CONTENTS

Present Status of Research Center for Structural Thermodynamics
  (Yasuhiro Nakazawa)

On the Occasion of Retirement
  Looking back My Academic Career (Akira Inaba)

A Celebration of “Hakuju” (99 Years Old) of Emer. Prof. Shuzo Seki

Condolences on the Death of Emer. Prof. Hideaki Chihara

Emer. Prof. Michio Sorai Received the Japanese Liquid Crystal Society (JLCS) Remarkable-Achievement-Award

Dr. Takashi Yamamoto Received the Research Encourage Award of Seventh Area of Physical Society of Japan

Mr. Shuhei Fukuoka Has Been Accorded the William F. Giauque Award in the 68th Calorimetry Conference

Mr. Shusaku Imajo Has Been Accorded as a Distinguished Poster Presentation Award in the 7th Annual Meeting of Molecular Science

Our Former Students Awarded an Honor

Days Spent at the Laboratories

• Prof. Piotr M. Zieliński
• Prof. Sergei P. Kruchinin

Report

• Report on the Joint Symposium of the 5th International Symposium on Polymer Materials Science (ISPMS�f12) & the 8th Osaka University Macromolecular Symposium (OUMS�f12)
• Tokyo Workshop on Spin/Charge Liquids near Ordering
• International Symposium Material Science Opened by Molecular Degree of Freedom (MDF2012)
• Conference Report on the 68th Calorimetry Conference (CALCON2013)
• EMLG/JMLG Annual Meeting 2013
• NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on Nanotechnology in the Security Systems
• The 9th IUPAC International Conference on Novel Materials and Their Synthesis (NMS-IX)
• The Fifth International Symposium on the New Frontiers of Thermal Studies of Materials (ISNFTSM)
• Emer. Prof. Takasuke Matsuo Presented Special Lecture at �gIntroduction to Modern Science�h
• Attendance to Science Partnership Program of Takarazuka-kita High School

Construction of New Apparatuses

1. Development and Performance Test for Angle-Resolved Electric Heat Capacity Measurements of Organic Superconductors with In-plane Magnetic Fields
2. Development of the Heat Capacity Measurement System for Relaxation Method under Light Irradiated Conditions
3. Sensitive Detection of Small Thermal Anomaly by Micro-Chip Devices

Introductory Review of the Researches

1. Heat Capacity and Phase Transition of the Nickel(II) Complex [NiII(en)3](ox)
2. Heat Capacity and Phase Transition of One-Dimensional Rhodium(I)-Semiquinonato Complex [Rh(3,6-DBSQ-4-NO2)(CO)2]
3. Heat Capacity and Phase Transitions of the Proton-Transfer Complex 6,6�Œ-DMBP CLA
4. The Mechanocaloric Effect and Glass Transition in Silicone Rubber
5. SVδTHF Measurement for THF Aqueous Solution and Its Koga Line
6. Conflict in the Cells of the Cellular Slime Mold, Dictyostelium discoideum Ax-2, at the Upper Temperature Limit
7. Chain Polymerization of 10,12-Pentacosadiyn-1-ol Molecular Layers on Graphite Dependent on the Polymorphic Forms Introduced by Photo-Irradiation
8. AFM Observation of the Supramolecular Polymers Placed on the Graphite Substrate via a Pulse Valve
9. Time-Resolved Measurement of the Current in a DC Motor
10. Evaluation of the Thermal Anomaly in Spin Liquid Compounds
11. Thermodynamic Investigation of Magnetic Phase Transition of BETS Salts
12. Thermodynamic Investigation of Superconductive State of a Magnetic Superconductor Consisting of BETS and Counterions
13. Antiferromagnetic Fluctuations and Relaxation Process of Proton
14. Energy-Gap Structure of (BPDT-TTF)2ICl2 at Low Temperatures
15. Thermodynamic Study of Mott Insulating Layers in Bi-Layer Organic Conductor with Asymmetric Cation
16. Low Temperature Heat Capacity Measurements of a Hydrogen Bond Metal Complex
17. Measurement of the Mechanocaloric Effect in Rubber
18. Lyotropic Liquid Crystallinity of Amylose Derivatives: Different Phase Formation in Different Solvents
19. Synthesis of a Rigid Cyclic Polymer from Cycloamylose and Its Solution Properties

List of Papers Presented (2012 / 2013)

List of Publications (2012 / 2013)