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Convergence No14 NEWS& TOPICS Dr. Heinrich Rohrer (Nobel Laureate in Physics, Awards International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA) No.14 1986), who was an Adviser of MANA, MANA Principal Investigator Katsuhiko passed away at 9 pm on May 16th, 2013. Ariga Admitted as a Fellow Jun.2013 All of us in MANA are devastated by this of the Royal Society of sad news. However,as we find solace in the Chemistry many wonderful memories we have of him, we wish to express our most heartfelt appre- MANA Principal Investigator ciation for his earnest encouragement to us in Katsuhiko Ariga has been admit- MANA. Thank you very much indeed, Heini. ted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, as reported Masakazu Aono, We sivcerely pray that his soul on behalf of all of Dr. Rohrer's friends in MAN by The Times newspaper. may rest in peace. MANA Researchers Win FY2013 Minister Event Reports of Education, Culture, Sports, Science MANA International Symposium 2013 and Technology Commendations for Held at Tsukuba Science and Technology MANA International Symposium 2013, held at the Epochal Tsukuba Inter- Commendations are awarded by national Conference Center from February 27 (Wednesday) through March 1 MEXT to individuals who have (Friday), proved a resounding success, with no less than 414 people in atten- increased motivation among dance to hear special lectures science and technology practitio- by Professor Georg Bednorz, ners and contributed to raising the Nobel Laureate in Physics level of Japan's scientific standards 1987, and Professor Akira by producing remarkable achieve- Award ceremony Suzuki, Nobel Laureate in ments in the research and development of science and technology Chemistry 2010, together with or in the advancement of scientific understanding. invited talks by 21 distinguished An award ceremony was held at the Ministry on April 16, 2013 speakers and oral presentations and the following three MANA researchers received prizes: by 16 more. Also of interest Science and Technology Prize (for Research) were recent MANA research Dr. Takayoshi Sasaki findings introduced within 87 Project awarded: Creation of nanosheets by exfoliation of layered poster presentations. compounds and their applications Young Scientist's Prize 4th MANA/NIMS Waseda University Dr. Alexei A. Belik International exchange lifts International Symposium Project awarded: Research on new oxides with multiferroic properties Dr. Yusuke Yamauchi The 4th MANA/NIMS Waseda University International Symposium, was the level of research in Japan Project awarded: Synthesis of functional inorganic nanoporous held at NIMS on March 11, 2013. Featured were presentations by graduate materials and their applications program professors, together with 46 poster presentations by affiliated - Dr. Yamauchi Wins 2013 PCCP Prize Akira SUZUKI researchers. More than 80 people attended. MANA Independent Scientist 6th MANA/NIMS Osaka University Joint Yusuke Yamauchi is the proud Symposium on Advanced Structural and recipient of the 7th PCCP Prize. Functional Materials Design The PCCP Prize is awarded annu- A Global Network and a Little Tension The 6th MANA/NIMS Osaka University was held on March 18 at the WPI- ally to promising young researchers MANA Auditorium. Researchers, postdocs, and students introduced their (up to 35 years old) by Physical Get Good Results findings to colleagues through oral and poster presentations. Chemistry Chemical Physics, a Award ceremony journal published by the Royal Society of Chemistry, a London- - Naoki FUKATA Newly Appointed Researchers based organization for advancing the chemical sciences. Each year the Chemical Society of Japan prepares a list of candidates at the ◆Associate Principal Investigator◆ ◆MANA Scientist◆ behest of the RSC, with the award conferred at a ceremony held jointly with the RSC at the annual spring meeting. Approach to Guiding Researchers to an Even Higher Level Two MANA Researchers Receive Chinese Sabbatical Leave and the Research Abroad Program Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad Dr. David Bowler Dr. Nobuyuki Sakai Dr. Waka Nakanishi Dr. Takuto Kawakami MANA’s Research Outcome ◆MANA Scientist◆ ◆ICYS-MANA Researcher◆ Dr. Tang Xuebin, a post-doctoral student, and Ms. Jiang Xiangfen, a Topological Nanoarchitectonics towards Robust Quantum junior researcher, recently received Computation Based on Manipulation of Majorana Fermions -Xiao Hu the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students -Jonathan P. Hill Abroad. Supermolecules for Self-assembly and Sensing Dr. Ikutaro Hamata Dr. Piotr Kujawa Dr. Shu Nakaharai Dr. Sudipta Dutta Award ceremony Assembly of cells using “cell adhesive” CONVERGENCE No. 14, Eng. Ed., issued on June, 2013 “CONVERGENCE” is the keyword used to symbolically describe the entire ~ Challenges for organ regeneration ~ -Tetsushi TAGUCHI project of MANA, where outstanding researchers from around the world Outreach Team Phone: +81-29-860-4710 assemble and converge in the “melting pot” research environment to bring International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA) Facsimile: +81-29-860-4706 together key technologies into nanoarchitechtonics for the creation and innovation of new functional materials. High-Performance One-Dimensional Nanostructure Photodetectors c/o National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) Email: [email protected] © All rights reserved. No part, including articles, figures, and tables herein, may be 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0044 Japan URL: http://www.nims.go.jp/mana/ reproduced in any form without prior written consent from. -Tianyou Zhai CONVERGENCE 2 LEADER'S VOICE LEADER'S VOICE 3 remainder was research on various organic comparison, Professor Brown’s lab was using going abroad far more likely than in the past if you Life-changing one book and one letter syntheses using organoboron compounds. nitrogen of 99.9999% purity, even at that time, want to go. I want to tell young people to feel free - Fortune favors the prepared and so naturally, there was no reaction because to go because they have the opportunity. Congratulations once again, Professor Suzuki on being there was no oxygen. When they performed Giving international awarded the Nobel Prize. mind experiments by also adding oxygen, they I guess it was something that I didn’t see coming. In fact, on the night - observed the same reaction as our group. This researchers a better Was there any serendipity in the path before Professor Herbert C. Brown’s 90th birthday celebration and lecture leading to the creation of cross-coupling? is one example of the serendipity I experienced understanding of Japan is in 2002, my wife and I were having dinner with Professor Brown and his If we limit ourselves to cross-coupling, then there during my research on organoboron compounds. also important wife that he first said “I have been thinking about nominating Akira for the was probably nothing particularly serendipitous. For Speaking of serendipity, while I feel that it - What do you think of the role of MANA? Nobel Prize.” When I said, “No, I have not done such work,” Professor me, encounters with serendipity came in other is encountered not only in chemistry but At MANA, approximately half of the researchers Brown replied “It is not up to you.” Nomination for a Nobel Prize requires a research. It played a role in coming up with the throughout all fields of science, I feel that it is are from overseas. This is amazingly good; in the letter of nomination, and in Professor Brown’s case, it took 8 or 9 years idea of reacting α,β-unsaturated carbonyl com- also encountered throughout our lives, not past, this would have been unbelievable. Whereas from when he was first nominated until he was awarded the prize. Profes- pounds with organoboron compounds as part of just in the world of science. As Louis Pasteur I spoke of the importance of going overseas sor Brown nominated me two years in a row in 2002 and 2003 before he my research into creating C-C bonds, immediately said long ago, “fortune favors the prepared earlier, the existence of places in Japan where passed away at the age of 92 in 2004. After that, I didn’t hold out much after returning from my time with Professor Brown. mind.” Serendipity surely favors those who international researchers can come and interact hope. However, in October 2010, the phone rang while I was at home I realized by myself that the carbon group attached put the maximum effort into their work. more and more with Japanese researchers is also writing a paper, and when I answered I was told “We have some very to the boron atom should be able to transfer to the Thoroughly reading one important. While it is important for us to go over- good news from Stockholm. Today, the Nobel Prize Committee terminal carbon of a vinyl group via a pseudo great book builds the seas to study their culture and technology, I would announced the prize for chemistry and has decided to award it to you, six-membered ring structure formed by boron coor- also like to encourage people from around the Professor Suzuki. Will you accept the award?” In my shock, I realized for dinated at the oxygen atom in an α,β-unsaturated foundation of knowledge world to come to Japan and learn about our coun- the first time that Nobel Prize winners were contacted directly by phone. carbonyl compound, and should thus form a C-C for a researcher try. On top of this, I would like all of the interna- -The efforts of the late Professor Brown played a big part in bond. When I actually asked a student to do this, - tional researchers to learn the Japanese language What is your message to young research- receiving the award. The research topic for which you were the reply was “It worked professor! There’s no ers? and discover Japanese technology and culture awarded the Nobel Prize was cross-coupling. absorption peak indicating a ketone with an Although it is good to read a variety of books, I before they return to their home countries.
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