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ChemieRyo Yoshida
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December 22, 1964
Professor, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyoryo@cross.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
http://cross.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
0000-0002-0558-2922
1988 BS, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
1993 PhD supervised by Kiyotaka Sakai, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan(collaborative study supervised by Prof. Teruo Okano, Tokyo WomenQs Medical University,Tokyo, Japan)
2009 SPSJ Wiley Award, Society of Polymer Science Japan (SPSJ);
2018 New Age Technology Award, International Association of Advanced Materials
Design of functional polymer gels with spatio-temporal structure and development tobiomimetic smart soft materials
Playing classical and acoustic guitars

Awards:Research:
R. Yoshida

The author presented on thispage has published his
10. article in Angewandte
Chemie in the last 10 years:“Chemomechanical Motionof a Self-Oscillating Gel ina Protic Ionic Liquid”: T.
Masuda, T. Ueki, R. Tamate,
K. Matsukawa, R. Yoshida,
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018,57, 16693; Angew. Chem.
2018, 130, 16935.

Hobbies:

The most important future application of my research is artificial life.
The secret of being a successful scientist is having a sense of beauty.
I get advice from Zen words.
I admire laws and scenario of nature, life, and cosmos.
My motto is Have originality. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no pathand leave a trail” (Ralph Waldo Emerson).
Looking back over my career, I feel destiny.
My favorite saying is “Let it be”.
My biggest inspiration is designing a self-oscillating gel.
My favorite way to spend a holiday is playing classical and acoustic guitars.
My favorite name reaction is the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction.
My science “heroes” are Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrçdinger, Ilya Prigogine, Paul J. Flory, and others.
The most important thing I learned from my students is the flow of time.
The principal aspect of my personality is thoughtfulness.
My favorite author is Steve Jobs as a creator and his way of thinking.
My favorite composers and musicians are Johann Sebastian Bach, Andr8s Segovia, Bon Jovi, X JAPAN,
Billy Joel, Simon & Garfunkel, The Beatles, and others.
My 5 top papers:

The work of R. Yoshida has
been featured on the coverof Angewandte Chemie:“Evolved Colloidosomes
Undergoing Cell-like Autonomous Shape Oscillations
with Buckling”: R. Tamate,
T. Ueki, R. Yoshida, Angew.
Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55,5179; Angew. Chem. 2016,
128, 5265.

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1. “Comb-Type grafted Hydrogels with Rapid De-Swelling Response to Temperature Changes”: R. Yoshida,
K. Uchida, Y. Kaneko, K. Sakai, A. Kikuchi, Y.
Sakurai, T. Okano, Nature 1995, 374, 240. (Thispolymer network design to improve gel kinetics had
a high impact on gel research.)
2. “Self-Oscillating Gel”: R. Yoshida, T. Takahashi, T.
Yamaguchi, H. Ichijo, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1996, 118,5134. (My first report of a novel polymer gel whichautonomously swells and de-swells periodically ina closed homogeneous solution without any external
stimuli—like heartbeat.)
3. “Self-Walking Gel”: S. Maeda, Y. Hara, T. Sakai, R.
Yoshida, S. Hashimoto, Adv. Mater. 2007, 19, 3480.
(Application of the self-oscillating gel as an autonomous soft robot.)

4. “Self-Beating Artificial Cells: Design of Cross-Linked
Polmyersomes Showing Self-Oscillating Motion”: R.
Tamate, T. Ueki, R. Yoshida, Adv. Mater. 2015, 27, 837.
(One of a series of attempts to create artificial selfbeating cells using the self-oscillating polymer, which
would be a significant step in closing the gap between
artificial and living cells.)
5. “Amoeba-Like Self-Oscillating Polymeric Fluids with
Autonomous Sol-Gel Transition”: M. Onoda, T. Ueki,
R. Tamate, M. Shibayama, R. Yoshida, Nature Communications 2017, 15862. (A block copolymer solutionthat undergoes autonomous and periodic sol – geltransition under constant conditions, demonstratingstrong potential to realize a type of bioinspired
autonomous soft robots.)

International Edition: DOI: 10.1002/anie.201901583
German Edition:
DOI: 10.1002/ange.201901583
T 2019 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 10040