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Welcome to Shibayama Lab.

The Shibayama laboratory was founded in Sept. 1, 2000. We explore the world of intelligent soft materials with the eyes of neutrons and photons.

Polymers, emulsions, and liquid crystals are sometimes called "softmatter" or "complex fluids" of which physics has been explosively advanced in recent years. We conduct structural analysis and investigation of the dynamics of these materials in terms of neutron scattering and laser light scattering techniques. Particularly, focus is placed on phase separation, phase transition, critical phenomena, percolation problem of gels and micelles. The aim is to construct and systematize the physics of connectivity-correlated systems of macromolecular systems. The current topics are (1) sol-gel transition of polymer gels, percolation transition of thermoreversible gels, (3) inhomogeneities and nonergodicity of gels, (4) phase transition of oil/water emulsion.

staff and members:

>Mitsuhiro Shibayama, Professor

phone: 029-287-8904 fax: 029-283-3922 (Tokai Office)
phone and fax: 0471-36-3418 (Kashiwa Office)
e-mail：sibayama at issp.u-tokyo.ac.jp

>Michihiro Nagao, Research Associate
phone: 029-287-8911 fax: 029-283-3922
e-mail：mnagao@issp.u-tokyo.ac.jp

>Shinichi Takata, graduate student
phone: 0471-36-3428
e-mail：takata@issp.u-tokyo.ac.jp

>Naoki Masui, graduate student
phone: 0471-36-3428
e-mail：masui@issp.u-tokyo.ac.jp

>Satoshi Okabe, graduate student

The details of the research activity is also described in the hope page of the Polymer Chemical Physics Lab., Kyoto Institute of Technology PCP, KIT

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