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2022

» 2022-10-01

Six new members have joined our lab.
Mr.Tianshu LIU, Mr.Peng WANG, Ms.Mengli TIAN, Ms.Mengxuan ZHANG, Ms.Hanzhang ZHOU and Ms.Tomoko YAGINUMA have joined our lab.

» 2022-09-02

Ms. Hiromi Sayama (M1) awarded "The Poster Award" on 59th Tanso Summer Seminer.

» 2022-08-23

Mr. Koki Chida (D1) awarded "Graduate Student Research Award" by The Japan Society on Adsorption.

» 2022-07-11

Mr. Minghao Liu (M2) awarded "The Best Presentation Award" on 24th Advanced Research Presentation .

» 2022-06-20

A new member has joined our lab.
Mr.Alex Gal Aziz has joined our lab.

» 2022-06-16

It was selected for the cover art of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces Vol.14, Issue.23.

Please refer to here our papers in this ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

» 2022-05-10

A new member has joined our lab.
Mr.Nikolay Kosinov has joined our lab.

» 2022-05-01

A new member has joined our lab.
Mr.Tetsuji Itoh has joined our lab.

» 2022-04-01

Six new members have joined our lab.
Mr.Mizuuchi, Mr.Inoue, Mr.Tosaki, Ms.Tojo(Yoshida), Mr.Shinozuka and Mr.Shimizu have joined our lab.

» 2022-04-01

Our members have gone on to higher education.
Mr. Chida entered the Doctoral Program.
Ms.Sayama, Mr.Wakabayashi, Mr.Shen and Mr.Xia entered the Master's Program.

» 2022-03-22

A new member has joined our lab.
Ms.Beatriz from Spain has joined our lab.

» 2022-03-25

Mr. Wakabayashi awarded "Tohoku University President's Award".

» 2022-03-16

It was selected for the inside front cover article of Chemical Communications Vol.58, Issue.22.

Please refer to here our papers in this Chemical Communications.

» 2022-03-10

It was selected for Back Cover Article of Nanoscale Vol.14, Issue.10.

Please refer to here our papers in this Nanoscale.

» 2022-02-14

A paper published in Journal of Materials Chemistry A has been selected for "A Lunar New Year collection 2022".

A Lunar New Year collection 2022: Here
Paper: Here

» 2022-01-24

Selected for the Top20 of ILS(Innovation leaders summit)2022.

Deatils: Here

» 2022-01-20

Asst. prof. Yoshii and Mr.Nishikawa Awarded "Best Poster Award".

Assistant professor Yoshii and Mr.Nishikawa(M1) awarded "Best Poster Award" of AtomDeC 1st International Symposium.
[Best Poster Award]
Title:Ordered carbonaceous frameworks: A new class of metal/carbon materials based on atomic design
Presenter:Takeharu Yoshii*, Koki Chida, Hirotomo Nishihara, Fumito Tani

Title:TPD:A new analytical method for N-containing carbons
Presenter:Ginga Nishikawa*, Takeharu Yoshii, Hirotomo Nishihara

» 2022-01-05

Hold "AtomDeC 1st International Symposium" supported by JST SICORP.

Kick-off symposium of “Atomic Design of Carbon-Based Materials for New Normal Society”
Date : January.18-19,2022
Chairman : Prof.Nishihara
Details : Here

2021

» 2021-12-3

Mr.chida(M2) and Mr.Yamabe(M2) awarded "student excellent presantaion award" on 48th Annual Meeting of the carbon society of Japan.

» 2021-11-16

Ms.Hongyu Liu was selected for Advanced Graduate School Pioneering Research Support Project for PhD Students .

» 2021-11-12

Mr.Chida was selected for JSPS Research fellowship for young scientists.

» 2021-10-21

Prof.Nishihara was selected to the NEDO Prize on Tohoku University BIP business plan judging committee.

» 2021-10-11

Prof.Nishihara was selected to the Strategic International Collaborative Research Program (SICORP) by JST.

Project title : Atomic Design of Carbon-Based Materials for New Normal Society (AtomDeC)
It was opened the website about " AtomDec".
[Related information]
JST Press Release#1527

» 2021-10-01

Three new members have joined our lab.
Mr.Rikuto Kaku, Mr.Zhaohan Shen and Mr.Tian Xia have joined our lab.

» 2021-09-24

Prof. Nishihara won the grand award as well as the Real Tech Fund award at the Deep-Tech Grand Prix 2021

Prof. Hirotomo Nishihara, AIMR Principal Investigator, won the grand award as well as the Real Tech Fund award at the Deep-Tech Grand Prix 2021 held on September 11, 2021.
The Deep-Tech Grand Prix is a business plan contest hosted by Leave a Nest Co., Ltd. with the aim of discovering and nurturing the technology seeds in the Real-Tech fields such as Monodzukuri (manufacturing), robotics, mobility, IoT, AI, materials and energy.
[Award-winning theme]
Graphene mesosponge: A new carbon material for opening new avenues for future

[Related information]
Tohoku University AIMR
Tohoku University IMRAM

» 2021-06-30

The paper co-authored with Prof. Inagi of Tokyo Institute of Technology was selected for the cover picture of Chemical Communications Vol.57, Issue.52.

Please refer to here our papers in this Journal of Materials Chemistry A.

» 2021-06-30

It was selected for the inside front cover of Journal of Materials Chemistry A Vol.9, Issue.25.

Please refer to here our papers in this Journal of Materials Chemistry A.

» 2021-06-18

It was selected for the back cover of Chemical Communications Vol. 57, Issue.49.

Please refer to here our papers in this Chemical Communication.

» 2021-05-20

Prof. Nishihara awarded the Real Tech Fund Prize.

» 2021-04-14

Two new members have joined our lab.

Two undergraduate students, Ms. Sayama and Mr. Wakabayashi have joined our lab.

» 2021-04-01

Mr.Chida was selected for WISE Program.

Mr. Chida, Nishihara Lab. Master student, was selected for WISE Program. The WISE Program for Sustainability in the Dynamic Earth is an integrated Master’s and Doctoral Degree Program that intends to explain the mechanisms by which disasters occur and improve techniques for predicting them in the context of various earth science phenomena of the dynamic earth, as well as to develop “knowledge professionals” who understand people and society and are equipped with the practical skills to deal preemptively with a variety of risks. Details "WISE Program website"

» 2021-04-01

A new member has joined our lab.
Mr. Masashi Ito, Visiting professor has joined our lab.

» 2021-04-01

Mr. Kanamaru and Mr. Nishikawa entered the Master's Program.

Mr. Kanamaru and Mr. Nishikawa entered the Master's Program. They will continue to research hard in Nishihara Lab.

» 2021-04-01

Ms. Hongyu Liu and Mr. Minghao Liu became regular students.

Ms. Hongyu Liu entered the Doctor's Program, and Mr. Minghao Liu entered the Master's Program. They will continue to research hard in Nishihara Lab.

» 2021-03-31

Mr. Sunahiro returned to his position in Tokai Carbon.
Mr. Sunahiro who was on loan since May 2019 returned to his position in Tokai Carbon.

» 2021-03-09

Prof. Nishihara bestowed the title of Tohoku University Distinguished Researcher.

Prof. Hirotomo Nishihara, AIMR Principal Investigator, was bestowed the title of Tohoku University Distinguished Researcher.The Tohoku University Distinguished Researcher System is a newly established program that supports young faculty members who have made outstanding achievements in their field of expertise. Details "AIMR website"

» 2021-03-03

Prof. Nishihara received the 17th JSPS Prize medal.

» 2021-03-03

Update the "Facilities" page.

Introduce frequently used common facilities in our lab. Detail "Facilities"

» 2021-01-18

Update the "Facilities" page.

Introduce our facilities in our lab. Detail "Facilities"

» 2021-01-01

A new member have joined our lab.

An international student, Hongyu Liu (Reserch student) has joined our lab.

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2020

» 2020-12-17

Prof. Nishihara awarded the 17th JSPS Prize.

The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) announced the recipients of the 17th (FY2020) JSPS Prize. Prof. Hirotomo Nishihara was awarded the prize in recognition of his outstanding research achievements.
This prize was established in FY2004 in order to raise the level of scientific research in Japan to the world’s highest standard by recognizing and supporting young researchers with rich creativity and superlative research ability at an early stage in their careers. It aims to sustain the zeal of such researchers while offering them support in advancing their work
Title : Synthesis of Graphene Sponges and Development of Their New Functions JSPS Prize

» 2020-12-15

Selected for the 2020 edition of the Asian Scientist 100 list

Prof. Hirotomo Nishihara has been selected for the 2020 edition of the Asian Scientist 100 list by the Asian Scientist Magazine.
Every year since 2016, Asian Scientist Magazine compiles a list of Asia’s most outstanding researchers. To be acknowledged on the list, honorees must have won a national or international prize in the past year, or have been recognized for their significant achievements in scientific research or leadership.
Prof. Nishihara received the 2019 Gottfried Wagener Prize for Materials and Energy for developing advanced template techniques to make functional carbon materials. He was honored for his achievement in the award-winning technique.
The Asian Scientist 100

» 2020-12-01

Polymer・Hybrid Materials Research Center (PHyM) helds a lecture.

Host：Polymer・Hybrid Materials Research Center (PHyM)
Date ： Dec. 14th, 2020. Mon. 15:00 - 16:00 (JST)
Method : Zoom. Pre-registration system. Please contact the following contact. Free of charge
[Contents]
Speaker：Prof. Kazuyuki, Takai (HOSEI University)
Title：Chemical Environment effects on Graphene and related 2D-Materials
Overview :Electronic and Structural properties of Graphene as an actual carbon material rather than an ideal model for two dimensional systems with novel Dirac Fermion is significantly influenced by the presence of edges, defects and impurities, and so on. Especially, surrounding guest chemical species play an important role for two dimensional host materials like graphene, where the host-guest interactions though the surface and the interface between supporting substrate is classified into three types according to the energy scale of interactions; chemical modification by covalent bonding, charge transfer by electrostatic interaction, and mechanical strain by physisorption. In this talk, I would like to focus mainly on the charge transfer interactions caused by guest chemical species facing with graphene as well as other related “2D-Materials”. Interestingly, such molecular proximity effects for adsorbed molecules on the surface of graphene show significant dependence on EF expe rimentally tuned by gate voltage, where hole and electron doping by oxygen and hydrazine molecules, respectively, exhibit opposite dependence on EF. This is explained by a mechanism by electrochemical process involving co-existing water molecule for charge transfer phenomena by molecular adsorption on graphene.
[Contact information]
Tohoku University, IMRAM Prof. Hirotomo Nishihara
E-mail: hirotomo.nishihara.b1*tohoku.ac.jp (Replace * with @)

» 2020-11-01

Two new members have joined our lab.
Assistant prof. Zhengze Pan and specially appointed assistant prof. Wei Yu have joined our lab.

» 2020-10-15

Prof. Nishihara won the 2020 JACI Step-up Award.

Prof. Hirotomo Nishihara received the 2020 Step-up Award of Japan Association for Chemical Innovation (JACI). This award recognizes the researchers who won the JACI Young Researcher Award and encourages sharing of research achievements with industry by continually providing grants for their research.
Japan Association of Chemical Innovation (JACI)

» 2020-10-06

Mr. Kanamaru and Mr. Nishikawa, who are 4th year undergraduate students, will be assigned to our lab next year too.

» 2020-10-01

Two new members have joined our lab.
Two international students, Kritin Pirabul (Ph.D. student) and Minghao Liu (Reserch student) have joined our lab.

» 2020-08-19

Received "Materials and Devices Joint Reserch Award" in Japan.

» 2020-04-01

Our Laboratory has been launched.

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