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Topics in 2022

Jul 26 Our paper on BIAN-based self-healing composite binder for silicon was highlighted as front cover in ACS Appl. Ener. Mater.
Jul 25 Our paper on silicon-oxycarbide coated micro silicon as anodic material was highlighted as inside front cover in J. Mater. Chem. A.
June 30 Dr. Badam (Senior Lecturer) shifted to Indian company as director in battery research
June 30 Dr. Ravi shifted to NIMS as JSPS researcher
June 7 Our paper on BIAN polymer based anodic material was highlighted as Supplemantary Cover in ACS Appl. Ener. Mater.
May 24-26 5 presentations were given at 71th annual meeting of polymer society of Japan (Bharat, Sumala, Zhou, Asai, Takamori)
May 24 Plenary lecture was given at 1st meeting on adhesion in batteries hosted by AIST (Matsumi)
Mar 15 Lecture was given at JST new technology presentation meeting (Matsumi)
Mar 9 Report of JST-Mirai project was presented as open session (Matsumi)
Feb 24 Our paper on high capacity beta-SiC/N-doped carbon anodic material was highlighted as outside back cover in J. Mater. Chem. A.
Feb 19 Our result on high capacity β-SiC/N-doped carbon anodic material with high durability was reported in Hokkoku Newspaper. It was also reported in various domestic/international web-news.
Jan 20 Invited lecture was given at Tokai Symposium (Tokai branch, Society of Polymer Science, Japan) (Matsumi)
Jan 13 Invited lecture was given at Shiny Chem Honorary Lectureship 2022, jointly organized by National Taiwan University and Shiny Chem Co. Ltd. (Matsumi)

Topics in 2021

Dec 15 Presentation was done at MRR conference (Rajashekar)
Dec 10 Our result on highly nitrogen-doped carbon (anodic active material) suitable for extremely high-rate charging LiB was introduced in Hokkoku Newspaper and various international web-news. This result was also highlighted as outside backcover in Chemical Communications (RSC).
Dec 1-3, 7 talks were given at Battery Symposium of Japan (Agman, Anusha, Bharat, KrishnaPrasad, Ravi, Sumala, Takamori)
Nov 27 Invited talk was given at ISAJ conference (Matsumi)
Oct 15 M. Saikiran joined us as a postdoctral researcher. Ms. Nakayama joined as a research assistant.
Oct 8 Asai won student poster award at 70th SPSJ-Fall meeting (Society of Polymer Science, Japan).
Sep 24 Agman received PhD digree. (10th PhD degree from this group)
Sep 6-8 9 presentations were given at SPSJ Fall(Society of Polymer Science, Japan, Fall Meeing)(Agman, Anusha, Bharat, Krishna Prasad, Ravi, Takamori, Asai, Zhou)
Aug 25 Keynote Lecture (Matsumi) and student presentation (Bharat) were given at SISTEC2021(UKM Malaysis, on-line)
Jul 27 Presentation was given in ESICB battery/theory Joint Meeting (Kyoto Univ; on-line) (Matsumi)
June 23 Agman and Sumala won student poster award at 70th annual meeting of society of polymer science, Japan (SPSJ)
June 21 Lecture was given at New Battery Concept Division (The Electrochemical Society of Japan)(Matsumi)
May30-Jun3 Our group contributed 3 presentations at 239th Electrochemical Society Meeting (Rajashekar, Bharat, Sumala)
May 28 Lecture was given at JST New Technology Presentation Meeting (Matsumi)
May 26-28 We contributed 10 research presentations in 70th annual meeting of society of polymer science, Japan. (Rajashekar, Anusha, KrishnaPrasad, Ravi, Tejkiran, Agman, Bharat, Sumala, Asai, Takamori)
May 1 A　Review article was contributed to May issue of "Kobunshi"' (Society of Polymer Science, Japan) (Matsumi)
Apr 1 Dr. Rajashekar received "sprouting research prize" from Tanaka rare metal foundation.
Apr 1 Dr. Peng was appointed as researcher at NIMS Tsukuba, Japan)
Apr 1 Dr. Prateek was appointed as assistant professor at UPES university (India)
Mar 23 Special lecture was given at 88th meeting of electrochemical society of Japan (Matsumi)
Mar 22 Our paper on artificial SEI formation on Si anode of Li ion battery was highlighted as supplementary cover in ACS Applied Energy Materials.
Mar 19-22 Our group contributed 8 presentations at annual meeting of chemical society of Japan. (Rajashekar, Anusha, KrishnaPrasad, Ravi, Agman, Bharat, Asai, Takamori)
Mar 2 Our results on Ultra-long cyclable BIAN based binder was introduced in Hokkoku news paper. It was also introduced by many domestic and international webnews.
Jan 27 Our results on poly(borosiloxane) based artificial SEI on silicon anode was introduced in Hokkoku news paper. It was also introduced by many domestic and international webnews.
Jan 2 Invited talk was given at RACS2021 (International online symposium on recent advances in chemical science 2021) hosted by SSSIHL (Matsumi)

Topics in 2020

Nov 18-20 We contributed 6 presentations at Battery Symposium of Japan (Matsumi, Rajashekar, Ravi, Tejkiran, Gourang, Agman)
Nov 10 Agman received student poster award in JWC2020.
Nov 9, 10 We contrubuted 6 presentatins in JWC2020(JAIST world conference); 2 invited talks(Matsumi, Rajashekar), 4 posters (Agman, Zhou, Takamori, Asai)
Nov 1 Our Laboratory celebrate 10 years anniversary.
Oct 20-21 3 posters were presented in CSJ Chemistry Festa (Tejkiran, Shibuya, Asai)
Oct 1 Dr. Rajashekar Badam was promoted as Senior Lecturer at JAIST
Sep 30 Prof. Matsumi received award for 20 years continuous contribution in national universities.
Sep 24 Tejkiran received outstanding graduate award from JAIST.
Sep 24 Tejkiran received PhD degree .
Sep 18 In SPSJ fall, Apeksha was awarded student presentation award.
Sep 16-18 We contributed 9 presentations in SPSJ Fall (Society of Polymer Science, Japan). 2 orals (Rajashekar, Agman), 7 posters (Agman, Zhou, Apeksha, Tejkiran, Takamori, Asai, Shibuya)
May 27-29 SPSJ (Society of Polymer Science, Japan) spring meeting was cancelled due to pandemic of covid-19. Abstract of 5 presentations became open (Agman x 2, Rajashekar, Tejkiran, Zhou)
Apr 1, Our research group joined excellent core (sustainable materials international research base) of JAIST
Feb 18, Our work on highly durable poly(ionic liquid) anodic binder in LIB was introduced in Hokkoku news paper.
Jan 30, Our paper on highly durable poly(ionic liquid) anodic binder in LIB was selected as supplementary cover of ACS Applied Energy Materials.
Jan 1, Prof. Matsumi was appointed as Editor-in-Chief of Polymer Bulletin (Springer-Nature).

Topics in 2019

Dec 17, Padmashri Dr.Baldev Raj FiMPART Distinguished Reseacher Award was given to Prof. Matsumi.
Dec 16, Plenary talk (Matsumi) and Invited talk (Rajashekar) were given at FiMPART 2019 (Ahmedabad, India)
Dec 12, Invited lecture was given at MRM2019 (Yokohama)(Matsumi)
Dec 1-6, Lecture was given at MRS 2019 (Boston, U.S.) (Matsumi)
Nov 24, Our lab activity was introduced in a TV program of HAB.
Nov 21 Invited lecture at Polymer Materials Forum 2019 (Nagoya) (Matsumi), Laboratory exhibition was also provided by us (Tejkiran, Agman, Takamori, Udakawa)
Nov 13-15 4 lectures were given at Battery Symposium of Japan (Kyoto) (Matsumi, Rajashekar, Tejkiran, Agman)
Nov 9, Our lab activity was introduced in a TV program of MRO.
Oct 13-17, 2 presentations were given at ECS Fall Meeeting at Atlanta, U.S. (Rajashekar, Tejkiran)
Oct 7, Special invited lecture was given at 15th ECICB public symposium at Kyoto university (Matsumi)
Sep 1, Prof. Matsumi was concurrently appointed as research base professor at Elements Strategy initiative for Catalysts and Batteries (ESICB), Kyoto university.
Aug 29, Presentation was given at JAIST exhibition of Innovation Japan 2019 (Matsumi).
Aug 6, Our paper on LCST showing solid-state organic-inorganic hybrid material was highlighted as front cover of J. Appl. Polym. Sci.
July 24, JAIST president award was given or our activity.
July 1, Dr. Prateek Bhojane was appointed as a postdoctral researcher.
July 1, Dr. Yueing Peng was appointed as a postdoctral researcher.
June 17-21, Keynote talk (Matsumi) and invited talk (Rajashekar) were given at ICFPAM2019 (Penang, Malaysia)
June 3, Dr. Ravi Nandan was appointed as a postdoctral researcher.
May 29-20, 4 presentations were given at SPSJ meeting in Osaka (Rajashekar, Tejkiran, Surabhi, Zhou)
May 20 Dr. Gannavarapu Krishna Prasad was appointed as a postdoctral researcher.
Apr 22, Dr. Anusha Pradhan was appointed as a postdoctral researcher.
Apr 19, Lecture was given to industrial community of Nagoya (Matsumi)
Mar 11, Best presentation award was given at ICLB2019 at Miami, U.S. (Matsumi)
Mar 11, Talk was given at ICLB2019 at Miami, U.S. (Matsumi)
Mar 11, Self-healing polyborosiloxane was introduced by Nikkei news paper of Japan
Mar 7, One lecture (Matsumi) and 3 posters (Tejkiran, Surabhi, Inagaki) were presented at Japan-India synposium at JAIST.
Mar 5, BIANODA, stabilizer for LiMNC was introduced by Nikkei industrial news paper.
Mar 1, Prof. Matsumi was introduced in daily industrial newspaper of Japan.
Feb 22 Borylated PBI electrolyte was introduced by Nikkei industrial newspaper of Japan (collaborative project with Kaneko Lab, JAIST).
Feb 15 Borylated PBI electrolyte was introduced by science newspaper of Japan (collaborative project with Kaneko Lab, JAIST).
Feb 1 Santhosh was adopted by Daimler Co. Ltd.
Jan 29 Borylated PBI electrolyte was introduced by daily industrial newspaper of Japan (collaborative project with Kaneko Lab, JAIST).
Jan 29 Borylated PBI electrolyte was introduced by Hokkoku newspaper (collaborative project with Kaneko Lab, JAIST).

Topics in 2018

Dec 21, PhD degree was awarded to Santhosh.
Dec 11-14, 3 talks at ANEM2018 at Perth (Australia)(Matsumi, Rajashekar, Tejkiran)
Nov 30, 6 presentations at Regional CSJ conference at Toyama (Iida, Osari, Tsuchiya, Michitaka, Surabhi, Tejkiran)
Nov 30, Invited talk at Filler symposium at Toyama (Matsumi)
Nov 27-28, 3 talks at battery symposium of Japan (Osaka)(Matsumi, Rajashekar, Tejkiran)
Nov 21, Exhibition on Lab activity was done at Polymer Materials Forum in Tokyo (Matsumi, Iida, Tsuchiya, Kuroki, Hoshino, Tabuchi)
Nov 15, Our research proposal was adopted by JST-MIRAI project of Japanese government.
Nov 2, Lecture on energy materials and devices at SSSIHL (Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning)(Matsumi)
Nov 1, Gourang was adopted as a resercher at CNRS, France.
Oct 30, Invited talks at MMM (Main group molecules to materials) at IISc (Indian Institute of Science)(Matsumi and Rajashekar)
Oct 24 Invited talk at CSJ Festa in Tokyo (Matsumi)
Sep 21 PhD degree was awarded to Gourang.
Sep 12-14 Fall meeting of SPSJ at Sapporo was canceled due to earth quake at Hokkaido. Only abstracts were reported. (Matsumi, Rajashekar, Gourang, Surabhi, Santhosh)
Jun 24-29, 5 presentations at ISPE-16, Yokohama, Japan (16th international symposium on polymer electrolytes). Surabhi Gupta won Energy&Environmental Science Poster Prize from Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC, UK).
Jun 22, PhD degree was awarded to Ankit Singh.
May 23-25, 4 presentations at Annual meeting of SPSJ (society of polymer science, Japan) at Nagoya (Ankit, Gourang, Santhosh, Surabhi)
Apr 2, Dr. Rajashekar Badam was appointed as Assistant Professor of this research group.
Mar 20, Our result on Metal-free polymer electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction reaction was introduced in Hokkoku newspaer and Chunichi news paper.
Mar 18-22, 4 presentations at ACS national meeting at Neworleans. (Ankit, Surabhi, Gourang, Santhosh)
Mar 3-5, We hosted JAIST-IITGN joint symposium. We contributed one oral talk (Matsumi) and 3 posters (Ankit, Surabhi, Gourang)
Feb 15, Our paper on Polythiophene/TiO2 Nanotube/Pt Nanoparticles was selected as front cover of Polymer Journal (Springer-Nature).

Topics in 2017

Dec 1, 4 presentations at regional meeting of chemical society of Japan. (Ankit, Gourang, Santhosh, Hirata)
Nov 10, 2 presentations at inorganic polymer conference at Tokyo university of science. (Hirata, Gourang)
Sep 25, Invited lecture at Tokai mini-symposium on advanced materials for Li ion batteries and fuel cells (Toyota central laboratory)(Matsumi)
Sep 20-22, 4 presentations at fall meeting of SPSJ (society of polymer science Japan) at Ehime university. (Ankit, Gourang, Santhosh, Hirata)
Aug 22, Our result on novel binder materials for Li ion batteries was introduced in Nikkei Industrial news paper.
Aug 18, Our result on novel binder materials for Li ion batteries was introduced in Yahoo Japan news.
Aug 18, Our result on novel binder materials for Li ion batteries was introduced in Hokkoku news paper and Chunichi news paper.
Aug 1, Assis. Prof.Raman Vedarajan was relocated to ARCI, centre for fuel cell technology (CFCT), Chennnai, India.
July 24, Our results on ionic liquid/boric ester binary electrolytes (t+>0.90) was reported in Nikkei industrial new paper of Japan.
July 14, Gourang came back from Tokyo Institute of Technology after 1 month of collaborative work.
July 13, Dr. Raman had talked at FiMPART2017 (France)
July 5, Our results on ionic liquid/boric ester binary electrolytes (t+>0.90) was reported in Chunichi newspaper and Hokkoku newspaper.
June 19-22, Dr. Raman had talked at SSI-21 (Padova, Italy)
May 29-31, 7 presentations at SPSJ Annual Meeting (Raman, Ankit, SaiGourang, Santhosh, Surabhi, Dustin, Hirata) Hirata had won student poster award.
May 19, Ankit came back from univ. of Delhi after 1 month of collaborative work.
Arp 10, Internship invitation program from SSSIHL (India) was adopted by JST-Sakura Science
Mar 16, 2 oral presentations at annual meeting of chemical society of Japan (Keio univ)
Mar 6-7, We had hosted JAIST Japan-India Symposium on Materials Science 2017 at JAIST. 6 Indian professors ad 5 graduate students were invited from (University of Delhi and IIT-Gandinagar). Our group also contributed a lectute (Prof. Matsumi) and 5 posters (Nakata, Nakade, Ankit, SaiGourang, Santhosh)
Feb 20, Prof. Jawwad Darr (University College London) visited us and gave a lecture.
Jan 10, Prof. Matsumi's opinion on present status of Lithium ion batteries was introduced in "Deccan Chlonicle"(Indian news paper)
Jan 8, Prof Matsumi's opinion on applications of Lithium ion batteries was introduced in "The Hindu" (Indian news paper).
Jan 7, Prof. Matsumi, Dr. Raman talked at Plenary session of Indian Science Congress (Tirpathi, India).

Topics in 2016

Dec 9, JAIST and our research group were introduced in Nikkei Asian Review.
Dec 1, Nakata came back to JAIST after 2 months of internship at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Nov 30, 2 oral presentations at battery simposium Japan at Makuhari. (Ankit and SaiGourang)
Nov 25, 2 poster presentations at regional CSJ conference at Fukui (Sawada and Nakade)
Nov 23, JAIST and our research group were introduced in Nikkei newspaper.
Nov 22, Our press-release on "highly active ORR electrocatalyst under ultra-low amount of platinum" was ranked within TOP10 in weekly press-release access ranking in the field of engineering.
Nov 21, Our result on "highly active oxygen reduction electrocatalyst under ultra-low amount of platinum" was introduced in chemical daily news of Japan.
Nov 18, 2 oral presentations at inorganic polymer conference at Tokyo university of science. (Ankit and SaiGourang)
Nov 18, Dr. Puhup Puneet was introduced in "Introducing Our Authors" of ACS Sensors.
Nov 16, Our result on "highly active oxygen reduction electrocatalyst under ultra-low amount of platinum" was introduced in Hokkoku newspaper and Chunichi newspaper.
Nov 12, 2 oral presentations at regional meeting of SPSJ at Fukui (Santhosh and Nakade)
Nov 1, Dr. Prerna Joshi was appointed as postdoctral researcher at Shizuoka University.
Oct 24-25, 1 oral presentation (Raman) and 1 poster presentation (Ankit) at ionic liquid conference at Kanazawa.
Oct 2-7, 5 oral presentations and 1 poster presentation were contributed at PRiME2016 (Honolulu)(Matsumi, Raman, Ankit, Santhosh, SaiGourang)
Oct 4, Results of highly fluoride ion sensitive polyborosiloxane was introduced in Daily Industrial Newspaper of Japan.
Oct 1, Rajashekar was appointed as a postdoctral researcher at Toyota Technological Institute
Sep 29, Results of highly fluoride ion sensitive polyborosiloxane was introduced in Hokkoku newspaper and Chunichi newspaper.
Sep 23, Rajashekar received "outstanding graduate award" from JAIST president.
Sep 23, PhD degree was awarded to Puhup Puneet and Rajashekar Badam.
Sep 14-16, 7 presentations at 65th Society of Polymer Science, Japan at Kanagawa Univ. (Matsumi, Raman, Puhup, Rajashekar, Ankit, Santhosh, SaiGourang)
Sep 8, This research group received "research activity award" from JAIST president
Aug 15, Oral presentation at ISPE-15 (Upsala, Sweden)(Matsumi)
Aug 3, Invited talk at EMN meeting on power sources (Bali island)(Matsumi)
July 21, Lecture was given at J-BEANS seminar (Matsumi)
July 4, Lecture was given at industrial collaborative seminar (Matsumi)
June 24, PhD degree was awarded to Prerna Joshi.
June 20, Our paper was highlighted as back cover of Polymer Chemistry (Royal Society of Chemistry)(P. Puneet et al., Polymer Chemistry, 2016, 7, 4182.)
May 25-27, 8 presentations at spring meeting of society of polymer science, Japan (Kobe)(Rajashekar, Prerna, Puhup, Ankit, Santosh, Gourang, Nakata, Nakade)
May 18, Invited talk at IMTCE 2016(Malaysia)(Raman)
May 1, Internship program with SSSIHL (India) was adopted by Sakura Science Plan (JST)
Mar 7, Invited talk at IISc-JAIST joint workshop on functonal inorganic and organic materials (Matsumi)
Mar 5, Invited talk at GRIP2016(Ishikawa-HighTech center)(Raman)
Feb 24-25, 2 Invited talks, 2 poster presentations at DU-JAIST Indo-Japan Synposium on Chemistry of Functional Molecules/Materials (Matsumi, Raman, Jyoti, Prachi)Prachi won student poster presentation award.

Topics in 2015

Dec 15-20 Invited talk, 2 oral presentations, 2 poster presentations at Pacifichem 2015 (Honolulu)(Matsumi, Raman, Rajashekar, Prerna, Puhup)
Dec 9, 4 presentations at MRS-J (Yokohama)(Raman, Kamiya, Jyoti, Prachi)
Dec 5-6, We celebrated 5 years anniversary of this research group as aluminum meeting.
Nov 27, 4 presentations at CSJ-Hokuriku (Jyoti, Prachi, Ankit, Umehara)
Nov 14-15, 4 presentations at SPSJ-Hokuriku (Imai, Yamashita, Prerna, Puhup)
Nov 13, 7 poster presentations at Young Researcher's Meeting of SPSJ-Hokuriku
Nov 11, 3 presentations at Battery Simposium Japan (Kyoto)(Ramanx2, Prerna)
Nov 10, Invited talk at JAIST-SAST (Matsumi)
Nov 5, 3 presentations at Inorganic Polymer Conference (Tokyo University of Science) (Raman, Prerna, Puhup)
Nov 1, Our paper was selected as Willy-VCH Hot Topics (K.S. Smaran et al., ChemElectroChem, 2015, 2, 1913.)
Sep 31, Our paper (Solid State Ionics, 2015, 276, 72.) was ranked as one of Most Downloaded Articles.
Sep 24, Our paper was highlighted as back cover in Polymer Chemistry (Royal Society of Chemistry). (Jain, K. et al. Polymer Chemistry, 2015, 6, 6819.)
Aug 5, Plenary talk at ICFMD-2015 at Johor Bahru, Malaysia (Prof. Matsumi)
Jul 10, 10 internship students reached JAIST from SSSIHL under Sakura science program (JST).
Jul 1, Dr. Kumar Sai Smaran (a graduate of our group) was adopted as a PD researcher at Ochonomizu univ.
June 13-15, Key Note talk, Invited talk, Contribution oral was given, respectively at FiMPART'15 (Hyderabad)(Prof. Matsumi, Dr. Raman, Mr. Rajashekar)
June 6, Hokkoku news paper reported our recent results on exfoliated acetylene black/Pt nano-particles.
May 27-29, 7 presentations at Annual Meeting of SPSJ (Sapporo)
May 22, Invited lecture at Regional ECS-Japan (Prof. Matsumi)
Apr 17, TherMat project (national project) was transfered and restarted as a NEDO project.
Apr 1, Internatioal academic exchange program with SSSIHL (India) was adopted by Sakura-science project (JST)
Apr 1, MMS-prize was awarded to a project of our research group by Tanaka precious metal Co. Ltd..
Mar 31, Ms. Prerna completed 3 months of collaboration research at CFCT, IIT-Madras Research Park.
Mar 27, Oral presentation at Annual Meeting of Chemical Society of Japan (Funabashi)(Ms. Kamiya)
Mar 23, Oral presentation at 248th ACS National Meeting (Denver, U.S.) (Dr. Raman)
Mar 2-3, We organized JAIST Japan-India symposium on materials science with 7 invited speakers from university of Delhi and Indian Institute of Science. Our group contributed 7 presentations.

Topics in 2014

Dec 23, Invited talk (Prof. Matsumi) at centre for fuel cell technology at IIT-Madras research park (Chennai, India)
Dec 22, Invited talk (Prof. Matsumi) at Anna Univeristy (Chennnai, India)
Dec 20-21, Invited talk (Prof. Matsumi), contribution talk (Dr. Raman), student poster (Mr. Rajashekar) at FiNSTA'14 (SSSIHL, Puttaparthi, India).
Dec 18, Invited talk (Prof. Matsumi) at SSSIHL, Bangalore, India.
Dec 16, Invited talk (Prof. Matsumi) and student poster (Mr. Rajashekar) at Eurasia-13 [IISc (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)].
Nov 22, 2 presentations at Regional Meeting of SPSJ (Toyama Univ)
Nov 21, 9 presentations at Regional Meeting of Chemical Society of Japan (Toyama Univ)
Nov 13-14, 3 presentations at Inorganic Polymer Conference (Tokyo Univ. of Science)(Mr. Hayami, Mr. Puhup, Mr. Ankit)
Sep 24-26, 9 presentations at Fall MTG of Society of Polymer Science, Japan (SPSJ)(Nagasaki)
Sep 10-11, We presented our latest result at Innovation Japan 2014 (Tokyo Big Site)
Sep 1, Our group joined a national project of thermal energy utilization under Ministry of Economy, Japan.
Aug 28, Oral presentation (Prof. Matsumi) at ISPE-14 (International Symposium on Polymer Electrolyte) at Geelong (Australia)
Aug 4-5, We have organized JAIST Japan-India Symposium on Automotive Technologies (Energy, Fuel and Plastics). We also contributed 5 presentations (Prof. Matsumi, Dr. Raman, Mr. SaiSmaran, Mr. Rajashekar, Ms. Prerna)
June Mr. Puhup Puneet completed 3 months of collaborative research at Rutgers Univ (U.S.)
June 26, Invited talks (Prof. Matsumi and Dr. Raman) at CC3DMR Conference (Incheon, Korea)
June 15-20, Invited talk (Prof. Matsumi) and student presentation (Mr. Puhup) at Boron in Americas (Rutgers University, U.S.)
May 28-30, 10 presentations at Annual MTG of Society of Polymer Science, Japan (SPSJ)(Nagoya)
Apr 2, Our proposal was adopted for JSPS-DST(Indo-Japan) Academic Exchange Program (collaborative research and seminar)
Mar Mr. Rajashekar Badam was adopted as MEXT fellowship student (under sholarship of Japanese government)
Mar Ms. Prerna Joshi was awarded "student presentation award" of ACS National Meeting (Energy and Fuel Division)
Mar 31, Mr. Kumar Sai Smaran completed 3 months of collaborative research project at Padova Univ. (Italy)
Mar 26-28, 8 presentations at Annual Meeting of Chemical Society of Japan (Nagoya Univ.)
Mar16-20, 4 presentations at 247th ACS National Meeting (Dallas, U.S.)(Prof. Matsumi, Dr. Raman, Mr. Rajashekar, Ms. Prerna
Mar 19, 8 presentations at Annual MTG of Chemical Society of Japan (Nagoya)
Mar 7-8, 4 presentations at GRIP2014 (Prof. Matsumi, Mr. Rajashekar, Mr. Puhup, Ms. Prerna)
Jan 29-31, We presented our latest results at Nanotech2014 (Tokyo Big Site)

Topics in 2013

Dec 13, We have organized JAIST International Synposium on Functional Polymer Materials with 5 Invited Speakers. We have also contributed 4 presentations. (Prof. Matsumi, Dr. Raman, Mr. Rajashekar, Mr. SaiSmaran).
Nov 22, 6 presentations at Regional MTG of Chemical Society of Japan (JAIST)
Nov 20-21, 4 presentations at Conference on Ionic Liquid (Keio Univ.)
Nov 7-8, 3 presentations at Inorganic Polymer Conference (Tokyo Univ. of Sci.)
Oct 27-Nov 1, 2 presentations at International Electrochemical Society (San Francisco)(Dr. Raman)
Sep 27, Special lecture at ECS (Electrochemical Society, Japan) Fall Meeting (Tokyo Institute of Technology)(Prof. Matsumi)
Sep 11-13, 10 presentations at SPSJ(Society of Polymer Science, Japan) Fall Meeting (Kanazawa Univ).
June 24-25, 2 Invited Lectures at CC3DMR (Jeju Island, Korea)(Prof. Matsumi, Dr. Raman)
June 19, Invited Lecture in a Seminar at Univ. of Padova (Padova, Italy)(Prof. Matsumi)
June 18, Presentation at European Polymer Congress 2013 (Pisa, Italy)(Prof. Matsumi)
June 4-6, 3 presentations at 19th Solid State Ionics (Kyoto)(Prof. Matsumi, Dr. Raman, Mr. SaiSmaran)
May, 29-31 5 presentations at SPSJ spring meeting (Kyoto) (Dr. Raman, Mr. SaiSmaran, Mr. Ikeda, Ms. Tamaru, Mr. Mitsui)
Apr 9, Invited lecture at ICFMD2013 conference organized by Center of Ionics, Malaya University (Malaysia)(Prof. Matsumi)
Apr 1, Our research proposal was adopted by Toyota Advanced Joint Reseach Projects.
Mar 23-24, 10 presentations at Annual Meeting of Chemical Society of Japan (Kusatsu)
Mar 14-15, We have organized 1st JAIST International Synposium on Ionics Material with 9 Invited Speakers. We have also contributed 4 presentations. (Prof. Matsumi, Dr. Raman, Dr. Sonu, Mr. SaiSmaran).

Topics in 2012

Dec 7-8, 4 presentations at 3rd Conference on Ionic Liquid (Okinawa) (Dr. Raman, Mr. Puhup, Ms. Prerna, Mr. Morita)
Nov 17, 5 presentations at Regional Meeting of Chemical Society of Japan (Fukui University)
Nov 16, Invited Lecture at Nagoya Institute of Technology (Prof. Matsumi)
Nov 8-9, 3 Presentations at Inorganic Polymer Conference (Tokyo Univerisity of Science)
Oct 7-12, 7 Presentations at PRiME2012 (US-Jpn Joint Meeting on Electrochemistry)(Honolulu, U.S.A.)
Sep 6 Presentation at International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry (ICOMC2012)(Lisbon, Portugal)(Prof. Matsumi)
Aug 27 Presentation at International Conference on Solid Polymer Electrolytes (ISPE-13)(Selfoss, Iceland)(Prof. Matsumi)
May 29-31, 6 presentations at SPSJ (Society of Polymer Science, Japan) spring meeting (Mr. SaiSmaran, Mr. Tsutakawa, Mr. Toyota, Mr. Hosono, Mr. Morita, Mr. Yoshinaga)
May 23, Laboratory introductory video was uploaded in JAIST Clips (YouTube).
May 1, Dr. Raman Vedarajan was appointed as Assistant Professor at this laboratory.
Mar 26-27, 3 presentations at Annual Meeting of Chemical Society of Japan (Mr. Tsutakawa, Mr. Toyoya, Mr. Yoshinaga)
Jan 10, Invited Lecture at Automobilic Technlogy Symposium (Nagoya University) (Prof. Matsumi)

Topics in 2011

Dec 17, 3 presentations at Conference on Ionic Liquid (Kyoto) (Mr. Yoshida, Mr. Tsutakawa, Mr. Toyota)
Nov 13-17, 4 presentations at 12th Pacific Polymer Conference (Jeju Island, Korea) (Prof. Matsumi, Mr. Yoshioka, Mr. Yoshida, Mr. Tsutakawa)
Nov 11, 2 presentations at Inorganic Polymer Conferende (Kyoto Institute of Technology) (Mr. Yoshioka and Mr. Yoshida)
Sep 28-30, 3 presentations at Fall Meeting of Society of Polymer Science, Japan (Okayama)(Mr. Yoshioka, Mr Yoshida and Mr. Tsutakawa)
Sep 22, Invited Lecture at Inorganic Polymer Seminar (Yugawara) (Prof. Matsumi)
Sep 12, Presentation at International Conference on Boron Chemistry (IMEBORON XIV)(Niagara falls, Canada) (Prof. Matsumi)
July 22, Lecture at Ishikawa Science Park Seminar (ISP) (Prof. Matsumi)
June 24, Invited Lecture at Polymer Material Seminar-Frontier of Battery Materials (Kyoto) (Prof. Matsumi)
June 15-18, 3 presentations at 4th International Conference on Ionic Liquid (COIL-4) (Washington DC) (Prof. Matsumi, Mr. Yoshioka, Mr. Yoshida)
May 25-27, 3 presentations at Annual MTG of Society of Polymer Science, Japan (Osaka) (Prof. Matsumi, Mr. Yoshioka, Mr. Yoshida)
Apr 22, NEDO project "Design of non-flammable organic-inorganic hybrid ion-gels" was extended by 2 years.
Mar 10, Invited Lecture at Nagoya University Cafe

Topics in 2010

Dec 15-19, 2 presentations at Pacifichem 2010 (Honolulu) (Prof. Matsumi and Dr. Shankar)
Dec 2-3, 2 presentations at polymer material forum (Nagoya International Conference Hall) (Mr. Takahashi and Mr. Yoshioka)
Nov 11-12, 2 presentations at inorganic polymer conference (Tokyo University of Science) (Mr. Takahashi and Mr. Yoshioka)
Nov 6-7, 2 presentations at central Japan chemical conference (Toyohashi University of Technology)（Prof. Matsumi and Mr. Kagata）
Nov 1, Matsumi Lab. started at JAIST.