News List

2024.6.5
Our paper about carbon nanotube separation has been published in Beilstein J. Org. Chem.
2024.5.13
Cheng and Fu will present at 21st Symposium on Host-Guest and Supramolecular Chemistry (Jun. 1-2, 2024、Kyoto).
2024.4.16
Komatsu will have an invited talk at the 5th International Conference on Materials Science & Nanotechnology in Athens, Greece on Oct. 21-25, 2024.
2023.4.11
Ms. Xinyi Fu (PhD) received an oral award at ChemOnTubes 2024 (Apr. 7-11; Strasbourg, France).
2024.4.1
Based on our research achievement, "RadioNano Therapeutics Inc." has been started up.
2024.1.30
The movie to introduce our laboratory has been uploaded at YouTube. It can also be watched at Meet KU Researchers.
2024.1.16
Dr. Alejanndro LOPEZ MORENO (IMDEA Nanoscience, Spain) has joined our group as a visiting scholar and will stay until the end of May.
2023.10.20
Mr. Nishikawa (Daicel Co.) will have a PhD defence at room 333 of our department building from 3 pm on Nov. 7.
2023.10.20
Our paper published in Chem. Eur. J. has been featured as Cover Image.
2023.10.11
Komatsu will have an invited talk at ChemOnTubes 2024 (Apr. 7-11; Strasbourg, France).
2023.10.11
Li Zhao (Soochow University, China) has joined our group as a visiting scholar and will stay for four months.
2023.9.11
Adewale Oladipo (University of South Africa, South Africa) has joined our group as a visiting scholar professor and will stay for four months.
2023.8.31
Komatsu will give a lecture entitled "Separation of Carbon Nanotubes through Host-Guest Chemistry" at the Dream Chemistry Lectures in Polish Academy of Science on Sep. 22.
2023.8.31
Our paper published in ChemNanoMat has been featured as Front Cover Image.
2023.8.16
Our paper about boron neutron capture therapy has been accepted by Chem. Eur. J.
2023.7.11
Associate Prof. Yuqiong Zhao (Taiyuan University of Technology, China) has joined our group as a visiting associate professor and will stay for one year.
2023.7.4
Komatsu will have a keynote talk at IEEE NMDC 2023 (Oct. 22-25; Paestum, Italy).
2023.7.4
Komatsu will have an invited talk at Symposium L (Frontiers in Carbon Science and Technology) in the fall meeting of the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS, Warsaw, Poland; Sep. 18-21).
2023.7.4
Our paper about radical oxidation of polyglycerol on nanodiamond has been accepted by ChemNanoMat [open access].
2023.5.23
Our paper coauthored by L. Zhao, Q. Lan (Soochow University) and X. Chen (Wuhan University) has been accepted by Adv. Mater.
2023.4.4
Komatsu will have an invited talk at the 2nd Annual Conference on Global Nanotechnology (Madrid, June 19-21).
2023.4.4
Komatsu will have invited talks at the Nano Rome-2023 (June 12-14).
2023.1.13
Our paper entitled "Thorough elucidation of synthesis and structure of polyglycerol functionalized nanodiamonds" has been published by Carbon.
2023.1.6
The account about cancer nanomedicine by Komatsu has been published in Acc. Chem. Res.
2022.9.30
Young Scientist Poster Award was given to Guoqing Cheng (PhD student) at the 63th Fullerene Nanotube Graphene General Symposium.
2022.7.25
Our paper entitled "Polyglycerol Functionalized 10B Enriched Boron Carbide Nanoparticle as an Effective Bimodal Anticancer Nanosensitizer for Boron Neutron Capture and Photothermal Therapies" has been accepted by Small.
2022.7.22
Our paper entitled "Interlocking of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Metal-Tethered Tetragonal Nanobrackets to Enrich a Few Hundredths of Nanometer Range in Their Diameters" has been accepted by ACS Nano.
2022.5.27
Our paper entitled "probing the role of charged functional groups on nanoparticles grafted with polyglycerol in protein adsorption and cellular uptake" has been featured at inside front cover in Adv. Funct. Mater.
2022.4.18
Prof. Jean-Marc Leveque (University of Savoie Mont-blanc, France) has joined our group. He will stay here till the end of Aug.
2022.4.13
Our review entitled "Organic chemistry for nanodiamond: Controlled functionalization, quantitative characterization and structure-property relationship" has been accepted in Carbon Reports.
2022.1.18
Prof. Komatsu will give an invited talk at the European Materials Research Society (EMRS) 2022, Spring Meeting, which will be held in May 30 - Jun. 3.
2022.1.18
Prof. Komatsu will give an invited talk at the New Diamond and Nano Carbons 2022 (NDNC2022), which will be held in Jun. 5 - 9.
2021.12.21
Our paper entitled "probing the role of charged functional groups on nanoparticles grafted with polyglycerol in protein adsorption and cellular uptake" has been accepted by Adv. Funct. Mater.
2021.10.23
Prof. Komatsu will give an invited talk entitled "Tumor targeting theranostics by use of chemically functionalized nanomaterials".
2021.10.8
Our paper published in Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. was chosen as a "selected paper".
2021.9.17
Prof. Md. Mahbubor Rahman (Rajshahi University, Bangladesh) joins our group as a visiting professor and stays for six months till the end of Feb.
2021.9.8
Collaboration with Profs. Takai and Enoki (Tokyo Institute of Technology) has been selected as a 2021 PCCP HOT Article.
2021.7.17
Our paper about boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) for cancer by nanodiamond conjugated with phenyl boronic acid has been accepted by Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn.
2021.6.26
Dr. Giacomo Reina (Italy) and Dr. Xiaoxiao Chen (China) have joined our group as JSPS post-docs. They will stay for two years.
2021.6.26
Our paper about effect of protein corona on mitochondrial targeting ability has been published online in Mol. Pharm.
2021.4.21
Associate Prof. Wei Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China) will talk about "brief introduction of the traditional customs in Xi'an" online in the international seminar at 17:00 - 18:00 on 4/21 (Wed).
2021.4.20
Komatsu will have an invited talk at the 1st international webinar on Functional Nanomaterials; Chemistry and Biointeractions.
2020.12.15
Associate Prof. Wei Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China) joins our group as a visiting associate professor and will stay for six months.
2020.9.13
Our collaborative work about "fluorescence nanodiamond based in vivo temperature sensor" with Dr. Fujiwara (Osaka City University) has been published in Sci. Adv.
2020.8.21
Our recent paper has been highlighted as a front cover picture in ChemNanoMat (volume 6, issue 9, 2020).
2020.6.3
Our paper about hydrophobic nanodiamond well dispersed in an organic solvent has been published online in ChemNanoMat.
2020.6.1
Our recent results published in ACS Nano have been introduced in the Kyoto University website.
2020.5.8
Our paper about evasion of protein corona formation on polyglycerol-functionalized nanodiamond has been published in ACS Nano as a just accepted manuscript.
2020.4.15
The recent article entitled "Cancer Theranostics by Nanoparticle - How to Control Protein Corona” has been published in Chemistry (Kagaku).
2020.3.5
Our paper about the interaction between polyglycerol-functionalized nanodiamond and proteins has been accepted in Carbon.
2019.12.27
Dr. Giacomo REINA (CNRS, University of Strasbourg, France) has been accepted as a JSPS fellow.
2019.12.15
Prof. A. F. M. M. Rahman (Dhaka University, Bangladesh) joins our group as a visiting professor and will stay for three months.
2019.10.24
Our work collaborated with Shinshu University has been published in Nanotechnology.
2019.9.18
Komatsu will have an invited talk at the EMRS Fall Meeting (Symposium V).
2019.7.31
Our work collaborated with Wuhan Institute of Technology, Shiga University of Medical Science, the University of Sheffield, and Ritsumeikan University has been accepted in 2D Materials.
2019.7.29
Our paper about association constant of nanotweezers and nanocalipers with carbon nanotubes has been accepted in J. Porphyrins Phthalocyanines.
2019.6.27
Our mini review about surface functionalization of nanodiamond with A. Bianco (CNRS, France) et al. has been published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
2019.6.15
N. Komatsu will have invited talk at "International Workshop on Supramolecular Nanoscience of Chemically Programmed Pigments (SNCPP)" in Ritsumeikan University (Kusatsu, Japan).
2019.6.14
Our paper about in vivo cancer imaging with ND-PG-Cy7 with F. Yoshino (Shiga University Medical Science) has been published in Small.
2019.6.11
Ms. Nguyen Thi Khanh Huyen (Hanoi University of Science, Vietnam) joined our group as an Amgen scholar.
2019.5.30
Yajuan Zou (second year doctor course student) has received Graduate Student Award at European Material Research Society (EMRS) spring meeting in Nice (France).
2019.5.27-31
Y. Zou and N. Komatsu will have invited and oral talka at European Material Research Society (EMRS) spring meeting in Nice (France).
2019.5.11
Komatsu will have an invited talk at the WILEY-Yellow Crane Tower Summit on Advanced Nanomaterials in Wuhan (China).
2019.2.12
Our paper about biomedical application of nitroxide radical micelle has been accepted in Nanotechnology.
2019.2.15
The international seminar by Dr. Alberto Bianco (CNRS, France) entitled ”A Cultural Journey between Italy and France” will be held at 17:00.
2019.1.24
The joint seminar by Dr. Alberto Bianco (CNRS, France) and Dr. Yuta Suzuki (The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University) will be held at room 333 in our building at 17:00.
2019.1.12
Our paper about biomedical application of nitroxide radical has been accepted in Pharmaceutics.
2019.1.15
Prof. Komatsu will give an invited talk in Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST).
2019.1.1 - 3.31
Dr. Alberto Bianco (CNRS, University of Strasbourg, France) will stay in our laboratory as a visiting scholar.
2018.12.19
Yajuan Zou and Naoki Komatsu will have oral presentation at the 28th Annual Meeting of MRS-J.
2018.11.1
Prof. Komatsu will give a talk at the 47th annual meeting of The Japanese Environmental Mutagen Society (JEMS).
2018.10.12
Prof. Komatsu will give a talk at the 125th meeting of the society of graphite compounds.
2018.10.20,27
The orientation on the entrance examination for the graduate school will be held in Tokyo (Oct. 20) and Kyoto (Oct. 27).
2018.09.28,29
Japan-Russia mini-workshop (ITMO University (St. Petersburg), Shinshu University (Nagano), Hosei University (Nagano), Kyoto University (Kyoto)) will be held in Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University.
2018.05.08
Our recent paper about dispersing carbon nanotubes by use of hexahydroxytriphenylene has been accepted in ChemistrySelect.
2018.03.10
Alejandro Moreno-Lopez, Ahmad Tayyebi, and Naoko Ogino will present their recent results in the 54th Fullerenes-Nanotubes-Graphene General Symposium at University of Tokyo.
2018.02.08
Our recent paper about extraction of carbon nanotubes by use of various matalloporphyrin has been published in New J. Chem. and highlighted at Back Cover.
2017.11.29
Dr. Ahmad Tayyebi has joined our group as JSPS past-doc.
2017.11.17
Mr. Kota Nagura (the second year of doctor course) has won the best poster award in the CSJ Festa.
2017.10.10
Dr. Wei Wang (Xian Jiaotong University, China), Ms. Yajuan Zou (China) and Mr. Frederick So (Hong Kong) joined in our group.
2017.08.18
Mr. Nagura's paper about magnetic nanoemulsion has been accepted in Chem. Eur. J.
2017.07.31
Dr. Ahmed Tayyebi (University of Ulsan, Korea) has been accepted as a JSPS fellow and will join our group soon.
2017.07.10
Dr. Alejandro Moreno Lopez joined our group as JSPS past-doc.
2016.06.30
Mr. Tony Jin (University of Alberta, Canada) joined our group as an Amgen scholar.
2017.03.31
Our recent paper about carbon nanotube separation using nanocalipers has been published in Organic Chemistry Frontiers.
2017.02.23
Our proposal (Japan-Russia) at Bilateral Programs (JSPS) has been accepted.
2016.12.16
Dr. Alejandro López Moreno (IMDEA Nanoscience, Spain) has been accepted as a JSPS fellow and will join our group soon.
2016.12.01
Prof. Xiao Chen (Wuhan University) has joined in our group and will stay for 6 months.
2016.11.03
Our recent paper about cancer photodynamic therapy with chlorin e6-loaded iron oxide nanoparticle has been published online in J. Mater. Chem. B.
2016.10.11
Our paper about hyperbranched polyglycerol-grafted titanium oxide nanoparticles has been published in Mater. Res. Express (IOP).
2016.09.07
Our paper entitled "Cationic Polyarginine Conjugated Mesoporous Bioactive Glass Nanoparticles with Polyglycerol Coating for Efficient DNA Delivery" has been accepted in Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology.
2016.08.05
Our recent paper published in ChemNanoMat (volume 2, issue 6, 2016) has been introduced at spotlights on our sister journals in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 35 (33), 9467 (2016).
2016.07.04-08
Invited talk at 2016 International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalcyanines (ICPP9: 18. Chirality and Spatially Pre-Organized Multi-Porphyrins with Induced Properties, Nanking, China)
2016.06.02
Our group has been introduced in cover profile in ChemPhysChem (volume 17, issue 11, 2016).
2016.06.02
Our recent paper has been highlighted as a front cover picture in ChemNanoMat (volume 2, issue 6, 2016).
2016.05.24
Our recent paper has been highlighted as a front cover picture in ChemPhysChem (volume 17, issue 11, 2016).
2016.05.02-06
A symposium "Carbon materials: surface chemistry and biomedical applications II" will be organized at EMRS spring meeting (Lille, France).
2016.04.18
Our paper about solid-phase exfoliation of 2D nanosheets has been published in ChemNanoMat.
2016.04.11
Komatsu has been selected as "Most Active Reviewers" in the Journal "Physica Status Solidi (Wiley)".
2016.03.30
Invited talk at 2016 MRS Spring Meeting (Symposium NT5: Nanodiamonds—Fundamentals and Applications, Phenix, USA)
2016.02.27
Our paper about exfoliation of 2D materials has been published in ChemPhysChem.
2016.01.01
Komatsu has been appointed to Editor of ”Diamond and Related Materials (Elsevier)”.
2015.11.18
Plenary talk at 29th Diamond Symposium (Tokyo University of Science, Japan).
2015.11.16-17
Invited talk at Sixth International Collaborative and Cooperative Chemistry Symposium (ICCCS-6, Seoul, Korea)
2015.10.13
Our paper about graphene for drug carrier has been accepted in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces.
2015.09.06-10
Invited talk at International Conference on Diamond and Carbon Materials (September 6-10, 2015, Bad Homburg, Germany)
2015.08.15-16
Keynote talk at ICMB2015 (International Conference on Medicine and Biopharmaceutical, August 15-16, 2015, Guilin, China)
2015.07.08-10.10
Prof. Haifeng Dong (University of Science and Technology Beijing) joins our group as a visiting professor.
2015.07.05-10
Invited talk at The 16th International Symposium on Novel Aromatic Compounds (ISNA-16, July 5 - 10, Madrid, Spain)
2014.09.24
Our recent paper about separation of double-walled carbon nanotubes has been published in J. Mater. Chem. A.

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