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- 16-21 December 2021
Kosmas Prassides gave invited lectures at the symposia on “Electron transfer: from electrochemistry to mixed-valence molecules to photosynthesis (In memory of the late Prof. Noel Hush)” and on “The Expanding Frontiers of Frustrated Magnetic Materials” at PACIFICHEM 2021, The International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies 2021
held online. The titles of his presentations were: “Mixed valency in alkali sesquioxides” and “Quantum magnetism in fully-frustrated all-carbon π-electron systems”, respectively.
Naoya Yoshikane was selected as a finalist for the Student Research Competition for his lecture entitled “Tuning rare-earth mixed valency by coupling to electronically-active fulleride anion sublattices” at the same conference.
Tomoaki Fushimi also gave a poster presentation entitled “Spontaneous magnetoelastic effects in Prussian blue analogue molecular magnets” at the same conference. - 6-8 December 2021
Naoya Yoshikane and Keisuke Matsui gave lectures entitled “Tuning of Mixed Valency in Rare-Earth Fullerides at Ambient and Elevated Pressures” at the symposium “Physical Properties of Inorganic Solids Ⅶ” and “Crystal Structure and Electronic Properties of Cation-Ordered Non-Cubic Pentavalent Fullerides” at the symposium “Physical Properties of Inorganic Solids Ⅲ” at the 2021 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting held online. - 15 November 2021
Keisuke Matsui was presented with the OPU President Award for the presentation at the Rare-earth Society of Japan held on May 20th, 2021. Jump to Gallery - 20-22 September 2021
Naoya Yoshikane and Keisuke Matsui gave lectures entitled “Structural and electronic study of rare-earth fullerides by synchrotron XAS and XRD techniques at ambient and elevated pressures” and “Synthesis and structural study of non-cubic cation-ordered ternary fullerides M2AC60“, respectively, at the 2021 Autumn Meeting, Condensed Matter Physics and Other Fields, The Physical Society of Japan held online. - 1 September 2021
Keisuke Matsui gave a lecture entitled “Systematic structural study of cation-ordered pentavalent fullerides” at the 61st Fullerenes-Nanotubes-Graphene General Symposium held online. - 3,4 August 2021
Naoya Yoshikane was presented with a student oral presentation award for his lecture entitled “Structural and electronic studies of rare-earth fullerides at elevated pressures” at the Summer School 2021, Young Coordination Chemists’ Association of Japan held online.
Keisuke Matsui also gave a lecture entitled “Crystal structure of cation-ordered ternary fullerides M2AC60” at the same meeting.
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Our congratulations go to Airi Tada (M1 student) who was awarded a scholarship by the Unicharm Resonance Foundation. This scholarship is awarded to highly motivated students with excellent academic achievement. - 20 May 2021
Keisuke Matsui was presented with a student presentation award for his lecture entitled “Effect of chemical and physical pressure on rare-earth mixed valency in rare-earth fullerides” at the 37th Conference of the Rare-earth Society of Japan held online.
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Naoya Yoshikane gave a lecture entitled “Valence tuning in rare-earth fullerides at ambient and elevated pressures” at the Inorganic Solid State Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society ACS SPRING 2021 Meeting held online. - 14 April 2021
Kosmas Prassides gave an invited lecture entitled “Emergent electronic phenomena in all-carbon π-electron molecular systems” in the series of joint seminars of the Department of Condensed Matter Physics (DCMP) and the Materials Growth and Measurement Laboratory (MGML), Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, held online. - 1 April 2021
Our congratulations go to Naoya Yoshikane (D1 doctoral student) who was awarded a 3-year OPU Fellowship for the duration of his doctoral studies.
- 1 April 2021
Bachelor (B4) students Akane Matsumoto, Marina Nishiura, and Mizuki Suzuki joined our laboratory. Airi Tada continues her research as Masters (M1) student. Naoya Yoshikane continues his research as Doctoral (D1) student. - 24 March 2021
Naoya Yoshikane (M2 postgraduate student) was presented with the Aogaki TECHNOVATION incentive award by Professor Morimoto (Dean of the Graduate School of Engineering). The Aogaki Foundation award recognizes superior research achievements at either the masters or Doctoral level and is given to encourage further high-level work.
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Airi Tada (B4 student) was presented with the Shirasagi award by Professor Tatsumisago (OPU President) at the Osaka Prefecture Graduation ceremony. The Shirasagi award is given to the student who achieved the highest academic performance graduating at the top of their class and making outstanding achievements in their area of study.
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Naoya Yoshikane (M2 postgraduate student) was presented with the Department of Materials Science award ― Gold Medal ― for his research “Valence tuning in rare-earth fullerides at ambient and elevated pressures”.
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Airi Tada (B4 student) was presented with the Department of Materials Science award ― Silver Medal ― for her research “Effect of chemical composition and electron count on superconducting high-entropy alloys”.
Kazunori Kishi (B4 student) was presented with an award from the Department of Materials Science for his research presentation “C60 fullerene/polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon co-crystals as a platform towards new functional materials”.
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Today three B4 students from our laboratory graduated successfully – Misa Usami, Kazunori Kishi, and Airi Tada.
At the same time, Naoya Yoshikane (M2 postgraduate student) successfully completed his Masters’ degree studies.
Many congratulations to all.
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