokan High School's SSH project "Science Leader Development Academy" since July of last year, has successfully completed the program. Congratulations!
Mr. Togashi (who will be a third-year high school student from April) has also earned the right to participate in the natural science category of the National High School Cultural Festival, so let's have fun and work hard together until August.   Mr. Togashi Kazuma -Science Leader Academy Completion- 1
-Science Leader Academy Completion- 2
2025-04-18
【Group Event】 On April 18th, members of our lab enjoyed cherry blossom viewing at Uesugi Shrine. The cherry blossoms were almost in full bloom. Several other labs from our university were also enjoying cherry blossom viewing nearby. Although it rained in the morning, the weather had cleared up by the afternoon, just in time for the viewing. We were quite lucky!    2025 Cherry Blossom Viewing
2025-04-01
【Notice】 We updated our lab members for the 2025 academic year.
2025-04-01
【Notice】 We met up to welcome the new academic year.