Present Status of Research Center for Structural Thermodynamics

Akira Inaba

A catastrophic earthquake rocked Tohoku Region Pacific Coast on March 11, 2011. Many people were killed by Tsunami and we still have serious problems in Nuclear Power Plants in Fukushima. Some of the Conferences, either international or domestic, and the Meetings planned in this year have been cancelled because of the calamity. We hope, however, that we Japanese can somehow overcome the tragedy soon. Here, we report our research activities in this year.

The member of the Steering Committee for our Center consists of Professors Koichi Fukase (natural product chemistry), Toshiaki Munakata (surface chemistry), Yasuhiro Nakazawa (solid state physical chemistry), Yoshichika Onuki (solid state physics), Takahiro Sato (macromolecular assemblies), Atsushi Shinohara (radiochemistry), Haruhiko Takisawa (biological nuclear function), and myself (structural thermodynamics). The staff members as of November 1, 2011 are as follows:

Prof., Director INABA, Akira
Assoc. Prof. MIYAZAKI, Yuji
Assoc. Prof. NAGANO, Yatsuhisa
Asst. Prof. TAKAJO, Daisuke
Res. Assoc. GORSKA, Natalia
Res. Assoc. SUZUKI, Haru
Adm. Official HOSOKAWA, Hiroko
Prof. SATO, Takahiro (Dept. of Macromolecular Science)
Prof. NAKAZAWA, Yasuhiro (Dept. of Chemistry)
Asst. Prof. YAMAMOTO, Takashi (Dept. of Chemistry)

The students involved are as follows:

Graduate Students / Doctor Course:
ARAI, Shin-ichirow
OKADA, Yugo
OKUHARA, Takashi
FUKUOKA, Shuhei
YOSHIZUMI, Masayuki
Graduate Students / Master Course:
TANI, Kohtaroh
YOSHIDA, Koh
SOEDA, Junshi
TAKATSUKI, Yuichi
MURAOKA, Yuki
YOSHIMOTO, Ryo
ONISHI, Koji
ARAI, Tomoe
UENO, Hitomi
TAKAHASHI, Riontaro
TAMADA, Keiko
MATSUMOTO, Akiko
DANDA, Mayu
HORIE, Yuki
MATSUSHITA, Koichiro
WATANABE, Akari
URAMOTO, Kai
NAKAMURA, Tomoaki
ADACHI, Mikako
LIU, Huidan
Undergraduate Students:
AZUMA, Nobuaki
GUAN, Guoyang
MORISHITA Satoshi
ICHIKAWA, Hiromi
TOYOKURA, Akiko
NAKANO, Syun
YAMAMURA, Hiroki
WATANABE, Yosuke
Undergraduate Students
JIANG, Xinyue

The papers presented in International/National Conferences as well as those published in 2010/2011 are listed in separate pages. Details of our research activities can also be found at URL: http://www.chem.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp/lab/micro/index.html.en. .

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