Department of Chemistry, Okayama University
News Archive
2025.03.30
Goodbye Isabel!
Isabel successfully finished her research stay.
We are glad you enjoyed Japan!
She also wrote a report for the stay! (LINK)
You made a really nice research and we hope your success in PhD defense.!
2025.03.24
Convocation and Good bye Takaki!
Hiromu and Takaki are awarded master degree and Kanata, Yumiko, Nahono bachelor degree. Congratulations!
We also say goodbye to Takaki. We wish your every success in your life!
2025.03.18
Prof. Oliver Benson and Prof. Takafumi Ono visited us.
Prof. Oliver Benson (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany) and Prof. Takafumi Ono (Kagawa University) visited us.
2025.01.06
2025.01.16
Welcome Isabel and Masae!
Isabel is an exchange PhD student from University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU, Prof. Widera's group) and will do research here for 3 months.
Masae is a technical assitant and works for our administration.
2024.12.23
Keisuke's paper has been published in
ACS Nano!
Bright Quantum-Grade Fluorescent Nanodiamonds
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.4c03424
Here, we have demonstrated high-quality NV spin nanodiamonds with sufficient brightness for bioimaging. We call this quality "quantum grade"! This is a collaboration with Sumitomo Electric Company, Dr. Ishiwata (QST), Prof. An (JAIST), and Prof. Shikano (Tsukuba Univ.).
2024.11
A group trip to Naoshima island!
We enjoyed a 1-day group trip to Naoshima island known for its contemporary art museums, architecture and sculptures.
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2024.9.24
Japan-UK Strategic Partnership Workshop in Tokyo!
We organized the workshop with Dr. Alex Jones (National Physical Laboratories, UK), Dr. Brian Patton (University of Strathclyde, UK) and Prof. Yutaka Shikano (University of Tsukuba). It has a subtitle "Quantum Sensing in Biology - Spins for Sensing, Sensing of Spins". The workshop was co-funded by UKRI-ISPF, JST-ASPIRE and JSPS.
2024.7.24
Hiromu has got a poster prize in QST symposium!
Poster prize at QST symposium in Gunma. Congratulations!
"Development of 3D microwave resonator for nanodiamond temperature measurement ".
2024.7.16
Welcome Ashutosh!
Assist. Prof. Ashutosh Rathi joined us for working on diamond quantum sensing.
2024.06.05
Kickoff for JST-ASPIRE program in Berlin!
We officially kicked off the strategic quantum technology partnership program (JST-ASPIRE) between Germany and Japan at Humboldt University of Berlin! This project is a collaboration with Yutaka Shikano (Japan PI), Tim Schroeder (Germany PI), Oliver Benson (Co-PI) and Masazumi Fujiwara (Co-PI).
2024.05.30
Hiromu won the Best Poster Award at NDNC2024!
Best Poster Award at New Diamond and Nano Carbons (NDNC) 2024 in Sydney.
"Development of 3D microwave resonator for nanodiamond temperature measurement".
2024.05.07
Yajuan's paper has been published in Chemosphere!
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0045653524009536?dgcid=author
Here, we have explored the nanobio interactions between C. elegans body and surface-engineered nanoparticles and found that it is possible to manipulate the nanoparticle accumulation by the surface control. This is a collaboration with Prof. Nishina ( Okayama Univ.), Profs. Komatsu, Kage-Nakadai (Kyoto Univ.), and Prof. Shikano (Tsukuba Univ.).
2024.04.22
We had a joint workshop with Prof. Yukawa's team in QST to promote collaboration, near Biwako lake in Shiga.
2024.04.01
We welcomed new B4 students.
Welcome Kanata, Nahono, Yumiko!
2024.03.25
Congratulations!! Keisuke was awarded a PhD!!
His thesis title is "Quantum biosensing with nitrogen vacancy centers in fluorescent nanodiamonds". His doctor's hat admires his microwave antenna for diamonds with frog tissues (Lab Chip (2022).). He is also awarded to a prize of Dean of Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology! He still stays with us as JSPS Research Fellow. We look forward to our further collaboration!
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2024.03.25
Funded PhD positions available!
Link here.
2023.10.16
Our perspective paper has been published in Biomicrofluidics!
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0172795
2023.10.1
We have updated team members. Welcome Mina!
2023.04.01
押味佳裕さんが学振特別研究員に採択！
Sara MandicさんがOUフェローシップに採択！
Keisuke has been awarded to JSPS Research Fellowship (DC2). Congrats!
Sara has been awarded to OU Fellowship. Congrats!
2023.04.01
新４年生が研究室に配属されました。
Welcome Kazuki and Fumiya for their bachelor studies!
Yajuan Zou 助教が当大学の仁科研究教授のグループに異動されました。
井門勇太さん、小林陽奈さんが修士論文を無事修了し、卒業しました。
2023.03.31
Good bye Yajuan, Yuta, Hina! Prof. Yajuan Zou moves to Prof. Nishina's group at our university. Yuta Ikado and Hina Kobayashi successfully completed their Master theses and graduated. We thank you for all the great work and friendship. We wish you all the best for your next journeys!
2022.10.05
We have updated team members. Welcome Sara and Wahyu!
2022.05.27
押味佳裕さんが量子生命科学会でBest Poster Presentation Award を受賞！
Keisuke won the best poster presentation Award! (27. 05. 2022)
2022.05.10
Keisuke's paper has been published in Lab on a Chip!
Congratulations on your first paper!!
"Glass-patternable notch-shaped microwave architecture for on-chip spin detection in biological samples"
by K. Oshimi, Y. Nishimura, T. Matsubara, M. Tanaka, E. Shikoh, L. Zhao,
Y. Zou, N. Komatsu, Y. Ikado, Y. Takezawa, E. Kage-Nakadai, Y. Izutsu,
K. Yoshizato, S. Morita, M. Tokunaga, H. Yukawa, Y. Baba, Y. Teki, M. Fujiwara
Open-access preprint here.
2022.04.19
We have updated team members. Welcome Takaki and Hiromu!
2022.03.12
Yajuan gave an invited seminar at an online journal club on nanomedicine organized by a University Tronto team.
Yajuan gave an invited talk on an online nanomedicine Journal Club, which is held by the teams of Toronto University.
2022.01.17
Zouさん、小松先生（京都大学）との共同研究が
Advanced Functional Materials誌に掲載されました！
Yajuan's work has been published in Advanced Functional Materials! This is a collaboration with Prof. Komatsu when she was there.
"Probing the Role of Charged Functional Groups on Nanoparticles Grafted with Polyglycerol in Protein Adsorption and Cellular Uptake"
by Y. Zou, S. Ito, M. Fujiwara, and N. Komatsu.
2021.09.08
我々の研究総説がNanotechnology誌に出版されました!
Our topical review article has been published in Nanotechnology!
"Diamond quantum thermometry: from foundations to applications"
by M. Fujiwara and Y. Shikano.
2021.08.28
押味佳裕さんがブレインストーミング2021で受賞！
Keisuke won a prize in Brainstroming 2021. Congrats! (28. 08. 2021)
2021.06.25
押味佳裕さんが国際会議ポスター賞を受賞！
Keisuke won Best Poster Award at 14th International Conference on
New Diamond and Nano Carbons 2020/2021. Congrats! (25. 06. 2021)
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