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Contributors
Jian Ping Gong. is. a. professor. in. the. faculty. of.
Advanced. Life. Science. at. Hokkaido. University.. She.
earned. her. doctor. of. engineering. from. the. Tokyo.
Institute. of. Technology. and. joined. the. faculty. of.
Hokkaido.University.in.1993..She.received.the.Wiley.
Polymer. Science. Award. (2001),. Society. of. Polymer.
Science.Japan.Award.(2006),.and.the.Chemical.Society.
of.Japan.Award.(2011)..She.serves.on.the.editorial.and.
advisory. boards. of. Soft Matter,. Macromolecules,.
Biointerphases,.and.Asia Materials..She.is.currently.concentrating. on. novel. hydrogels. with. high. . mechanical.
performances.and.applications.as.biomaterials.
Anamul Haque.graduated.with.a.master’s.in.science.
from.the.University.of.Dhaka.in.2008.and.received.his.
PhD. from. Hokkaido. University. in. 2011.. During. his.
doctoral. research,. he. studied. the. creation. of. an.
. anisotropic.hydrogel.with.a.well-defined.hierarchical.
structure..Now.he.is.concentrating.on.the.functionalization.of.this.anisotropic.hydrogel,.such.as.toughness.
and.multistimuli.color.sensors.
Nadine Hessler.studied.chemistry.a.with.specialization.
in.bioorganic.chemistry.at.Friedrich.Schiller.University.
(FSU).from.1999.to.2004..In.2008,.she.received.her.PhD.
under.the.supervision.of.D.  Klemm..The.title.of.her.PhD.
thesis.was.“Bacterial.nanocellulose:.Structural.and.form.
design.during.biosynthesis. .”.Currently,.she.works.in.the.
group. of. D.   Kralisch. at. the. Institute. of. Technical.
Chemistry. and. Environmental. Chemistry. at. FSU,.
studying.process.optimization.of.BNC.in.the.research.
and.development.phase,.production.of.nanocellulose.in.
different.forms,.as.well.as.its.structural.design.