BNERC: Active collaboration on advanced research and educational programmes with Sultan Qaboos University

The Bio-Nano Electronics Research Centre (BNERC) and the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary New Science (IdNS) exchanged the Letter of Understanding on “Advanced Research and Educational Programmes” with the College of Science, Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), Sultanate of Oman, in October 2014.

SQU recognised the results obtained through the collaborative programmes for the past year as the “Most Impressive Outcome” among their overseas universities. SQU invited Professor Toru Maekawa (Director, BNERC), Dr Takashi Uchida (Researcher, BNERC) and Mr Hiroshi Akasu (Chief, Research Promotion Office) to discuss the future plan of the collaborative programmes with HE Ali Soud Al-Bemani(Vice-Chancellor) and HH Dr Mona Al Said (International Office). They also discussed the initiation of the “Joint Degree Programmes” for Master and Doctoral students.

Professor Toru Maekawa and Dr Takashi Uchida gave Plenary Lectures at the International Chemistry Conference on Recent Trends in Drug Development (RTDD15) organised by SQU.

   Takashi Uchida, Carbon nanostructures and their application to biomedical studies
    Toru Maekawa, Nano robotics: its application to biomedical studies

Outline of the outcome of the collaborative research and educational programmes

September 2014

Professor Toru Maekawa (Director, BNERC), Professor Tatsuro Hanajiri (Deputy-Director, BNERC), Dr Takashi Uchida (Researcher, BNERC) and Mr Kiyotaka Takahashi (Head, Presidential Office) visited SQU to discuss the initiation of collaborative research and educational programmes.

Professor Toru Maekawa, Professor Tatsuro Hanajiri and Dr Takashi Uchida gave invited talks at the “Seminar on Nanotechnology” organised by the College of Science, SQU.

October 2014

A delegation of SQU, including HE Ali Soud Al-Bemani and HH Dr Mona Al Said, visited the Bio-Nano Electronics Research Centre on the Kawagoe Campus to exchange the Letter of Understanding on the “Collaborative Research and Educational Programmes”.

Collaborative research on “Creation of functional carbon nanostructures” was initiated.

November 2014

Mr Mohamed Al-Kindi, Technical Manage at SQU, participated in the “Advanced Training Course on Scanning Electron Microscopy”, which was organised by BNERC, for two weeks.

June 2015

Publication of a collaborative paper
S. Al Khabouri, S. Al Harthi, T. Maekawa, Y. Nagaoka, M.E. Elzain, A. Al Hinai, A.D. Al-Rawas, A.M. Gismelseed and A.A. Yousif, Composition, electronic and magnetic investigation of the encapsulated ZnFe2O4 nanoparticles in multiwall carbon nanotubes containing Ni residuals, Nanoscale Res. Lett.10, 262 (2015).
DOI: 10.1186/s11671-015-0971-7

August 2015

Collaborative paper under review
S. Al Khabouri, S. Al Harthi, T. Maekawa, Y. Nagaoka, M.E. Elzain, A. Al Hinai, A.D. Al-Rawas, A.M. Gismelseed and A.A. Yousif, Free and carbon nanotubes encapsulated manganese ferrite nanoparticles (2015), under review.

November 2015

Collaborative research on “Discovery of extremophiles and development of biotechnology based on the extremophiles” was initiated.

Collaborative paper under review
S. Al Khabouri, S. Al Harthi, T. Maekawa, Y. Nagaoka, M.E. Elzain, A. Al Hinai, A.D. Al-Rawas, A.M. Gismelseed and A.A. Yousif, Effect of dimensions of multiwall carbon nanotubes on encapsulated MnFe2O4 nanoparticles (2015), under review.

Mr AbdulRahman Abdullah Zahran Al Nabhani, Technical Manage at SQU, participated in the “Advanced Training Course on Transmission Electron Microscopy” for two weeks.

Professor Maekawa, Dr Uchida and Mr Akasu discussed future collaboration with HE Ali Soud Al-Bemani and HH Dr Mona Al Saidat SQU.

Professor Maekawa and Dr Uchida gave Plenary Lectures at SQU.

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