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Win the RIKEN Baiho Award
Daichi and Dr. Kato (PI) are honored to receive the RIKEN Baiho Award.
March 22, 2023
Sylvia publishes her paper on photostability in hBN quantum emitters in Communications Materials
Transmission electron microrgraph of hBN quantum emitters Sylvia’s paper on photostability in hBN quantum emitters is published in Communications Materials. Congratulations! Prolonged photostability in hexagonal boron nitride quantum emitters. Sylvia Xin Li, Takeo Ichihara, Hyoju Park, Guangwei He, Daichi Kozawa, Yi Wen, Volodymyr B. Koman, Yuwen Zeng, Matthias Kuehne, Zhe Yuan, Samuel Faucher, Jamie H. Warner, Michael S. Strano. Communications Materials, 4, 19 (2023). 10.1038/s43246-023-00345-8
March 6, 2023
Ahmed publishes his paper on sorting carbon nanotube with molecular tweezers in ACS Appl. Nano Mater.
Diameter-Selective Sorting of Carbon Nanotubes. Copyright © 2023 American Chemical Society Ahmed publishes his paper on sorting carbon nanotube with molecular tweezers in ACS Appl. Nano Mater. Congratulations! Diameter-Selective Sorting of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Using π-Molecular Tweezers for Energy Materials. Ahmed El-Refaey, Daichi Kozawa, Tomoshi Kameda, Yuichiro K. Kato, Yoshihiro Ito, Masuki Kawamoto. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 6, 1919-1926 (2023). DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.2c04877
January 12, 2023
Daichi publishes his work on Discretized hexagonal boron nitride quantum emitters in Nanotechnology
Daichi Kozawa and colleagues publish their paper on discretized hexagonal boron nitride quantum emitters in Nanotechnology.
January 3, 2023
Featured in Research Highlight
Our functionalized nanotube work was featured in RIKEN Research Highlight! RIKEN Research Highlight: A cleaner, better way to produce single-photon emitters
November 2, 2022
Win Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan
Daichi receives the Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan on “Excitonic Photophysical Properties of Low-Dimensional Nanomaterials”. The Physical Society of Japan (translated): The Young Scientist Award has been established to encourage the research of outstanding young researchers who will lead physics in the future and to further invigorate the society.
October 15, 2022
Wavelength-induced frequency filtering method published in Nature Nanotechnology
Volo’s paper on wavelength-induced frequency filtering method is published in Nature Nanotechnology and featured in the MIT News.
May 30, 2022
Functionalization of air-suspended nanotubes published in Nature Commnunications
Functionalized air-suspended carbon nanotube. Daichi and his colleagues publish their paper on functionalization of air-suspended carbon nanotubes in Nature Commnunications. Congratulations! Formation of organic color centers in air-suspended carbon nanotubes using vapor-phase reaction. Daichi Kozawa, Xiaojian Wu, Akihiro Ishii, Jacob Fortner, Keigo Otsuka, Rong Xiang, Taiki Inoue, Shigeo Maruyama, YuHuang Wang, Yuichiro K. Kato. Nature Communications, 13, 2814 (2022).
May 20, 2022
Awarded Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) from JSPS
We are awarded Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science! We will work on room temperature and telecommunication wavelength quantum light sources based on single-walled carbon nanotubes.
April 1, 2022
2D polymer published in Nature
Yuwen (currently, an associate professor in Fudan University)’s paper on 2D polymer is published in Nature and featured in the MIT News.
February 2, 2022