Oral presentation was given at the 3rd Materials Research Meeting (MRM2023) The 24th IUMRS-International Conference in Asia (IUMRS-ICA2023)(Kyoto International Conference Center, Kyoto) " Depolymerization of polyetheretherketone to form monomer units " Yasunori Minami, Nao Matsuyama, Yumiko Nakajima(AIST)
At the Asian Polyolefin Workshop 2023 (APO2023),(Kinsho Hall, Todai-Ji, Nara, Japan) ,
Research Director Prof. Kyoko Nozaki gave a lecture titled " Polyolefins with toughness and beyond " .
AT the International Symposium on Catalysis and Fine Chemicals (C&FC2023) (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan) , Research Director Prof. Kyoko Nozaki gave a lecture titled " Late Transitionmetal Catalysts for Polymer Synthesis and Degradation " .
AIST Group related articles (reviews, commentaries and contributions) 1) Chemistry and Chemical Industry, 2023, 76 (12), 893. "Monomer regeneration through chemical recycling of stable plastic resources " 2) JETI, 2023, 71 (11) 91-94 " A new material combining two types of biomass-derived plastics - a transparent film material that increases in strength the more it is stretched - towards a more sustainable building material with the aim of achieving 100%. " Shinji Tanaka(田中慎二) 3) Convertech 2023, 9 " National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology and others: Unique recent achievements in academia, including the degradation of super engineering plastics and the exclusive separation of CO2 " 4) Functional Materials 2023, 43 (10) 64-70 " Synthesis and characterisation of biopolyester-biopolyamide multiblock copolymers " Shinji Tanaka(田中慎二), Hideaki Ono, Masaru Yoshida 5) WEB Journal 2023 29 (7) 2-6 " Development of new materials through multi-block copolymerisation of two bioplastics". Shinji Tanaka(田中慎二), Hideaki Ono , Masaru Yoshida
Oral presentation was given at the 32nd Polymer Materials Forum(Nagoya Congress Center, Aichi, Japan) "Development of composite materials through multi-block copolymerisation of biopolyester PBS and biopolyamide PA4 " Hideaki Ono, Yasutaka Kawai, Seisuke Ata, Kazuma Kurihara, Shinji Tanaka(田中慎二), Masaru Yoshida(AIST)
At the 6th GLowing Polymer Symposium in KANTO, Research Director Prof. Kyoko Nozaki gave a lecture titled " Polymer Synthesis and Degradation for Sustainability ".
Oral presentation was given at the 15th International Kyoto Conference on New Aspects of Organic Chemistry (IKCOC-15)(Rihga Royal Hotel, Kyoto) . " Chemoselectivity Change in Catalytic Hydrogenolysis: Ureas to Formamides and Amines " Takanori Iwasaki, Kazuki Tsuge, Naoki Naito, Kyoko Nozaki
Oral presentation was given the International Symposium on Feedstock Recycling of Polymeric Materials 2023 (ISFR 2023)(Sendai, Miyagi) " Depolymerization of Oxyphenylene-Based Super Engineering Plastics by Hydroxylation-Depolymerization " Y. Minami, Y. Inagaki, T. Tsuyuki, K. Sato, Y. Nakajima (AIST)
At The 2023 Japan-US Seminar on Polymer Chemistry: Meeting the Challenges of a Sustainable Society with Macromolecules ( Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), Okinawa, Japan ) gave a lecture titled " Late Transition Metal Catalysts for Polymer Synthesis and Degradation".
Oral presentation was given at the 9th Asia/Pacific Congress on Catalysis (APCAT-9), (Hangzhou, China) . " Multifunctional WO3-ZrO2-Supported Platinum Catalyst for Remarkably Efficient Hydrogenolysis of Esters to Alkanes " Xiongjie Jin
Poster Presentation was given at the 9th Asia/Pacific Congress on Catalysis (APCAT-9), (Hangzhou, China) . " Hydrogen-Induced Formation of Surface Acid Sites on Pt/Al(PO3)3 Enables Remarkably Efficient Hydrogenolysis of C−O Bonds in Alcohols and Ethers " Kento Oshida, Kang Yuan, Yukari Yamazaki, Rio Tsukimura, Xiongjie Jin, Kyopko Nozaki
At The 5th OKU-WuXi AppTec Symposium of Organic Chemistry ( College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China ), Research Director Prof. Kyoko Nozaki gave a lecture titled " Catalyst Development toward Effective Use of Unutilized Carbon Resourcess".
Oral presentation was given at the 13th CSJ Chemistry Festa 2023 (TOWER HALL FUNABORI, Tokyo). " Innovative Recycling Technologies in Super Engineering Plastics" Yasunori Minami
At The Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC) Chinese Academy of Sciences Lecture( Shanghai, China ), Research Director Prof. Kyoko Nozaki gave a lecture titled " Late Transition Metal Catalysts for Polymer Synthesis and Degradation".
At The Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC) Chinese Academy of Sciences Lecture( Shanghai, China ), Research Director Prof. Kyoko Nozaki gave a lecture titled " Late Transition Metal Catalysts for Polymer Synthesis and Degradation".
Oral presentation was given at the XXIII International Conference on Organic Synthesis (23-ICOS), (Shanghai, China). " Nickel-Catalyzed C(sp3)−O Hydrogenolysis via a Remote Concerted Oxidative Addition and its Application to Degradation of a Bisphenol A-Based Epoxy Resin " Yumeng Liao, Kohei Takahashi, Kyoko Nozaki
At The October Regional Lecture Meeting of Tokai Branch of the Japan Rubber Association, Group Leader Dr. Yasunori Minami(AIST) gave a lecture titled " Depolymerization of Super Engineering Plastics - Toward Chemical Recycling of Stable Plastics - ".
Oral presentation was given at the 72nd Symposium on Macromolecules ( Kagawa University, Japan ). " Depolymerization of super engineering plastic PEEK by sulfur nucleophiles to form monomer-type products" Yasunori MINAMI, Nao MATSUYAMA, Yumiko NAKAJIMA " Synthesis and characterization of multiblock copolymers composed of polyester (PBS) and polyamide (PA4) " Ono Hideaki, Kawai Yasutaka, Ata Seisuke, Minamikawa Hiroyuki, Kurihara Kazuma, Tanaka Shinji, Yoshida Masaru
Research Director Kyoko Nozaki gave a lecture to junior high school students at Ikeda Junior High School attached to Osaka Kyoiku University, on the ERATO Project.
Poster Presentation was given at the NanoPol2023 ( International University Centre for Research, Orléans, France ). " Relation between Crystalline Morphology and Mechanical Properties of Random Carboxyl Substituted Polyethylene "Jian Zhou, Shintaro Nakagawa, Kohei Takahashi, Kyoko Nozaki, Naoko Yoshie
At The Princeton University Seminar( Princeton University, USA ), Research Director Prof. Kyoko Nozaki gave a lecture titled " Catalytic Cleavage of C(sp3)-O bonds toward Deconstruction of Thermosetting Resins " .
At The Cornell University Aggarwal Lecturer(2023-2024)( Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Cornell University, N.Y., USA ), Research Director Prof. Kyoko Nozaki gave a lecture titled " Catalyst Development toward Effective Use of Unutilized Carbon Resources " .
At The Cornell University Aggarwal Lecturer(2023-2024)( Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Cornell University, N.Y., USA ), Research Director Prof. Kyoko Nozaki gave a lecture titled " A 30-year Journey of Stereocontrol in Polymer Synthesis: Tacticity Control in Copolymers of Propylene " .
Oral presentation was given at the ACS FALL 2023 ( Moscone Center, San Francisco, USA ). " Catalytic Cleavage of C(sp3)-O bonds toward Deconstruction of Thermosetting Resins" Kyoko Nozaki, Yumeng Liao, Yanze Huang, Kohei Takahashi, Xiongjie Jin
Oral presentation was given at The 10th Symposium of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan Green Chemistry Symposium The 24th Symposium on the Chemistry of Plastic Recycling Joint Research and Presentation. " Sulfur Nucleophile-initiated Depolymerization of Super Engineering Plastic PEEK" Yasunori Minami, Nao Matsuyama, Yumiko Nakashima (AIST)
Mr. Yumeng Liao, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, received Gold Award for poster presentation at The OMCOS 21( Vancouver, Canada ).
Poster Presentation was given at The OMCOS 21( Vancouver, Canada )," Nickel-Catalyzed Selective Cleavage of C(sp3)–O Bond of 1-Aryloxy-3-Amino-2-Propanols: A Study Towards Epoxy Resin Degradation" Yumeng Liao, Kohei Takahashi, Kyoko Nozaki
At The 13th SPSJ International Polymer Conference (IPC 2023) ( SAPPORO CONVENTION CENTER ) , Research Director Prof. Kyoko Nozaki gave a lecture titled " Catalyst for Polymer Synthesis and Polymer Degradation" .
At the Organometallic Chemistry Gordon Research Conference New Frontiers in Synthesis, Catalysis and Materials Chemistry ( Salve Regina University, United States ) , Research Director Prof. Kyoko Nozaki gave a lecture titled " Neighboring-Group Effect in Homogeneous Catalysis: Non-innocence of Supporting Ligands and Counter Ions".
At The 16th International conference on materials chemistry ( MC16 )( University College Dublin, Ireland ) , Research Director Prof. Kyoko Nozaki gave a lecture titled " Polymer Synthesis and Degradation for Sustainability".
Oral presentation was given at The 12th JACI/GSC Symposium. " Sulfur nucleophilic depolymerization of polyetheretherketone" Yasunori Minami, Nao Matsuyama, Yumiko Nakashima (AIST)
At The Seventh International Symposium Frontiers in Polymer Science ( The Swedish Exhibition and Congress Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden ) , Research Director Kyoko Nozaki gave a keynote lecture titled "Catalysts for synthesis and degradation of tough polymers".
At The University of Bergen ( Bergen, Norway) , Research Director Kyoko Nozaki gave a lecture titled "Catalytic Hydrogenolysis of C–O and C–N Bonds Toward the Effective Use of Unutilized Carbon Resources".
Mr.Yuki Shibutani, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, received the Student Presentation Award at the 103rd Annual Meeting of the Chemical Society of Japan.
Dr. Minami, Senior Researcher of Catalytic Chemistry Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), gave a lecture (on-line) on "Development of Catalytic Reactions for Chemical Recycling of Plastics" at the CMC Research Webinar.
Poster presentation was given at the 15th CaRLa Winter School 2023 German-American Institute (Heidelberg, Germany), "Heterolytic oxidative addition of group 13/14 element–hydrogen bonds by cyclopentadienone iridium complexes" Takuya Higashi, Shuhei Kusumoto, Kyoko Nozaki (The University of Tokyo)