NAIST Materials Science (English)

🔬 Avram Gutierrez — reservoir dynamics in vibrational polaritons via detuning-dependent ultrafast spectroscopy (JPCL) doi.org/10.1021/acs.jp…

Two PhD students from the Quantum Photo-Science Lab opened 2026 with first-author papers 🎉 Check them out below 👇 ＃NAIST #GraduateSchool

🔬 Nanang Adrianto — polymorph-dependent emission & lasing in thiophene/phenylene co-oligomer crystals (ACS Omega) doi.org/10.1021/acsome…

This spring marks the beginning of the second year since the establishment of our lab, “Functional Inorganic Materials Design". Thanks to the equipment and numerous lab benches we've received from both our university and others, our lab is steadily taking shape. We sincerely appreciate everyone’s support! ＃NAIST #GraduateSchool

Avram Gutierrez (PhD Candidate, Year 3) from the Quantum Photo-Science Laboratory Received Outstanding Student Poster Award at ACS Spring 2026 Meeting mswebs.naist.jp/topics_en/2026… #NAIST #GraduateSchool #Award

Dian Budiarti Kastian, a doctoral student from the Information Device Science Lab received the “Best Poster Award” at the 10th IEEE Electron Devices Technology and Manufacturing (EDTM) 2026. mswebs.naist.jp/topics_en/2026… #NAIST #GraduateSchool #Award

Mayumi Puspita, a Doctoral Student in the Materials Informatics Laboratory at Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Receives a Poster Award at the Materials Research Meeting 2025 mswebs.naist.jp/topics_en/2026… #NAIST #GraduateSchool #Award

This year, the laboratory of Macromolecular Systems Design was newly established. The laboratory is led by Professor Kazuma Yasuhara and Specially Appointed Assistant Professor Qiuyuan Huang. Our research aims to create systems in which unprecedented functions emerge through the design of polyemer-polymer interactions. ＃NAIST #GraduateSchool

Mark D. Ilasin, Doctoral Student in the Information Device Science Laboratory, Receives “The 59th JSAP Young Scientist Presentation Award” mswebs.naist.jp/topics_en/2026… #NAIST #GraduateSchool #Award

A review on “facile preparation methods for triarylmethyl-type stable luminescent diradicals and higher multiradicals” has been published open access in European Journal of Organic Chemistry. …mistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ej… Biomimetic & technomimetic molecular science laboratory (@NAIST15971689) ＃NAIST #GraduateSchool

In the Organic Electronics Laboratory, seven master’s students and two doctoral students will graduate this spring. To celebrate their graduation, we held a farewell party in Namba again this year. We wish them all the best in their future endeavors. ＃NAIST #GraduateSchool

Yokuto Haze (M1) and Kanta Hayashi (M1) from the Materials Informatics Laboratory will participate in the The 106th CSJ Annual Meeting. We hope to see you at their presentations! pub.confit.atlas.jp/ja/event/csj10… pub.confit.atlas.jp/ja/event/csj10… #NAIST #GraduateSchool

In Data-Driven Chemistry Group (@NAIST37744398), we found that selecting pre-training datasets aligned with the generation objective improves fine-tuned chemical language models in generating more desirable molecules. doi.org/10.1016/j.ails… ＃NAIST #GraduateSchool

The 4th workshop of the JSAP Group of Quantum Energy Conversion, whose organizing committee includes members of the Applied Quantum Physics Laboratory, was held on November 27, 2025, with a participant from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. URL: annex.jsap.or.jp/radiation-lumi… #NAIST #GraduateSchool

Master’s thesis presentations for our M2 students are coming up this week (18–20)! We’re in the final push of practice in the Complex Molecular Systems Lab. ＃NAIST #GraduateSchool

We are excited to welcome Kyriakos from the University of Surrey to the Information Device Science Lab /Thin Film Semiconductor Lab for the next 5 weeks! 🎉 He will be working on flexible multimodal transistors for biosensing applications. Looking forward to a productive and inspiring internship! #NAIST #GraduateSchool

Dian Natalia Nainggolan from Atma Jaya University Yogyakarta stayed with us for two months last autumn as an intern in the Functional Supramolecular Chemistry Laboratory. She made a video about her internship experience!! ＃NAIST #GraduateSchool

2025 NAIST Academic Award (Division of Materials Science) Ceremony & Award Lecture will be held on February 28, 2026. Recipient: Associate Professor YALIKUN Yaxiaer, Bio-Process Engineering Laboratory Date and Time: Saturday, February 28, 2026 (10:00-10:50) Venue: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC MATERIALS SCIENCE LECTURE HALL in the Materials Science Complex of NAIST mswebs.naist.jp/topics_en/2026… #NAIST #GraduateSchool #AcademicAward

Liu Pin-Yu & Chen Hung-Yu (PhD 1st year) presented at the 2026 Taiwan-Japan Young-Researcher Workshop! Our students actively presented their research. Being from Taiwan, they were so excited to see snow for the first time!!! #NAIST #GraduateSchool