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・Congratulations ! Toshiya Nakamura (a master student) will be awarded "The 6th Young Scientist Poster Award" from The Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Graphene Research Society on "Visible fluorescence from ultrathin single-wall carbon nanotubes of chiral index (4,3)".(April 10th, 2012)

・Six undergraduate (senior) students, Eri INUKAI, Mitsuhiro OKADA, Yu KOBAYASHI, Humiya Shimizu, Terunobu NAKANISHI and Hiroyuki NIWA, have just joined in the Shinohara Research Lab on March 29th, 2012.
Welcome to the Lab ! (April 3rd, 2012)

・ Hongen Lim (a master student) will be awarded CSJ (Chemical Society of Japan) Tokai Branch Chair Award for his master study on "Synthesis and Characterization of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes via Chemical Vapor Deposition and Molecular Coalescence Method". This has been awarded to a master student who obtains the best qualification in the Departmental master thesis presentations. Congratulations ! (February 17th, 2012).

・ A new postdoc, Dr.Zhiyong Wang, joined our research team on January 30th. He is a graduate of Peking University and was a former postdoc of Professor Zujin Shi's group at Peking University. Welcome to our lab ! (February 7th, 2012).

・Miho Fujihara (a master student) won Teijin Encouragement Award for her study on "A New Synthesis of Graphene Nanoribbons using Carbon Nanotube Nanospace" at the Teijin 21st Century Forum in Tokyo. Congratulations ! (February 2nd, 2012)

・ Bryon Larson, a Ph.D candidate from Professors Olga Boltalina and Steve Strauss's lab at Colorado State University, is visiting our lab for a collaboration on metallofullerenes until November 30th, 2011. Welcome to our lab ! (October 26th, 2011).

・ Wang Qing, from Beijing has just joined in our research team as a Ph.D student from October 1st, 2011. She is a Chinese government-supported gradstudent. Welcome to our lab ! (October 8th, 2011)

・ Boanerges Thendie Surya Saputra from Indonesia has just joined in our research team as a master student from October 1st, 2011. He is a Japanese Government (MEXT)-supported G30 (Grobal-30 project) gradstudent. Welcome to our lab ! (October 8th, 2011)

・Congratulations ! Daeheon CHOI (a master student) has been awarded "Best Poster Award" in An International Conference on Recent Progress in Graphene Research 2011 which was held in Seoul, Korea, on October 3-6, 2011.
His award -winning presentation was on "Facile Fabrication of Fully Flattened Carbon Nanotubes: Thin-Layer Graphene Analog". (October 7th, 2011)

・Congratulations ! Hong En LIM (a master student) will be awarded "The 5th Young Scientist Poster Award" from The Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Graphene Research Society on "Growth of Carbon Nanotube from One-Dimensional Coalescence of Aromatic Compounds".
The award ceremony will be held during The 42nd Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Graphene General Symposium (University of Tokyo, March 6-8th, 2012).　(October 7th, 2011)

・ Congratulations ! Shin-ichi ITO (a master student) has been awarded "Poster Award" in The 61st Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry Symposium on "Synthesis and Characterization of AgI Nanowires Encapsulated in Carbon Nanotubes" (Okayama University, September 17-19, 2011 ). (October 7th, 2011)

・Congratulations ! Shin-ichi ITO (a master student) has been awarded "The 4th Young Scientist Poster Award" from The Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Graphene Research Society on "Synthesis and Characterization of AgI Nanowires Encapsulated in Carbon Nanotubes".
The award ceremony was held during The 41st Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Graphene General Symposium (Tokyo Metoropolitan University, September 6th, 2011)　(September 9th, 2011)

・A short-term internship student, Mr. Kevin She from Taiwan, has just join our research team from July 26th, 2011. Welcome to our lab ! Kevin is from National Taiwan University (Department of Chemistry, Professor Che-Chen Chang's lab). (July 27th, 2011).

・Professor Nori Shinohara has been awarded the 64th Chunichi Cultural Award on his 20 years studies on novel nanocarbon materials.(May 31st, 2011)

・The farewell party of Ms. Shiho INOUE, the secretary of The Fullerenes and Nanotubes Research Society, has been held on May 27th.
Thank you very very much for Ms. Inoue's great contribution to the development of the Research Society during the past 8 years ! (May 28th, 2011).

・Congratulations ! Dr.Ryo Kitaura, an Associate Professor, won The 2011 Young Scientist Award of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology for his achievement on "The Study and Development of Novel Nano-Marerials in Nanospace".
The award certificate and medal are here. (May 10th, 2011)

・Congratulations ! Shin-ichi ITO (a master student) will be awarded "The 4th Young Scientist Poster Award" from the Fullerenes and Nanotubes Research Society on "Synthesis and Characterization of AgI Nanowires Encapsulated in Carbon Nanotubes".
The award ceremony will be held during The 41st Fullerenes Nanotubes General Symposium (Tokyo Metoropolitan University, September 5-7th, 2011)　(April 15th, 2011)

・Congratulations ! Dr.Yasumitsu Miyata (Assistant Professor) won "The 29th Young Scientist Oral Presentation Award" of The Japan Society for Applied Physics for his achievement on "The Extraction of Inner Nanotubes from Double-Wall Carbon Nanotubes in Solution". The Award certificate and medal are here. (April 4th, 2011)

・Six undergraduate (senior) students, Yuma SUGISAKI, Shoji SUZUKI, Shihono NARUSE, Shoko NODA, Eriko MAEDA and Kenshi MIYAURA, have just joined in the Shinohara Research Lab on March 31st, 2011.
Welcome to the Lab ! (April 1st, 2011)

・Congratulations ! Dr.Yasumitsu Miyata (Assistant Professor) won "The 7th Iijima Award" of The Fullerenes and Nanotubes Research Society for his achievement on "Extraction of ultra-thin inner shells from double-wall carbon nanotubes". The award ceremony was held on March 9th,2011 during The 40th Commemorative Fullerenes and Nanotubes General Symposium in Meijo University, Nagoya. (March 22nd, 2011)

・ Kazunari SHIOZAWA has been awarded "The 3rd Young Scientist Poster Award" from the Fullerenes and Nanotubes Research Society on "Length-sorted semiconducting single-wall carbon nanotubes for high performance thin film transistors"
Congratulations ! (March 22nd, 2011).

・The farewell party for three lab staff members was held yesterday.
Dr.Tetsuo Tomiyama (Assistant Professor) will be retired in this March with his 35 years of scientific career.
Ms.Mika Shibuya , the secretary to Professor Shinohara, has to move to Chiba Prefecture with her husband.
Ms.Taeko Hozawa , a secretary to The Fullerenes-Nanotubes Research Society, will finish her contract period.
For the three members, thank you very much for their wonderful contribution to the Shinohara Lab and to the F/N Research society ! (March 17th ,2011).

・Kazunori OHASHI, a Ph.D candidate, successfully defended his Ph.D thesis on “UHV-STM/STS Studies on the Polymerization of Metallofullerenes and the Band Structures of Metallofullerene Peapods”in his Ph.D defence convened on February 22nd, 2011. Congratulations !

・Daeheon CHOI (a Korean International master student) has won "the Rotary Yoneyama Memorial Foundation Scholarship" for the up-coming fiscal 2011 year. Congratulations !

・Kei-ichi Kamon (a master student) won Teijin Encouragement Award for his study on "Alcohol CVD Synthesis of Graphene by Flash-Cooling" at the Teijin 21st Century Forum in Tokyo. Congratulations !

・Ryo Nakanishi (Ph.D candidate) has won the JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Research Fellowships for Young Scientists for two years under the title of "Selective Synthesis and Analysis of Metal Nanowire-Encapsulating Carbon Nanotubes".
Congratulations!!

Recent Publications

Ultraviolet photoelectron spectra of Er₂@C₈₂(�T),Er₂@C₈₂(�V),Er₂C₂@C₈₂(�T) and Er₂C₂@C₈₂(�V)
Takafumi Miyazaki, Ryohei Sumii, Hisashi Umemoto, Haruya Okimoto, Yasuhiro Ito, Toshiki Sugai, Hisanori Shinohara, Takeyuki Zaima, Hajime Yagi, Shojun Hino
Chem. Phys.397,87(2012)

Rock-Salt-Type Crystal of Thermally Contracted C ₆₀ with Encapsulated Lithium Cation
Shinobu Aoyagi, Yuki Sado, Eiji Nishibori, Hiroshi Sawa, Hiroshi Okada, Hiromi Tobita, Yasuhiko Kasama, Ryo Kitaura, and Hisanori Shinohara
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.51,3377(2012)

Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Sc₃N@C₇₈
Shojun Hino, Masashi Zenki,Takeyuki Zaima, Yusuke Aoki, Sosuke Okita, Tomona Ohta, Hajime Yagi, Takafumi Miyazaki, Ryohei Sumii, Haruya Okimoto, Yasuhiro Ito, and Hisanori Shinohara J. Phys. Chem. C.116,165(2012)

Ultrafast luminescence kinetics of metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes: Possible evidence for excitonic luminescence
Takeshi Koyama, Satoru Shimizu, Takeshi Saito, Yasumitsu Miyata, Hisanori Shinohara and Arao Nakamura
Phys. Rev. B.85,045428 (2012)

Ultrafast energy transfer of one-dimensional excitons between carbon nanotubes: a femtosecond time-resolved luminescence study
Takeshi Koyama, Yasumitsu Miyata, Koji Asaka, Hisanori Shinohara, Yahachi Saito and Arao Nakamura
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys..14,1070 (2012)

Two-Dimensional Coalescence Dynamics of Encapsulated Metallofullerenes in Carbon Nanotubes
Christopher S. Allen, Yasuhiro Ito, Alex W. Robertson, Hisanori Shinohara, and Jamie H. Warner
ACS.NANO.5,10084 (2011)

Diameter and rigidity of multiwalled carbon nanotubes are critical factors in mesothelial injury and carcinogenesis
Hirotaka Nagai , Yasumasa Okazaki , Shan Hwu Chew , Nobuaki Misawa , Yoriko Yamashita , Shinya Akatsuka , Toshikazu Ishihara , Kyoko Yamashita , Yutaka Yoshikawa , Hiroyuki Yasui , Li Jiang , Hiroki Ohara , Takashi Takahashi , Gaku Ichihara , Kostas Kostarelos , Yasumitsu Miyata , Hisanori Shinohara , and Shinya Toyokuni
PNAS.108,E1330 (2011)

Diameter-Dependent Performance of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Thin-Film Transistors
Yuki Asada , Fumiyuki Nihey , Shigekazu Ohmori , Hisanori Shinohara , and Takeshi Saito
Adv. Mater.23,4631 (2011)

Length-Sorted Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes for High-Mobility Thin Film Transistors
Yasumitsu Miyata, Kazunari Shiozawa, Yuki Asada, Yutaka Ohno, Ryo Kitaura, Takashi Mizutani, and Hisanori Shinohara
Nano Res..4,963 (2011)

Preferential synthesis and isolation of (6,5) single-wall nanotubes from one-dimensional C60 coalescence
Jinying Zhang, Yasumitsu Miyata, Ryo Kitaura and Hisanori Shinohara
Nanoscale.3,4190 (2011)

Growth of large-diameter (〜4 nm) single-wall carbon nanotubes in the nanospace of mesoporous material SBA-15
Keita Kobayashi , Ryo Kitaura , Fumihiro Nishimura , Hirofumi Yoshikawa ,Kunio Awaga , Hisanori Shinohara
CARBON.49,5173 (2011)

Transformation of ionic liquid into carbon nanotubes in confined nanospace
Shimou Chen, Hong En Lim, Yasumitsu Miyata, Ryo Kitaura, Yoshio Bando, Dmitri Golberg and Hisanori Shinohara
Chem.Commun.47,10368 (2011)

Purity-enhanced bulk synthesis of thin single-wall carbon nanotubes using iron.copper catalysts
H E Lim, Y Miyata, T Nakayama, S Chen, R Kitaura and H Shinohara
Nanotechnology22,395602 (2011)

Ultrafast Exciton Energy Transfer between Nanoscale Coaxial Cylinders: Intertube Transfer and Luminescence Quenching in Double-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Takeshi Koyama, Yuki Asada, Naoki Hikosaka, Yasumitsu Miyata, Hisanori Shinohara, and Arao Nakamura
ACS.NANO.5,5811 (2011)

Growth of Linear Carbon Chains inside Thin Double-Wall Carbon Nanotubes
C. Zhao, R. Kitaura, H. Hara, S. Irle, and H. Shinohara
J. Phys. Chem. C.115,13166 (2011)

Direct HRTEM Observation of Ultrathin Freestanding Ionic Liquid Film on Carbon Nanotube Grid
Shimou Chen, Keita Kobayashi, Ryo Kitaura, Yasumitsu Miyata, and Hisanori Shinohara
ACS.NANO.5,4902 (2011)

Dielectric screening in polyynes encapsulated inside double-wall carbon nanotubes
L. G. Moura, C. Fantini, A. Righi, C. Zhao, H. Shinohara, and M. A. Pimenta
Phys.Rev.B.83, 245427 (2011)

A Resonant Photoemission Insight to the Electronic Structure of Gd Nanowires Templated in the Hollow Core of SWCNTs
P. Ayala, R. Kitaura, C. Kramberger, H. Shiozawa, N. Imazu, K. Kobayashi, D. J. Mowbray, P. Hoffmann, H. Shinohara, and T. Pichler
Mater. Express.1, 30 (2011)

Exciton Dynamics in Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes
M. W. Graham, J. Chmeliov, Y.-Z. Ma, H. Shinohara, A. A. Green, M. C. Hersam, L. Valkunas, and G. R. Fleming
J. Phys. Chem. B.115, 5201 (2011)

Low voltage electron diffractive imaging of atomic structure in single-wall carbon nanotubes
Osamu Kamimura, Yosuke Maehara, Takashi Dobashi, Keita Kobayashi, Ryo Kitaura, Hisanori Shinohara, Hiroyuki Shioya, and Kazutoshi Gohara
Appl. Phys. Lett.98, 174103 (2011)

Nanohybridization of Polyoxometalate Clusters and Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes: Applications in Molecular Cluster Batteries
Naoya Kawasaki, Heng Wang, Ryo Nakanishi, Shun Hamanaka, Ryo Kitaura, Hisanori Shinohara, Toshihiko Yokoyama, Hirofumi Yoshikawa, and Kunio Awaga
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.50, 3471 (2011)

Irregular Modulation of Density-of-States of Nano-Peapods Encapsulating Gd@C82 Metallofullerenes
Kazunori Ohashi, Naoki Imazu, Ryo Kitaura, and Hisanori Shinohara
J. Phys. Chem. C.115, 3968 (2011)

Templating rare-earth hybridization via ultrahigh vacuum annealing of ErCl₃ nanowires inside carbon nanotubes
Paola Ayala, Ryo Kitaura, Ryo Nakanishi, Hidetsugu Shiozawa, Daisuke Ogawa, Patrick Hoffmann, Hinsanori Shinohara, and Thomas Pichler
Phys.Rev.B.83, 085407 (2011)

Thin-Film Transistors with Length-Sorted DNA-Wrapped Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes
Yuki Asada, Yasumitsu Miyata, Kazunari Shiozawa, Yutaka Ohno, Ryo Kitaura, Takashi Mizutani, and Hisanori Shinohara
J. Phys. Chem. C 115, 270 (2011)

Chemically Induced, Thermally Controlled Peel-Off of the External Walls of Double-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Nikolaos Karousis, Keita Kobayashi, Hisanori Shinohara, and Nikos Tagmatarchis
Small 24, 2826 (2010)

Exfoliation and Chemical Modification Using Microwave Irradiation Affording Highly Functionalized Graphene
Solon P. Economopoulos, Georgios Rotas, Yasumitsu Miyata, Hisanori Shinohara, and Nikos Tagmatarchis
ACS.NANO. 4,7499 (2010).

Ultraviolet photoelectron spectra of mono-metal endohedral fullerene Er@C82 (I)
Takafumi Miyazaki, Ryohei Sumii, Hisashi Umemoto, Haruya Okimoto, Yasuhiro Ito, Toshiki Sugai, Hisanori Shinohara, Shojun Hino
Chem. Phys. 378, 11 (2010).

Scanning tunnelling spectroscopy on the local electronic structure of Gd@C82 peapods
Kazunori Ohashi, Naoki Imazu, Ryo Kitaura, and Hisanori Shinohara
Phys. Stat. Soli.B. 247, 3030 (2010).

Metallofullerenes
H.Shinohara and Y.Saito
Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths Vol.41, Chap.249.
K.A.Gschneidner, Jr., J.-C.G.Bunzli and V.K.Pecharsky Eds. (Elsevier) pp.95-156 (2010).

Bright Luminescence and Exciton Energy Transfer in Polymer-Wrapped Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Bundles
Takeshi Koyama,Yasumitsu Miyata, Yuki Asada, Hisanori Shinohara, Hiromichi Kataura and Arao Nakamura
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 1, 3243 (2010).

Solution-Phase Extraction of Ultrathin Inner Shells from Double-Wall Carbon Nanotubes
Yasumitsu Miyata, Marie Suzuki, Miho Fujihara, Yuki Asada, Ryo Kitaura, and Hisanori Shinohara
ACS.NANO. 4, 5807 (2010).

Molecular recognition of La@C82 endohedral metallofullerene by an isophthaloyl-bridged porphyrin dimer
Georgia Pagona, Solon P. Economopoulos, Takayuki Aono, Yasumitsu Miyata, Hisanori Shinohara ,Nikos Tagmatarchis
Tetrahedron Letters 114, 14704 (2010).

Molecular Orientation of Individual Lu@C₈₂ Molecules Demonstrated by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
Masachika Iwamoto et al.,
J. Phys. Chem. C 51, 5896 (2010).

Photoreactivity Preservation of AgBr Nanowires in Confined Nanospaces
Keita Kobayashi, Kazu Suenaga, Takeshi Saito, Hisanori Shinohara, and Sumio Iijima
Adv. Mater. 22, 3156 (2010).

Synthesis and UHV-STM observation of the T_d-symmetric Lu metallofullerene: Lu₂@C₇₆(T_d)
Hisashi Umemoto, Kazunori Ohashi, Takashi Inoue, Nobuyuki Fukui, Toshiki Sugai and Hisanori Shinohara
Chem. Commun.46, 5653 (2010).

Electron spin coherence in metallofullerenes: Y, Sc, and La@C₈₂
Richard M. Brown,, Yasuhiro Ito, Jamie H. Warner, Arzhang Ardavan, Hisanori Shinohara, G. Andrew D. Briggs,and John J. L. Morton
Phys.Rev.B.82,033410 (2010).

High-Performance Thin-Film Transistors with DNA-Assisted Solution Processing of Isolated Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Yuki Asada, Yasumitsu Miyata, Yutaka Ohno, Ryo Kitaura, Toshiki Sugai, Takashi Mizutani, and Hisanori Shinohara
Adv. Mater.22, 2698 (2010).

A simple alcohol-chemical vapor deposition synthesis of single-layer graphenes using flash cooling
Yasumitsu Miyata, Keiichi Kamon, Kazunori Ohashi, Ryo Kitaura, Masamichi Yoshimura, and Hisanori Shinohara
Appl. Phys. Lett.96, 263105 (2010).

A layered ionic crystal of polar Li@C₆₀ superatoms
Shinobu Aoyagi et al.,
Nature.Chem.2, 678-683 (2010).

Synthesis of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Through Micropores of Surface-Treated Zeolites by Catalyst-Supported Chemical Vapor Deposition
Keita Kobayashi, Ryo Kitaura, and Hisanori Shinohara
J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol.10, 6 (2010).

Imidazolium modified carbon nanohorns: switchable solubility and stabilization of metal nanoparticles
Nikolaos Karousis, Toshinari Ichihashi, Shimou Chen, Hisanori Shinohara, Masako Yudasaka, Sumio Iijima and Nikos Tagmatarchis
J. Mater. Chem. 20, 2959 (2010).

Regrowth of Carbon Nanotubes Array on Al Layer Coated Substrate
Chien-Chao Chiu, Masamichi Yoshimura, Kazuyuki Ueda, Yuya Kamizono, Hisanori Shinohara, Yutaka Ohira, and Takayoshi Tanji
J.Nanomater. vol. 2010, Article ID 906204 (2010).

Exchange interactions of spin-active metallofullerenes in solid-state carbon networks
Mujtaba Zaka, Jamie H. Warner, Yasuhiro Ito, John J. L. Morton, Mark H. Rummeli, Thomas Pichler, Arzhang Ardavan, Hisanori Shinohara, and G. Andrew D. Briggs
Phys.Rev.B. 81, 075424 (2010)

Interplay of Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids and superconductive phase in carbon nanotubes
J. Haruyama, J. Gonzalez, E. Perfetto, E. Einarson, S. Maruyama and H. Shinohara
Europhys.Lett. 89, 27003 (2010)

Events

・Welcome party for the new comers!!(April 20th, 2012)

・Welcome cake party for the new comers!!(April 16th, 2012)

・Commencement Ceremony & Farewell Party(March 26th, 2012)

・Cake Party for Dr. Wang(February 2nd, 2012)

・Year-End Party(December 22th, 2011)

・Bowling Game(November 24th, 2011)

・Cake Party for Mr. Thendie and Ms. Wang(October 7th, 2011)

・After-prom party for the entrance exam of the graduate course(August 26th, 2011)

・Lab trip(July 24〜25th, 2011)

・Lab party(a send-off party for the entrance exam of the graduate course)(July 11th, 2011)

・Softball(June 3rd, 2011)

・The farewell party of Ms. Shiho INOUE, the secretary of The Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Graphene Research Society (May 27th, 2011)

・Welcome party for the new comers!!(April 13th, 2011)

・2010