MANA
International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics
Based on MEXT's “World Premier International(WPI) Research Center Initiative” program.
Welcome to MANA.
News & Events
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Sep 1, 2010
Takao Aoyagi appointed as new Principal Investigator
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Aug 27, 2010
MOU with Department of Chemistry and Nanoscience, Ewha Womans University, Korea
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Aug 25, 2010
Three research subjects proposed by scientists from MANA have been selected for funding from CREST and PRESTO.
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Aug 24, 2010
Research result of Ajayan Vinu was reported in Newton
- Aug 18, 2010
MANA received a high appraisal from the WPI program committee for the activity in fiscal year 2009.
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Aug 9, 2010
Research result of Ajayan Vinu was reported in The Nikkei online
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Jun 14-15, 2010
MOU with Department of Materials Science, Fudan University, China
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Jun 14-15, 2010
IBM-NIMS symposium on characterization and manipulation at the atomic scale
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May 25, 2010
Yoshihiro Tsujimoto received Research Progress Award from JSPM
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May 20, 2010
MOU with University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
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Apr 13, 2010
Katsunori Wakabayashi received Young Scientists' Prize from MEXT
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Apr 1, 2010
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa and Kazuya Terabe received NIMS President's Research Achievement Award
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Apr 1, 2010
Yusuke Yamauchi received a Ceramic Society of Japan Award
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Mar 27, 2010
Kohei Uosaki received Chemical Society of Japan Award
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Feb 4, 2010
Yusuke Yamauchi received Inoue Research Aid for Young Scientists
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Jan 29, 2010
MOU with Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
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Jan 1, 2010
Kazunori Takada appointed as new Principal Investigator
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Nov 12-13, 2009
2nd NIMS-WUT-EMPA Workshop on Nanomaterials for Sustainable Development
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Oct 28, 2009
MOU with Loughborough University, UK
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Aug 31, 2009
MOU with Kirchhoff Institute of Physics, Germany
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May 19, 2009
James Gimzewski was elected as Fellow of Royal Society
Focus Topics
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New Research Building to Be Constructed
The building is designed so that scientists of different fields can gather together and interact freely with each other.
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Conferences
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- The 165th MANA & 76th ICYS Joint Seminar
- Sep 3, 2010
- Monolayer Mechanisms and ICYS in Review
- Michael Lee
- The Thermodynamic Description of the Reactions of the Organometallic Complexes
- Jaroslav V. Burda
- The 164th MANA Seminar
- Aug 25, 2010
- Self-assembly of Discotic Colloids
- Zhebgdong Cheng
- The 163rd MANA Seminar
- Aug 6, 2010
- IOP Publishing: Maximising the impact of your work
- Anna Demming
- Testing Exotic States of Matter in Extreme Magnetic Fields
- Marcelo Jamie
- The 162nd MANA Seminar
- Aug 4, 2010
- What can Mid and Far infrared spectroscopy tell us about the reaction mechanism of proteins?
- Petra Hellwig
- Calorimetric Studies of the Energetics of Nanomaterials and their Surfaces and Interfaces
- Alexandra Navrotsky
- The 161st MANA & 75th ICYS Joint Seminar
- Jul 30, 2010
- Chemically Converted Graphene: Functionalization and Nanocomposites
- Li NIU
- First-principles Molecular-Dynamic simulation on the effect of Pt addition to thermal barrier coatings
- Yung-mau Nie
- The 160th MANA Special Seminar
- Jul 28, 2010
- Using colloidal intermediates to obtain complex materials
- Emerson R. Camargo
- Electromagnetic metamaterials: Physics and Applications
- Lei Zhou
- The 159th MANA Special Seminar
- Jul 26, 2010
- Molecularly-directed sculpture and tailoring of nanostructures, assemblies and interfaces
- Ganpati Ramanath
- The 158th MANA Seminar
- Jul 23, 2010
- Novel Preparation Methods of Nanocomposite Spheres and Photonic Crystal Materials
- Limin Wu
- Dislocation-Driven Nanomaterial Growth: Nanowire Trees, Nanotubes, and Beyond
- Song Jin
- Intriguing Properties and Promising Applications of Nanographenes - From Carbon Nanoribbons to Their Inorganic Cousins
- Zhongfang Chen
- The 157th MANA & 74th ICYS Joint Seminar
- Jul 16, 2010
- Inelastic photoemission spectroscopy: Another application of laser-excited photoemission process
- Ryuichi Arafune
- Development of AlN / Diamond Heterostructure Field-Effect Transistor
- Masataka Imura
- The 156th MANA Seminar
- Jul 9, 2010
- Peptide nanotechnology for device building blocks, 3D assembly, and sensing
- Hiroshi Matsui
- Properties of self-assembled of molecular wires
- Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh
- The 155th MANA Special Seminar
- Jul 8, 2010
- Pulsed Plasma Deposition: a new enabling technology for novel thin film fabrication
- Carlo Taliani
- The 154th MANA Special Seminar
- Jul 7, 2010
- Highly sensitive low cost silver sulphide-based ion sensors for analytical studies
- Raja Ram Pradhananga
- The 153rd MANA Special Seminar
- Jul 5, 2010
- Soft processing for ceramics: direct fabrication of nano-structured ceramic films and patterns from solution without firing of powders/particles
- Masahiro Yoshimura
- The 152nd MANA & 73rd ICYS Joint Seminar
- Jul 2, 2010
- Exact simulations of quantum dot population switching in photonic crystals
- Hiroyuki Takeda
- Low power consumption MEMS LEL sensor based on mesoporous structure and nano-catalyst
- Liang Li
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MANA Progress Reports 2009 are available
The newest MANA reports Research Digest 2009 (PDF 3.8 MB) and Management 2009 (PDF 3.8 MB) are now available. -
Members' Voice
Interview videos of 4 researchers are available. -
MANA International Symposium 2010 was successfully held at Epochal Tsukuba in March 2010
MANA International Symposium 2010 was held in Tsukuba, Japan, from March 3rd (Wed.) to 5th (Fri.) in 2010.
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MANA newsletters are available
The latest MANA newsletters CONVERGENCE No.5 are available.Please check the Newsletter Archives.
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The Global COE International Symposium on “Practical Chemical Wisdom” at Waseda University
- Advanced materials design at nano- and meso-scales toward practical chemical wisdom
- The joint symposium with MANA and Waseda University will be held on January 14th, 2010, at Nishiwaseda Campus, Waseda University.
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MANA Highly Evaluated by WPI Program Committee
Results of Follow-up for Fiscal Year 2008
MANA Seminars
MANA weekly holds seminars. Please join our seminars.
Newsletter: CONVERGENCE
Pamphlet: Introductory leaflet of MANA.
Progress Report: Administrative and research progress reports of MANA