Kyushu University, and made a special lecture.
30 October 2014 Prof. Funahashi visited to the laboratories of Prof. Tatsuo Okauchi and Prof. Mitsuru Kitamura of Kyushu Institute of
Technology and made a special lecture.
27 October 2014 Prof. Funahashi attended a retreat of the research group on exotic self-organizing materials and reported our recent research
topics.
27 October 2014 Prof. Funahashi visited to the laboratory of Prof. Nobuyuki Tamaoki of the research institute for electronicscience, Hokkaido
University, and made an invited lecture.
14-16 October We attended the 4th CSJ Chemisrey Festa, which was held in Tokyo. The master students (Seike R, Hamamoto, Seike III,
Takenami, Yamaoke) made poster presentations. Prof. Funahashi was an organizer of a symposium on chiral chemistry.
10 October 2014 Prof. Funahashi attended a symposium on 'Polymers utilized for batteries in future' of the society of polymer science, Japan,
which was held in the Sophia University in Tokyo.
6 October 2014 We had a welcome party for Mr. Seki in Takamatsu.
Welcome Party held in Takamastu
1 October 2014 The second semester starts today. Atsushi Seki joined to our group as a PhD student.
29 September 2014 We had a meeting on diploma researches of our depertment. Kamoshita, Sasano, Takeshima, and Hosugi made
presentations.
25 September 2014 Prof. Funahashi attended to a special meeting on 'Moving polymers' of the society of polymer science, Japan, which was
held in Nagasaki University. He was a session chair of the symposium.
19 September 2014 Students of Takamatsu elementary school (attached to our university) came to our campus. We have a class for an
experiment of photo-reactive polymers.
8-10 September 2014 We attended to Japanese Liquid Crystal Conference 2014-JLCS International Conference on Liquid Crystals 2014
held in Matsue. K. Takenami and R. Yamaoka made oral presentations. R. Seike, T. Hamamoto, Seike III, der Kaiser made psoter presentations.
Scenes of Matsue Kunibiki Messe Matsue Castle Trains of The Ichibata Electric Railroad
Our paper,
M. Funahashi, M. Yamaoka, K. Takenami, A. Sonoda, "Liquid-crystalline perylene tetracarboxylic bisimide
derivatives bearing cyclotetrasiloxane moieties", J. Mater. Chem. C, 1, 7872-7878 (2013).
is awarded the JLCS paper prize. Because of the regulation of JLCS, only JLCS members, M. Funahashi and K. Takenami
are awarded. We would like to thank our collaborators and committee members to recommend us.
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The JLCS Paper Prize. The soft toys are not prize goods.
25-26 August 2014 R. Seike, T. Hamamoto, Seike III, K. Takenami, R. Yamaoka made poster presentations in International Union of
Materials Research Society 2014 (Fukuoka).
Scenes of poster session We made presentations in a session of Advanced Liquid Crystal
22 August 2014 Prof. Dr. Yo Shimizu (Ubiquitous Energy Institute of AIST, Director of Japanese Liquid Crystal Society) came to our campus
and made lectures on liquid crystalline materials. He was invited as a lecturer for the special seminar of the graduate school.
5 August 2014 A beer party was held in the Beer Garden of Hotel Crement in Tkamatsu. Not only the members of Funahashi group, but also
many people from various groups attended to the party.
24 July 2014 A seminar for high school students was held in our Faculty. Our group had a class of 'Control of Light using Liquid Crystals'.
We made twisted nematic (TN) cells using 5CB. The high school students experieced rubbing, fabrication of the TN cells, optical function of
polarizers, birefrengence of polymer and liquid crystals, and electro-optical effect of the liquid crystals.
Photograps in the Seminar. After the lecture of Prof. Funahashi, they experienced various phenomena of liquid crystals and light.
11 July 2014 In our campus, the 5th Symposium on optoelectronic materials (Setouchi Festa on Hybrid Materials consisting of metal and organic
components) was held, cooperated by the Chugoku-Shikoku branch of the Chemical Society of Japan and Japanese Liquid Crystal Society.
We deeply thank Prof. Sugimoto (Kumamoto Univ.), Prof. Kaneko (Ritsumeikan Univ.), Mr. Kozai (Anan Tec. Col.), Prof. Yoshinari (Osaka
Univ.), and Prof. Chang (Chuo Univ.)
Photographs of the Symposium
29 June~ 4 July 2014: Prof. Funahashi attended the 15 th International Liquid Crystal Conference (ILCC) 2014 held in Dublin and made oral
and poster presentations.
Trinity College where the conference was held.
19 June 2014: Prof. Funahashi's Highlight review on nanostructured LC semiconductors is accepted for the publication in Journal of Materials Chemistry C (Royal Society of Chemistry). The limitation of the length is exceeded, but the paper includes significant information.
- Masahiro Funahashi, "Nanostructured Liquid-Crystalline Semiconductors – A New Approach to Soft Matter Electronics",
J. Mater. Chem. C, 2, in press (2014).
19 June 2014: Prof. Funahashi's review article on LC semiconductors was accepted for the publication in Journal of organic synthetic chemistry, Japan.
- M. Funahashi, "Electronic functions and molecular aggregation of liquid-crystalline
perylene tetracarboxylic bisimide derivatives bearing
oligosiloxane chains", J. Org. Synth. Chem. Jpn., 72, 1006-1017 (2014). [Japanese]
(The page number is determined on 19 September)
14 June 2014: The 18th Symposium on Liquid Crystal Chemistry was held in the Faculty of Engineering, Kagawa University. Many LC chemists
joined in the symposium. We had a good time for active discussion.
20 May 2014: A paper on redox active liquid crystals is published in Chemistry - A European Journal. This is a result of a collaboration research
with Dr. K. Isoda and Prof. M. Tadokoro. This research was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas
(Coordination Element-Block Polymers, no.25102533)
- K Isoda, T. Abe, M. Funahashi, M. Tadokoro, "Electron Transport of Photoconductive n-Type Liquid Crystals Based on a Redox-Active
Tetraazanaphthacene Framework", Chem. Eur. J., 20, 7232-7235 (2014). (DOI: 10.1002/chem.201402288)
1. April 2014: A new semester starts.
7 March 2014: A party for graduated students was held in a restaurant near our campus.
6 March 2014: Prof. Funahashi will make a presentation on the achievement report for
the Iwatani Naoji Foundation in Tokyo.
5 March 2014: A full paper on electron transport in columnar phases of perylene tetracarboxylic
bisimide derivatives has been accepted in
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics published by Royal Society of Chemistry.
- M. Funahashi, and A. Sonoda, "Electron transport characteristics in
nano-segregated columnar phases of perylene tetracarboxylic bisimide
derivatives bearing oligosiloxane chains", Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 16, accepted (2014).
27 February 2014: Prof. Funahashi made an invited lecture in the 2nd International Symposium
on Self-Organizing Molecular Semiconductors
held in Tokyo (Chairman: Prof. Hanna, Tokyo Institute of Technology). I would like to thank Prof. Hanna for his giving me an oppotunity to show
our results.
26-28 February 2014: Takeuchi and Funatsu made presentation for final interviews of master course
of our graduate school. Seike III,
Takenami, Mitani, Yamaoka also made presentations in the bachelor course.
10 February 2014: Prof. Funahashi made lectures on "Liquid crystals in our daily life"
in Shido high school in our prefecture.
20-22 January 2014: Funahashi and Yamaoka participated in International Symposium on Coordination
Programming (ISCP 2014) held in the
University of Tokyo and made poster presentations.
16 January 2014: A new years party of our group was held in Katahara-machi.
14 January 2014: Seike II and Hamamoto have returned back to Takamatsu from the international
internship program in Europe.
6 January 2014: Joint symposium with Hanbat university in Korea was held in our faculty.
From our group, Takeuchi and Takenami made poster
presentations in the symposium.
17 December: A party for the end of 2013 was held in Nabe restaurant in Kawara-machi.
12 December: A party for new commers was held in a Italian restaurant in front of the
Takamatsu Station.
5 December: Prof. Funahashi made an oral presentation in International Display Workshops
2013 (IDW 13') held in Sapporo. He is a member of
program committee of Session of Liquid Crystal Technology. And he visited
the Laboratory of Prof. Nobuyuki Tamaoki (Research Institute for
Electronic Science, Hokkaido University).
15 November: Miss Takenami obtained a poster prise in CSJ Chemistry Festa held on 21-23
October 2013 in Tokyo. Congratulation!
Testimonial from CSJ Takenami and miffy Soft toys look at cookies congratulating her
11-12 November: A group meeting of "Coordination programing" (Grant-in-Aid for
Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (2009-2013),
ministry of education, science, culture, and sports) was held in our campus.
After the meeting, we moved to Shionoe and enjoyed the hot spring.
The discussions in the meeting were very exciting and we comfirmed our
friendships.
Lectures Photograph of the members
31 October: I attended a symposiumu "Liquid Crystals - Creation is to know the
old" held by Japan Liquid Crystal Society in Tokyo as an
organizer. We are inspired by the impressive lectures in the sympozium.
A lecture in the symposium
In the banquet (Photographs by Prof. Kimura)
21-23 October: We participated into CSJ Chemistry festa held in Tokyo. Funtsu, Takeuchi,
Seike III, Takenami, and Yamaoka made poster
presentations. Prof. Funahashi was an organizer of a symposium on Nanofunctional
materials. We would like to thank many people for their
encouraging us.
With Prof. T. Kato (director of the festa) I got a soft toy in the banquet!
The soft toy joins the troop of toys in our Lab.
7 October: Result of diploma thesis of M. Yamaoka (+ purification of the samples
by K. Takenami) is accepted for Journal of Materials
Chemistry C (Royal Society of Chemistry). This paper is on new liquid
crystalline semiconductors bearing cyclictetrasiloxane moieties.
- M. Funahashi, M. Yamaoka, K. Takenami, A. Sonoda, "Liquid-crystalline perylene tetracarboxylic bisimide derivatives bearing cyclotetrasiloxane moieties", J. Mater. Chem. C, 1, 7872-7878 (2013). (The page number is determined on 14 November 2013.)
29 September: We had a meeting for bachelor course students of our department for diploma
resdearch. Seike III, Takenami, Yamaoka, Mitani
made presentations on their researches.
20 September: K. Seike II and T. Hamamoto (M1) will stay in Universität Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
and Université de Savoie by international internship
program of our university.
8-10 September: Prof. Funahashi, Takeuchi, Seike, Hamamoto participated in Meeting of
Japan Liquid Crystal Society which was held in Osaka
University and made 5 oral and 1 poster presentations.
2-6 September: Prof. Funahashi and Funatsu participated in International ferroelectric liquid crystal conference 2013 (FLCC) which was held in
Magdeburg in Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
Prof. Funahashi making his talk Mr. Funatsu making his poster
presentation Dom of Magdeburg
26-28 August: Prof. Funahashi made an ivited lecture in International Meeting of Information
Display 2013 (IMID 2013) held in Daegu, Korea.
（Title: Electronic Functions of Nanostructured π-conjugated Liquid Crystals）
The conference was held in EXCO
in Daegu of Korea
8 August: We open our laboratory of organic synthesis for the 1st Open Campus of
our university.
2 August: Prof. Funahashi joined to 1st Tsukuba Retreat of Research Group of Exotic
Self-Organizing Materials, which was held in NIMS
in Tsukuba.
29-30 July: We had a meeting for master course students of our department. Funatsu
and Takeuchi made presentations on their researches.
29 July: Mr. Kohei Hasegawa will stay in our group for two weeks as an internship
student from Niihama college of technology.
25-27 July: Summer school of Japan liquid crystal society was held in Ageo in Saitama
prefecture. Prof. Funahashi made an invited lecture on
electrical conductivity of liquid crystals. Takeuchi, Seike and Hamamoto
participated to the school.
25 July: We collaborated with Tutorial course of the university for high school
students and had a lecture and an experiment on liquid crystals.
20 students paticipated to the course from our prefecture.
12 July: We had a seminar on photonics and electronics materials in Hayashi-cho
campus gathering young scientists working in the Setuchi area
. The name of the seminar was "Setouchi Festival for Soft Matters",
and held by Japan Liquid Crystal Society and Research group of Photonics
and Electronics Materials of Kagawa University. The seminar was really
stimulative for us. We heartly thank Dr. Monobe (AIST), Prof. Ozaki
(Ehime Univ.), Prof. Ishii (Kagawa Univ.), Prof. Tsurumachi (Kagawa Univ.),
Dr. Kondo (Hyogo Pref. Univ.), Prof. Miyamoto (FIT).
4 July: A paper on a liquid-crystalline perylene tetracarboxylic bisimide derivative
which can complex with lithium cations is accepted in Dalton
Transactions published by Royal Society of Chemistry. This paper will appear in a special issue on Coordination Programming. (The page number
is determined on 30 October.)
- M. Funahashi, A. Sonoda, "Liquid-crystalline perylene tetracarboxylic bisimide derivative bearing a triethylene oxide chain and complexation of the derivative with Li cations", Dalton Trans., 42、15987-15994 (2013).
13 June: Prof. Funahashi made an invited lecture in Symposium of tha association of liquid crystals chemistry held in Tsukuba. Funatsu, Seke,
Hamamoto made poster presentations.
11 June: Prof. Funahashi made an invited lecture in Zasshikai seminar of department
of chemistry, Faculty of Science, the university of Tokyo.
4 June: A paper on band-like conduction in a smectic phase of a phenylterthiophene
derivative is accepted in ChemPhysChem. Band-like carrier
transports have been observed in single crystals. In this study, we have verified a band-like conduction is possible in liquid crystal phases.
- M. Funahashi, T. Ishii, A. Sonoda, "Temperature-independent hole mobility of a smectic liquid-crystalline semiconductor based on band-like conduction", ChemPhysChem, 14, 2750-2758 (2013). （Page number is determined on 22 August)
13 May: A paper on ferroelectric liquid crystalline semiconductor is accepted in Trans. Mater. Res. Soc. Jpn. This is the first paper based on the
research results of students in Funahashi Lab. (Page number is determined
on 28 October)
- Y. Funatsu, A. Sonoda, M. Funahashi, "Ferroelectric liquid crystal bearing terthiophene moiety", Trans. Mater. Res. Soc. Jpn., 38, 373-375 (2013).
8 May: A review artickle on carrier transport in nanostructured liquid crystals
by Prof. Funahashi is published in Function and Materials (CMC
publisher, in Japanese).
- M. Funahashi, "Carrier Transport of Liquid‒Crystalline Semiconductors
through Nanosegregation", Function and Materials, 33(5), 4-11 (2013).
3 April: We have a party to enjoy cherry blossoms at Tai-central park.
Tai central park, Tai, Takamatsu
1 April: New semester starts today. Make more effort and produce good results!
24 March: The graduation ceremony was held in Siwaicho campus. Mr. Tamura and Miss Yamaoka obtained prized from the dean of our faculty
and the director of faculty association.
Photograph in the ceremony. I hope their good lucks and works after the
graduation.
22 March: Prof. Funahashi made a presentation in the annual meeting of the Chemical
Society of Japan.
18-19 March: The 7th International Conference on Molecular Electronics and Bioelectronics
(M and BE 7) was held in Fukuoka. Prof. Funahashi
and Mr. Funatsu made presentations.
12 March: A party for graduating students of our department was held in the international
hotel Takamatsu. Mr. Hamamoto obtained a student
prize from the iron and steel institute of Japan.
4 March: A party for the finishment of the graduation theses was held. The students
who will graduate at the end of March presented me goods of
miffy.
28 February: An article on organic electronics written by Prof. Funahashi is published
in Nikkan Kogyo Shinbun (Daily Industrial News,Japanese).
Nikkan Kogyo Shinbun is the biggest news paper for industrial
information in Japan.
27-28 February: Our department had a meeting for presentations of graduation theses. Seke,
Tamura, Hamamoto, Yamaoka,
and Ogita made presentations.
30 January: A review article on Time-of-Flight technique by Prof. Funahashi is published
in Ekisho (The Japanese Liquid Crystal Society).
- M. Funahashi, Measurement of carrier mobilities in liquid-crystalline systems using time-of-flight methods", Ekisho, 17(1), 55-66 (2012)
21 January: Prof. M. Funahashi gave some comments on the accident of the lithium ion
batteries of the B787 aircraft on TV news of Setouchi BC.
Some demonstrations on chemical proiperties of metallic lithium were also
broadcasted in the TV news program.
10 January: Miss Takeuchi returned back to Japan.
8 January: An article is published in Clean Technology (in Japanese).
- M. Funahashi、"Functionalization of organic electronic materials utilizing liquid crystallinity and nanosegregation" Clean Technology, Vol. 23(1) p. 62-66 (2013)
7 January: Mr. Funatsu made a poster presentation in the 2nd Joint Symposium of Kagawa
and Hanbat Universities.
