Recent Topics
14 MAY 2024
Minami had a talk at International Symposium on Olfaction and Electronic Nose (ISOEN2024), Grapevine Convention Center, Grapevine, TX, USA.
"Detection of acetone in milk through odor towards monitoring of ketosis in dairy cows" (ID: 4024)
This talk has been accepted as a conference paper and will be published by IEEE.
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07 MAY 2024
Takehiro Kuramochi joined our group as an internship student.
Welcome, Kuramochi-san!!!
25 APR 2024
K. Minami had a talk at 2024 Japan-Taiwan Nano Materials and Nanomedicine Workshop.
[More News]18 APR 2024
Our recent work on the Bayesian optimization for one-pot auto-blending through odor has been accepted in Digital Discovery and is now available online.
This work is a collaboration with Dr. Ryo Tamura (NIMS, The University of Tokyo) and Prof. Koji Tsuda (The University of Tokyo).
Congratulations, Fukui-san!!!
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26 MAR 2024
Yingcheng Zhou in our group graduated University of Tsukuba-NIMS joint Graduate School and obtained his Master of Engineering degree. She will continue her study in Ph. D. course.
He also recieved Award.
Congratulations, Feng!!!
[More News]27 FEB 2024
Our recent work on audible sensing of low-concentration has been accepted in Sensors and Actuators A: Physical and is now available online.
Congratulations, Yildirim-san!!!
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26 FEB 2024
Our recent work on lung cancer detection by nanomechanical sensor array has been accepted in Lung Cancer and is now available online.
This work is a collaboration with Prof. Yukio Sato (University of Tsukuba) and Prof. Hiroshi Kojima (Ibaraki Prefectural Central Hospital).
Congratulations, Saeki-san!!!
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14 FEB 2024
Our recent work on sorption kinetic parameters for gas identification has been accepted in ACS Sensors and is now available online.
Thank all co-authors!!!
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EP 3 812 740 (B1) [EP]
Receptor response modulation method, and measuring device employing receptor response modulation
K. Minami, G. Yoshikawa, G. Imamura, and K. Shiba
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
Application Date: 4th June 2019; Registered on 24th January 2024.
US 11 879 863 (B2) [US]
Method for analyzing liquid sample and apparatus
K. Minami and G. Yoshikawa
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
Application Date: 13th November 2019; Registered on 23rd January 2024.
16 JAN 2024
Our recent work on cell scaffolds at the ionic liquid interface has been accepted in Advanced Materials and is now available online.
This work is a collaboration with Dr. Tekashi Ueki (NIMS).
Congratulations, Ueki-san!!!
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EP 3 889 577 [EU]
Liquid Sample Analysis Method
K. Minami and G. Yoshikawa
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
Application Date: 13th November 2019; Registered on 3rd January 2024.
28 DEC 2023
Our recent work on the topology optimization of nanomechanical sensors has been accepted in Japanese Journal of Applied Physics and is now available online.
Congratulations, Zhuang-san!!!
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14 DEC 2023
We had a farewell lunch for Dr. Yildrim (ICYS Research Fellow) and Mr. Hayashi (internship student).
20 NOV 2023
G. Imamura (NIMS), K. Minami, and G. Yoshikawa have received the Tsukuba Encouragement Prize (Research for Practical Use), The Science and Technology Promotion Foundation of Ibaraki.
[More Awards]06 NOV 2023
Our applied patent has been registered in Japan.
Congratulations, Tamura-san (NIMS)!!!
JP 7371981 [JP]
Primary odor selection method, method for expressing, presenting, or synthesizing odor from combination of primary odors, and device for same
R. Tamura, H. Xu, K. Kitai, K. Minami, M. Nakatsu, G. Yoshikawa, K. Shiba, and K. Tsuda
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
Application Date: 5th March 2021; Registered on 23rd October 2023.
01 NOV 2023
Minami had a talk at the IEEE Sensors 2023, Vienna, Austria.
"Pattern Recognition Using Chemical Sensors for Identification of Solid Materials by Responses to Multiple Probe Gases"
25 OCT 2023
Our applied patent has been registered in the USA.
Congratulations, Yoshikawa-san!!!
[More Research progress]US 11 796 408 [US]
Method for cleaning receptor layer of surface stress sensor
G. Yoshikawa, T. Nemoto, M. Nakatsu, N. Takeda, K. Shiba, K. Minami
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
Application Date: 28th August 2019; Registered on 24th October 2023.
12 OCT 2023
Our recent work on the effects of fermentation quality of silage has been accepted in Animal Science Journal and is now available online.
This work is in collaboration with Dr. Kamiya, Dr. Suzuki, Dr. Suzuki, Dr. Kobayashi, Dr. Tohno, and Dr. Nakakubo (NARO), and Dr. Imamura (NIMS).
Congratulations, Kamiya-san!!!
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16. US 11 774 346 [US]
Receptor response modulation method, and measuring device using receptor response modulation
K. Minami, G. Yoshikawa, G. Imamura, and K. Shiba
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
Application Date: 4th June 2019; Registered on 3rd October 2023.
