News
2024
- January 2024
A Special Issue on the “Structure and Properties of Novel Superconductors, Magnetic, and Functional Materials” was published by the Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids to celebrate the 65th Birthday of Professor Prassides. The Editors of the Special Issue were Professors Craig Brown, Denis Arcon, and Arun Bansil.
2023
- 26 December 2023
A paper entitled “Instability of the Pa-3 fulleride Cs3C60 at ambient pressure and superconducting state of the fcc phase” was published in Physical Review B. - 18 December 2023
End-of-year dinner at Mozu, close to the OMU Nakamozu campus.
Jump to Gallery - 7 December 2023
Professor Daniel R. Talham from the University of Florida visited our Department and gave a colloquium entitled “How the Solid-Solvent Interface Changes Phase Stability and Host-Guest Chemistry in Layered Solids”
Jump to Gallery - 27 November 2023
Kosmas Prassides gave an invited lecture entitled “Something old, something new, something blue” at the Phase Transition and Dynamical Properties of Spin Transition Materials (PDSTM 2023) held at the University of Tokyo, Japan. - 27 November 2023
A paper entitled “Electron injection into superconducting trivalent fullerides close to the Mott transition boundary” was published in Modern Physics Letters B. - 20-21 September 2023
Keisuke Matsui (D2 student) gave a poster presentation entitled “Development of Pentavalent Fulleride Systems: Synthesis, Structural Studies and Electronic Properties” at the International Symposium of the Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Metropolitan University: World-Leading Engineering Research, held at Osaka International Convention Center. His presentation was awarded as “Excellent Poster Award”.
Naoya Yoshikane (D3 student) also gave a poster presentation entitled “Pressure Induced Self-doping in Mixed-valent Molecular Solids, RE2.75C60” at the same meeting.
Jump to Gallery - 1 September 2023
A new member, Research Associate Dr. George Bacanu joined our laboratory.. - 31 August – 2 September 2023
Keisuke Matsui (D2 student) gave a poster presentation entitled “Effect of electron injection into superconducting trivalent fullerides close to the Mott transition boundary” at The 9th TKU-ECUST-KIST-OMU-UH-IHU-KMITL-UTAR-TNU-HUFI Joint Symposium on Advanced Materials and Applications (JSAMA-9), held at University of Hyogo. His presentation was awarded as “Outstanding Poster Award”.
Mizuki Suzuki and Akane Matsumoto (M2 students) also gave poster presentations entitled “Search for superconducting fullerides by alkaline-earth doping” and “Alkali-intercalation chemistry of hybrid molecular solids derived from C60 and polyaromatic hydrocarbons”, respectively, at the same meeting.
Jump to Gallery - 2-4 August 2023
Marina Nishiura gave a poster presentation entitled “Structural changes induced by alkali metal substitution in Prussian Blue analogues” at the 2023 Summer School of the Young Coordination Chemists’ Association of Japan, held at Kyushu University. Her presentation received a “Chemistry Letters Young Researcher Award”.
Jump to Gallery - 26 July 2023
A paper entitled “Mixed orbital states and modulated crystal structures in La1−xCaxMnO3 deduced from synchrotron X-ray diffraction” was published in Communications Physics. - 27 June 2023
Kosmas Prassides gave an invited lecture entitled “Coupling of lattice and electronic degrees of freedom in mixed-valence rare-earth fullerides” at the International Conference on Quantum in Complex Matter, Superstripes 2023, held in Ischia, Italy. - 23 May 2023
A paper entitled “Isosymmetric Lattice Collapse in Mixed-Valence Rare-Earth Fullerides at High Pressure─Coupling of Lattice and Electronic Degrees of Freedom” was published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C (highlighted as Supplementary cover of the June 2023 issue of volume 127). - 8-12 May 2023
Kosmas Prassides and Naoya Yoshikane gave invited oral presentations entitled “Spontaneous magnetoelastic effects in Prussian blue analogue molecular magnets” and “Coupling of structural and electronic behaviors in mixed-valence RE2.75C60”, respectively, at the 2023 Joint CTMNM/NAGC Conference, Spetses, Greece.
Jump to Gallery - 1 April 2023
Naoya Yoshikane was awarded a Fellowship by the Overseas Challenge Program for Young Researchers of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) to undertake a research project for 3 months at the NIST Center for Neutron Research in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA under the supervision of Prof. Craig Brown.
Jump to Gallery - 1 April 2023
Following his retirement, Professor Prassides moved to the Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science as a Guest Researcher. At the same time, he was appointed as an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Electrical Systems Engineering, Kyoto University of Advanced Science. - 24 March 2023
Today Airi Tada (M2 student) successfully completed her Masters’ degree studies. Three B4 students – Kyohei Kawamura, Ryuhei Mimura, and Tsutomu Uraji also graduated successfully.
Jump to Gallery - 24 March 2023
Airi Tada (M2 postgraduate student) received the Department of Materials Science award ― Silver Medal ― for her graduation presentation entitled “Valence-electron-count and chemical composition control of superconductivity in high-entropy alloys”.
Ryuhei Mimura, Uraji Tsutomu, and Kyohei Kawamura (B4 postgraduate students) gave graduation presentations entitled “Effect of electron count on the superconductivity of the NbHfZrTi medium entropy alloys”, “Synthesis, characterization, and ab-initio structural investigation of C60-coronene co-crystal”, and “Influence of guest molecules on the structural and magnetic properties of Prussian Blue analogues”, respectively. Ryuhei Mimura was awarded the Department of Materials Science Gold Medal award. Kyohei Kawamura received a research encouragement award.
Jump to Gallery - 24 March 2023
We had an end of academic year party at Fukuden, close to Nakamozu campus after graduation celebration ceremony.
Jump to Gallery - 6 January 2023
A paper entitled “Evolution of the magnetic structure in overdoped antiferromagnetic La1-xCaxMnO3 (0.51 ≤ x ≤ 0.69) manganites: A neutron diffraction study” was published in Physical Review B.
2022
- 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.
2021
- 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.
Jump to Gallery - 9 July 2021
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.
Jump to Gallery - 16 April 2021
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.
Jump to Gallery - 24 March 2021
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.
Jump to Gallery - 24 March 2021
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”.
Jump to Gallery - 24 March 2021
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”.
Jump to Gallery - 24 March 2021
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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2020
- 25 November 2020
Prassides Group picture taken in front of the Materials Department building on the OPU campus.
Jump to Gallery - 17 November 2020
A paper entitled “Chemical tuning of samarium valence in mixed valence (Sm1-xCax)2.75C60 fullerides” was published in Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids. - 17 October 2020
A paper entitled “Pressure-induced valence transition in the mixed-valence (Sm⅓Ca⅔)2.75C60 fulleride” was published in Materials Chemistry Frontiers.
(Highlighted as the Front Cover of the December 2020 issue of volume 4) - 29 September 2020
Naoya Yoshikane gave a lecture entitled “Chemical tuning of samarium valence in mixed valence (Sm1-xCax)2.75C60 Fullerides” at The 70th Conference of Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry, held online. - 9 September 2020
Naoya Yoshikane and Keisuke Matsui gave lectures entitled “Chemical tuning of samarium valence in mixed valence (Sm1-xCax)2.75C60 fullerides” and “Rare-earth valence responses to pressure in ternary rare-earth fullerides Sm2.75-xEuxC60“, respectively, at the 2020 Autumn Meeting, The Physical Society of Japan, held online. - 11 August 2020
A paper entitled “Crystal Structure and Stoichiometric Composition of Potassium-Intercalated Tetracene” was published in Inorganic Chemistry. - 12 June 2020
A paper entitled “High-pressure Raman study of the alkaline-earth metal fulleride, Ca2.75C60” was published in Modern Physics Letters B. - 1 April 2020
Bachelor (B4) students Airi Tada, Misa Usami, and Kazunori Kishi joined our laboratory. Tomoyaki Fushimi and Keisuke Matsui continue their research as Masters (M1) students. - 24 March 2020
Today three B4 students from our laboratory graduated successfully – Tomoyaki Fushimi, Keisuke Matsui, and Kota Mino. Congratulations.
Jump to Gallery - 24 March 2020
Keisuke Matsui (B4 student) was presented with the Department of Materials Science award ― Silver Medal ― for his research “Accessing superconducting fullerides with non-integer valence of C60 close to the Mott transition boundary”.
Jump to Gallery - 7 January 2020
Professor Ioannis Arvanitidis from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece is visiting our laboratory as an OPU Guest Professor until February 2nd.
Jump to Gallery - 7 January 2020
Kosmas Prassides gave a lecture entitled “Materials development in π-f electron systems” at the 2019 J-Physics Annual Meeting, held at Kobe University. - 6 January 2020
A paper entitled “Pressure-Induced Charge Disorder–Order Transition in the Cs4O6 Sesquioxide” was published in Inorganic Chemistry.
2019
- 27 November 2019
Kosmas Prassides gave the 407th colloquium entitled “Superconductivity and quantum magnetism in p-electron systems: a personal ongoing voyage into the unexpected” in the series of Solid State Physics Seminars, held at Department of Applied Physics, School of Engineering, Nagoya University and supported by the Toyota Physical and Chemical Research Institute. - 21 October 2019
A paper entitled “Elusive Valence Transition in Mixed-Valence Sesquioxide Cs4O6” was published in Inorganic Chemistry. - 7 October 2019
Kosmas Prassides gave an invited lecture entitled “Emergent electronic phenomena in mixed valence rare-earth fullerides” at the International Conference on Electron Correlation in Superconductors and Nanostructures (ECSN-2019), held in Odessa, Ukraine.
Jump to Gallery - 23 September 2019
Naoya Yoshikane gave a lecture entitled “Tuning of mixed valency in asymmetrically-coordinated rare-earth fullerides” at The 69th Conference of Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry, held at Nagoya University. - 19 September 2019
Kosmas Prassides gave a lecture entitled “Emergent electronic phenomena in hybrid f-/p- electron molecular materials” at the J-Physics 2019 International Conference & KINKEN-WAKATE 2019 Multipole Physics, held at Kobe University.
Jump to Gallery - 12 September 2019
Naoya Yoshikane gave a lecture entitled “Mixed valence transitions in rare-earth fullerides” at the 2019 Autumn Meeting, The Physical Society of Japan, held at Gifu University. - 17 July 2019
Kosmas Prassides gave a lecture entitled “Emergent electronic phenomena in intermediate valence rare-earth fullerides” at the J-Physics Mini-Workshop in Osaka, held at Osaka University. - 9 July 2019
A paper entitled “Chemical reduction of Li+@C60 by decamethylferrocene to produce neutral Li+@C60•–” was published in Carbon. - 23 June 2019
Kosmas Prassides gave a keynote lecture entitled “Emergent electronic phenomena in mixed valence rare-earth fullerides” at the International Conference on Quantum Physics in Complex Matter: Superconductivity, Magnetism and Ferroelectricity, Superstripes 2019, held in Ischia, Italy. - 16 June 2019
Kosmas Prassides gave an invited lecture entitled “Emergent Electronic Phenomena in All-Carbon π-Electron Molecular Systems” at The 1st Nanjing Conference on Quantum Materials (NCQM-2019), held at Nanjing University, Nanjing, China. - 28 May 2019
Associate Professor Ioannis Arvanitidis from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece is visiting our laboratory for collaborative work at SPring-8. - 14 May 2019
Kosmas Prassides gave a lecture entitled “Metal-directed asymmetric spatial assembly of diverse building blocks – spheres, planes, and bowls” at the 2019 Coordination Asymmetry Annual Meeting held at the University of Tokyo, Japan.
Jump to Gallery - 7 May 2019
Kosmas Prassides gave an invited lecture entitled “Quantum magnetism in fully‐frustrated all‐carbon π‐electron systems” at the International Workshop on Phase Transition and Dynamical Properties of Spin Transition Materials (PDSTM 2019), held in Gainesville, Florida, USA. - 24 April 2019
Professor Katsuya Shimizu from Osaka University visited our Department and gave a colloquium entitled “Room-temperature superconductivity: are we there yet?”
Jump to Gallery - 5 April 2019
Ohanami party with Makiura laboratory at Shirasagi Park.
Jump to Gallery - 1 April 2019
Our laboratory joined the Coordination Asymmetry project funded by KAKENHI under the Innovative Areas program. - 1 April 2019
Assistant Professor Naoki Tarutani and Bachelor (B4) students Tomoaki Fushimi, Yuta Ido, Keisuke Matsui, and Kota Mino joined our laboratory. Naoya Yoshikane continues his research as a Masters (M1) student.
Jump to Gallery - 24 March 2019
Naoya Yoshikane (B4 student) was presented with the Department of Materials Science top award ― Gold Medal ― for his research “Tuning of mixed valency in rare-earth fullerides by pressure”.
Jump to Gallery - 19 March 2019
Kosmas Prassides organized a symposium entitled “Chemical design of exotic states of matter ― quantum spin liquids ” at the 99th Annual Meeting 2019 of the Chemical Society of Japan held at the Konan University, Kobe.
He gave an introductory talk with the same title and a special program lecture entitled “Quantum magnetism in fully-frustrated all-carbon π-electron systems”.
Other contributors to the Symposium were:
Professor Harald Jeschke - “Identifying and understanding quantum spin liquid materials”,
Professor Reizo Kato - “Exotic electronic states in and around quantum spin liquid based on Pd(dmit)2“,
Professor Hatsumi Mori - “Quantum liquid of magnetic and electric dipoles in a proton-electron coupled molecular crystal”,
Professor Yuko Hosokoshi - “Study on quantum spin states and spin liquids by organic radicals”, and
Professor Kunio Awaga - “Quantum Spin Liquid State in Organic Hyper-Kagome Lattice of Mott Dimers”.
Naoya Yoshikane also gave a lecture entitled “Pressure evolution of Sm valence in
(Sm1-xCax)2.75C60 fullerides” at the same meeting.
Jump to Gallery - 19 March 2019
A paper entitled “Structural and electronic properties of the overexpanded quaternary superconducting fulleride K0.25Rb0.25Cs2.5C60“ was published in the Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids.
2018
- 30 November 2018
A paper entitled “The reactivity of solid rubrene with potassium: competition between intercalation and molecular decomposition”” was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. - 26 October 2018
Kosmas Prassides gave an invited lecture entitled “Emergent Electronic Phenomena in All-Carbon π-Electron Molecular Systems” at The 8th TOYOTA RIKEN International Workshop on Organic Semiconductors, Conductors, and Electronics held in Nagakute, Aichi.
Jump to Gallery - 1 October 2018
Kosmas Prassides accepted a Professorship at the Department of Materials, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University. He remains a visiting Professor at Tohoku University. - 17 September 2018
Kosmas Prassides gave an invited lecture entitled “Unconventional superconductivity and quantum magnetism in π-electron molecular systems” at the symposium “Recent progress in superconductivity of two-dimensional layered systems” at the 2018 European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) Fall meeting held at Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. - 22 August 2018
Kosmas Prassides gave an invited lecture entitled “Superconductivity and Magnetism in all-Carbon π-electron Systems” at the 12th International Conference on Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity and High Temperature Superconductors (M2S-2018) held in Beijing, China.
Jump to Gallery - 14 August 2018
Kosmas Prassides gave an invited lecture entitled “Emergent Electronic Phenomena in All-Carbon π-Electron Systems” at the Gordon Research Conference (GRC), “Conductivity and Magnetism in Molecular Materials” held at Bryant University, Rhode Island, USA.
Zhanqiang Xu gave a poster presentation entitled “Towards the Assembly of Charged Analogues of Endohedral Metallofullerenes from Bowl-shaped π-Electron Molecular Units” at the same conference .
Jump to Gallery - 7 August 2018
Kosmas Prassides gave an invited lecture entitled “Tracking the Hebel-Slichter coherence peak across the superconductivity dome” at the J-Physics Topical Meeting, ‘Monodukuri’ Series No. 3 “Forefront of Materials Search” held at Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan. - 29 June 2018
Kosmas Prassides gave an invited lecture entitled “Carbon-based molecular materials as new electronic materials platforms“ at the International Workshop on New Materials and Crystal Growth held in Awaji, Hyogo.
Jump to Gallery - 11 June 2018
Kosmas Prassides gave a lecture entitled “Some recent progress of our research on all-carbon π-electron systems” at the 2018 π-figuration Annual Meeting held in Niigata.
Jump to Gallery - 25 May 2018
Kosmas Prassides gave a lecture entitled “Emergent electronic phenomena in hybrid f-/p-electron molecular materials” at the 2018 J-Physics Annual Meeting held at Tohoku University, Sendai.
Takeshi Nakagawa gave a poster presentation entitled “Pressure response of the mixed valence RE2.75C60 (RE: Sm, Eu) fullerides studied by Raman spectroscopy” at the same meeting.
Jump to Gallery - 10 April 2018
Kosmas Prassides receives The Commendation for Science and Technology (Research Category) Award by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). He won the prize in recognition of his outstanding research achievements in high-Tc superconductivity and quantum magnetism of nanocarbon molecular materials. - 2 April 2018
A new member, Research Associate Dr. Zhanqiang Xu joined our laboratory. - 17 March 2018
Yasuhiro Takabayashi gave a lecture entitled “Emergent electronic phenomena in hybrid f-/p-electron molecular materials” at the J-Physics Annual Meeting FY2017 held at the Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP), the University of Tokyo, Kashiwa - 15 March 2018
A paper entitled “Structural and electronic response of overexpanded superconducting fullerides close to the Mott insulator boundary” was published in the International Journal of Modern Physics B. - 14 March 2018
A paper entitled “Pressure-induced Mott-insulator-metal crossover at ambient temperature in an overexpanded fulleride” was published in Materials Chemistry Frontiers. - 3 March 2018
Farewell dinner for Prof Ioannis Arvanitidis.
Jump to Gallery - 26 Februaly 2018
A new member, Visiting Associate Professor Dmitry V. Konarev from the Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences joined our laboratory.
Jump to Gallery - 21 February 2018
Kosmas Prassides gave an invited lecture entitled “Emergent electronic phenomena in all-carbon π-electron systems” at the AIMR Workshop 2018
held in Sendai.
Jump to Gallery - 20 February 2018
Our group gave a poster presentation entitled “Unconventional superconductivity and quantum magnetism in π-electron molecular systems” at the Kick-off Symposium for World Leading Research Centers held in Sendai.
Jump to Gallery - 4 January 2018
A new member, Visiting Associate Professor Ioannis Arvanitidis from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki joined our laboratory.
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2017
- 20 December 2017
End-of-year group dinner at Carne Freccia restaurant, Sendai.
Jump to Gallery - 16 December 2017
Yasuhiro Takabayashi gave an invited lecture entitled “Search for new superconductors in π-electron systems” at the 4th Young Scientist Workshop on “π-System Figuration held in Yokohama, Japan. - 14 December 2017
Yasuhiro Takabayashi gave an invited lecture entitled “π-electron Quantum Magnetism in Ionic Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons” at the 2nd workshop on “New development of research on quantum spin liquids held at the University of Tokyo, Japan. - 13 December 2017
Kosmas Prassides gave a plenary lecture entitled “30 years of superconductivity in molecular solids” at the 30th International Symposium on Superconductivity (ISS2017) held in Tokyo, Japan. - 8 December 2017
Kosmas Prassides gave an invited lecture entitled “Fullerene superconductivity: a personal ongoing voyage into the unexpected” as part of the Paris / Palaiseau 2017 Fall lecture Series on the Frontiers of Condensed Matter Physics (FCMP) held at the Ecole superieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI Paris), Paris, France.
Jump to Gallery - 14 November 2017
Kosmas Prassides gave a lecture entitled “Emergent electronic phenomena in all-carbon π-electron systems” at the German-Japanese Workshop on π-System Figuration held at Heidelberg University, Germany.
Jump to Gallery - 24 October 2017
A paper entitled “Air/Liquid Interfacial Nanoassembly of Molecular Building Blocks into Preferentially Oriented Porous Organic Nanosheet Crystals via Hydrogen Bonding” was published in ACS Nano. - 19 October 2017
Kosmas Prassides gave a lecture entitled “In search of the Hebel-Slichter coherence peak across the superconductivity dome of fullerides” at the 4th Open Symposium on π-System Figuration held at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. - 26 September 2017
Kosmas Prassides gave a lecture entitled “Intermediate valency in hybrid f-/p-electron molecular materials” at the
International Workshop on Multipole Physics and Related Phenomena held at Hachimantai, Iwate Prefecture, Japan.
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Yasuhiro Takabayashi gave a poster presentation entitled “π-electron Quantum Magnetism in Ionic Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons” at the 12th International Symposium on Crystalline Organic Metals, Superconductors and Magnets (ISCOM2017) held at Zao, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.
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Kosmas Prassides co-organized a symposium entitled “Superconducting Materials and Applications” at the 15th International Conference on Advanced Materials (IUMRS-ICAM 2017) held at Kyoto University. He gave a lecture at the same meeting entitled “Emergent electronic phenomena in π-electron molecular systems”. - 17 August 2017
Kosmas Prassides gave an invited lecture entitled “Emergent electronic phenomena in all-carbon π-electron systems” at the International Conference on Electron Correlation in Superconductors and Nanostructures (ECSN-2017) held in Odessa, Ukraine.
Jump to Gallery - 31 July 2017
Our research work has been highlighted in the Japanese edition of AiMResearch under the title: イオン性炭化水素: 意外なスピン状態の発現 - 28 July 2017
Kosmas Prassides gave an invited lecture entitled “π-electron quantum magnetism in ionic polyaromatic hydrocarbons” at the 6th Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ACCC6) held in Melbourne, Australia.
Jump to Gallery - 3 July 2017
Our research work has been highlighted in AiMResearch under the title: Ionic hydrocarbons: Putting an unexpected spin on things - 29 June 2017
Kosmas Prassides gave a lecture entitled “A μSR search for the Hebel-Slichter coherence peak across the superconductivity dome of fullerides” at The 14th International Conference on Muon Spin Rotation, Relaxation and Resonance (μSR2017) held at Hokkaido University.
Jump to Gallery - 23 June 2017
Our work was highlighted in a “News & Views” article by Roser Valenti & Stephen M. Winter – “Synthesis successes“, Nature Chemistry 9, 608-609 (2017). - 18 June 2017
Kosmas Prassides was interviewed by Kentaro Sato for CHEMISTRY TODAY (現代化学). The interview appeared under the title: 量子スピン液体の創成 in the July 2017 issue of the magazine and π-figuration News Letter Vol. 35. - 4 June 2017
Kosmas Prassides gave a Plenary lecture entitled “New candidate quantum spin liquids in ionic polyaromatic hydrocarbons” at the International Conference on Quantum Physics in Complex Matter: Superconductivity, Magnetism and Ferroelectricity, Superstripes 2017 held in Ischia, Italy. - 30 May 2017
Kosmas Prassides gave an invited lecture entitled “High Temperature and High Magnetic Field Superconductivity in Fullerides” at the “Symposium B05: Fullerenes- Chemical Functionalization, Electron Transfer, and Theory” at the 231st ECS Meeting held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. - 18 May 2017
Kosmas Prassides gave an invited lecture entitled “Emergent Electronic Phenomena in π-electron Nanocarbon Molecular Systems” at the 12th Japan-France Workshop on Nanomaterials and 3rd WPI Workshop on Materials Science (NanoMat 2017) held at Kyushu University. - 28 April 2017
Our research work has been highlighted in the Japanese edition of AiMResearch under the title: 超伝導: 分子の「のり」で電子の不安定性を克服 - 24 April 2017
Two consecutive papers entitled “π-electron S = ? quantum-spin-liquid state in an ionic polyaromatic hydrocarbon”and “Redox-controlled potassium intercalation into two polyaromatic hydrocarbon solids”were published in Nature Chemistry.The following press releases were announced by Tohoku University (Japanese / English) and AIMR (Japanese / English).
Highlighted in the Nikkei Business Daily newspaper (日経産業新聞), page 8, April 25, 2017: “信号「0「1」の中間が設定可能 次世代メモリー 新素材”
Highlighted in the Nikkei (日本経済新聞) website: 東北大など、炭化水素から特異な磁気状態「スピン液体」の発現に成功
Highlighted in the Nikkan Kogyo Shinbun (日刊工業新聞), page 29, April 25, 2017 and the website: 東北大・英リバプール大、安価に「スピン液体」作製 ? 量子コンピューターに道
Additional descriptions of the work appeared in the following websites: EurekAlert!,
Phys.org, Nanowerk, Japanese Research.com, Latest Technology. My Navi News - 1 April 2017
Our laboratory joined the π-System Figuration project funded by KAKENHI under the Innovative Areas program. - 1 April 2017
A new member, Dr Martina Vrankic joined our laboratory as a Research Associate.
Jump to Gallery - 29 March 2017
Farewell dinner for Dr Melita Menelaou.
Jump to Gallery - 27 March 2017
Our research work has been highlighted in AiMResearch under the title: Superconductivity: Fixing electron instability with a dab of molecular glue - 20 March 2017
Kosmas Prassides gave an invited talk (New quantum spin liquid states purely from carbon π-electrons) at a symposium entitled “Emergent phenomena in π-electron systems” at the 72nd Japan Physical Society Annual Meeting held at Osaka University. - 17 February 2017
A paper entitled “Upper critical field reaches 90 tesla near the Mott transition in fulleride superconductors” was published in Nature Communications. The following press release was issued by Tohoku University (Japanese). - 13 February 2017
Group members gave poster presentations at the AIMR International Symposium 2017 (AMIS2017) on “The 10th Anniversary of AIMR congratulating Mathematics-Materials Science Collaboration” held in Sendai. Their presentations were as follows:
Ioannis Arvanitidis: “Pressure response of the mixed valence RE2.75C60 (RE: Sm, Eu) fullerides studied by Raman spectroscopy”,
Yasuhiro Takabayashi: “Quantum spin-liquid state in a π-electron carbon system”,
Melita Menelaou: “Insulator-to-metal transition in overexpanded RbxCs3-xC60 close to Mott boundary”,
Takeshi Nakagawa: “Orbital mixing and valence transitions in (Sm1-xCax)2.75C60 fullerides”,
Robert Sobota: “High-pressure investigations of C60-based molecular superconductors with diamond anvil cells”, and
Yongbing Shen: “Crystal structure of (Li+@C60?-)2: a dimerized endohedral metallofullerene”.
Jump to Gallery - 27 January 2017
Kosmas Prassides gave a Plenary lecture entitled “π-figuration: towards Designer Functional Materials” at the 3rd International Symposium on π-System Figuration held in Nagoya.
Jump to Gallery - 16 January 2017
A new member, Visiting Associate Professor Ioannis Arvanitidis from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki joined our laboratory.
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2016
- 21 December 2016
Kosmas Prassides gave a Seminar entitled “Current status and challenges ahead in p-electron molecular solids” at the Department of Physics and Electronics, Osaka Prefecture University. - 14 December 2016
End-of-year group dinner at Oshika, a Japanese restaurant near the Sendai City Hall.
Jump to Gallery - 1 December 2016
Kosmas Prassides gave a Seminar entitled “Current status and challenges ahead in π-electron molecular magnetism and superconductivity – fullerenes and polyaromatic hydrocarbons” at the IMDEA Nanoscience Institute, Madrid, Spain. - 30 November 2016
Kosmas Prassides gave an invited lecture entitled “π-electron S = 1/2 quantum spin-liquid state in an ionic polyaromatic hydrocarbon” at the International Workshop on Phase Transition and Dynamical Properties of Spin Transition Materials (PDSTM2016) held at Gandia (Valencia), Spain.
Jump to Gallery - 1 October 2016
Melita Menelaou was interviewed by the Internarional Affairs Center (IAC) of our Institute. See her interview about her home country Cyprus in page 3 of the October Issue of the IAC Magazine [English / Japanese - 1 October 2016
A new member, Mr Yongbing Shen joined our laboratory as a PhD Student.
Jump to Gallery - 9 September 2016
Yasuhiro Takabayashi gave an oral presentation entitled “A15-structured Cs3C60 : the first non-cubic A3C60 fulleride” at The 51st Fullerenes-Nanotubes-Graphene General Symposium held at Sapporo, Japan. - 6 Sepetmber 2016
Yasuhiro Takabayashi gave a poster presentation entitled “Quantum spin-liquid state in an ionic polyaromatic hydrocarbon” at The 15th International conference on molecule-based magnets (ICMM2016) held at Sendai, Japan.
Jump to Gallery - 2 September 2016
Kosmas Prassides gave a Seminar entitled “Molecular superconductivity: a personal voyage into the unexpected” at the School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University. - 8 August 2016
A review entitled “Unconventional high-Tc superconductivity in fullerides ” was published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. - 8 August 2016
Yasuhiro Takabayashi got Best Poster Award for his poster presentation entitled “Physical and chemical Control of superconductivity and magnetism in highly correlated fullerides” which was presented at the 17th International Conference on High Pressure in Semiconductor Physics (HPSP17) & The Workshop on High Pressure Study on Superconducting (WHS) held at University of Tokyo.
Jump to Gallery - 1 July 2016
Our fullerene work appeared on the front cover of the number 73 issue of ESRFnews (July 2016). - 23 June 2016
Kosmas Prassides gave a plenary lecture entitled “Optimized Unconventional High-Tc Superconductivity in Fullerides” at the International Conference on Quantum Physics in Complex Matter: Superconductivity, Magnetism and Ferroelectricity, Superstripes 2016 , held at Ischia, Italy. - 14 June 2016
Farewell dinner for our colleague Kostas Georgarakis who is moving to the UK to take up a Senior Lectureship at Cranfield University.
Jump to Gallery - 31 May 2016
Melita Menelaou gave a Seminar entitled “The fascinating tale of metals and molecules in the molecular scale and nanoscale” at the Department of Chemistry, Tohoku University. - 26 May 2016
Kosmas Prassides gave a lecture entitled “Towards hybrid f-/p-electron molecular materials” at the 2016 J-Physics Annual Meeting held at Hokkaido University, Sapporo.
Jump to Gallery - 17 May 2016
Kosmas Prassides gave an invited lecture entitled “Current Status and Challenges Ahead in Fullerene Superconductivity” at the International Workshop on Fundamental and Applied Research of Novel Nanocarbon Derivatives; Toward Bottom Up Approach to Nanocarbon Era held at Tohoku University, Sendai.
Jump to Gallery - 4 May 2016
Esma Okur (Durham, 2011-2015) successfully defended her doctoral thesis (Experimental investigations of correlated electron systems: alkali fullerides and sesquioxides) and was awarded the PhD degree in Chemistry by Durham University. - 12 April 2016
Kosmas Prassides gave a Seminar entitled “Quantum magnets, spin liquids, metals and superconductors. And all without any metal ions” at the Department of Chemistry, Tohoku University.
Jump to Gallery - 1 April 2016
Our laboratory joined the J-Physics: Physics of Conductive Multipole Systems project funded by KAKENHI under the Innovative Areas program. - 1 April 2016
Our laboratory joined the new Key Interdisciplinary Research Center of Tohoku University focusing on Fundamental and Applied Research of Novel Nanocarbon Derivatives (新奇ナノカーボン誘導分子系基盤研究開発センター). - 1 April 2016
A new member, Dr Robert Sobota joined our laboratory as a Research Associate.
Jump to Gallery - 19 March 2016
Kosmas Prassides organized a symposium entitled “Commonalities and individualities in unconventional superconductors” at the Japan Physical Society 2016 Annual meeting held at the Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai. He gave an introductory talk with the same title.
Other contributors to the Symposium were: Professor Hideo Hosono (“Recent Progress in Bulk and thin films of Iron-based Superconductors”),
Professor Yuji Matsuda (“A Quantum Critical Point Lying Beneath the Superconducting Dome in Iron Pnictides”),
Professor Atushi Fujimori (“Competing orders in cuprates and iron pnictides”),
Professor Denis Ar?on (“Unconventional superconductivity in fullerides”),
Professor Yoshihiro Iwasa (“Clean 2D superconductor”),
Dr. Ryotaro Arita (“First-principles study on pressure-induced superconductivity in the iron-based ladder material BaFe2S3“), and
Dr. Yosuke Matsumoto (“Heavy fermion superconductivity under strong orbital fluctuations in PrV2Al20“).
Yasuhiro Takabayashi (π-electron one-dimensional molecular quantum antiferromagnetism in ionic polyaromatic hydrocarbons),
Melita Menelaou (Magnetism and superconductivity in expanded fullerides close to the Mott transition), and Takeshi Nakagawa
(Pressure-induced insulator-to-metal transition in overexpanded fullerides) also gave lectures at the same meeting.
Jump to Gallery - 17 March 2016
Yasuhiro Takabayashi gave an invited lecture entitled “Chemical and physical control of fulleride superconductors” at the International Workshop on Superconductivity and Related Functional Materials 2016 (IWSFM2016) held in Sendai. - 22 February 2016
Yasuhiro Takabayashi, Melita Menelaou, and Takeshi Nakagawa gave poster presentations entitled“π-electron One-dimensional Molecular Quantum Antiferromagnetism in Ionic Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons”, “Magnetic-field penetration depth in C60 superconductors across the superconductivity dome”, and “Mixed Valence Transitions in Rare-Earth Fullerides”, respectively, at the AIMR International Symposium 2016 (AMIS2016) on “Harmonious Collaborations between Mathematics and Materials Science” held in Sendai.
Jump to Gallery - 21 February 2016
Yasuhiro Takabayashi gave a lecture entitled “Physical control of insulator-to-metal transition in overexpanded A3C60” at the 50th Fullerenes-Nanotubes-Graphene General Symposium held in Tokyo.
In the same meeting, Melita Menelaou and Takeshi Nakagawa gave poster presentations with titles “μ+SR study of fulleride superconductors across the superconductivity dome” and “Mixed valence transitions in rare-earth fullerides”, respectively.
Jump to Gallery - 14 February 2016
A review entitled “Renaissance of Fullerene Superconductivity ”was published in Structure and Bonding.
The review forms part of the celebratory anniversary issue of Structure and Bonding entitled: 50 Years of Structure and Bonding ? The Anniversary Volume and edited by D. M. P. Mingos. - 1 February 2016
Our research work has been highlighted in the 2015 ESRF Highlights (pp. 100-101) under the title: Unconventional High-Tc Superconductivity in Fullerides
2015
- 17 December 2015
Prassides group end-of-year dinner at Carne Freccia restaurant, Sendai.
Jump to Gallery - 1 December 2015
A new member, Dr Takeshi Nakagawa joined our laboratory as a Research Associate.
Jump to Gallery - 17 November 2015
Kosmas Prassides gave the Wigner Colloquium at the Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary. His colloquium was entitled: Fullerene superconductivity: a personal ongoing voyage into the unexpected - 26 October 2015
Kosmas Prassides gave an invited lecture entitled “Optimized Unconventional Superconductivity in Fullerides” at the Symposium on Superconducting and Thermoelectric Materials for Sustainable Development, International Conference of Advanced Materials (IUMRS-ICAM 2015) held in Jeju, Korea.
Jump to Gallery - 28 September 2015
Our research work has been highlighted in the Japanese edition of AiMResearch under the title: フラーレン超伝導体: バランスを最適化して最高の転移温度を実現 - 7 September 2015
Yasuhiro Takabayashi gave a lecture entitled “Chemical and physical control of superconductivity and magnetism in fullerides” at the 49th Fullerenes-Nanotubes-Graphene General Symposium , held in Kitakyushu, Japan. - 1 September 2015
A new member, Dr Yasuhiro Takabayashi joined our laboratory as an Assistant Professor.
Jump to Gallery - 31 August 2015
Our research work has been highlighted in AiMResearch under the title: Superconductivity: Striking a balance - 26 August 2015
Kosmas Prassides gave a plenary lecture entitled “ Superconductivity in Fullerides ” at the 11th International Conference on Materials & Mechanisms of Superconductivity (M2S HTSC 2015) held in Geneva, Switzerland.
Jump to Gallery - 29 May 2015
Ruth H. Zadik (Durham, 2010-2014) successfully defended her doctoral thesis (Structural, electronic and magnetic properties of fulleride materials) and was awarded the PhD degree in Chemistry by Durham University. Ruth currently works for the Journal Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry in Cambridge, UK. - 12 May 2015
A paper entitled “External stimulation-controllable heat-storage ceramics ”was published in Nature Communications. - 1 May 2015
A new member, Dr Melita Menelaou joined our laboratory as a Research Associate.
Jump to Gallery - 17 April 2015
A paper entitled “Optimized unconventional superconductivity in a molecular Jahn-Teller metal”was published in Science Advances.
The following press releases were announced by Tohoku University (Japanese / English), JST(Japanese) and SPring-8 (Japanese / English).Highlighted in Physics World: New state of matter found in crystal made from buckyballs
Short popular account of the work appeared in the web magazine on Physics, 2physics.com: Tuning Superconductivity in a Molecular System : The Key Role of the Jahn-Teller Metallic State Highlighted in the Materials World magazine, p.10, July 2015: Super state of matterHighlighted in Yahoo News Canada: Discovery of new state of matter may lead to superconductor revolution
Highlighted in the Nikkei Business Daily newspaper (日経産業新聞), page 22, April 27, 2015: “超電導時に高速振動 – 球状炭素分子、結晶内で”
Highlight entitled “Buckyball lattice harbours superconductivity” appeared in Frontiers Section of Physics World, volume 28, no 6, page 4, June 2015. - 7 April 2015
Kosmas Prassides gave an invited lecture entitled “Strongly correlated molecular superconductors” at Symposium VV: Science and Technology of Superconducting Materials, MRS2015 Spring Meeting held in San Francisco, California.
Jump to Gallery - 2 April 2015
A new member, Dr Minfeng Lu joined our laboratory as a Research Associate.
Jump to Gallery - 1 April 2015
A paper entitled “Emergence of double-dome superconductivity in ammoniated metal-doped FeSe“ was published in Scientific Reports. - 12 March 2015
Professor Mark Golden from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands visited our laboratory and gave a colloquium entitled “Topological or not topological? The strange surfaces of SmB6 and other metal hexaborides”.
Jump to Gallery - 20 February 2015
Kosmas Prassides gave an invited lecture entitled “A molecular perspective of solid state physics” at the 2nd Leading University Symposium, Frontier of Solid State Coordination Chemistry – Toward Creation of Interdisciplinary Field among Coordination Chemistry, Solid State Physics and Bio-Physical Chemistry held in Sendai, Japan.
Jump to Gallery - 17 February 2015
We welcomed Professor Erio Tosatti, SISSA, Italy and Professor Steven Kivelson, Stanford University, USA to Sendai. They both gave invited presentations at AMIS2015.
Jump to Gallery - 17 February 2015
Hiro Okazaki and Aleš Štefančič gave poster presentations entitled “Unconventional behaviour of the expanded A3C60 across the superconductivity dome by μSR measurements” and “Synthesis of phase-pure caesium phenanthrides and authentication of their structure and electronic properties”, respectively, at the AIMR International Symposium 2015 (AMIS2015) on Multi-Scale Hierarchical Materials based on Discrete Geometric Analysis” held in Sendai.
Jump to Gallery - 13 February 2015
We had our first major instrument delivery in the labs. Two gloveboxes manufactured by Innovative Technology were delivered in Laboratory 204.
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2014
- 19 December 2014
Kosmas Prassides gave the 7th WPI-AIMR Joint Seminar in FY2014 entitled “Fullerene-based Molecular Materials: an Ongoing Voyage into the Unexpected”. - 15 December 2014
Kosmas Prassides gave an invited lecture entitled “Unconventional superconductivity in alkali fullerides” at the International Meeting on Magnetic Resonance and Muons – A Complementary View of Materials held in London, UK. - 10 December 2014
Kosmas Prassides gave an invited lecture entitled “Strongly correlated molecular superconductors” at the International Conference on Novel Superconductors and Synchrotron Radiation: state of the art and perspectives (SCSR2014) held in Trieste, Italy.
Jump to Gallery - 19 November 2014
Kosmas Prassides gave an invited lecture entitled “Mixed Valency in Alkali Sesquioxides” at the International Conference on Phase transition and Dynamical properties of Spin Transition Materials (PDSTM2014) held in Tokyo, Japan. - 8 November 2014
Kosmas Prassides gave a keynote lecture entitled “Strongly correlated molecular superconductors” at the Ushimado International Workshop on Physics and Chemistry of Novel Superconductors and related Materials held in Ushimado, Okayama Prefecture, Japan.
Hiro Okazaki, Esma Okur, and Aleš Štefančič gave poster presentations entitled “μSR study of the expanded A3C60 fullerides across the superconductivity dome”, “Pressure-induced valence change in mixed-valence caesium sesquioxide Cs4O6“, and “Towards the synthesis of phase-pure alkali phenacides and authentication of their structure and electronic properties”, respectively, at the same meeting.
Jump to Gallery - 17 October 2014
Prassides group dinner at Moja restaurant, Sendai.
Jump to Gallery - 1 October 2014
Prassides group relocation from the Department of Chemistry, Durham University, UK to the Advanced Institute of Materials Research (AIMR), Tohoku University, Japan is complete. The new laboratory on Functional Molecular Materials begins life at the AIMR. - 6 April 2014
The 7th LEMSUPER meeting (http://www.lemsuper.eu/lemsuper-meetings) was held in Osaka.
Jump to Gallery - 1 April 2014
A paper entitled “Jahn-Teller orbital glass state in the expanded fcc Cs3C60 fulleride ” was published in Chemical Science. - 12 March 2014
Prassides group dinner at Zizzi restaurant, Durham.
Jump to Gallery - 5 March 2014
Florian Scharnagl, exchange student from Wurzburg University (Germany), joins our group for 6 months. - 3 March 2014
A paper entitled “Size and symmetry of the superconducting gap in the f.c.c. Cs3C60 polymorph close to the metal-Mott insulator boundary ” was published in Scientific Reports. - 17 February 2014
Kosmas Prassides gave an invited presentation entitled “Strongly correlated molecular superconductors – the case of fullerides” at the AIMR International Symposium 2014 (AMIS2014) – Toward emergence of new materials science with mathematics collaboration held in Sendai, Japan.
Aleš Štefančič gave a poster presentation entitled “Towards the isolation of metal-intercalated (phen)acene-based solids: rubidium phenanthride”at the same meeting.
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- 23 January 2014
Kosmas Prassides gave an inorganic chemistry colloquium entitled “Fulleride Superconductivity >20 years on – Alive and Kicking” at the Department of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich, Germany. ( http://www.cup.uni-muenchen.de/dept/ch/index.php ) - 16 January 2014
Gyongyi Klupp joins our group for 2 years as a Royal Society Newton International Fellow. ( https://royalsociety.org/grants/schemes/newton-international/ ) - 1 January 2014
Kosmas Prassides receives a 5-year Wolfson Research Merit Award from the Royal Society. ( https://royalsociety.org/grants/schemes/wolfson-research-merit/ )