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Akira INABAProfessor of ChemistryDirector Research Center for Structural Thermodynamics Graduate School of Science Osaka University Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043 Japan Office: Science Building T-102 Phone: +81-6-6850-5523 FAX: +81-6-6850-5526 E-mail: inaba[at]chem.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp More information (Japanese only) |
Akira Inaba received his B. Sc., M. Sc. and D. Sc. from Osaka University where he studied under Professor Hideaki Chihara. After four years at National Research Laboratory for Metrology in Tokyo (now in Tsukuba), he joined the faculty of Osaka University in 1980. He has spent a research leave for two years at McMaster University in Canada where he worked with Professor James A. Morrison. Dr. Inaba received the James J. Christensen Memorial Award in 2000.
The research of Dr. Inaba covers a wide range of topics dealing with various types of condensed matter. The techniques that are employed to investigate the structure and dynamics are calorimetry, neutron scattering, X-ray diffraction and molecular dynamics simulation. Current research includes studies of adsorbed monolayers formed at gas-solid and solid-liquid interfaces. He has been interested in the "order and complexity" created at those interfaces. The highlight of his work is the finding of new types of phase transitions and the understanding of energy excitations such as the one associated with rotational tunneling. Dr. Inaba is also interested in novel bulk materials such as quasicrystals and C60 polymers.
"Acceleration of the Effect of Solute on the Entropy-Volume Cross Fluctuation Density in Aqueous 2-Butoxyethanol, 1-Propanol, and Glycerol: The Fourth Derivative of Gibbs Energy", K. Yoshida, S. Baluja, A. Inaba, and Y. Koga, J. Chem. Phys. 134(21), 214502 (2011).
"Preferential Adsorption Followed by Spontaneous Desorption of 1-Octadecanol at a Solution/Graphite Interface", D. Takajo, A. Inaba and S. Isoda, Thin Solid Films 519(4), 1371 (2010).
"The Crystalline Structures of Fluoroalkane Monolayers Adsorbed on Graphite at Submonolayer Coverages", J.E. Parker, S.M. Clarke, Ana C. Perdigon and A. Inaba, J. Phys. Chem. C 113(51), 21396 (2009).
"Structure and Phase Behavior of Two-Dimensional Solids Formed at Interfaces", A. Inaba, Pure Appl. Chem. 78(5), 1025 (2006).
"Mixing Behaviour in 2D Layers of Linear Alkanes Adsorbed on Graphite", A. Inaba, S.M. Clarke, T. Arnold and R.K. Thomas, Chem. Phys. Lett. 352(1/2), 57 (2002).
"The Librational Ground State of Monodeuterated Methane Adsorbed on Graphite", A. Inaba, J. Skarbek, J.R. Lu, R.K. Thomas, C.J. Carlile and D.S. Sivia, J. Chem. Phys. 103(4), 1627 (1995).
"Complete Dipolar Ordering in Solid Overlayer of CO Physisorbed on Graphite Basal Plane: Heat Capacity Measurement", A. Inaba, T. Shirakami and H. Chihara, Chem. Phys. Lett. 146(1/2), 63 (1988).
