Welcome to the Shinohara Laboratory
in the Department of Chemistry at Nagoya University.

Our Research on Nanocarbon Materials >>

News

• Congratulations ! Zhao Chen, a Ph.D student, has been awarded the Best Poster Award in The 6th Korea-Japan Symposium on Carbon Nanotubes (Okinawa, October 25-28, 2009) on "Evolution of Linear-Polyynes Inside Thin Double-Wall Carbon Nanotubes".
  
  
• Our lab-paper by R.Kitaura et al. on "High-Yield Synthesis of Ultrathin Metal Nanowires in Carbon Nanotubes" Angew.Chem.Int.Ed. (doi:10.1002/anie.200902615 (2009) has been highlightened by Nature Nanotechnology (October 1st issue, 2009) and also by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC, September 29 issue, 2009).
  
  
• Congratulations ! Noriko IZUMI has awarded "The Young Scientist Poster Award" from the Fullerenes and Nanotubes Research Society on "Valence States- Dependent Photoluminescence from Thulium Atoms Encapsulated in Fullerenes" (October 1, 2009).
  
  
• Congratulations ! Kazunari SHIOZAWA has awarded "The Young Scientist Poster Award" from the Fullerenes and Nanotubes Research Society on "Isolation and Structure Determination of (Lu₂C₂)@C₈₈: Experimental and Theoretical Analyses" (October 1, 2009).
  
  
• Our lab has been moved to room 107, Science Hall.
  
  
• The 37th Fullerene-Nanotubes General Symposium
  at Tsukuba, Japan.(1st-3rd, Sept) Website >>
  
  

Recent Publications

Chromatographic Length Separation and Photoluminescence Study on DNA-Wrapped Single-Wall and Double-Wall Carbon Nanotubes
Yuki Asada, Toshiki Sugai, Ryo Kitaura, and Hisanori Shinohara
J. Nanomater. vol. 2009, Article ID 257892, 8 pages (2009).

High-Yield Synthesis of Ultrathin Metal Nanowires in Carbon Nanotubes
R. Kitaura, R. Nakanishi, T. Saito, H. Yoshikawa, K. Awaga, and H. Shinohara
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 48, 8298 (2009)

Morphology and Melting Behavior of Ionic Liquids inside Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Shimou Chen, Keita Kobayashi, Yasumitsu Miyata, Naoki Imazu, Takeshi Saito, Ryo Kitaura, and Hisanori Shinohara
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131, 14850 (2009)

Charge transfer and screening effects in polyynes encapsulated inside single-wall carbon nanotubes
L. G. Moura, L. M. Malard, M. A. Carneiro, P. Venezuela, Rodrigo B. Capaz, D. Nishide, Y. Achiba, H. Shinohara, and M. A. Pimenta
Phys. Rev. B, 80, 161401 (2009)