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2024
9 April 2024
Dr. George Bacanu completed his JSPS Fellowship in our Group and returned to the University of Southampton in the UK where he will be working as a Senior Research Assistant in the Chemistry Department. We had a farewell party at Umeda.
22 March 2024
Naoya Yoshikane (PhD student) and three of our Master students - Marina Nishiura, Mizuki Suzuki, and Akane Matsumoto successfully graduated.
22 March 2024
Keisuke Matsui (D2 student) was awarded for his recent research works on fullerides by the Graduate School of Engineering.
7 March 2024
Keisuke Matsui (D2 student) gave a poster presentation entitled "Electron injection into superconducting fullerides close to the Mott transition boundary" at The 66th Fullerenes-Nanotubes-Graphene General Symposium, held at Nagoya University, Japan.
22 Feburary 2024
Naoya Yoshikane (PhD student) completed his Ph. D. defense presentation after submitting his PhD thesis entitled "Mixed-valence Rare-earth Fullerides, RE2.75C60: Coupling of Lattice and Electronic Degrees of Freedom". He is now Dr Naoya Yoshikane. Congratulations.
19 Feburary 2024
Professor Denis Arcon from the Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia) visited our Department and gave a colloquium entitled “Azafullerene radical self-assembly and stabilization by encapsulation for molecular qubit networks”
13-14 Feburary 2024
Three of our Master students - Marina Nishiura, Mizuki Suzuki, and Akane Matsumoto - gave presentations entitled "Nanosize control of positive and negative lattice elongation in the Prussian Blue analogue Ag3[Co(CN)6]", "Access to new binary and ternary fulleride phases by calcium intercalation", and "Alkali intercalation chemistry of hybrid molecular solids derived from C60 and polyaromatic hydrocarbons", respectively.
Presentation of Mizuki Suzuki was awarded as the Department of Materials Science award ― Bronze Medal ― from the department of Materials Science. Conguratulations.
2023
18 December 2023
End-of-year dinner at Mozu, close to the OMU Nakamozu campus.
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”
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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. Presentation of Ryuhei Mimura was awarded as the Department of Materials Science award ― Gold Medal ―, and Kyohei Kawamura received a research encouragement award from department.
24 March 2023
We had an end of academic year party at Fukuden, close to Nakamozu campus after graduation celebration ceremony.
2022
29 December 2022
End-of-year drinking party with Makiura-lab members at Sakaya-sho (near Nakamozu campus).
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.
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.
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.
We went to Osaka sight-seeing with Professor Ioannis Arvanitidis for Danjiri festival, Dotonbori. We had dinner parties near the Nakamozu campus.
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.
2-14 May 2022
Naoya Yoshikane (D2 student) and Keisuke Matsui (D1 student) visited the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France for experiments on magnetic materials at high pressure.
2021
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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”.
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.
2020
27 November 2020
Our publication “Pressure-induced valence transition in the mixed-valence (Sm⅓Ca⅔)2.75C60 fulleride” was highlighted as the Front Cover of the December 2020 issue of volume 4 of Materials Chemistry Frontiers.
25 November 2020
Prassides Group picture taken in front of the Materials Department building on the OPU campus. Front row (left to right) Kazunori Kishi (B4 student), Prof Kosmas Prassides, Naoya Yoshikane (M2 student), Keisuke Matsui (M1 student). Back row (left to right) Ms Esther Masuda (Group secretary), Misa Usami and Airi Tada (B4 students), Tomoyaki Fushimi (M1 student).
24 March 2020
Today three B4 students from our laboratory graduated successfully – Tomoyaki Fushimi, Keisuke Matsui, and Kota Mino. Congratulations.
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”.
7 January 2020
Professor Ioannis Arvanitidis from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece is visiting our laboratory as an OPU Guest Professor until February 2nd.
2019
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.
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.
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.
24 April 2019
Professor Katsuya Shimizu from Osaka University visited our Department and gave a colloquium entitled “Room-temperature superconductivity: are we there yet?”
5 April 2019
Ohanami party with Makiura laboratory at Shirasagi Park.
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.
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”.
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.
2018
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.
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.
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 .
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.
11 Jun 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.
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.
3 March 2018
Farewell dinner for Prof Arvanitidis at Shabuzen restuarant, a shabu-shabu Japanese restaurant in Ichibancho.
26 Februaly 2018
Welcome dinner for Prof Konarev at Syaraku, a Japanese restaurant, Sendai.
21 Februaly 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.
20 Februaly 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.
10 January 2018
Welcome dinner for Prof Arvanitidis at Sendai-ya, a Japanese restaurant, Sendai
2017
20 December 2017
End-of-year group dinner at Carne Freccia restaurant, Sendai.
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.
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.
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.
26 September 2017
Yasuhiro Takabayashi gave a poster presentation entitled “π-electron Quantum Magnetism in Ionic Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons” at the International Symposium on Crystalline Organic Metals, Superconductors and Magnets (ISCOM2017) held at Zao, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.
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.
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.
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 The 14th International Conference on Muon Spin Rotation, Relaxation and Resonance (μSR2017) held at Hokkaido University.
12 April 2017
Welcome dinner for Dr Martina Vrankic at Umai Sushikan, a sushi restaurant in Ichibancho.
29 March 2017
Farewell dinner for Dr Melita Menelaou at Shabuzen restuarant, a shabu-shabu Japanese restaurant in Ichibancho.
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”.
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.
17 January 2017
Welcome dinner for Prof Arvanitidis and farewell dinner for Dr Sobota at Sakanaya Doujo, a Japanese restaurant near the Sendai Station.
2016
14 December 2016
End-of-year group dinner at Oshika, a Japanese restaurant near the Sendai City Hall.
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 the International Workshop on Phase Transition and Dynamical Properties of Spin Transition Materials (PDSTM2016) held at Gandia (Valencia), Spain.
1 October 2016
A new member, Mr Yongbing Shen joined our laboratory as a PhD Student.
6 September 2016
Yasuhiro Takabayashi gave a poster presentation entitled “Quantum spin-liquid state in an ionic polyaromatic hydrocarbon” at the The 15th International conference on molecule-based magnets (ICMM2016) held at Sendai, Japan.
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.
14 June 2016
Farewell dinner for Dr Kostas Georgarakis.
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.
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.
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.
1 April 2016
Welcome dinner for Dr Robert Sobota.
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 Arčon (“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.
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.
2015
17 December 2015
Prassides group end-of-year dinner at Carne Freccia restaurant, Sendai.
1 December 2015
Welcome dinner for Dr Takeshi Nakagawa.
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.
9 September 2015
Baseball game between Sendai Rakuten Eagles and Chiba Lotte Marines at Kobo Stadium, Sendai.
1 September 2015
Welcome dinner for Dr Yasuhiro Takabayashi.
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.
1 May 2015
Welcome dinner for Dr Melita Menelaou.
24 April 2015
Welcome party for Dr Minfeng Lu and Yuki Fujimori at Moja Restaurant in Sendai.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
13 February 2015
We had our first major instrument delivery in the labs: two gloveboxes manufactured by Innovative Technology were delivered in Laboratory 204.
2014
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.
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.
17 October 2014
Prassides group dinner at Moja restaurant, Sendai.
6 April 2014
The 7th LEMSUPER meeting (http://www.lemsuper.eu/lemsuper-meetings) was held in Osaka.
12 March 2014
Prassides group dinner at Zizzi restaurant, Durham.
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.
2013
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