News: Apr. 2024 Welcome new lab members Takahiro Kono, Kento Suzuki, Ryoki Hatanaka, Naoya Taniguchi, Kazuaki Tokuyama, Sora Mimura and Haru Miyoshi! Mar. 2024 Congratulations to Chihiro Kobayashi, Yutaka Fujita, Naoki Ikesaka and Taichi Masuda on their graduation! Dec. 2023 Jun Yamazaki's paper on hydrogen transport phenomena published in Int. J. Hydrogen Energy Oct. 2023 Taichi Masuda's paper on biomass-based hydrogen production process published in RSC Adv. Aug. 2023 Yutaka Fujita's paper on fluidic self-assembly technology published in Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. June 2023 Yoshinari Terahara's paper on hydrogen production cycles published in Fusion Eng. Des. Apr. 2023 Welcome new lab members Kaoruko Kato, Yuji Harada, Naoki Ikesaka and Taichi Masuda! Mar. 2023 Congratulations to Kazuya Okamoto, Jun Yamazaki, Yoshinari Terahara and Ryohei Yuno on their graduation! Mar. 2023 Kazuya Okamoto's paper on novel semiconductor bonding technology published in Appl. Phys. Express Feb. 2023 Kazuya Okamoto's paper on organic-inorganic hybrid solar cells published in PNAS Nexus Nov. 2022 Named in World's Top 2% Scientists, for five consecutive years ever since launch Aug. 2022 Optics & Photonics News picks our latest work on upconversion-enhanced solar cells June 2022 Naoki Sano's paper on novel solar cell fabrication technology published in Appl. Phys. Lett. May 2022 Atsuhiro Inomata's paper on semiconductor bonding technology and solar cells published in ECS J. Solid State Sci. Technol. May 2022 Kengo Nishi's paper on hydrogen transport phenomena published in Int. J. Hydrogen Energy Apr. 2022 Keisuke Yamauchi's paper on metal bonding technology for nuclear fusion reactors published in Plasma Fusion Res. Apr. 2022 Congratulations to alumnus Yusuke Hayashi on his assistant professorship at U. Tokyo! Apr. 2022 Welcome new lab members Chihiro Kobayashi, Yoshinari Terahara and Ryohei Yuno! Mar. 2022 Congratulations to Naoki Sano, Kengo Nishi, Atsuhiro Inomata, Yutaka Fujita and Keisuke Yamauchi on their graduation! Mar. 2022 Congratulations to Yutaka Fujita on his Yoshida Graduation Thesis Award! Oct. 2021 Naoki Sano and Yutaka Fujita present at International Workshop on Low Temperature Bonding Oct. 2021 Invited talk at International Symposium on Hydrogen Energy, Renewable Energy and Materials Aug. 2021 Yuta Shimohata's paper on hydrogen transport phenomena published in Fusion Eng. Des. Aug. 2021 Invited talk at JSPS R025 Commitee on Development of Advanced Functional Thin Films and Interfaces Apr. 2021 Welcome new lab members Kazuya Okamoto, Jun Yamazaki, Atsuhiro Inomata and Keisuke Yamauchi! Mar. 2021 Congratulations to Yuki Nakashima, Kosuke Nishigaya and Yuta Shimohata on their graduation! Feb. 2021 Yutaka Fujita's paper on fluidic self-assembly technology published in Appl. Mech. Feb. 2021 Yuki Nakashima's paper on hydrogen energy technology (nanogap field enhancement) published in Int. J. Hydrogen Energy Dec. 2020 Invited talk at JPVS Workshop Sep. 2020 Kosuke Nishigaya's paper on hydrogel-bonded LEDs published in ECS J. Solid State Sci. Technol. Sep. 2020 Invited talk at JSAP Autumn Meeting June 2020 Shoji Ishihara's paper on fluidic self-assembly technology published in Nano Express May 2020 Kosuke Nishigaya's paper on carbon quantum dots published in C Apr. 2020 Yoshiki Hamamoto's paper on hydrogen transport phenomena published in Nucl. Mater. Energy Apr. 2020 Welcome new lab members Naoki Sano, Kengo Nishi, Yuta Shimohata and Yutaka Fujita! Mar. 2020 Congratulations to Takeru Uchikoshi, Kodai Kishibe, Shoji Ishihara and Yoshiki Hamamoto on their graduation! Jan. 2020 Invited talk at JSPS 191st Commitee on Innovative Interface Bonding Technology Dec. 2019 Kodai Kishibe's paper on novel semiconductor bonding technology (wavelength converter) published in Nanomater. Oct. 2019 Shunsuke Ono's paper on hydrogen storage published in Metals Sep. 2019 Tatsushi Yamashita's paper on novel semiconductor bonding technology (transparent conductive oxide) published in Adv. Mater. Interfaces (selected as the front cover article) Sep. 2019 Takeru Uchikoshi presents at International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science (Rome) Aug. 2019 Norihiko Fukuoka's paper on hydrogen energy technology (lightning-rod effect) published in Nanomater. Aug. 2019 Kodai Kishibe's paper on novel semiconductor bonding technology (hydrogel) published in Appl. Phys. Lett. July 2019 Norihiko Fukuoka's paper on hydrogen energy technology (planar field enhancement) published in J. Appl. Phys. (ranks #3-4 in the most downloaded list for a week) June 2019 Kodai Kishibe presents at IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (Chicago), picked in conference highlights May 2019 Ryoichi Inoue's paper on environmental influences and strategies for semiconductor bonding published in ACS Appl. Electron. Mater. May 2019 Ryoichi Inoue's paper on hybrid semiconductor bonding technology published in Appl. Phys. Lett. Apr. 2019 Congratulations to Kodai Kishibe on his Department of Chemical Engineering Presentation Award! Apr. 2019 Welcome new lab members Yuki Nakashima, Kosuke Nishigaya, Shoji Ishihara and Yoshiki Hamamoto! Mar. 2019 Congratulations to Ryoichi Inoue, Shunsuke Ono, Norihiko Fukuoka and Tatsushi Yamashita on their graduation! Mar. 2019 Congratulations to Tatsushi Yamashita on his Yoshida Graduation Thesis Award! Dec. 2018 Takenori Naito's paper on nanoelectronics published in Nanomater. Nov. 2018 Congratulations to Shunsuke Ono on his Young Researcher Award at Next-Generation Hydrides Research Workshop, Japan Institute of Metals and Materials! June 2018 Ryoichi Inoue presents at IEEE World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (Hawaii) May 2018 Invited talk at JSAP-Kansai Apr. 2018 Yuta Kitagawa's paper on hydrogen storage published in Chem. Phys. Lett. Apr. 2018 Energies 10th Anniversary Best Paper Award Apr. 2018 Welcome new lab members Takeru Uchikoshi, Kodai Kishibe, Norihiko Fukuoka and Tatsushi Yamashita! Mar. 2018 Congratulations to Yuta Kitagawa, Takenori Naito, Yusuke Ando and Soichiro Hirata on their graduation! Dec. 2017 Runners-up in the department's futsal tournament! (w/ Sano Group) July 2017 Wins the department's softball tournament! (w/ Sano Group) June 2017 Gottfried Wagener Prize, German Innovation Award May 2017 Yuta Kitagawa and Takenori Naito present at Energy Materials Research Conference (Lisbon) and IEEE Int'l Workshop on Low Temperature Bonding (Tokyo), respectively Apr. 2017 Welcome new lab members Ryoichi Inoue, Shunsuke Ono, Yusuke Ando and Soichiro Hirata! Mar. 2017 Congratulations to Taiki Iwanaga, Nagito Takehara and Yusuke Hayashi on their graduation! Nov. 2016 Invited talk at Solar Energy Conversion Materials and Devices Workshop Aug. 2016 Quantum dot evanescent hybrid silicon laser (published in Appl. Phys. Express) featured in newspapers including Nihon Keizai Shinbun, the New York Times of Japan July 2016 Paper on environmental information engines ranks #6 in the monthly most downloaded list of J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. Apr. 2016 Welcome the first lab members Yuta Kitagawa, Takenori Naito, Taiki Iwanaga, Nagito Takehara and Yusuke Hayashi! Apr. 2016 Funai Academic Award Dec. 2015 Invited talks at SCEJ-Kansai, IEICE Silicon Photonics, and EMN-Photovoltaics July 2015 Invited talks at JSAP Microoptics, MRS-Singapore, and SCEJ Fall Meeting Apr. 2015 Young Scientists' Prize, Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology