北陸先端科学技術大学院大学
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　研究員のPriyank Mohanさん（平成29年3月博士後期課程修了、物質化学領域・前之園研究室）が日本化学会　第97春季年会において学生講演賞を受賞しました。

　日本化学会第97春季年会は、国内最大規模の学術組織である日本化学会（現在の会員数は約40,000名）が毎年3月下旬に開催する年会（参加人数約10,000名、講演約6,000件）の第97回目にあたり、2017年3月16日(木)～19日(日)の日程で慶應義塾大学日吉キャンパスにて開催されました。学生講演賞は、博士後期課程の学生会員を対象とした講演賞であり、「発表内容、プレゼンテーション、質疑応答などにおいて優れた講演で講演者の今後の一層の研究活動発展の可能性を有すると期待されるもの」に対して、厳正なる審査を経て授与されるものです。
　

■受賞年月日
　平成29年3月30日

■論文タイトル
　Design of Magnetic-Plasmonic Ternary Metallic Nanoparticles

■論文概要
　Magnetic-plasmonic multimetallic nanoparticles (NPs) which incorporate magnetic elements with plasmonic metals have attracted much attention as next-generation bioprobes simultaneously enabling plasmonic bioimaging and magnetic manipulation. Unfortunately, however, integration of Fe with Au (or Ag) is challenging due to the large immiscibility in binary Au-Fe and Ag-Fe systems. Even though much effort has been made to synthesize AuFe alloy or FePt@Au core@shell magnetic-plasmonic systems, most of the literature conflict each other in terms of structure-property relation, and therefore, there still remains several challenges regarding the chemical synthesis of homogeneous alloy NPs without any phase segregation, while in the case of core@shell NPs, inability to coat magnetic core with the plasmonic shell, suppressing the formation of pure Au or Ag NPs is a major challenge.
On the other hand, there are a number of studies which show that, Au or Ag has been included in fcc FePt, as a dopant to lower the annealing temperature required for the transformation from chemically-disordered fcc phase to chemically-ordered L10 phase. On the basis of these previous studies, we designed a synthetic strategy where Pt can be used as mediating element for combining Fe with Au or Ag, to form AuFePt or AgFePt ternary alloy NPs. The work demonstrates new avenues for the creation of multimetallic magnetic-plasmonic NPs and gives new insight into control over the resulting magnetic and plasmonic characteristics.

■受賞にあたって一言
　I am very privileged to receive prestigious CSJ Student Presentation Award 2017. I am earnestly grateful to the organizing committee and jury members for recognition of my work because I believe that every other nominee for this award was equally capable of winning it. Besides, by attending this conference I got an opportunity to learn various aspects of cutting edge research presented by diversified peer research groups, which was definitely a phenomenal experience and helped me to improvise and broaden my knowledge in the materials science. Since I have successfully completed my doctoral studies in March 2017, therefore this award becomes more special for me as an acceptance of my research work by the greater global scientific community.
Having been a doctoral student of JAIST, I can safely say that I took correct decisions a few years ago to pursue my studies in this institute. The world-class scientific environment, research facilities, comfortable life and monetary supports granted by JAIST could only be made this success possible, therefore I would like to express my sincere gratitude towards JAIST. I would like to say that this is not just my individual effort, in fact, I would like to make a special mention of my supervisor Professor Shinya Maenosono, who has been my mentor throughout my masters and doctoral studies and stay in Japan. It is him, who saw the capabilities in me and nurtured my passion for pursuing doctoral studies in the materials science. Everyone has the dream to get such a teacher, fortunately, I got mine. Once again my heartfelt thanks to him. At the same, I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Assistant Professor Derrick Mott for his persistent guidance and constant motivation. It is important to mention and thanks, Mr. Koichi Higashimine here, for his valuable effort to help us regarding few of our most crucial measurements, without which our research work cannot be done. Special cheers to all the Maenosono lab members, this award is definitely an effort by all of us together and will be shared equally among all of us. Finally, I like to thanks my parents and family members for always encouraging me to continue the hard work and morally supporting throughout my good and bad times. I would like to dedicate this award to my parents and all others.

平成29年5月2日

学生のGargi Joshiさん（博士後期課程1年、環境・エネルギー領域・金子研究室）が、The 11th International Gel Symposium (GelSympo2017)においてポスター賞を受賞しました。


■受賞年月日
　平成29年3月8日

■タイトル
　Directional Control of Diffusion and Swelling in Hydrogels Prepared from Cyanobacterial Exopolysaccharide

■論文概要
　With the goal of constructing novel biomaterials, we have studied the LC hetero-polysaccharide, sacran extracted from the extracellular matrix of the freshwater cyanobacteria, Aphanothece sacrum. It demonstrated a high potential for significant water retention and had a liquid crystal nature at a critical concentration of ~ 0.3 %. In the present work, by investigating the swelling ratio and swelling kinetics three-dimensionally, the effects of the thickness of precursor films with LC orientation on diffusion are discussed. The thinner films swelled to a larger extent than their thicker counterparts. The dried films were analyzed using TEM and SEM techniques at nano- and sub-micron scale, respectively. It was observed that sacran fibers arrange in nano-platelets during the drying process and form oriented structure via nano layering and sub-micron layering. Due to the presence of this layered structure, we have successfully controlled the diffusion parallel to the planar direction and swelling in the lateral direction. We believe that these hydrogels will be useful for dynamic control in biomedical applications such as engineering replacement tissues, reconstructive surgeries, and the design of sustained drug delivery devices.

■受賞にあたって一言
　I'm very grateful to Polymer Gel Research Group for presenting me with the Best Student Soft Matter Poster Award (Gel Symposium, Chiba 2017). It was an inspiring event to interact with researchers from the same field. I'm indebted to Prof. Tatsuo Kaneko and Asst. Prof. Kosuke Okeyoshi. I have been able to get this award all because of their constant guidance and constructive criticism. Also, Dr. Okajima and Dr. Asif Ali for the support and care. Big thanks to all Kaneko lab members for being cooperative, kind and fun to be with.

平成29年3月13日

学生のAniruddha Nagさん（博士後期課程1年、環境・エネルギー領域・金子研究室）がエコデザイン・プロダクツ＆サービスシンポジウム2016において優秀賞を受賞しました。


■受賞年月日
　平成28年12月7日

■タイトル
　Syntheses of renewable high-performance polybenzimidazoles and their applications for polymeric ionic conductor

■論文概要
　We have prepared imidazole based polymer 2, 5-polybenzimidazole (2, 5-PBI) from 3-amino-4-hydroxybenzoic acid (3, 4-AHBA) which has been successfully synthesized from soil-bacteria Streptomyces sp. This polymer shows very high thermal resistance (Td10 at 630°C) and mechanical strength (Strain 100 MPa and Young's modulus at 9.5 GPa) which can be useful for industrial purposes. As we have used bio-derived monomer for the preparation of the polymer so we don't need to worry about limited resource problem which is a major concern for fossil-fuel based polymers.
　
　Presence of substitutable imidazole (-NH) proton is an important factor for the modification of the polybenzimidazole structure and in our case after modification, Li-ions are free and conductive. They are showing increased Li-ion transference number on addition of plasticizing agent BMImTFSi, they are keeping the stability of the structure even after several charge-discharges cycles because of high thermal and chemical stability. With these results we are thinking of to use this kind of bio-derived polymers in Li-ion batteries.


■受賞にあたって一言
　It is my privilege to receive the outstanding performance award in 'Eco-design. Products and services symposium (EcoDePS) 2016' held in Tokyo University of Science, Japan on 7th December. Winning this award will encourage my future research. I would like to convey my sincere gratitude to Professor Tatsuo Kaneko for his constant support, motivation and guidance. I am also immensely grateful to Professor Noriyoshi Matsumi and Prof Raman Vedarajan for their necessary guidance. Lastly I would like to thank Dr. Maiko Okajima, Dr. Seiji Tateyama and Dr. Asif Ali and all my lab colleagues for their continuous support.

平成28年12月13日

　環境・エネルギー領域の金子達雄教授が12th IUPAC International Conference on Novel Materials and their Synthesis(NMS-XII)においてDistinguished awardを受賞しました。

　12th IUPAC International Conference on Novel Materials and their Synthesis (NMS-XII)は、中国科学アカデミー所長（元人民代表）を務められた故　江英彦教授が始められた新素材に関するIUPAC会議です。江教授亡き後も続けられ、全世界から関連分野の産学官の研究者約300名が集う会議となっており、今年で12回となります。今年は毛沢東の育った都市である中国湖南省都の長沙市で6日間に渡り行われました。当大会におけるDistinguished awardは全世界より6名の研究者が選ばれました。

■受賞年月日
　平成28年10月18日

■受賞理由
　Outstanding contributions to bio-based molecular designs for high-performance polymers
　新素材開発の分野における貢献に対する表彰

■受賞にあたって一言
　図らずもこのような立派な賞を頂き光栄に存じます。今後もより一層、天然由来の新素材を開発するための研究に精進してまいる決意でございます。今後とも宜しくご指導の程お願い申し上げます。

平成28年11月2日