Awards













2013 Best Paper Award of Tribology Online (Japanese Society of Tribologists)
"Effects of Surface Chemical Properties on the Frictional Properties of Self-Assembled Monolayers Lubricated with Oleic Acid"
2005 Young Researchers Award (JSME Machine Design & Tribology Division)
"Nanoindentation by Atomic Force Microscopy for Measuring the Mechanical Properties of Bulk and Thin Film Materials"
2000 Young Researchers Award of the Japan Society of Applied Physics
"Formation Process of Molecular Necklace Governed by the Intermolecular Interaction between Cyclodextrin Molecules"
1998 SSSJ Paper Award (Surface Science Society of Japan)
"Interaction between Si(100) Surface Dimers and Dynamics of Phase Defects Formed on Dimer Rows at 6K Studied by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy"
1997 SSSJ Student Award (Surface Science Society of Japan)
"Stability and Formation Process of Si(111)-7x7 Structure"