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2014-11-27
31 Oct. 2014
Dr. Hiroyuki Ishii (JST, Univ. of Tsukuba) have published a paper on calculations for Hall effect of organic semiconductors in Physical Review B.
"Large-scale conductivity-tensor calculations for Hall effects in time-dependent wave-packet diffusion method", H. Ishii, H. Tamura, M. Tsukada, N. Kobayashi, K. Hirose, Phys. Rev. B, 2014, 90, 155458.
http://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.90.155458
2014-11-17
13 Oct, 2014.
Dr. Junpei Yuasa (NAIST) received The JPA Award for Young Photochemists.
2014-11-05
9 Oct. 2014
Assistant Prof. Takahiro Muraoka (Tohoku University) has published a paper on ligand-gated synthetic supramolecular ion channel in Journal of the American Chemical Society.
"Reversible Ion Transportation Switch by a Ligand-Gated Synthetic Supramolecular Ion Channel", T. Muraoka, T. Endo, K. V. Tabata, H. Noji, S. Nagatoishi, K. Tsumoto, R. Li, K. Kinbara, J. Am. Chem. Soc., DOI: 10.1021/ja5070312.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja5070312
2014-10-31
30th, Oct., 2014
Dr. Hiroshi Yabu (Tohoku University) has published an original paper on robust platform particles for nanoparticle adhesion. “Robust Platforms for Creating Organic-Inorganic Nanocomposite Microspheres: Decorating Polymer Microspheres Containing Mussel-Inspired Adhesion Layers with Inorganic Nanoparticles”
H. Satoh, Y. Saito, H. Yabu, Chemical Communications, 50(94), 14786-14789 (2014).
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2014/cc/c4cc05433d#!divAbstract
2014-10-25
23th, Oct., 2014
Dr. Hiroshi Yabu (Tohoku University) has published an original paper on double-phase functionalized Janus particles. “Double-Phase-Functionalized Magnetic Janus Polymer Microparticles Containing TiO2 and Fe2O3 Nanoparticles Encapsulated in Mussel-Inspired Amphiphilic Polymers”
H. Yabu, H. Ohshima, Y. Saito, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 6(20), 18122?18128 (2014).
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/am506530s
2014-10-18
17th, Oct., 2014
Dr. Hiroshi Yabu (Tohoku University) has published an original paper on encapsulation of inorganic nanoparticles with catechol-containing amphiphilic polymers and preparation of inorganic porous films. “Breath Figures of Nanoscale Bricks: A Universal Method for Creating Hierarchic Porous Materials from Inorganic Nanoparticles Stabilized with Mussel-inspired Copolymers”
Y. Saito, M. Shimomura, H. Yabu, Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 35(20), 1763?1769 (2014).
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/marc.201400363/abstract
2014-10-09
9th October 2014
Prof. Shinji Sugihara (Univ. of Fukui) has published a paper on synthesis of novel RAFT macro-chain transfer agents and polyvinyl alcohol stereoblock copolymer via the combination of living cationic polymerization and RAFT/MADIX polymerization in Polymer.
"Synthesis of polyvinyl alcohol stereoblock copolymer via the combination of living cationic polymerization and RAFT/MADIX polymerization using xanthate with vinyl ether moiety", Akmal Hadi Ma' Radzi, (*)Shinji Sugihara, Takumi Toida, Yasushi Maeda , Polymer, 2014, Vol. 55, 5332-5345.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032386114007290
2014-10-08
23, September, 2014
Dr Shigeki Kawai (Uni. Basel) has published an article on the π-electron extension in the fluorinated benzene in Nano Letters.
"Image Distortions of a Partially Fluorinated Hydrocarbon Molecule in Atomic Force Microscopy with Carbon Monoxide Terminated Tips", N. Moll, B. Schuler, S. Kawai, F. Xu, L. Peng, A. Orita, J. Otera, A. Curioni, M. Neu, J. Repp, G. Meyer, and L. Gross, Article ASAP, (2014)
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl502113z
2014-10-02
25 Sep. 2014
Assoc. Prof. Toshihiro Okamoto (Univ. of Tokyo) received the Society of Polymer Science, Japan Hitachi Chemical Award. The award title is “Research for Practical Applicable Organic Semiconductors Based on Bent-shaped π-Electron Core”.
2014-09-25
12 Sep, 2014
Assist. Prof. Takahiro Muraoka (Tohoku Univ.) received the Presentation Award in 8th biofunctional chemistry symposium.
Presentation Title: Structural Modification of PEG for Protein Manipulation
2014-09-01
18 Jul. 2014
Dr. Rie Makiura (Osaka Prefecture University ) have published a paper on molecular nanosheets in ChemPlusChem. The paper was highlighted as Early Career Series and an interview article on Dr. Makiura was also published.
"Towards Rational Modulation of In-Plane Molecular Arrangements in Metal-Organic Framework Nanosheets", R. Makiura, R. Usui, Y. Sakai, A. Nomoto, A. Ogawa, O. Sakata, A. Fujiwara, ChemPlusChem, in press. (Open Access)
Article
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cplu.201402150/pdf
Interview
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cplu.201402168/pdf
2014-08-12
15, July, 2014
Dr Shigeki Kawai (Uni. Basel) has published an article on atom manipulation on an insulating surface at room temperature in Nature Communications.
"Atom manipulation on an insulating surface at room temperature", S. Kawai, A. S. Foster, F. Federici Canova, H. Onodera, S. Kitamura, and E. Meyer, vol 5, 4403, (2014)
2014-08-04
15 Jun, 2014
Dr. Rie Makiura (Osaka Prefecture University) give a special lecture to female junior high/high school students in a social event called "Kansai-Kagaku-Juku".
http://kagaku-juku.jp/
2014-07-29
Assoc. Prof. Kensuke Osada (The Univ. of Tokyo) has published a paper on “Effect of α-helix in the polymeric micelle on enhancing antitumor efficacy” by Y. Mochida, H. Cabral, Y. Miura, F. Albertini, S. Fukushima, K. Osada, N. Nishiyama, K. Kataoka in ACS Nano 8 (7) 6724-6738 (2014) (DOI: 10.1021/nn500498t)
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn500498t
2014-07-28
Assoc. Prof. Kensuke Osada (The Univ. of Tokyo) has published a paper on vaccine effect against tumor model through the intraperitoneal administration of antigen gene-loaded polyplex micelle in PLOS ONE.
"Intraperitoneal Administration of a Tumor-Associated Antigen SART3, CD40L, and GM-CSF Gene-Loaded Polyplex Micelle Elicits a Vaccine Effect in Mouse Tumor Models" by Kouichi Furugaki, Lin Cui, Yumi Kunisawa, Kensuke Osada, Kentaro Shinkai, Masao Tanaka, Kazunori Kataoka, (*)Kenji Nakano PLOS ONE 9 7 e101854 (2014) (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101854)in PLOS ONE.
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0101854
2014-07-16
11th, Jun, 2014
Assoc. Prof. Hiroshi Yabu (Tohoku Univ.) received Konica Minolta Award for Promotion of Science and Technology for application of phase-separated organic-inorganic composite particles for electronic papers.
2014-07-07
8 May 2014
Prof. Toshihiro Okamoto (The Univ. of Tokyo) has published a paper on new high-performance solution-processable organic semiconductors having stabilized crystal phase in Advanced Materials. “High-Performance Solution-Processable N-Shaped Organic Semiconducting Materials with Stabilized Crystal Phase”, Adv. Mater. 2014, in press [DOI: 10.1002/adma.201400289].
2014-07-02
10, June, 2014
Dr Shigeki Kawai (Uni. Basel) has published a review on high-resolution atomic force microscopy for the observation of molecules in OYO BUTURI (in Japanese). "High-resolution atomic force microscopy (seeing molecular structures) ", S. Kawai, OYO BUTURI, vol 83, No6, 2014
2014-06-30
2 June 2014
Prof. Yasujiro Murata (Kyoto Univ) has published a paper on the thiafullerene C69S derivative in Journal of the American Chemical Society.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja504054s
2014-06-25
25 May 2014
Prof. Toshihiro Okamoto (The Univ. of Tokyo) has published a paper on new organic semiconductors having both high emission and high mobility in Emerging Investigator Issue 2014 of Chemical Communications. "Furan Fused V-Shaped Organic Semiconducting Materials with High Emission and High Mobility", Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 5342-5344.
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2014/CC/c3cc47577h#!divAbstract
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2014/cc/c4cc90109f
2014-06-24
14 May 2014
Prof. Yasujiro Murata (Kyoto Univ) has published a paper on open-cage fullerenes encapsulating a hydrogen molecule in Organic Letters.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ol501113y
2014-06-04
4 Jun. 2014
Assistant Prof. Takahiro Muraoka (Tohoku University) has published a paper on thermally driven polymorphic transition of single crystals in Angewandte Chemie.
"Thermally Driven Polymorphic Transition Prompting a Naked-Eye-Detectable Bending and Straightening Motion of Single Crystals", T. Shima, T. Muraoka, N. Hoshino, T. Akutagawa, Y. Kobayashi, K. Kinbara, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., DOI: 10.1002/anie.201402560.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201402560/abstract
2014-06-02
1.June. 2014
Dr Shigeki Kawai (Uni. Basel) et al. havs published a paper Graphene Synthesis viaThermal Polymerization of Aromatic Quinone Molecules in ACS Nano.
"Graphene Synthesis viaThermal Polymerization of Aromatic Quinone Molecules ", S. Kawai, B. Eren, L. Marot, and E. Meyer, ACS Nano2014, (on line, Just accepted edition)
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn501047v
2014-05-22
Assoc. Prof. Kensuke Osada (The Univ. of Tokyo) has published a paper on Morphological control of polyion complex nanoarchitectures formed from double-hydrophilic charged block copolymers in Macromolecules.
http://pubs.acs.org/articlesonrequest/AOR-dWwPBhkTVWkDFqYQcK8v
2014-05-13
18 Apr 2014. Assis. Prof. Shohei Saito and Prof. Shigehiro Yamaguchi (Nagoya Univ.) have published an article on new functions from flexible π-conjugated systems in Chemistry (Kagaku), which is selected as a cover picture.
"New functions from flexible π-conjugated systems", Shohei Saito and Shigehiro Yamaguchi, Chemistry (Kagaku), vol. 5, p32-37 (2014).
http://www.kagakudojin.co.jp/kagaku/web-kagaku01/c6905/c6905-saito/index.html
2014-04-30
10 Apr, 2014. Assis. Prof. Takahiro Muraoka (Tohoku Univ.) received the CSJ Presentation Award 2014 in 94th spring annual meeting of The Chemical Society of Japan.
Presentation Title: Development of a Stimuli-Responsive Membrane-Embedded Amphiphile
2014-04-11
  1. 7 Apr, 2014
    Assoc. Prof. Hiroshi Yabu (Tohoku Univ.) received The Young Scientists’ Prize 2014 from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) for his research on “Preparation of Nanostructured Particles by Self-organization and Functionalization”.
    http://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/houdou/26/04/1346090.htm
  2. 7th, April, 2014
    Dr. Hiroshi Yabu (Tohoku University) has published an original paper on gold nanoparticles adhesion and diffusion in amino-terminated polybutadiene films. “Preparation of Au Nanoparticles and End-Functionalized Poly(butadiene) Composites via Electrostatic Interaction” M. Kanahara, M. Shimomura, H. Yabu, Macromol. Mater. Eng., 299(4), 478-484 (2014)
    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mame.201300190/abstract
  3. 7 Apr, 2014
    Dr. Rie Makiura (Osaka Prefecture University) received The Young Scientists’ Prize 2014 from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) for her research on “Creation of functional organic-inorganic nanostructures”.
    http://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/houdou/26/04/1346090.htm
  4. 7 Apr, 2014
    Assis. Prof. Shohei Saito (Nagoya Univ.) received The Young Scientists’ Prize 2014 from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) for his research on “? Electron Systems with Flexibility and Element Diversity ”.
    http://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/houdou/26/04/1346090.htm
  5. 28 Mar, 2014
    Assis. Prof. Shohei Saito (Nagoya Univ.) was selected as the Special Lecturer for Young Chemists in 94th CSJ Spring Annual Meeting 2014 for his research on “Functional organic materials based on dynamic ?-conjugated systems”.
  6. 21th of Mar, 2014
    Associate Prof. Teruaki Hayakawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology) gave an invited department lecture at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2014-04-10
Prof. Shinji Sugihara (Univ. of Fukui) has published a paper on synthesis of block and graft copolymers from macro-RAFT agents using a vinyl ether-type RAFT agent in Polymer.
"Synthesis of thermoresponsive block and graft copolymers via the combination of living cationic polymerization and RAFT polymerization using a vinyl ether-type RAFT agent ", Akmal Hadi Ma' Radzi, (*)Shinji Sugihara, Soichiro Miura, Naoto Konegawa, Yasushi Maeda , Polymer, 2014, 55, 1920-1930.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032386114001682
2014-04-03
3rd,April, 2014
Dr. Hiroshi Yabu (Tohoku University) has published a review paper on phase behaviors of block-copolymers and polymer blends in nanoscale confinement spaces. “Frustrated phases: polymeric self-assemblies in a 3D confinement”
H. Yabu et. al., Soft Matter, 10(17), 2919-2931 (2014)
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2014/sm/c3sm52821a#!divAbstract
2014-04-01
20th,March, 2014
Dr. Hiroshi Yabu (Tohoku University) has published a paper on a novel route to fabricating nanocomposite particles by co-precipitation process in Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. “Spontaneous formation of silica?polymer composite particles by simple co-precipitation process”
H. Yabu et. al., Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 2014, 53, 05FT02-1-05FT02-5.
2014-03-07
3 Mar, 2014. Assis. Prof. Shohei Saito (Nagoya Univ.) received Konica Minolta Imaging Science Award 2014 for his research on “Smart materials for the visualization of stress and viscosity change”.
http://www.konicaminolta.jp/about/csr/contribution/corporation/research/foundation/prize.html
2014-03-07
3.March. 2014
Dr Shigeki Kawai (Uni. Basel) et al. havs published a paper on quantifying the atomic-level mechanics of single long physisorbed molecular chains in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
"Quantifying the atomic-level mechanics of single long physisorbed molecular chains ", S. Kawai, M. Koch, E. Gnecco, A. Sadeghi, R. Pawlak, T. Glatzel, J. Schwarz, S. Goedecker, S. Hecht, A. Baratoff, L. Grill, and E. Meyer, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2014, (on line, early edition)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1319938111
2014-03-03
Associate Prof. Hiroki Oguri (Hokkaido Univ.) has published a commentary for division topics (natural product chemistry & life science division) on Chemistry & Chemical Industry, summarizing a recent research for biogenetically inspired synthesis and skeletal diversification of natural products (Nature Chemistry 2014, 6, 57.).
2014-03-03
A journal, SYNFACT, highlights recent research led by Associate Prof. Hiroki Oguri (Hokkaido Univ.) [Biogenetically inspired synthesis and skeletal diversification of indole alkaloids: Nature Chemistry 2014, 6, 57.]. More importantly, the editorial board [Erick M. Carreira (ETH) et al.] selected this research as“SYNFACT of the month”.
https://www.thieme-connect.com/ejournals/abstract/10.1055/s-0033-1340561
2014-02-13
12 Feb, 2014. Assis. Prof. Shohei Saito (Nagoya Univ.) received RSC 2014 PCCP Prize for his research on “Flexible-Rigid Hybrid π Systems that Show Environment-Dependent Multi-Luminescence for Materials Imaging Technique”.
http://www.chemistry.or.jp/news/information/8-pccp-prize.html
2014-01-24
23 Jan 2014, Assis. Prof. Shohei Saito, Prof. Stephan Irle and Prof. Shigehiro Yamaguchi (Nagoya Univ.) have published a full paper on single-component multi-fluorescent materials in Chemistry ? A European Journal, which is selected as an Inside Cover.
"Hybridization of a Flexible Cyclooctatetraene Core and Rigid Aceneimide Wings for Multiluminescent Flapping π Systems", Chunxue Yuan, Shohei Saito*, Cristopher Camacho, Tim Kowalczyk, Stephan Irle*, and Shigehiro Yamaguchi*, Chem. Eur. J., Early View. DOI: 10.1002/chem.201303955
2014-01-24
28 Nov, 2013. Assis. Prof. Shohei Saito (Nagoya Univ.) received NF Foundation R&D Encouragement Award 2013 for his research on “Visualization of Mechanical Stresses and Viscosity Change by Luminescence of Flexible π-Conjugated Molecules”.
2014-01-10
7 January 2014, Dr. Rie Makiura (Osaka Prefecture University) received the Female Chemist Award from the Chemical Society of Japan for her research on “Creation of Functional Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Nanostructures”. The award ceremony will be held on 28 March 2014 during the 94th annual CSJ meeting in Nagoya.
2013-12-17
The work on "In Situ Aqueous Precision Polymerization in the presence of NaCl for Various Self-Organized Polymers" by Assoc. Prof. Shinji Sugihara (University of Fukui) and coworker was reported in the Nikkei.
2013-12-09
5 Oct, 2013. Assist.
Prof. Yoshiaki Uchida (Osaka Univ.) received SEST Young Investigator Award.
Title: Magnetic properties of paramagnetic organic radical liquid crystals
2013-12-09
Dr. Hiroshi Yabu (Tohoku University) has published a paper on a novel route to fabricating organic-inorganic composite particles in Soft Matter. “Fabrication of Gold Nanoparticle/Polymer Composite Particles with Raspberry, Core-shell and Amorphous Morphologies at Room Temperature via Electrostatic Interactions and Diffusion”
H. Yabu et. al., Soft Matter, 2014, 10(2), 275-280.
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2014/sm/c3sm52077c#!divAbstract
2013-11-20
"Strong anisotropy of momentum-relaxation time induced by intermolecular vibrations of single-crystal organic semiconductors", H. Ishii, N. Kobayashi, K. Hirose, Physical Review B, vol. 88, page 205208 (2013).
http://prb.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v88/i20/e205208
2013-09-13
Assist. Prof. Kenji Higashiguchi (Kyoto Univ.) lectured at Annual Meeting on Photochemistry 2013.
Title：Photoinduced Reversible Morphological Transformation of Diarylethene Supramolecular Assembly
2013-09-11
Assoc. Prof. Shinji Sugihara (Univ. of Fukui) lectured at 62nd Symposium on Macromolecules.
Title: Polymerization Induced Self-Assembly via Metal-Free Living Polymerization
2013-09-06
1st, Sep., 2013
Dr. Hiroshi Yabu (Tohoku University) has published a commentary paper on Mussel’s adhesive molecules in Kagaku to Kogyo. “Adhesive molecules of Mussels and biomimetic molecular technology”
H. Yabu, Kagaku to Kogyo, 2013, 66 (9), 708-709.
http://www.chemistry.or.jp/journal/chemical-industry/vol66-no9.html
2013-09-06
1st, Sep., 2013
Dr. Hiroshi Yabu (Tohoku University) has published a paper on colloidal assemblies comprised of soft and hard particles in Chemistry Letters. “Room-Temperature Formation of SiO2 Particle Arrays Embedded in 1,2-Poly(butadiene) Matrices by Binary Colloidal Assembly and Application for Porous Film Templates”
H. Yabu, Chem. Lett., 2013, 42 (9), 969-971.
http://www.csj.jp/journals/chem-lett/cl-cont/newissue.html
2013-09-05
3 Sep. 2013
Dr. Rie Makiura (Osaka Prefecture University ) have published a paper on sub-micron size molecular sheets in Dalton Transactions.
"Bottom-up assembly of ultrathin sub-micron size metal-organic framework sheets", R. Makiura, O. Konovalov, Dalton Trans. DOI: 10.1039/C3DT51703A.
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2013/dt/c3dt51703a
2013-09-02
2 Sep, 2013. Prof. Yasujiro Murata (Kyoto Univ) gave a special lecture to high school students in the Izumo High School.
2013-08-29
The Japan Society of Applied Physics decided to give a “Young Scientist Oral Presentation Award” to two students (Mr. Masaaki Kanahara and Mr. Yuta Saito), who are working with Dr. Hiroshi Yabu (Tohoku University). The presentation ceremony will be held at next JSAP Autumn meeting.
2013-08-29
A literature which reports magnetic Janus polymer particles published on Journal of Materials Chemistry C (J. Mater. Chem. C, 2013, 1(2), 207-212) has been highlighted on a special web collection named “ Rising Stars and Young Nanoarchitects in Materials Science”.
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/articlecollectionlanding?sercode=tc&themeid=c748115e-e441-4f30-bff2-31c7bfbd4f04&journalname=journal%20of%20materials%20chemistry%20c
2013-08-27
"Interfacial growth of large-area single-layer metal-organic framework nanosheets", R. Makiura, O. Konovalov, Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 2506.
http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130826/srep02506/full/srep02506.html
2013-07-02
2 July 2013
"Distinct Responses to Mechanical Grinding and Hydrostatic Pressure in Luminescent Chromism of Tetrathiazolylthiophene", Kazuhiko Nagura, (*)Shohei Saito, Hitoshi Yusa, Hiroshi Yamawaki, Hiroshi Fujihisa, Hiroyasu Sato, Yuichi Shimoikeda, (*)Shigehiro Yamaguchi, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135, 10322-10325.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja4055228
2013-06-24
7 June 2013
Prof. Yasujiro Murata (Kyoto Univ) has published a paper on open-cage fullerenes in Organic Letters.
"Expansion of Orifices of Open C60 Derivatives and Formation of an Open C59S Derivative by Reaction with Sulfur", T. Futagoishi, M. Murata, A. Wakamiya, T. Sasamori, Y. Murata, Org. Lett., 2013, 15, 2750.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ol401083c
2013-06-17
  1. 11, Jun. 2013
    Dr. Hiroshi Yabu (Tohoku University) has published a paper on biomimetic amphiphilic copolymers and dispersion of nanoparticles in Chemical Communications. “Dispersion of Al2O3 nanoparticles stabilized with mussel-inspired amphiphilic copolymers in organic solvents and formation of hierarchical porous films by the breath figure technique”, Y. Saito, M. Shimomura, H. Yabu, Chem. Commun., 2013, 49(54), 6081.
    http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2013/cc/c3cc42826e
  2. 28, May, 2013
    Dr. Hiroshi Yabu (Tohoku University) has published a paper on rapid annealing technique to develop phase-separated structures of block-copolymers in Macromolecules.
    “Reorientation of Microphase-Separated Structures in Water-Suspended Block Copolymer Nanoparticles through Microwave Annealing ”, Y. Saito, M. Shimomura, H. Yabu, Macromolecules, 2013, 46(10), 4064.
    http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ma400620v
  3. 24, Apr., 2013
    Dr. Hiroshi Yabu (Tohoku University) has published a paper on preparation of magnetic Janus particles and rotational motion under magnetic fields in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
    “Polymer Janus Particles Containing Block-Copolymer Stabilized Magnetic Nanoparticles”, H. Yabu, M. Kanahara, M. Shimomura, T. Arita, K. Harano, E. Nakamura, T. Higuchi, H. Jinnai, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2013, 5 (8), 3262.
    http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/am4003149
  4. 25, Apr., 2013
    Dr. Hiroshi Yabu (Tohoku University) has published a paper on synthesis of biomimetic amphiphilic copolymers and preparation of highly adhesive porous materials on Macromolecular Rapid Communications.
    “Fabrication of Mussel-Inspired Highly Adhesive Honeycomb Films Containing Catechol Groups and Their Applications for Substrate-Independent Porous Templates”, Y. Saito, T. Kawano, M. Shimomura, H. Yabu, Macromol. Rap. Commun., 2013, 34 (8), 630.
    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/marc.201200839/abstract
  5. 29, Jan., 2013
    Dr. Hiroshi Yabu (Tohoku University) has published a paper on a bottom-up approach for nanoring preparation in Langmuir.
    “Bottom-Up Approach to Creating Three-Dimensional Nanoring Arrays Composed of Au Nanoparticles”, H. Yabu, Langmuir, 2013, 29 (4), 1005.
    http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/la305028t
  6. 28, Feb., 2013
    Dr. Hiroshi Yabu (Tohoku University) has published a paper on a novel thermal nanoimprint lithography technique with using biomimetic amphiphilic copolymers in Journal of Materials Chemistry C.
    “Thermal nanoimprint lithography of polymer films on non-adhesive substrates by using mussel-inspired adhesive polymer layers”, H. Yabu, Y. Saito, M. Shimomura, Y. Matsuo, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2013, 1 (8), 1558.
    http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2013/tc/c3tc00882g
  7. 14, Jan., 2013
    Dr. Hiroshi Yabu (Tohoku University) has published a paper on preparation of magnetic Janus polymer particles in Journal of Materials Chemistry C.
    “Localization of polymer-grafted maghemite nanoparticles in a hemisphere of Janus polymer particles prepared by a self-organized precipitation (SORP) method”, T. Arita, M. Kanahara, K. Motoyoshi, K. Koike, T. Higuchi, H. Yabu, , J. Mater. Chem. C, 2013, 1 (2), 207.
    http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2013/tc/c2tc00350c
    http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2013/tc/c2tc90005j
2013-06-16
30 May 2013
Assis. Prof. Shohei Saito (Nagoya Univ.), Stephan Irle (Nagoya Univ. WPI-ITbM), and Shigehiro Yamaguchi (Nagoya Univ. WPI-ITbM) have published a paper on RGB luminescence from single organic fluorophore in Journal of the American Chemical Society, which has been highlighted in Chemical & Engineering News. “A π-Conjugated System with Flexibility and Rigidity That Shows Environment-Dependent RGB Luminescence”, Chunxue Yuan, (*)Shohei Saito, Cristopher Camacho, (*)Stephan Irle, Ichiro Hisaki, (*)Shigehiro Yamaguchi, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Article ASAP, DOI: 10.1021/ja404198h.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja404198h
2013-06-06
The Japan Society of Applied Physics decided to give a “Young Scientist Oral Presentation Award” to two students (Mr. Masaaki Kanahara and Mr. Yuta Saito), who are working with Dr. Hiroshi Yabu (Tohoku University). The presentation ceremony will be held at next JSAP Autumn meeting.
http://www.jsap.or.jp/activities/award/lecture/dai34kai.html
2013-03-14
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