Graduate School of
Science and Engineering

Soft matter involves systems with original structures and dynamics of the medium scale between macro scale and micro scale that have hierarchical structures in the rich time space of micro to macro. For example, macromolecules, colloids, liquid crystal, emulsions, and powders etc are all soft matter. Research on each of the type matters has been conducted for some time now, however, in recent years attempts are being made to collectively describe them as soft matter in understanding their physical phenomenon. We are promoting research with an interest in glass transformations, structural formations resulting from crystallization, glass dynamics, dewetting phenomenon, and the dynamics of ionic liquids etc of the macromolecules involved in the phenomenon.