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- 29 December 2022
End-of-year drinking party with Makiura-lab members at Sakaya-sho (near Nakamozu campus).
Jump to Gallery - 15 December 2022
Naoya Yoshikane and Keisuke Matsui were awarded as “University President Award” from President of Osaka Metropolitan University, Prof. Masahiro Tatsumisago for their contribution to the enhancement of the University’s reputation. - 5-8 December 2022
Naoya Yoshikane gave a poster presentation entitled “Mixed valency in strongly-correlated rare-earth fullerides, RE2.75C60 — a combined structural and spectroscopic study” at The 13th TOYOTA RIKEN International Workshop: Integrated Spectroscopy for Strong Electron Correlation — Theory, Computation and Experiment (ISSEC2022), held at Tokyo University, Hongo Campus, Koshiba Hall.
Jump to Gallery - 11 October 2022
Airi Tada gave a poster presentation entitled “Design and fabrication of superconducting high-entropy alloys” at the 8th Materials WEEK, The Society of Materials Science, Japan, held in Kyoto, Japan. - 28 September 2022
Naoya Yoshikane was successfully accepted for Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC2) from Japan Society for The Promotion of Science (JSPS). He will be supported for next 2 years to work on “Creation of optically active multiferroics by chirality introduction into framework structures”. - 26-28 September 2022
Naoya Yoshikane gave a oral presentation entitled “Mixed-valent rare-earth fullerides, RE2.75C60.” at the 72nd Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry (JSCC), held at Kyushu University. His presentation was awarded as “Student Lecture Awards” from JSCC. Also, his presentation was selected as outstanding student presentation to receive “Inorganic Chemistry Frontier Award” from Royal Society of Chemistry for his contribution to the field of solid-state chemistry.
Mizuki Suzuki, Marina Nishiura, and Akane Matsumoto also gave poster presentations entitled “Novel Crystal Structure through Exploration of the Calcium-C60 Binary Phase Field”, “Structural control of Prussian blue analogues by alkali metal substitution”, and “Ab initio structural investigation of C60/PAH co-adducts – new structures from powder diffraction data”, respectively, at the same meeting.
Jump to Gallery - 20-23 September 2022
Airi Tada gave a poster presentation entitled “Valence-electron-count control of superconductivity in high-entropy alloys” at the Year 2022 Autumn Annual Meeting, The Japan Institute of Metals and Materials, held at Fukuoka Institute of Technology. - 2 September 2022
Professor Ioannis Arvanitidis from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece had stayed for 2 months in our laboratory for collaborative work at SPring-8.
Jump to Gallery - 8-11 August 2022
Naoya Yoshikane, Marina Nishiura, and Akane Matsumoto gave poster presentations entitled “Mixed valency in (Sm1-xCax)2.75C60”, “Structural control of Prussian blue analogues by alkali metal substitution”, and “Ab initio structural investigation of C60/PAH co-adducts – new structures from powder diffraction data”, respectively, at the 8th Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ACCC8), held online. - 2-4 August 2022
Keisuke Matsui gave an oral presentation entitled “Synthesis and structural study of pentavalent fullerides” at the 2022 Summer School of the Young Coordination Chemists’ Association of Japan, held at Tokyo Institute of Technology. His presentation was awarded as “student oral presentation award”.
Mizuki Suzuki also gave a poster presentation entitled “Exploration of the Calcium-C60 Binary Phase Field” at the same meeting.
Jump to Gallery - 11 July 2022
Naoya Yoshikane was successfully accepted for JSPS Overseas Challenge Program for Young Researchers from Japan Society for The Promotion of Science (JSPS). He will be supported for 3-months research activities under supervision of Professor Craig Brown— NIST Fellow and Team Lead: Structure and Dynamics of Materials— in National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Maryland, USA. - 23 June 2022
Kosmas Prassides gave an online invited lecture entitled “Searching for the Hebel-Slichter coherence peak across the superconductivity dome of fullerides” at the Superstripes 2022 International Conference held in Frascati, Rome, Italy. - 27 May 2022
Kosmas Prassides gave a seminar entitled “Superconductivity and quantum magnetism in π-electron systems: a personal ongoing voyage into the unexpected” at the Department of Chemistry University of Crete, Greece, held online. - 2-14 May 2022
Naoya Yoshikane and Keisuke Matsui visited the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France for experiments on magnetic materials at high pressure.
Jump to Gallery - 1 April 2022
Bachelor (B4) students Kyohei Kawamura, Ryuhei Mimura, and Tsutomu Uraji joined our laboratory. Akane Matsumoto, Marina Nishiura, and Mizuki Suzuki continue their research as Masters (M1) students. Keisuke Matsui and Naoya Yoshikane continue their research as Doctoral D1 and D2 students, respectively. - 24 March 2022
Keisuke Matsui (M2 postgraduate student) was presented with the Department of Materials Science award ― Bronze Medal ― for his presentation “Pentavalent C60 – a new family of fullerides with rich structural diversity”.
Tomoaki Fushimi (M2 postgraduate student) was presented with an award from the Department of Materials Science for his presentation “Spontaneous magnetovolume effects in Prussian blue analogue molecular magnets”.
Mizuki Suzuki (B4 student) was presented with an award from the Department of Materials Science for his presentation “Exploration of the Calcium-C60 Binary Phase Field”.
Marina Nishiura (B4 student) was presented with an award from the Department of Materials Science for her presentation “Structural control of Prussian blue analogues by alkali metal substitution”. - 24 March 2022
Today Tomoaki Fushimi (M2 student) from our laboratory successfully completed his Masters’ degree studies. Keisuke Matsui (M2 student) continues his research as a Doctoral student. Three B4 students – Mizuki Suzuki, Marina Nishiura, and Akane Matsumoto also graduated successfully and continue their research as Masters students. - 8 March 2022
Our congratulations go to Keisuke Matsui (D1 doctoral student from April 1, 2022) who was awarded a 3-year Rhizome Fellowship for the duration of his doctoral studies. - 21,22 February 2022
Three B4 students gave their final presentation for Bachelor’s degree ― “Exploration of the Calcium-C60 Binary Phase Field” (Mizuki Suzuki), “Structural control of Prussian blue analogues by alkali metal substitution” (Marina Nishiura) and “ab initio structural investigation of C60/PAH co-adducts – new structures from powder diffraction data” (Akane Matsumoto). - 14,15 February 2022
Two M2 students gave their final presentation for Master’s degree ― “Spontaneous magnetovolume effects in Prussian blue analogue molecular magnets” (Tomoaki Fushimi) and “Pentavalent C60 – a new family of fullerides with rich structural diversity” (Keisuke Matsui). - 11 February 2022
A paper entitled “Pressure effects on the crystal structure of the cubic metallofullerene salt [Li@C60][PF6] to 12 GPa”
was published in Materials Today Communications.
