CONTENTS

Present Status of Research Center for Structural Thermodynamics
  (Akira Inaba)

Days Spent at the Laboratories

• Prof. Shipra Baluja (Letter)
• Prof. Xiaozheng Lan (Letter)

Report

• The 21st IUPAC International Conference
  on Chemical Thermodynamics (ICCT-2010)
• Special Session in Honor of Prof. S. Seki and Prof. H. Suga
  at the 21st IUPAC International Conference on Chemical Thermodynamics (ICCT-2010)
• The 2nd International Symposium on Structural Thermodynamics
• The 65th Calorimetry Conference at Colorado Springs
• The International Workshop on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology 2009
• The 2nd Joint Conference of GCOE program
  of Osaka University and Strasburg University
• International Conference on Science and Technology
  of Synthetic Metals 2010

Construction of New Apparatuses

1. Direct Determination of a Third Derivative of Gibbs Energy for Aqueous Solution
2. Improvement of the Top-Loading Type Dilution Refrigerator and Development of Calorimetry Cell Available for Top-Loading Type Dilution Refrigerator and Large-Scale Dilution Refrigerator at IMS
3. Adiabatic Heat Capacity Measurement System Working at Low-Temperature Region

Introductory Review of the Researches

1. Excess Heat Capacities Induced by Partial Deuteration of Methyl Groups in Methanol and Methyl Iodide
2. Heat Capacity and Ferromagnetic Phase Transition of the Organic Radical Crystal DNPNN with Chiral Helicity of Molecular Packing
3. Heat Capacity and Magnetic and Structural Phase Transitions of the One-Dimensional Rhodium(I)-Semiquinonato Complex [Rh(3,6-DBSQ-4,5-(MeO)2)(CO)2]
4. Heat Capacities and Phase Transitions of the Quasi-One-Dimensional Nickel(III) Complexes [RBzPy][NiIII(mnt)2] (R = F, Cl, Br, I, NO2, CN)
5. Phase Behavior and Thermodynamic Functions of Liquid Crystalline Material 6O2OCB
6. Polymorphism of [M(NH3)6](XY4)3,
   where M = Co3+ and Cr3+, and XY4 = BF4 and ClO4−
7. Thermal Behavior of
   [Al(DMSO)6](NO3)3 and [Sr(DMSO)4(NO3)2]
8. Orientational Ordering of Partially Deuterated Methyl Groups in Solid 2,6-Dichlorotoluene as Studied by Vibrational Spectroscopy
9. Molecular Dynamics of Cyanobiphenyl Compounds with Different Terminal Chains
10. Effect of Sodium Monocarboxylate on Water by 1P-Probing Methodology I
11. Effect of Sodium Citrate on Water by 1P-Probing Methodology
12. Third Derivative of Gibbs Energy of Water-Alcohol Systems to Study the Mixing Scheme
13. Morphology of Liquid Crystalline Material BBOA on Graphite
14. A Crystal Growth Model of the Early Development of Xenopus laevis
15. Development of Heat Capacity Measurement System Using Dilution Refrigerator and Heat Capacity of Magnetic Superconductor κ-(BETS)2FeCl4
16. Thermodynamic Features of Organic Triangle Lattice Compounds Which Show Spin-Liquid Behaviors
17. Spin Frustration and Ground State of Volborthite
18. Heat Capacity Measurements of κ-[(BEDT-TTF)1-x(BEDSe-TTF)x]2 Cu[N(CN)2]Br
19. Thermodynamic Measurements of Quantum Spin Liquid Material Performed by the Micro-Chip Device
20. Thermodynamic Measurements of Organic Superconductor κ-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu(NCS)2 under Pressure
21. Heat Capacities of α-(BEDT-TTF)2MHg(SCN)4 (M = K, Rb)
22. Structural Analysis of a Globular Protein — Ionic Polysaccharide Complex by SEC-MALS
23. Irreversibility of the Polyion-Complex Formation in Aqueous Solution
24. Induced Circular Dichroism of Optically Active Polyfluorene Derivatives in Phase-Separating Solution

List of Papers Presented (2009/2010)

List of Publications (2009/2010)