NEWS

Nov. 17, 2023 "Profiles", "Achievements", "Access", and "Link" have been newly added.
Sep. 14, 2023
  AIST web guidelines have been revised on August 7, 2023, and in accordance with them, my personal homepage (first of all, especially the top page) has been renewed. The Links and English version will be continued to work diligently to revise them.
Dec. 01, 2021  A new review (in Japanese) has been added.
Oct. 18, 2021  A new review (in Japanese) has been added.
May 19, 2021  "DOI" code has been added to each paper.
Sep. 09, 2020  A new paper has been added.
Feb. 26, 2020  Our paper entitled "Soft-Matter Nanotubes: A Platform for Diverse Functions and Applications" has been published in Chemical Reviews (American Chemical Society).
Aug. 30, 2019  Some new papers have been added.
Oct. 10. 2018  My office has bee moved from Tsukuba Central 5-2, AIST to Tsukuba Central 5-1, AIST. A new invited lecture has been added.
Apr. 02. 2018  Our paper entitled "Self-Assembly of Discrete Organic Nanotubes" has been published as Accounts & Review of the 90th Commemorative Accound: Self-Organization in Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan.
Apr. 01. 2018  Dr. Ryoji Chubachi, the President of National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, awarded T. Shimizu an Emeritus Researcher.
Jan. 18, 2018  Profile has been updated. Some new papers have been added.
Sep. 21, 2017  The Society of Polymer Science, Japan awarded T. Shimizu a SPSJ Fellow.
Nov. 29, 2016  ACS-Langmuir has published a special issue entitled Tribute to Toyoki Kunitake, Pioneer in Molecular Assembly, which is a topic of great interest to the readers of Langmuir. As an Invited Feature Article, our paper entitled "Supramolecular Self-Assembly into Biofunctional Soft Nanotubes: From Bilayers to Monolayers"has been published in this special issue of Langmuir.
Nov. 11, 2016  Some new invited lectures have been added.
Jul. 25, 2016  Some representative research results regarding "Function" and "Application", and an explanatory note have been added.
Jul. 14, 2016   Some representative research results regarding "Size Control and Preparation" have been added.
June 24, 2016  Some new papers have been added.
May 11, 2016   Some new papers have been added.
Dec. 17, 2015  Some new papers have been added.
Nov. 04, 2015  Some new papers have been added.
Sep. 01, 2015  Some representative research results and explanatory notes about our organic nanotubes have been added
Aug. 14, 2015  Historical background and characteristics of each organic nanotube that we have developed so far in AIST have been arranged into a list.
Aug. 12, 2015  Representative research results and explanatory notes about our organic nanotubes have been introduced.
Jul. 30, 2015   My homepage has been drastically revised.