in the Department of Chemistry at Nagoya University.
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・Congratulations ! Kazunari SHIOZAWA, a master student, has been awarded The Teijin Award for Young Scientists in The Teijin 21st Century Forum (Fuji, Shizuoka, January 28-30, 2010) on "Fabrication and Characterization of High-Performance Thin-Layer Transistor with Isolated Semiconductor Carbon Nanotubes".
・Our recent JACS paper (vol.131, 14850-14856, 2009) has been selected as a "Image Challenge". Why don't you try to answer only one and check the result via Submit and View Results !
・A Ph.D candidate, Yuki ASADA, has successfully defended her thesis on "Synthesis, Characterization and Applications of Length Sorted DNA-Wrapped Carbon Nanotubes" on January 15, 2010. Congratulations !
・Nature Asian-Pacific highlights our Eu-nanowire
study by R. Nakanishi and R. Kitaura et al. as "Low-dimensional metals :
Nanotube molds". Also, the study has been press-released in Nikkei-Shinbun
newspaper on January 11, 2010.
・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)
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Recent Publications
Highly Active and Selective Semihydrogenation of Alkynes with
the Palladium Nanoparticles-Tetrabutylammonium Borohydride
Catalyst System
Junichi Hori, Kunihiko Murata, Toshiki Sugai, Hisanori Shinohara,
Ryoji Noyori, Noriyoshi Arai, Nobuhito Kurono, and Takeshi Ohkuma
Adv. Synth. Catal.,351, 3143 ? 3149 (2009).
Synthesis of Single- and Double-Wall Carbon Nanotubes by Gas Flow-Modified Catalyst-Supported Chemical Vapor Deposition
Naoki KISHI, Toshiki SUGAI and Hisanori SHINOHARA
IEICE TRANS. ELECTRON.,Vol.E92-C No.12 pp.1483-1486 (2009).
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)