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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.

13 MAY 2024

Amna Rahman joined our group as an internship student.
Welcome, Rahman-san!!!

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.

16 JAN 2024

Jonathan Chin joined our group as an internship student.
Welcome, Jonathan!!!

14 DEC 2023

We had a farewell lunch for Dr. Yildrim (ICYS Research Fellow) and Mr. Hayashi (internship student).

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 SEP 2023

Chao Zhuang (Univ. of Tsukuba) in our group graduated University of Tsukuba and obtained his Ph.D. in Engineering from University of Tsukuba.

Congratulations, Dr. Zhuang!!!

25 SEP 2023

Hayashi-san joined our group as an internship student.
Welcome, Hayashi-san!!!

05 SEP 2023

Dr. Yildrim became an ICYS Research Fellow, International Center for Young Scientists (ICYS).
Congratulations!!!

07 AUG 2023

Feng, Zhou, and Minami had talks at International Meeting on Chemical Sensors (IMCS 2023), Jilin University, Changchun.
Feng (D2) was awarded the Best Oral Presentation Award.
Congratulations, Feng!!!

22 JUL 2023

We had a Group BBQ.

09 JUN 2023

Our three abstracts have been accepted as oral presentations at International Meeting on Chemical Sensors (IMCS 2023). We will have talks at Jilin University, Changchun, China from August 4–8, 2023.

• K. Minami,* T. Murata, T. Yamazaki, G. Yoshikawa, and K. Ariga "Nanomechanical sensors for detecting trace amount water" O-1-36

• Y. Zhou,* K. Minami, K. Shiba, and G. Yoshikawa* "Analytical Extraction of Sorption Kinetic Information Using Nanomechanical Sensors" O-6-12

• M.-Q. Feng, T. Yildirim, K. Minami, K. Shiba, and G. Yoshikawa* "Sensing Signal Augmentation with Gas Flow Effects for Accurate Differentiation of Complex Odors" O-6-3

05 JUN 2023

Tavechai PHOLSIRI joined our group as an internship student from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.

 Welcome, Stephanie-san!!!

05 JUN 2023

We took a farewell photo for Nemoto-san.

29 MAY 2023

Stephanie XiaoYang WANG joined our group as an internship student from Case Western Reserve University, USA via NNCI program (National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure).

 Welcome, Stephanie-san!!!

25 MAY 2023

K. Minami had an invited talk on International Chemical Congress organized by Nepal Chemical Society at Kathmandu, Nepal.

27 APR 2023

We took a farewell photo for Santha-san.

02 APR 2023

New fiscal year started.
Our group is now belonging to Research Center for Macromolecules and Biomaterials, NIMS, owing to the Fifth Mid- to Long-Term Plan of NIMS.

27 MAR 2023

We took a farewell photo for Yasu-san, Sofia-san, and Vicente-san.

27 MAR 2023

We had Yasu-san's Farewell Lunch. We took a photo.

11 MAR 2023

Our recent work on Laser Molecular Beam Deposition (LMBD) for preparing DNA layer published in Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. is featured in the Issue Cover Picture. 

The cover has been published online.

16 JAN 2023

Sofia Stefania Mirella RIZZO joined our group as an internship student from University of Waterloo, Canada.

 Welcome, Sofia-san!!!