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About us

  • Based on micro- and nano-scale fabrication technologies, our group is exploring engineering principles to create integrative systems and devices using various materials including molecules, colloids, polymers, living cells and tissues.

  • Please see the research page for the details of our research projects.
  • Link to the Japanese top page, here. （日本語ページ）

Recruit

  • We welcome graduate students and researchers having multidiciplinary backgrounds from other/foreign universities and research institutes!
  • If you are interested in joining in our group through JSPS research scholarships (for Japanese students/researchers and for overseas researchers), please feel free to contact with Prof. Onoe.

News (since April 1, 2014)

  • Lab cleanup, year-end party, and welcome party for new members was held! (Dec. 23)
  • Joint research paper with Prof. Kan (UEC) was accepted in Advanced Materials Technologies! (Dec. 20)
  • Congratulations to Goto-kun for winning the outstanding paper presentation award at the 15th JSME Micro/Nano Engineering Symposium! (Dec. 19)
  • 10th Cybounics research meeting was held at Ikaho Onsen! Kato-kun, Watanabe-san, Miura-kun, Fujioka-san, Sasaki-kun, Sato-kun, Nakazato-kun, and Kawasumi-kun presented their work. Fujioka-san received the Outstanding Research and Audience Award (Poster Presentation)! (Dec. 13-14)
  • Nishita-kun's public hearing for his Ph.D. defence was held! (Dec. 11)
  • Lab alumni gathering was held! (Dec. 7)
  • Muramatsu-kun and Onoe presented at Bio4Apps 2024 in Toyama! (Dec. 2-3)
  • Congratulations to Hioki-kun and Tomita-kun for receiving the Outstanding Presentation Award at the 50th Society for Chemistry and Micro-Nano Systems! (Nov. 25-28)
  • Nishita-kun, Goto-kun, Hioki-kun, Kato-kun, Tomita-kun, Watanabe-san, Abeta-san, Uramoto-kun, Tanaami-san, Miura-kun, Minami-san, Sasaki-kun, Sato-kun, Nakazato-kun, and Kawasumi-kun presented at Future Technologies from SENDAI! (Nov. 25-28)
  • Joint research paper with Prof. Kurashina (TUAT) was accepted in Ultrasonics Sonochemistry! (Nov. 21)
  • Onoe delivered an invited lecture at IEEE CBS 2024 at Nagoya University (Nov. 21)
  • Onoe gave a talk at the Joint Symposium of Act-X/Scientific Transformation Area B, "The Cutting Edge of the Hidden Ecology of Microorganisms," at UEC (Nov. 14)
  • Onoe presented at the 114th Brain and Biomedical Engineering Research Seminar (CNBE Seminar) at UEC (Nov. 14)
  • Joint research paper with Prof. Hashimoto (SUTD), Prof. Takinoue, and Dr. Yoshida (IST) was accepted in Lab on a Chip! (Nov. 13)
  • Joint research paper with Prof. Teshima (TUM) and colleagues was accepted in Advanced Materials Interfaces! (Nov. 13)
  • Congratulations to Tomita-kun for Receiving the Outstanding Sensors and Actuators, Detection Technologies Poster Award at MicroTAS 2024! (Oct. 17)
  • Miyata-kun’s Paper, "Autonomous Exploration of Electric Stimulation Conditions to Promote the Maturation of In Vitro Skeletal Muscle Tissue via Bayesian Optimization," was accepted in the Transactions of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (E Division)! Congratulations! (Oct. 16)
  • Muramatsu-kun, Watanabe-san, Goto-kun, Kato-kun, Yamamoto-kun, Tomita-kun, Uramoto-kun, Abeta-san, Minami-san, Tanaami-san, Miura-kun, and Fujioka-san presented at MicroTAS 2024 in Montreal, Canada! Watanabe-san and Tanaami-san gave oral presentations! (Oct. 13-17)
  • Three-university joint research meeting with Iwase Lab (Waseda Univ.), Kan Lab (UEC), Takahashi Lab (Keio Univ.), and Onoe Lab (Keio Univ.) was held at Yagami Campus! B4 members presented their work! (Sep. 27)
  • Xing Jin-san has joined us as a PhD student!(Sep. 11)
  • The Kiriorigami Project retreat was held in Ishigaki Island!(Sep. 9-12)
  • Our lab’s summer camp was held in Chiba! (Aug. 15-16)
  • Miyata-kun, Hioki-kun, and Tomita-kun presented at IEEE EMBC in Florida, USA!(Jul. 15-19)
  • Kato-kun gave a presentation at ICPUB @ Kyoto! (Jun. 24-28)
  • Onoe gave an invited presentation at APCOT 2024 @ Singapore. (Jun. 24-26)
  • Lab members joined the Yagami softball tournament! (Jun. 17)
  • Kasahara-kun's single cell tracing paper was highlighted in "Gakumon-no-susume"! (Jun. 10)
  • Kato-kun gave a presentation at CHEMINAS @ TUAT! (Jun. 1-2)
  • Nishita-kun, Miura-kun, Minami-san, Tanaami-san gave presentations at ROBOMECH @ Utsunomiya! (May. 29-Jun. 1)
  • Collaborative paper with Prof. Kan (UEC) regarding cubic biodegradable soil sensor was accepted to IEEE Sensors Journal! (May 25th)
  • Masuda-san' hiPSC-derived cardiac microfiber paper "Maturation of human iPSC-derived cardiac microfiber with electrical stimulation device" was accepted to Advanced Healthcare Materials! (May 17th)
  • Kato-kun and Ishiba-san' DNA aptamer hydrogel sensor paper "Histamine-responsive hydrogel biosensor based on aptamer recognition and DNA-driven swelling hydrogels" was accepted in ACS Applied Bio Materials! (May 14th)
  • Onoe gave an invited talk in IEEE NEMS 2024@Kyoto. (May 2-5th)
  • Sakabe-kun's biodegradable soil sensor paper "Entirely biodegradable wireless pH sensor with split-ring resonators for soil pH monitoring" was accepted in Advanced Materials Technologies! (Apr. 19)
  • New members, Kawasumi-kun, Sasaki-kun, Sato-kun, Nakasato-kun, Matsuda-san (PD) have joined our group! (Apr. 1)
  • Sakabe-kun, Tanaka-kun, Masuda-san, Yamagata-san graduated from Graduate School of Integrated Design Engineering, Keio Univ. Congratulations! (Mar. 26th)
  • Tanaami-san won the JSPS Hatakeyama Prize! Congratulations! (Mar. 25th)
  • Abeta-san, Uramoto-kun, Tanaami-san Minami-san graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Keio Univ. Congratulations! (Mar. 25th)
  • Kiri-Origami meeting was held at Yagami Campus. (Mar. 14-15th)
  • Collaboration paper with Prof. Terakawa (EE, Keio Univ.) was accepted to ACS Applied Optical Materials! (Mar. 4th)
  • Abeta-san won The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers Young Fellow Presentation Award @ The 14th Micro-nano engineering sympoisum. Congrats! (Feb. 29)
  • Tomita-kun won The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers Young Presentation Award @ The 14th Micro-nano engineering sympoisum. Congrats! (Feb. 29)
  • Onoe gave an invited talk at research meeting (@UEC) of Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (B) "The reason why microbes are moving" (Feb. 28)
  • Kasahara-kun's single cell tracking analysis was highlighted in Current Topics in Jikken Igaku (Feb. 22)
  • Kato-kun, Abeta-san, Uramoto-kun gave presentation at MEMS 2024@Austin, US! (Jan. 20-24)
  • Nishita-kun's paper "In-line micro-spectrometer with a structural color polymer filter for the color and concentration monitoring system" was accepted in Sensors and Actuators A-Physical! (Jan. 20)
  • Masuda-san returened from Germany! Welcome back! (Jan. 13)
  • AAV DDS hydrogel microbead paper "Adeno-associated virus-encapsulated alginate microspheres loaded in collagen gel carriers for localized gene transfer" was accepted in Advanced Healthcare Materials! (Jan. 11)
  • Happy New Year! (Jan. 1)

    • 2024

  • Tanaka-kun returened from Germany! Welcome back! (Dec. 31)
  • Onoe gave a presentation at 50th Nano/Micro Lithography Consortium for Organic Functional Materials @ Kyoto. (Dec. 25)
  • The 9th Cyborgnics was held at Komaba campus, UT. Miura-kun won the Best Research Presentation Award! Minami-san, Tomita-kun, Watanabe-san won Best Research Audience Award!(Dec. 23)
  • Year-end and welcome party for new members was held (Dec. 19)
  • Kato-kun, Watanabe-san won the best student poster award at CHEMINAS 48! Congrats! (Nov. 8)
  • Goto-kun, Hioki-kun, Kato-kun, Tomita-kun, Yamamoto-kun, Watanabe-san, Abeta-san, Uramoto-kun, Tanaami-san, Miura-kun, Minami-san, Fujioka-san gave presentaions at Future Technologies from KUMAMOTO! (Nov. 6-8)
  • Kato-kun, Abeta-san, Uramoto-kun were accepted in MEMS 2024@Austin, US! (Oct. 31)
  • Exosome team presented their activities at 2040QUEST@Yokohama Landmark Tower! (Oct. 21-22)
  • Masuda-san left for Germany to study abroad! (Oct. 20)
  • Nishita-kun, Masuda-san, Yamagata-san, Kato-kun, Goto-kun, Hioki-kun, Miyata-kun, Yanagawa-kun, Yamamoto-kun, Watanabe-san gave presentasions at MicroTAS 2023@Katowice, Poland! (Oct. 15-19)
  • Tanaka-kun left for Germany to study abroad! (Oct. 5)
  • B4 students presented at a joint research meeting (@UEC) with Kan Lab. at the University of Electro-Communications, Iwase Lab. at Waseda Univ. and Takahashi Lab. at Keio Univ. (Sep. 27)
  • Murun Li from Beihang Univ. (China) joined our group. Welcome! (Sep. 25)
  • Collaborative paper regarding laser-indeuced microstructures in hydrogel (with Prof. Terakawa @ Keio EE) was accepted in Optical Materials Express! (Sep. 23)
  • Kato-kun gave a presentation at DNA29@Tohoku Univ.(Sep. 11-15)
  • Yanagawa-kun left for Bergium to study abroad! (Sep. 6)
  • Fukada-kun, Kurashina-kun's paper "Hydrogel-sheathed hiPSC-derived heart microtissue enables anchor-free contractile force measurement" was accepted in Advanced Science! Congrats! (Sep. 6)
  • Kiri-Origami seminar@Aburatsubo-Onsen was held with Tachi-lab (UT), Iwase-lab (Waseda U) and Saito-lab (Kyusyu U) (Sep. 4-6)
  • Kasahara-kun's paper "Spatiotemporal single-cell tracking analysis in 3D tissues to reveal heterogeneous cellular response to mechanical stimuli" was accepted in Science Advances! Congrats! (Aug. 25)
  • Lab summer seminar was held at Kurohime-Kogen. (Aug. 14-15)
  • Yoshida-kun and Kohno-kun's paper "Macroscale collagen-actomyosin hybrid actuator built from bioderived materials" was accepted in Advanced Functional Materials! Congrats! (Aug. 8)
  • Collaborative paper regarding Shuwan-cell-encapsulating hydrogel neural conduit (with Dr. Takeya and Prof. Kimura @ Keio Univ. Medical School) was accepted in Scientific Reports! (Jul. 21)
  • Onoe gave an invited talk in ISMNM 2023 @ Gangnueng (Korea) (Jul. 13-15)
  • Misong Nam from Kyung Hee Univ. (Korea) visited our group for one month. Welcome! (Jun. 12-Aug. 10)
  • Collaborative paper regarding 2D FET chemical sensor (with Dr. Fukui and Prof. Kiriya @ Univ. Tokyo) was accepted in ASC Nano! (Jul. 11)
  • Nishita-kun, masuda-san, yamagata-san, hioki-kun, kato-kun, goto-kun, miyata-kun were accepted to MicroTAS 2023! (Jul. 7)
  • Nisita-kun, Goto-kun gave presentations in Robomech 2023 @ Nagoya! (Jun. 28-30)
  • Masuda-san, Sakabe-kun, Hioki-kun, Kato-kun, Miyata-kun, Watanabe-san, Omote-san gave presentations in Transducers 2023 @ Kyoto, Japan! (Jun. 25-29)
  • Nishita-kun, Kato-kun, Goto-kun gave presentations at Joint Symposium between Xi'an Jiaotong University (China) and Keio University (@ Yagami campus) (Jun. 13)
  • Dr. Fabio Pizzetti from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) visited our group for two months. Welcome! (Jun. 2-Jul. 31)
  • Muramatsu-kun, Masuda-san, Yamamoto-kun gave presentations at Cardiovascular Bioengineering (CVBE) Symposium 2023 (Kyoto) (May 29-31)
  • Joint BBQ party was held with Iwase lab (Waseda, host), Kan lab (TUEC), Tachi lab (UT) (May 27)
  • Microfluidic training workshop was held at our lab. Uramoto-kun (design prize), Tanaami-san (technical skill prize) and Minami-san (presentation prize) were awarded! (May 23)
  • Muramatsu-kun, Masuda-san gave presentations at The 62nd Annual Conference of Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering (Nagoya) (May 18-20)
  • Yamagata-san gave a presentation at Joint Symposium between Kasetsart University (Thailand) and Keio University (@ Yagami campus) (May 18-19)
  • Watanabe-san won the Best Oral Presentation Award at IEEE NEMS 2023! Congratulations! (May 17)
  • Onoe gave an invitad talk at IEEE NEMS 2023 (May 16)
  • Hioki-kun, Kato-kun, Yanagawa-kun, Watanabe-san, Yamamoto-kun, Goto-kun, Miyata-kun gave presentations at IEEE NEMS 2023 (Jeju Island, Korea) (May 14-17)
  • New members, Muramatsu-kun, Abeta-san, Uramoto-kun, Tanaami-san, Miura-kun, Minami-san, Fujioka-san have jouind our group! (Apr. 1)
  • Kambe-san (Secretary) graduated from the group. Thank you very much for the tremendous support for the nine years! (Mar. 31)
  • Completion ceremony of School of Integrated Design Eng. was held. Ueno-kun, Kawahara-kun, Takatsuka-kun, Murayama-san completed. Congratulations! (Mar. 28)
  • Graduation ceremony of Dept. of Mech. Eng. was held. Kato-kun, Goto-kun, Hioki-kun, Miyata-kun, Yanagawa-kun, Yamamoto-kun, Watanabe-san graduated. Congratulations! (Mar. 23)
  • Onoe gave an invited talk at The 128th Annual Meeting of The Japanese Association of Anatomists (Tohoku Univ.) (Mar. 18-20)
  • Onoe gave a lecture at KISTE Advanced Science Seminar (Online) (Mar. 15)
  • Onoe gave an invited talk at OIST-KEIO SHOWCASE TALK SERIES 4 (Yagami campus) (Mar. 13)
  • Ueno-kun, Kato-kun, Watanabe-san gave presentations at Kiri-Origami meeting (Kyusyu Univ.)(Feb. 27-28)
  • Sakabe-kun, Masuda-san, Kato-kun, Miyata-kun, Hioki-kun, Watanabe-san, Omote-san were accepted for Transducers 2023 @ Kyoto, Japan! (Feb. 22)
  • Takatsuka-kun's paper was selected for Front Cover of the Issue in Small! (Feb. 16)
  • Prof. Fillipo Rossi from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) visited our group for two weeks. Welcome! (Jan. 30-Feb. 10)
  • Yamagata-san won the Outstanding Student Poster Award at IEEE MEMS 2023! Congratulations!! (Jan. 19)
  • Murayama-san, Tanaka-kun, Masuda-san, Yamagata-san gave presentations at IEEE MEMS 2023@Munich, Germany. (Jan. 15-19)
  • Happy New Year! (Jan. 1)

    • 2023

  • Lab members gave presentations at 8th Cyborgnics Symposium at Nagaoka. Kato-kun won the Audience Awards! (Dec. 16-17)
  • Takatsuka-kun's paper "Near-infrared-triggered on-demand controlled release of adeno-associated virus from alginate hydrogel microbeads with heat transducer for gene therapy" was accepted in Small! (Nov. 29)
  • Masuda-san won the excellent presentation award at CHEMINAS 46@Tokushima! Congratulations!! (Nov. 16)
  • Nishita-kun, Sakabe-kun, Masuda-san, Yamagata-san, Kato-kun, Goto-kun, Hioki-kun, Miyata-kun, Yanagawa-kun, Yamamoto-kun, Watanabe-san gave presentations at the JSME 13rd Micro/Nano Engineering Symposium and CHEMINAS 46 @Tokushima (Nov. 14-16)
  • Murayama-san, Tanaka-kun, Yamagata-san, Masuda-san were accepted for MEMS 2023 @ Munich, Germany! (Oct. 25)
  • Tanaka-kun won the Biomicrofluidics Best Paper Award at MicroTAS 2022! Congratulations!! (Oct. 27)
  • Ueno-kun, Takatsuka-kun, Tanaka-kun, Sakabe-kun, Masuda-san, Yamagata-san, Takeuchi-kun gave presentations at MicroTAS 2022 (China, online)(Oct. 24-27)
  • Onoe gave a presentation at JCK MEMS/NEMS 2022@Kagoshima(Oct. 17)
  • Imai-san joined to our group as a secterary. Welcome! (Oct. 1)
  • B4 students presented at a joint research meeting (@Waseda Univ.) with Kan Lab. at the University of Electro-Communications, Iwase Lab. at Waseda Univ. and Takahashi Lab. at Keio Univ. (Sep. 27)
  • Our member enjoyed an indoor survival game with Miki-lab and Takahashi-lab. (Sep. 22)
  • Lab summer seminar was held at Atami. (Aug. 15-16)
  • Collaborative paper regarding laser-indeuced microchannel in hydrogel (with Prof. Terakawa @ Keio EE) was accepted in Optical Materials Express! (Aug. 1)
  • Yamagata-san gave a presentation at KGRI Dokuritsujison Project@Toranomon Hills! (Jul. 11)
  • Ueno-kun, Takatsuka-kun, Tanaka-kun, Sakabe-kun, Masuda-san, Yamagaa-san, Takeuchi-kun were accepted in microTAS 2022! Contrats!! (Jul. 8)
  • Muramatsu-kun won the Research encouragement award and Abe prize at The 61st annual conference of Japan society of medical and engineering @Niigata! Contrats! (Jun. 28-30)
  • Masuda-san gave a presentation at The 61st annual conference of Japan society of medical and engineering @Niigata (Jun. 28-30)
  • Yoshida-kun and Hayashi-kun's paper "Repeatable detection of Ag+ ions using a DNA aptamer-linked hydrogel biochemical sensor integrated with microfluidic heating system" was accepted in Scientific Reports! (May. 31)
  • Takakura-kun's paper "Vascular embolization of radiopaque hydrogel microfiber using ultra-minimally invasive technique for stage-adjustable renal failure model" was accepted in Materials and Design! (May. 28)
  • Microfluidic training workshop was held at our lab. Kato-kun (design prize), Hioki-kun (technical skill prizes) and Yanagawa-kun (presentation prize) were awarded! (May. 24)
  • Yamagata-san won the excellent presentation award at CHEMINAS 45@Chuo University! Congratulations!! (May. 22)
  • Takakura-kun, Takatsuka-kun, Tanaka-kun, Yamagata-san, Masuda-san gave presentations at CHEMINAS 45@Chuo University! (May. 21-22)
  • New members, Kato-kun, Goto-kun, Hioki-kun, Miyata-kun, Yanagawa-kun, Yamamoto-kun, Watanabe-san, Nishita-kun, Ito-san have joined our group! (Apr. 1)
  • Yoshida-kun graduated and will move to The University of Tokyo as a JSPS postdoc! (Mar. 31)
  • Itai-kun completed the doctoral course! He is the second doctoral student from our lab. Congratulations! (Mar. 28)
  • Itai-kun won the Fujiwara prize at Graduate School of Integrated Design Engineering! Congrats!! (Mar. 28)
  • Muramatsu-kun won Department of Comprehensive Design Engineering Master of Excellence Research Activity Award! Congratulations!! (Mar. 28)
  • Completion ceremony of School of Integrated Design Eng. was held. From our group, Inami-san, Kato-kun, Kohno-kun, Takakura-kun, Muramatsu-kun and Yamawaki-kun completed. Congratulations! (Mar. 28)
  • Masuda-san won Graduation Research Excellence Presentation Award! Congratulations! (Mar. 23)
  • Graduation ceremony of Dept. of Mech. Eng. was held. From our group, Ishiba-san, Sakabe-kun, Tanaka-kun, Yamagata-san, Masuda-san, Takeuchi-kun graduated. Congratulations! (Mar. 23)
  • Masuda-san won The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers Young Fellow Presentation Award @ The 12th Micro-nano engineering sympoisum. Congrats! (Feb. 28)
  • Yoshida-kun's paper on structural-color microrobot was highlighted in Advanced Science News! (Feb. 16)
  • Inami-san's intestinal bacteria capsule sensor was featured on TV Tokyo's World Buisiness Satelites! (Feb. 1)
  • Kasahawa-kun graduated and will enter the doctoral course at RHTW Aachen University, Germeny! (Jan. 31)
  • Yoshida-kun's paper "Marangoni-propulsion micro-robots integrated with a wireless photonic colloidal crystal hydrogel sensor for exploring the aquatic environment" was accepted in Advanced Intelligent Systems! (Jan. 25)
  • Fukada-kun's paper "A novel fabrication process of up-scalable microfiber-shaped tendon-like tissue with high cell density for uniformed macroscale assembly" was accepted in Biotechnology and Bioengineering! (Jan. 13)
  • Itai-kun, Inami-san, Takakura-kun, Muramatsu-kun, Yamawaki-kun, Kawahara-kun, Takatsuka-kun, Masuda-san gave presentations at MEMS 2022@Tokyo! (Jan. 9-13)
  • Itai-kun's flexibly deformable blood vessel model paper was selected in the Inside Back Cover of the Issue! Congrats! (Jan. 6)
  • Happy New Year!(Jan. 1)

    • 2021

  • Itai-kun's doctor thesis defence was held (Nov. 26)
  • Onoe gave an invited talk at IEEE NANOMED 2021 (Nov. 16)
  • Yoshida-kun, Ishiba-san, Sakabe-kun, Takeuchi-kun, Tanaka-kun, Masuda-san, Yamagata-san gave presentations online at the JSME 12nd Micro/Nano Engineering Symposium! (Nov. 9-11)
  • Itai-kun, Inami-san, Takakura-kun, Muramatsu-kun, Yamawaki-kun, Kawahara-kun, Takatsuka-kun, Masuda-san were accepted in MEMS 2022! (Oct. 19)
  • Itai-kun's paper "Flexibly deformable collagen hydrogel tube reproducing immunological tissue deformation of blood vessels as a pharmacokinetic testing model" was accepted in Advanced Healthcare Materials! (Oct. 19)
  • Kohno-kun, Takakura-kun, Muramatsu-kun, Takatsuka-kun, and Ando-san presented online at MicroTAS 2021! (Oct. 10-14)
  • Yoshida-kun completed the doctoral course! He is the first doctoral student from our lab. Congratulations! (Sep. 23)
  • Onoe organized and presented an OS at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (Sep. 5-8)
  • B4 students presented their research in a joint research conference of three universities (@online) with Kan Lab. at the University of Electro-Communications, Iwase Lab. at Waseda Univ. and Takahashi Lab. at Keio Univ. (Aug. 30)
  • Kasahara-kun presented at Materials, Mimics, and Microfluidics:Engineering Tools for Mechanobiology (MBI 3M) Japan Satellite Meeting! (Jul. 20)
  • Kohno-kun, Takakura-kun, Muramatsu-kun, Takatsuka-kun, and Ando-san was accepted in microTAS 2021! Mr. Takakura is an oralist! (Jul. 14)
  • Ando-san's paper regarding Janus hydrogel sensor microbeads "Janus hydrogel microbeads for glucose sensing with pH calibration" was accepted in Sensors! (Jul. 5)
  • Itai-kun, Kasahara-kun, Muramatus-kun gave presentations at The 60th Annual Conference of Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering! Itai-kun won the YIA Best Presentation Award! Contratulations!! (Jun. 15-17)
  • Onoe gave a professor inauguration lecture at Keio Univ. (Jun. 10)
  • Collaborative paper regarding behavior of endothelial cells by ultrasound irradiation (with Prof. Takemura and Dr. Imashiro @ Keio ME) was accepted in Biotechnology and Bioengineering. (Jun. 7)
  • Microfluidic training workshop was held at our lab. Tanaka-kun (design & technical skill prizes) and Masuda-san (presentation prize) were awarded! (May. 25)
  • Uchida-kun's 4D printing paper was awarded to 2021 Micromachines Best Paper Award!(May. 14)
  • Hori-kun won The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers Young Fellow Presentation Award @ The 27th JSPS Kanto-region conference. (May. 6)
  • Collaborative paper regarding mechanical connection of hydrogel units by laser irradiation (with Prof. Terakawa @ Keio EE) was accepted in Scientific Reports. (May. 5)
  • Itai-kun, Kohno-kun, Ueno-kun, Takatsuka-kun, Hori-kun were accepted to Transducers 2021 online! (Apr. 28)
  • Yoshida-kun's doctor thesis defence was held (Apr. 22)
  • New members, Ishiba-san, Sakabe-kun, Takeuchi-kun, Masuda-san, Yamagata-san have joined our group! (Apr. 1)
  • Onoe was promoted to a professor (Apr. 1)
  • Completion ceremony of School of Integrated Design Eng. was held. From our group, Kasahara-kun, Kubota-kun, Fukada-kun, Mori-kun, Sergio-kun completed. Congratulations! (Mar. 26)
  • Graduation ceremony of Dept. of Mech. Eng. was held. From our group, Ueno-kun, Kawahara-kun, Takatsuka-kun, Murayama-san, Hori-kun graduated. Congratulations! (Mar. 23)
  • Hori-kun presented at The 27th JSME Kanto-region meeting (Mar. 11)
  • Yoshida-kun won Fujiwara Award (Graduate school)! Congrats! (Mar. 10)
  • Onoe gave an invited talk at The 46th Bio-Micro-Nanotech consortium (Mar. 10)
  • Yoshida-kun won the JSME reserch award. Congrats! (Mar. 6)
  • Onoe won the Leaveanest Research Award 2021 (Mar. 6)
  • Kubota-kun's paper "Ultrasound-triggered on-demand drug delivery using hydrogel microbeads with release enhancer" was accepted in Materials & Dessign! (Feb. 8)
  • Yoshida-kun, Kubota-kun, Kasahara-kun, Sergio-kun, Mori-kun, Muramatsu-kun, Murayama-san gave a presentation at IEEE MEMS 2021 Online! (Jan. 24-28)
  • Kurashina-kun's paper "Simultaneous crosslinking induces macroscopically phase-separated microgel from a homogeneous mixture of multiple polymers" was accepted in Applied Materials Today! (Jan. 4)
  • Happy New Year! (Jan. 1)

    • 2020

  • Hori-kun won The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers Young Lecture Presentation Award @ Micro-Nano Engineering Symposium. (Dec. 24)
  • The 7th Cyborgnics was held on line. Muramatsu-kun and Hori-kun got Best Research Audience Award!(Dec. 23)
  • Mori-kun's paper "Shape-recognizable origami sheet device with single walled carbon nanotube strain sensor" was accepted in JMEMS! (Dec. 18)
  • Onoe gave an invited talk at IEEE NANOMED 2020 (Dec. 14)
  • Yoshida-kun won the C&C best paper award for young researchers. Congrats! (Dec. 9)
  • Collaborative paper regarding laser-indeuced nanoparticle synthesis in hydrogel (with Machida-san, Prof. Terakawa @ Keio EE) was accepted in Optical Materials Express. (Dec. 8)
  • Yoshida-kun, Kasahara-kun, Kubota-kun, Mori-kun, Sergio-kun, Muramatsu-kun, Murayama-san's abstracts were accepted in MEMS 2021! (Nov. 25)
  • Itai-kun, Suzuki-san's paper "Cell-encapsulated chitosan-collagen hydrogel hybrid nerve guidance conduit for peripheral nerve regeneration" was accepted in Biomedical Microdevices! (Nov. 7)
  • Yoshida-kun, Itai-kun, Yamawaki-kun, Ueno-kun, Kawahara-kun, Takatsuka-kun, Hori-kun, Murayama-san presented at the 11th Micro / Nano Engineering Symposium @ Hamamatsu! (Oct. 26-28)
  • Takeuchi-kun's paper "Microfiber-shaped programable materials with stimuli-responsive hydrogel" was accepted in Soft Robotics! (Oct. 16)
  • Undergraduate students held presentations at a joint meeting (Kan Lab, Iwase lab, Takahashi lab and Onoe lab) @ Zoom.(Oct. 6)
  • Yoshida-kun's paper was selected as a front cover of Advanced Intelligent Systems. Congrats! (Sep. 21)
  • Kouno-kun and Muramatsu-kun gave presentetion at JSME annual meeting (online)!(Sep. 14-16)
  • Yoshida-kun's paper was selected as Keio Research Highlights! (Aug. 31)
  • Nakamura-san has joined our group as a technician! (Aug. 3)
  • Collaborative paper regarding selective actuation of SR hydrogel by laser irradiation (with Prof. Terakawa @ Keio EE) was accepted in Optical Materials Express. (Jul. 20)
  • Inami-san, Kouno-kun, Takakura-kun, Muramatsu-kun, Yamawaki-kun were accepted to e-MicroTAS 2020! (Jul. 15)
  • Yoshida-kun's paper was highlighted in Advanced Science News! (Jul. 13)
  • Shimizu-san's paper "ECM-based microfluidic gradient generator for tunable surface environment by interstitial flow" was accepted in Biomicrofluidics! (Jul. 9)
  • Shimizu-san's Lab Chip paper was highlighted in AAAS Eurekalart. (Jun. 26)
  • Yoshida-kun's paper "Soft Spiral-Shaped Microswimmers for Autonomous Swimming Control by Detecting Surrounding Environments" was accepted in Advanced Intelligent Systems! (Jun. 4)
  • Shimizu-san's Lab Chip paper was selected as Inside Front Cover of the issue! (Jun. 2)
  • Shimizu-san's paper "ECM-based microchannel for culturing in vitro vascular tissues with simultaneous perfusion and stretch" was accepted in Lab on a Chip! (Apr. 11)
  • New members, Ueno-kun, Kawahara-kun, Takatsuka-kun, Hori-kun, Murayama-san have joined our group! (Apr. 1)
  • Uchida-kun won Department of Comprehensive Design Engineering Master of Excellence Research Activity Award! Congratulations!! (Mar. 26)
  • Completion ceremony of School of Integrated Design Eng. was held. From our group, Iyama-san, Uchida-kun, Karube-kun, Kuroda-kun, Shimizu-san, Takeuchi-kun, Tachibana-kun, Tsuchiya-san, Hayashi-kun completed. Congratulations! (Mar. 26)
  • Muramatsu-kun won Fujiwara Award! His work in the juggling circle was appreciated. Congratulations! (Mar. 23)
  • Inami-san, Hashimoto-kun and Muramasu-kun won Graduation Research Excellence Presentation Award! Congratulations! (Mar. 23)
  • Graduation ceremony of Dept. of Mech. Eng. was held. From our group, Inami-san, Kohno-kun, Kato-kun, Takakura-kun, Hashimoto-kun, Muramatsu-kun, Yamawaki-kun graduated. Congratulations! (Mar. 23)
  • Collaborative paper regarding a liquid-metal-wiring hydrogel actuator (with Matsubara-kun and Prof. Ohta @ YNU) was accepted in Advanced Intelligenet Systems. (Mar. 13)
  • Collaborative paper regarding a skeletal-muscle biohybrid actuator driven in air (with Prof. Morimoto and Prof. Takeuchi @ Univ. Tokyo) was accepted in APL Bioengineering. (Mar. 3)
  • Yamawaki-kun won The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers Young Lecture Fellow Award @ Micro-Nano Engineering Symposium. (Feb. 1)
  • Itai-kun and Onoe gave a presentation at BRL seminar @ NTT Basic Research Laboratories. (Jan. 24)
  • Tsuchiya-san won Outstanding Student Paper Award, Uchida-kun won Art in Microtechnology Award (2nd Prize) at IEEE MEMS 2020! (Jan. 22)
  • Uchida-kun, Kuroda-kun, Shimizu-san, Takeuchi-kun, Tsuchiya-san, Muramatsu-kun gave a presentation at IEEE MEMS 2020 @ Vancouver, Canada! Shimizu-san, Takeuchi-kun, Tsuchiya-san gave oral presentation! (Jan. 18-22)
  • Onoe gave a presentation at Special workshop for AIMR Advanced Target Projects @ Tohoku Univ. (Jan. 8)
  • Happy New Year! (Jan. 1)

    • 2019

  • Year-end and welcome party for new members was done. (Dec. 23)
  • The 6th Cyborgnics was held at Ikaho. Hashimoto-kun got Best Research Presentation Award! Inami-san got Best Research Audience Award!(Dec. 20-21)
  • Kurashina-san and Sato-kun's vascular co-culture fiber research was selected as the cover of APL Bioengineering magazine!(Dec. 17)
  • Ando-san from Westminster School @ London, UK has joined our lab for JST Global Science Campus! (Dec. 13)
  • Yoshida-kun made a presentation at 2019 MRS fall meeting ＆ exhibit @ Boston, USA! (Dec. 1-6)
  • Itai-kun, Hayashi-kun, Inami-san, Muramatsu-kun, Hashimoto-kun, Yamawaki-kun, Kono-kun and Takakura-kun presented at the 10th Micro / Nano Engineering Symposium @ Hamamatsu! (Nov. 19-21)
  • Kurashina-kun and Tachibana-kun presented at Chemistry and Micro-Nano Systems Society 40th Workshop (CHEMINAS 40) @ Hamamatsu! (Nov. 19-21)
  • Mio Tsuchiya, Yuta Kurashina, Hiroaki Onoe, “Eye-recognizable and repeatable biochemical flexible sensors using low angle-dependent photonic colloidal crystal hydrogel microbeads,” Scientific Reports, accepted.(Nov. 1)
  • Kurashina-san, Yoshida-kun,Itai-kun,Karube-kun,Uchida-kun,Iyama-san,Shimizu-san,Kubota-kun and Kawara-kun held presentation at Micro-TAS 2019 @Basel, Switzerland!(Oct. 27-31)
  • Yuta Kurashina, Ryo Sato, Hiroaki Onoe, “Microfiber-shaped building-block tissues with endothelial networks for constructing macroscopic tissue assembly,” APL Bioengineering, accepted.(Oct. 29)
  • Kuroda-kun, Shimizu-san, Tsuchiya-san, Takeuchi-kun, Uchida-kun, Muramatsu-kun abstracts were accepted to the MEMS conference. Shimizu-san, Tsuchiya-san, Takeuchi-kun were selected for oral session.(Oct. 22)
  • Gel drug delivery system by Miyahara-kun was featured in the Nikkei Business Daily .
  • Yoshida-kun held a presentation at the 68th Polymer Debate .(Sep. 25-27)
  • Itai-kun recieved an informal approval for a scholarship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science! Congratulations!(Sep. 25)
  • Sergio Molina joined our lab as a student of the double degree program from Aachen Univ!(Sep. 23)
  • We enjoyed a joint athletic meeting (Keio Univ. Waseda Univ. Chuo Univ.) held by the Miki Lab!(Sep. 20)
  • Onoe gave a presentation at the 92nd annual meeting of the Japanese Biochemical Society @ PACIFICO YOHKOHAMA.(Sep. 18-20)
  • Undergraduate students held presentations at a joint meeting (Kan Lab, Iwase lab and Onoe lab) @ Waseda Univ.(Sep. 14)
  • Itai-kun and Tsuchiya-san gave a presentation at the annual association of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers.(Sep. 8-11)
  • Onoe gave a presentation at Gunma Univ.(Sep. 5)
  • Prof. Inkyu Park of KAIST visited our lab and held a seminar.(Aug. 23)
  • The group stayed at Izu for lab summer trip! (Aug. 7-8)
  • Fukada-kun studied abroad (UC San Diego) for half a year. (Aug. 2)
  • Summer research activity for high school students was held in our lab. (Aug. 2)
  • Kasahara-kun studied abroad (Aachen Univ) for half a year. (July. 31)
  • Summer party was held. We enjoyed somen & takoyaki with self-made flowing somen system! (July. 30)
  • Onoe presented at 25th next generation medical engineering seminar＠Kyoto, Japan (July. 4)
  • Yoshida-kun,Itai-kun,Iyama-san,Uchida-kun,Karube-kun,Shimizu-san,Kawara-kun,Kubota-kun were adopted in MicroTAS2019＠Basel, Switzerland. Uchida-kun,Kawara-kun were selected for oral session.（July. 1）
  • Uchida-kun's paper, "4D printing of multi-hydrogels using direct ink writing in a supporting viscous liquid" was accepted in Micromachines! (June. 28)
  • Yoshida-kun, Uchida-kun, Shimizu-san, Tsuchiya-san, Hayashi-kun, Kasahara-kun presented at Transducers 2019 ＠Berlin, Germany. (June. 24-27)
  • Shinako Bansai, Takashi Morikura, Hiroaki Onoe, Shogo Miyata "Effect of Cyclic Stretch on Tissue Maturation in Myoblast-Laden Hydrogel Fibers," was accepted in Micromachines.(June. 13)
  • Onoe gave a presentation at Korea-Japan International Symposium ＠Yagami campus.(June. 13)
  • Yoshida-kun presented at Robotics Mechatronics conference (ROBOMECH) ＠Hiroshima.(June. 6)
  • Itai-kun, Shimizu-san presented at 58th JSMBE/BMS conference ＠Okinawa.(June. 6)
  • Microfluidic training workshop was held at our lab. Yamawaki-kun (presentation prize), Takakura-san (design prize), Muramatu-kun (technical skill prize) were awarded! (May. 29)
  • Tsuchiya-san,Kasahara-kun,Fukada-kun presented at 39th CHEMINAS ＠Kanazawa.(May. 28)
  • Prof. Terakawa's paper (nanoparticle formation in gel by laser irradiation) was accepted in Optics Express. (May 2)
  • [NEWS] Ms. Inoue will appear on TBS "Origin of the Future". She will talk about the future of embedded sensors in vivo! Broadcast date: April 7th (Sun) 22: 54- @TBS Kanto area Aichi, Mie, Gifu/April 14th (Sun) 20: 54-@ BS-TBS National broadcast.
  • Itai-kun is adopted as the Research associate (non-tenured)! (Apr. 1)
  • Yoshida-kun is adopted as the JSPS DC1! (Apr. 1)
  • New members, Chen-kun, Inami-san, Kato-kun, Kono-kun, Takakura-kun, Hashimoto-kun, Muramatsu-kun have joined our group! (Apr. 1)
  • Completion ceremony of School of Integrated Design Eng. was held. From our group, Ikezawa-kun, Itai-kun, Inoue-san, Miyahara-kun completed. Congratulations! (Mar. 28)
  • Fukada-kun won the Hatakeyama prize at JSME. (Mar. 25)
  • Graduation ceremony of Dept. of Mech. Eng. was held. From our group, Kasahara−kun, Kawara-kun, Kubota-kun, Suzuki-san, Fukada-kun graduated. Congratulations! (Mar. 25)
  • Onoe, Yoshida-kun, Itai-kun, Hayashi-kun gave presentations at The International Symposium 3S-LP @ Hiyoshi campus, Keio Univ. Hayashi-kun won the Best Poster Presentation Award. Congrats! (Feg. 27-Mar. 1)
  • Yoshida-kun, Hayashi-kun, Shimizu-san, Tsuchiya-san, Uchida, Kasahara-kun were adopted in Transducers2019@Berlin, Germany!
  • Inoue-san's paper, “Graphene-Based Wireless Tube-Shaped Pressure Sensor for In Vivo Blood Pressure Monitoring,” was accepted in Micromachines! (Feb. 15)
  • ikezawa-kun, itai-kun, inoue-san, miyahara-kun presented at masters thesis defense. (Feb. 8)
  • Hayashi-kun was awarded The Young Presentation Prize at The 9th Micro-Nano Science and Technology Symposium! (Feb. 1)
  • Kasahara-kun, Kawara-kun, Kubota-kun, Suzuki-san, Fukada-kun, Mori-kun presented at graduation thesis review meeting. (Jan. 30-31)
  • Ikezawa-kun, Inoue-san, Itai-kun, Miyahara-kun presented at MEMS2019@Seoul, Korea. (Jan. 27-31)
  • Miyahara-kun, Suzuki-san, Itai-kun presented at Keio University Hospital Translational research Project Symposium.
  • Happy New Year! (Jan. 1)

    • 2018

  • Itai-kun's collagen tube device was highlighted in IOP physics world. [link](Dec. 30)
  • Year-end and welcome party for new members was done. (Dec. 21)
  • Itai-kun, Shimizu-san, Takeuchi-kun, Tuchiya-san, Hayashi-kun,Kasahara-kun, Kawara-kun, Kubota-kun, Suzuki-san, Fukada-kun and Mori-kun gave presentations at 5th Cyborgnics Symposium at Keio. Hayashi-kun and Kubota-kun won the awards. (Dec. 19)
  • Prof. Morimoto (Univ. Tokyo) 's paper (skeletal muscle tissue actuator) was accepted in Advanced Robotics. (Dec. 18)
  • The first home-coming day was held. (Dec. 8)
  • Onoe gave an invited talk at 2018 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit @ Boston, USA. (Nov. 25-29)
  • Miyahara-kun's newspaper article was published in Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun! [link] (Nov. 15)
  • Kurashina-san, Uchida-kun, gave presentations at MicroTAS2018 @ Kaohsiung, Taiwan! (Nov. 11-15)
  • Itai-kun's collagen tube paper "Double-layer perfusable collagen microtube device for heterogeneous cell culture" was accepted in Biofabrication! (Nov. 9)
  • Itai-kun's magazine article was published in Chemical Engineering! (Nov. 1)
  • Itai-kun won the Student Presentation Award in CHEMINAS 38 @ Sapporo. (Nov. 1)
  • Members gave presentations at CHEMINAS 38/The 9th Micro Nano Engineering Symposium @ Sapporo! (Oct. 30-Nov. 1)
  • Ikezawa-kun, Itai-kun (oral), Inoue-san, Miyahara-kun were accepted in MEMS 2019@Seoul, Korea. (Oct. 29)
  • Yoshida-kun was awarded JSPS Research Fellowships for Young Scientist (DC1). Congratulations! (Oct. 12)
  • International Symposium "Keio University International Symposium on Advanced Technologies for Mechano-biology and Renegerative Medicine" was held at Yagami Campus. Thank you everyone who participated! (Sep. 21)
  • Yoshida-kun joined our group as a doctoral course student. (Sep. 19)
  • Onoe gave an invited talk at Micro/Nano-engineered Smart Sensors & Devices @ KAIST. Korea. (Sep. 17)
  • Masayuki Hayakawa, Satoshi Umeyama, Ken H. Nagai, Hiroaki Onoe, Masahiro Takinoue, “Controlled Construction of Stable Network Structure Composed of Honeycomb-Shaped Microhydrogels,” was accepted in Life. (Sep. 16)
  • Itai-kun, Miyahara-kun and Hayashi-kun gave a presentation at 2018 Annual meeting of JSME @ Kansai Univ. (Sep. 9-12)
  • Lab summer seminar was held at Chichibu. (Sep. 3-4)
  • Onoe gave an invited talk at The 21st Annual Meeting of The Korean Society for Brain and Neural Science (KSBNS) @ Seoul. (Aug. 31)
  • Onoe gave a presentation at IEEJ PHS/BMS joint meeting @ Tokyo. (Aug. 8)
  • Prof. Yun Jung Heo and Prof. Filippo Rossi gave a seminar in KGRI Lecture series. (Aug. 3)
  • Prof. Yun Jung Heo from Kyung Hee University, Korea, has joined our group for two weeks as a guest lecturer (global). (Jul. 24)
  • Welcome party for Prof. Rossi was held in Shibuya! (Jul. 18)
  • Prof. Filippo Rossi from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, has joined our group for two months as a guest associate professor (global). (Jul. 10)
  • Kurashina-san and Uchida-kun were accepted in microTAS 2018@Taiwan! (Jul. 3)
  • Kurashina-san was moved out to Tokyo Institute of Technology as an assistant professor. Congratulations! (Jul. 1)
  • Microfluidic training workshop was held at our lab. Kawara-kun (presentation prize), Tsuchiya-san (design prize), Takeuchi-kun (technical skill prize), Suzuki-san (Onoe prize), Fukada-kun (Onoe prize) were awarded! (jun. 13)
  • Prof. Yoshida's pneumatic actuator paper was accepted in Soft Robotics. (Jun. 6)
  • We played a match in the Yagami softball tournament! (Jun. 1)
  • Prof. Morimoto's skeletal muscle actuator paper was published in Science Robotics. (May 31)
  • Yoshida Koki-kun's paper regarding microspring-shaped hydrogel actuators was accepted in Sensors and Actuators B-chemical. (May 30th)
  • Hayashi-kun gave a presentation at the Molecular Robotics Meeting @ TITech. (May 26)
  • BBQ party was held in Yokosuka with Miki lab (Keio Univ.). (May. 20)
  • Dr. Choi gave a seminar in KGRI Lecture series "Enabling technology platforms in vitro for biological applications". (Apr. 20)
  • Prof. Nakwon Choi from KIST, Korea, has joined our group for two weeks as a guest associate professor (global). (Apr. 16)
  • Kobayashi-kun's paper "Microfluidic-based flexible reflective multicolour display" was accepted in Microsystems & Nanoengineering. Conglaturaions! (Apr. 16)
  • Itai-kun was awarded The Young Presentation Fellow Prize at The Robotics and Mechatronics Conference 2017! (Apr. 3)
  • New members, Iizuka-kun, Shimizu-san, Takeuchi-kun, Tuchiya-san, Kasahara-kun, Kawara-kun, Kubota-kun, Suzuki-san, Fukada-kun and Mori-kun have joined our group! (Apr. 1)
  • Matsushiro-kun's paper was selected as a Front cover in Biotechnology and Bioengineering. (Mar. 30)
  • Nakajima-kun won the Miura prize at JSME. (Mar. 28)
  • Completion ceremony of School of Integrated Design Eng. was held. From our group, Kobayashi-kun, Sato-kun, Nakajima-kun, Niibe-kun, Matsushiro-kun completed. Congratulations! (Mar. 28)
  • Karube-kun won the Fujiwara prize at Dept. of Mech. Eng. (Mar. 26)
  • Graduation ceremony of Dept. of Mech. Eng. was held. From our group, Iyama-san, Uchida-kun, Karube-kun, Kuroda-kun, Tachibana-kun, Hayashi-kun graduated. Congratulations! (Mar. 26)
  • Onoe gave a presentation in the 24th JSME meeting at Kanto region @ UEC. (Mar. 17)
  • Dr. He's cell origami paper was published in Scientific Reports. (Mar. 16)
  • Kurashina-san and Onoe gave presentations at the BMS workshop @ Univ. Tokyo. (Mar. 5)
  • Nakajima-kun's article on stimuli-responsive gel was published as a book. (Feb. 28)
  • Kazuma Fujimoto, Kazuhiko Higashi, Hiroaki Onoe, Norihisa Miki, "Development of a triple-coaxial flow device for fabricating a hydrogel microtube and its application to bioremediation," was accepted in Micromachines. (Feb. 9)
  • Matsushiro-kun's paper ”Differentiation of 3D-shape-controlled mouse neural stem cell to neural tissues in closed agarose microchambers,” was accepted in Biotech. Bioeng. (Feb. 6)
  • Sumihiro Kohyama, Hidetoshi Takahashi, Satoru Yoshida, Hiroaki Onoe, Kayoko Shoji, Takuya Tsukagoshi, Tomoyuki Takahata, Isao Shimoyama, "Spring constant measurement using a MEMS force and displacement sensor utilizing paralleled piezoresistive cantilevers," was accepted in JMM. (Jan. 31)
  • Onoe gave a presentation at MEMS2018@Belfast, UK. (Jan. 21-25)
  • Onoe gave a presentation at Graduate School of Nanobioscience Seminar @ YCU. (Jan. 11)
  • Happy New Year! (Jan. 1)

    • 2017

  • Year-end and welcome party for new members was done. (Dec. 21)
  • Ishikura-san has joined our group as a technical staff. (Dec. 19)
  • Itai-kun gave a presentation at Bio4Apps2017@Tokyo Univ. (Dec. 11-13)
  • Onoe gave an invited talk at MHS2017 @ Nagoya Univ. (Dec. 4)
  • Ikezawa-kun, Iyama-san, uchida-kun, Karube-kun, Tachibana-kun and Hayashi-kun gave presentations at 4th Cyborgnics Symposium at TUAT. Tachibana-kun won the awards. (Dec. 1)
  • Matsushiro-kun, Sato-kun, Inoue-san, Ikezawa-kun, Itai-kun and Onoe gave presentations at Korea-Japan Joint Symposium (with Kyung Hee Univ. and KIST) @ Seoul, Korea. (Nov. 23-24)
  • Inoue-san's paper ”Graphene-based inline pressure sensor integrated with microfluidic elastic tube” was accepted in JMM! (Nov. 2)
  • Itai-kun won the Excellent poster prize at The 34th Sensor Symposium! (Nov. 2)
  • Members gave presentations at The 34th Sensor Symposium/The 8th Micro Nano Engineering Symposium @ Hiroshima! (Oct. 31-Nov. 2)
  • Yoshida Koki-kun's Gel Spring Actuator was accepted for MEMS2018 @ Belfast, Northern Ireland! (Oct. 31)
  • Kobayashi-kun, Inoue-san, Itai-kun gave presentations at MicroTAS2017 @ Savannah, USA! (Oct. 22-26)
  • Onoe gave an invited talk at iJSME2017 @ Nagoya Univ. (Oct. 7-8)
  • Onoe gave a presentation at 2nd Japan-Korea International Symposium on Cyborgnics @ Beppu, Oita. Also, Kobayashi-kun, Nakajima-kun, Niibe-kun, Miyahara-kun, Kuroda-kun gave poster presentations. (Sep. 21-23)
  • Joint meeting at UEC (Kan Lab, Iwase Lab, and Onoe lab). (Sep. 19)
  • Lab summer seminar was held at Atami. (Sep. 13-14)
  • Onoe gave an invited talk at VJSE 2017 @ Shibaura Institute of Technology. (Sep. 9)
  • Onoe gave a presentation at JSME Annual Meeting @ Saitama University. (Sep. 5)
  • Kurashina-san's paper was selected as a Front cover in Biotechnology and Bioengineering. (Aug. 30)
  • Prof. Negishi has joined our group as a visiting assistant professor. (July. 21)
  • Kobayashi-kun, Itai-kun, and Inoue-san were accepted for MicroTAS2017 @ Savannah, USA! (July. 7)
  • Yoshida Satoru-kun's Janus collagen microbeads was highlighted in Advanced Science News! (Jun. 26)
  • Nakajima-kun, Niibe-kun, Matsushiro-kun gave presentations at Transducers 2017 @ Kaohsiung, Taiwan. (Jun. 18-22)
  • Onoe gave a presentation at 24th Nano/Micro Lithography Consortium for Organic Functional Materials @ Tokyo. (Jun. 12)
  • We won the first game of Yagami softball tournament! (Jun. 5)
  • Higashi-kun (Keio Univ.) 's paper regarding microorganism-encapsulating hydrogel microfibers was accepted in Micromachines.(Jun. 1)
  • Microfluidic training workshop was held at our lab. Karube-kun (presentation prize), Iyama-san (design prize) and Tachibana-kun (technical skill prize) were awarded! (May. 31)
  • BBQ party hosted by Iwase lab (Waseda Univ.) was held at Showa Kinen Park. (May. 27)
  • Nakajima-kun’s Stimuli-responsive Hydrogel Microfibers was selected as a Back cover in Soft Matter. (May. 24)
  • Suzuki-kun's paper "Micropatterning of Multiple Photonic Colloidal Crystal Gels for Flexible Structural Color Films" was accepted in Langmuir! (May. 23)
  • Matsushiro-kun and Ikezawa-kun gave a presentation at CHEMINAS35 @ TITECH. (May. 22-23)
  • BBQ party was held in Yokosuka with Miki lab (Keio Univ.). (May. 14)
  • Itai-kun gave a presentation at ROBOMECH2017 (The Robotics and Mechatronics Conference 2017) @ Fukushima. (May. 10-12)
  • Yoshida Satoru-kun’s Janus collagen microbeads was selected as a Frontispiece in Advanced Healthcare Materials. (Apr. 11)
  • Onoe was awarded by The Young Scientists’ Prize, The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. (Apr. 11)
  • Nakajima-kun's paper "Stimuli-responsive Hydrogel Microfibers with Controlled Anisotropic Shrinkage and Cross-sectional Geometries" was accepted in Soft Matter! (Apr. 10)
  • Onoe gave an invited lecture at IEEE-NEMS2017 @ UCLA.　(Apr. 9-13)
  • Welcome party was held.　(Apr. 3)
  • Kurashina-san took up at an associate professor. (Apr. 1)
  • New members, Iyama-san, Uchida-kun, Karube-kun, Tachibana-kun and Hayashi-kun have joined our group! (Apr. 1)
  • Suzuki-kun won the Miura prize at JSME. (Mar. 28)
  • Completion ceremony of School of Integrated Design Eng. was held. From our group, Suzuki-kun, Nishita-kun, Yoshida Koki-kun, Yoshida Satoru-kun completed. Congratulations! (Mar. 28)
  • Itai-kun won the Kito prize at Dept. of Mech. Eng. (Mar. 23)
  • Graduation ceremony of Dept. of Mech. Eng. was held. From our group, Ikezawa-kun, Itai-kun, Inoue-san, Miyahara-kun, Yokomizo-san graduated. Congratulations! (Mar. 23)
  • Midori Negishi-Kato's paper "Rod-shaped neural units for aligned 3D neural network connection," was accepted in Advanced Healthcare Materials. (Mar. 14)
  • Korea-Japan Joint Research Seminar（KIST (Korea side)-Keio Univ. (Japan side)）was held at Yagami campus. (Mar. 11)
  • Yoshida Koki-kun's paper "Functionalized core-shell hydrogel microsprings by anisotropic gelation with bevel-tip capillary"was accepted in Scientific Reports! (Mar. 8)
  • Nakajima-kun, Niibe-kun, and Matsushiro-kun were accepted as oral presentation for Transducers2017 @ Kaohsiung, Taiwan! (Feb. 17)
  • Yoshida Satoru-kun's paper "Compartmentalized spherical collagen microparticles for anisotropic cell culture microenvironments" was accepted in Advanced Healthcare Materials. (Feb. 14)
  • Shoya Yasuda, Masayuki Hayakawa, Hiroaki Onoe, Masahiro Takinoue, "Twisting microfluidics in a planetary centrifuge," was accepted in Soft Matter. (Jan. 30)
  • Yoshida Koki-kun and Sato-kun gave presentations at MEMS2017 @ Las Vegas. (Jan. 22-26)
  • Nakajima-kun gave presentation at 28th Polymer Gel Symposium @ The University of Tokyo. (Jan. 16-17)
  • Members gave presentations at Seminar at Japan Women's University. (Jan. 7)
  • Nishita-kun's paper "Liquid-filled Flexible Micro Suction-Controller Array for Enhanced Robotic Object Manipulation" was accepted in JMEMS. (Jan. 6)
  • Happy New Year! (Jan. 1)

    • 2016

  • Year-end and welcome party for new members was done. (Dec. 22)
  • Members gave presentations at 3rd Saibou-nics seminar at TITECH. Yoshida Koki-kun and Itai-kun won the awards. (Dec. 20)
  • Suzuki-kun, Nishita-kun, Sato-kun, Itai-kun, Inoue-san gave presentations at International Symposium on Micro-Nano Science and Technology 2016 @ The University of Tokyo. Suzuki-kun won the JSME Fellow Award for Outstanding Young Engineers.(Dec. 16-18)
  • Hayakawa-kun (TITECH)’s paper regarding hydrogel micro-motors was accepted in Micromachines. (Dec. 7)
  • Onoe gave an invited lecture at Department of Cardiology, Keio Medical School. (Dec. 6)
  • Suzuki-kun's paper "Microfluidically Patterned Dome-Shaped Photonic Colloidal Crystals Exhibiting Structural Colors with Low Angle Dependency" was accepted in Advanced Optical Materials (Nov. 28)
  • Onoe gave an invited talk at the 4th International Conference on Electronic Materials and Nanotechnology for Green Environment (ENGE 2016), Jeju, Korea. (Nov. 7)
  • Yoshida Koki-kun (poster) and Sato-kun (oral) were accepted for MEMS2017 @ Las Vegas, USA! (Nov. 1)
  • Yoshida Satoru-kun won the Best Hirado Mayor's Prize at The 33rd Sensor Symposium! Congratulations! (Oct. 26)
  • Yoshida Koki-kun, Yoshida Satoru-kun, Niibe-kun, Yokomizo-san gave presentations at The 33rd Sensor Symposium @ Hirado. (Oct.24-26)
  • Onoe, Suzuki-kun, Yoshida Koki-kun, Yoshida Satoru-kun, Kobayashi-kun, Nakajima-kun, Matsushiro-kun gave presentations at Micro TAS 2016 @ Dublin, Ireland. (Oct. 9-13)
  • Joint meeting at Waseda Univ. (Iwase Lab, YunJung Lab, Kan Lab, and Onoe lab). (Sep. 24)
  • Lab summer seminar was held at Odawara. (Sep. 15-16)
  • Onoe gave an invited lecture at IEEJ Bio-circuit technology board of investigation. (Sep. 9)
  • Yoshida Satoru-kun's dynamic self-assembly paper“Dynamic transformation of self-assembled structures using anisotropic magnetized hydrogel microparticles,” was accepted in Journal of Applied Physics! (Aug. 8)
  • Suzuki-kun was awarded The Young Presentation Fellow Prize at The 7th Micro-Nano Science and Technology Symposium! (Aug. 4)
  • Somen noodle party was held in Lab! (Aug. 2)
  • Onoe gave an invited talk in Summer School -soil/water/environment and colloidal interface phenomena 2016 @ Univ. of Tsukuba (Jul. 29)
  • Yoshida Koki-kun gave an oral presentation at APCOT @ Kanazawa (Jun. 27)
  • Seven papers (Yoshida Satoru-kun, Yoshida Koki-kun, Suzuki-kun, Kobayashi-kun, Nakajima-kun, Matsushiro-kun, Tajima-kun) were accepted for MicroTAS 2016 @ Dublin, Ireland (Jun. 24)
  • We won for the first time in the Yagami softball tournament! (Jun. 20)
  • Nishita-kun gave a presentation at The Robotics and Mechatronics Conference 2016 in Yokohama (Jun. 8-11)
  • Microfluidic training workshop was held at our lab. Itai-kun (presentation prize), Yokomizo-san (design prize) and Kuroda-kun (technical skill prize) were awarded! (May. 31)
  • Joint BBQ hosted by Iwase lab (Waseda Univ.) at Showa Kinen Park (May. 21)
  • Did BBQ party at Okutama with Miki lab (Keio Univ.)) (May. 14)
  • Suzuki-kun, Yoshida Koki-kun, Sato-kun, Nakajima-kun gave presentations at CHEMINAS33 @ Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo (Apr. 25-26)
  • Vertical confocal imaging paper (Teshima-san (NTT), Kanuka-sensei (Jikei Univ.), Takeuchi-sensei (UT), etc.) was accepted for Small (Apr. 11)
  • New Members, Ikezawa-kun, Itai-kun, Inoue-san, Kuroda-kun, Miyahara-kun, Yokomizo-san have joined our group! (Apr. 1)
  • Onoe was promoted to an associate professor (Apr. 1)
  • Graduation ceremony of Dept. of Mech. Eng. was held. Kobayashi-kun, Sato-kun, Tajima-kun, Nagajima-kun, Niibe-kun, Matsushiro-kun graduated from our group. Congratulations! (Mar. 23)
  • Onoe gave an lecture at the 30th Advanced Photon Science Alliance seminar @ Hiyoshi (Mar. 17)
  • Yoshida Koki-kun's Hydrogel microspring paper was accepted in IEEJ Transactions on Sensors and Micromachines! (Mar. 9)
  • Suzuki-kun and Yoshida Satoru-kun gave presentations at MEMS 2016 at Shanghai! (Jan. 24-28)
  • mNSC fiber paper (with Negishi-san, Itou-san, Prof. Takeuchi (UT)) was accepted for Advanced Healthcare Materials (Jan. 19)
  • Tajima-kun gave a presentation at Symposium on New Technology for Cell-based Drug Assay @ Univ. Tokyo (Jan. 19)
  • Complex shaped micro particle paper (with Hayakawa-kun (TITEC), Nagai-Sensei (JAIST), Takinoue-sensei (TITEC)) was accepted in Scientific Reports (Jan. 13)
  • Welcome lunch party for newcomers at lab. (Jan. 13)
  • Happy New Year! (Jan. 1)

    • 2015

  • Year-end and welcome party for new members (Dec. 22)
  • All members gave presentations at 2nd Saibou-nics seminar at Yagami campus. Nakajima-kun and Yoshida Koki-kun won the awards (Dec. 8)
  • Yoshida Satoru-kun and Matsushiro-kun gave presentations at CHEMINAS32 @ Kokura (Nov. 26-27)
  • Yoshida Satoru-kun and Suzuki-kun were accepted for presentation in MEMS 2016 @ ShangHai (Oct. 26)
  • Suzuki-kun, Nishita-kun, Yoshida Satoru-kun, Yohida Koki-kun, Kobayashi-kun, Sato-kun, Tajima-kun, Nagajima-kun, Niibe-kun, Matsushiro-kun gave presentations at 32nd Sensor Symposium/7th Micro Nano Engineering Symposium @ Niigata (Oct. 28-30)
  • Onoe gave a presentation at MicroTAS 2015 @ GyeongJu, Korea (Oct. 25-29)
  • Onoe gave a lecture at GRENE Applied MEMS Device Course @ Nanobic (Oct. 14)
  • We presented our lab activities at 5th Ota research and development festival (Oct. 8-9)
  • Maeda-kun (Caltech)’s centrifugal droplet analysis paper (with Prof. Takinoue (TITECH) and Prof. Takeuchi (UT)) was accepted for Michromachines. (Oct. 3)
  • Onoe gave a presentation at Annual meeting of The Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics. (Sep. 27)
  • Joint meeting at Waseda Univ. (Iwase Lab, YunJung Lab and Onoe lab). (Sep. 24)
  • Lab summer seminar was held at Okutama. (Sep. 14-16)
  • Neural bandle transplantation paper (with Hori-sensei (Keio Univ) et al.) was accepted in Journal of Neuroscience Research (Aug. 8)
  • Somen noodle party was held in Lab! (Jul. 29)
  • Centrifuge-based W/O droplet paper (with Morita-san (Tokyo Inst. Tech.), Prof. Takinoue (Tokyo Inst. Tech.), et al.) was accepted in Journal of Visualized Experiments (Jul. 28)
  • Centrifuge-based liposome paper (with Morita-san (Tokyo Inst. Tech.), Prof. Takinoue (Tokyo Inst. Tech.), et al.) was accepted in ChemBioChem (Jul. 19)
  • Team Onoe-lab joined Yagami softball tournament! (Jul. 14)
  • Electroactive hydrogel display paper (with Usuki-kun (Waseda Univ) and Prof. Iwase (Waseda Univ.)) was accepted in IEEJ Transactions on Sensors and Micromachines (Jul. 2)
  • Onoe gave an invited talk at The 67th Annual Meeting of the Japan Scociety for Cell Biology at Funabori (Jun. 30)
  • Microbe-encapsulating tubes (collaboration work with Prof. Miki, Keio Univ.) were highlighted in a newspaper (Nikkei Sangyo Shinbun) (Jun. 25)
  • Yoshida Satoru-kun (M1), Suzuki-kun (M1) and Nishita-kun (M1) gave presentations at Transducers 2015 @ Anchorage, USA (Jun. 22-25)
  • Onoe gave an invited lecture at Future Biotechnology Seminar held by Japan Bioindustory Association (JBA) (Jun. 16)
  • Nishita-kun's article on Micro Suction Controller Array (MISCA) was published in MATERIAL STAGE (Jun. 15)
  • Onoe gave an invited talk at 1st Japan-Korea Biomedical Technology Symposium @ TUAT. (Jun. 12)
  • Yoshida Koki-kun gave a poster presentation regarding hydrogel microspring at ISMM 2015 @ Kyoto Univ.(Jun. 10)
  • Microfluidic training workshop was held at our lab. Sato-kun (presentation prize), Niibe-kun (design prize) and Kobayashi-kun (technical skill prize) were awarded! (June. 3)
  • Joint BBQ party at Showa Kinen Park was held (hosted by Iwase lab (Waseda Univ.)) (May. 30)
  • Yoshida Satoru-kun gave a presentation regarding dynamic self-assembly at IEEJ BMS meeting @ Chuo Univ.(May. 29)
  • Our group invited Dr Jun Yamamoto-san from MIT Tonegawa-lab for his special seminar on Brain system science. Thank you very much for your attendance! (May. 22)
  • Yoshida Koki-kun's hydrogel microspring was highlighted in a newspaper (Kagaku Kougyou Nippou) (Apr. 28)
  • Welcome pizza & sushi party was held in lab (Apr. 2)
  • New members, Kobayashi-kun, Sato-kun, Tajima-kun, Nagajima-kun, Niibe-kun, Matsushiro-kun, have joined our group! (Apr. 1)
  • Yoshida Satoru-kun won the Kito prize at Dept. of Mech. Eng. (Mar. 23)
  • Suzuki-kun and Yoshida Koki-kun won the excellent presentation award of bachelor thesis at Dept. of Mech. Eng. (Mar. 23)
  • Graduation ceremony of Dept. of Mech. Eng. was held. Congratulations! (Mar. 23)
  • Suzuki-kun and Nishita-kun presented at 54th Bachelor Thesis Presentations by the Student Members of the Kanto Branch of the JSME @ Yokohama National University. (Mar. 20)
  • Nishita-kun's micro suction-controller array was highlighted in a newspaper (Kagaku Kougyou Nippou) (Feb. 24)
  • Three papers (Nishita-kun, Yoshida Satoru-kun and Suzuki-kun) were accepted in Transducers 2015 @ Alaska, USA (Feb. 4)
  • Electroactive hydrogel display paper (with Usuki-kun (Waseda Univ) and Prof. Iwase (Waseda Univ.)) was accepted in JJAP (Jan. 28)
  • Yoshida-Koki-kun (B4) gave an oral presentation at IEEE MEMS2015 @ Portugal (Jan. 21)
  • Iimura-kun (UT)'s varifocal lenticular lens paper was accepted in JMM (Jan. 20)
  • Onoe gave a presentation at Cell Assay Symposium @ Komaba (Jan. 13)
  • Amy (UT)'s DFAT fiber paper was accepted in PLoS ONE (Jan. 10)
  • New year lunch party @ lab (Jan. 7)

    • 2014

  • Year-end and welcome party for new members (Dec. 22)
  • All B4 members gave presentations at Saibou-nics seminar at TUAT. Yoshida Satoru-kun and Nishita-kun won the outstanding presentation awards (Dec. 19)
  • Onoe gave a presentation at Keio Medical and Pharmaceutical Science and Engineering Commons (MPEC) @ Hiyoshi campus (Dec. 18)
  • Suzuki-kun's colloidal optical color filter was highlighted in a newspaper (Kagaku Kougyou Nippou) (Dec. 10)
  • Onoe gave a presentation at Nano/Micro Lithography Consortium for Organic Functional Materials @ Kyoto (Dec. 10)
  • We presented our lab activities at KLL Keio Techno-Mall @ Tokyo International Forum. Thank yor for comming! (Dec. 5)
  • Kanbe-san has joined our group as an office staff (Dec. 1)
  • Onoe gave a poster presentation at SfN Neuroscience 2014 @ Washington DC (Nov. 15-20)
  • Onoe gave a lecture at GRENE Applied MEMS Device Cource @ Nanobic (Nov. 10)
  • Yoshida Koki-kun's paper was accepted for IEEE MEMS 2015 @ Portugal as an oral presentation (Oct. 28)
  • Suzuki-kun, Nishita-kun, Yoshida Koki-kun, Yoshida Satoru-kun gave their presentations at The 6th Symposium of Micro-Nano Engineering at Shimane (Oct. 20-22)
  • Cell fiber reveiw paper (authors: Onoe and Takeuchi-sensei (UT)) was accepted for Drug Discovery Today (Oct. 14)
  • Prof. Takinoue (TITECH), Prof. Kawano (TUAT) and Onoe organized symposium session at The Annual Meeting of Biophysical Society of Japan @ Sapporo (Sep. 25)
  • Centrifuge-based W/O microdroplet paper (co-authors: Yamashita-kun (TITECH), Morita-san (TITECH), Sugiura-san (TITECH), Prof. Fujiwara (Keio) and Prof. Takinoue (TITECH)) was accepted in Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering (Sep. 24)
  • Joint meeting at Waseda Univ. (Iwase lab, Yung Jung lab and Onoe lab) (Sep. 18)
  • Onoe gave an invited talk at The Annual Meeting in The Society for Biotechnology, Japan @ Sapporo (Sep. 10)
  • Miki Lab & Onoe Lab Joint Summer Seminar @ Ito (Aug. 5-7)
  • Summer Somen party @ lab (Jul. 31)
  • Onoe gave an invited talk at Summer school in Division of Biofunctional Chemistry, The Chemical Society of Japan @ Zaou (Jul. 25-26)
  • Onoe gave a lecture on "microfluidics and tissue engineering" at TUAT (Jul. 22)
  • Centrifuge-based cell encapsulation paper (co-authors: Inamori-kun (UT), Takinoue-sensei (TITECH) and Takeuchi-sensei (UT)) was accepted in RSC Advances (Jun. 28)
  • Microfluidics training and Yakiniku party (Jun. 13)
  • Joint BBQ party at Showa Kinen Park with Iwase lab (Waseda Univ.), Kawano lab (TUAT) and YunJung lab (TUAT) (May. 31)
  • Onoe gave an invited talk at The 47th Annual Meeting of Developmental Biologists @ Nagoya (May. 30)
  • Onoe gave a talk at JST ERATO International Symposium on 3D Tissue Fabrication @ Tokyo (May. 20)
  • Joint meeting and party with Takinoue Lab (TITECH) (May. 17)
  • Kick-off party @ lab (Sushi & Pizza) (Apr. 11)
  • Onoe lab has launched! Suzuki-kun, Nishida-kun, Yoshida Koki-kun and Yoshida Satoru-kun have joined the group. (Apr. 3)
  • Onoe arrived at Dept. of Mech. Eng, Keio Univ. as an Assistant Professor (Lecuturer) (Apr. 1)

Onoe Research Group

Keio University

- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology

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