News

April 2024: Rin Chinen (B) and Hiroki Yoshida (B) have joined the Lab.  Welcome!  

March 2024: Maharoof Koyakkat received "Poster Award (plus 50 USD)" at ACS Spring 2024 (New Orleans, US)!

March 2024: Xeuchen Liu received Master degree and Junpei Sato received B. Sci. Congraturations. 

October 2023: Faruk Hossain (D) has joined the Lab.  Welcome!  

August 2023: We enjoyed 9IDMRCS (9th International Discussion Meeting on Relaxations in Complex Systems) @Chiba!

April 2023: Junpei Sato (B) has joined the Lab.  Welcome!  

March 2023: Masa Ando received PhD degree.  Also received "Dean's Award of Academic Achievement" from the Dean of Graduate School of Science, Chiba University! Congraturations.

Masako Shimizu received Master degree and Shino Mochizuki and Shingo Yajima received B. Sci. Congraturations. 

December 2022:Prof. Marian Paluch (Univ. of Silesia, Poland) visits the Lab., and give a seminar (Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy as a Powerful Tool for Investigating Molecular Dynamics and Proton Reaction Kinetics of Condensed Matter Systems).  Thank you for exciting and energetic talk!

July 2022: Prof. Ruben Dario Falcone (National University of Rio Cuarto, Argentina) stays at the Lab as JSPS invitational fellow.   Welcome!  

April 2022: Maharoof Koyakkat (D), Haruhiro Mori (M), Xuech Liu (M),  Shingo Yajima (B), Shino Mochizuki (B) have joined the Lab.  Welcome!  

January 2022: A book (Molecular Basics of Liquids and Liquid-Based Materials, Nishiyama, et al. Eds) is published from Springer.  Our contribution is Chapter 5 (Intermolecular Vibrations in Aprotic Molecular Liquids and Ionic Liquids, Shirota).

June 2021: Our paper (Kakinuma & Shirota, J. Phys. Chem. B 2019, 123 (6), 1307-1323) has been selected as an article in Virtual Issue on Ultrafast Spectroscopy of J. Phys. Chem. B.

Link: https://pubs.acs.org/page/jpcbfk/vi/ultrafast-spectroscopy?ref=vi_journalhome

March 2021: SotaMiura (B4) has joined the Lab.  Welcome!  

December 2020: A book (Theoretical and Computational Approaches to Predicting Ionic Liquid Properties, Joseph & Mathew, Eds) is published from Elsevier.  Our contribution is Chapter 5 (Temperature-Dependent Features in Low-Frequency Spectra of Ionic Liquids, Shirota & Kakinuma).

December 2020: Our paper (Shirota, et al. Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. 2020, 93 (12), 1520-1539) has been selected as a Selected Paper.

Link: https://www.journal.csj.jp/doi/abs/10.1246/bcsj.20200198

September 2020: Yue Peng (M1) has joint the Lab.  Welcome!  

September 2020: Collaboration  paper with Takamuku Group (Saga University) (Ando, et al. J. Phys. Chem. B 2020, 124 (36), 7857–7871 ) has been selected as  Supplementary Cover Art Article.

Link: https://pubs.acs.org/toc/jpcbfk/124/36

March 2020: Megjun Cao (M1), Masako Shimizu (B4), Naoya Yamamoto (B4) have joined the Lab.  Welcome!  

November 2019: Masa Ando received "Poster Presentation Award for Excellent Research" at the 9th CSJ Chemistry Festa!

November 2019: Our paper (Shirota, et al. J. Chem. Eng. Data 2019, 64 (11), 4701-4707) has been selected as  Supplementary Cover Art Article in the special issue on "Celebrating Our High Impact Authors".

Link: https://pubs.acs.org/toc/jceaax/64/11 

September 2019: Masa Ando received "Poster Prize (plus 150 Euro)" at EMLG-JMLG Annual Meeting (Kutna Hora, Czech)!

March 2019: Shohei Kakinuma received PhD degree.  Also received "Outstanding Excellent Award" from the President of Chiba University!

February 2019: Our paper (Kakinuma & Shirota, J. Phys. Chem. B 2019, 123 (6), 1307-1323) has been selected as  Supplementary Cover Art Article.

Link: https://pubs.acs.org/toc/jpcbfk/123/6

November 2018: Masa Ando received "Poster Presentation Award for Excellent Research" at the 8th CSJ Chemistry Festa!