Creation of activating molecular device including energy conversion mechanism

As technology has improved immeasurably over the past few decades, scientists have been able to do remarkable things that are directly inspired by molecules and macromolecules. Indeed, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 was awarded to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L Feringa for designing and producing molecular machines. It seems almost inconceivable that such a thing could be achieved - synthetic molecules with controllable movements that are able to perform a task when energy is added. Although the science behind this achievement is extremely complex, the principle is actually quite simple. The molecular machine receives stimuli and reacts to it. These molecular machines exist biologically and are responsible for such things as DNA replication, but the Nobel Prize winners were able to create a synthetic version that converted chemical energy into motion. Of course, since then researchers around the world have started performing their own investigations to explore the potential of molecular engines and gain a full understanding of what they might facilitate in the future. Professor Kazushi Kinbara is the head of the Kinbara Group based within the School of Life Science and Technology at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan. Kinbara is currently working with a team of experts from 36 research groups based in approximately 30 Japanese Universities and Institutes to design and produce synthetic molecular devices which can perform autonomous functions based on energy conversion.

Construction of omni-directional elastic modulus evaluation system using lamb wave for fabric

Engineers and materials scientists are constantly working to improve the quality of our built environments and vehicles, including noise levels and vibration. The researchers pursuing the duel goals of safety and comfort are increasingly being challenged as the projects they work on advance technologically, in size and are constructed with new materials. Buildings grow taller and must compensate for greater movement and vibrations from wind or shifting foundations. Cars especially are undergoing drastic changes that require a rethinking of the material and designs of their frames, panels, doors and windows. The advent of electric motors for example, has reduced overall noise but shifted the frequency of sound higher, making them more uncomfortable. Assistant Professor Shuichi Akasaka, who is based in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan, is carrying out research to design new materials that reduce vibration and noise, and create the quiet, safe automobiles and living spaces of the future.

Cluster Preface: Integrated Synthesis Using Continuous-Flow Technologies

Shinichiro Fuse was born in 1977 in Japan. He earned his B.S. degree in 2000 and his Ph.D. in 2005 from Tokyo Institute of Technology under the supervision of Prof. Takashi Takahashi. He was a researcher at ChemGenesis Incorporated between 2005 and 2006, and a postdoctoral fellow from 2006 to 2008 at Harvard University in the group of Prof. Daniel E. Kahne. In 2008, he joined the faculty at the Tokyo Institute of Technology as an assistant professor. He then moved to the Chemical Resources Laboratory at the same university as an associate professor in 2015. He was appointed as a professor at Nagoya University in 2019. His research is aimed toward the development of efficient synthetic processes based on a deep understanding of organic chemistry using flow synthesis, automated synthesis, theoretical calculations, and machine-learning technologies.

Quantum phases and quantum excitations in spin systems

Professor Hidekazu Tanaka is based at the Department of Physics at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, where he is collaborating with a team of researchers to investigate magnetic quantum phenomena focusing on quantum phase transitions. Tanaka and his team have set about creating something they call a 'quantum magnetic excitation', which is essentially an elementary excitation that can be used on a quantum scale to explain how the quantum effect and multiple spins interact with one another. Their ultimate aim is to discover novel magnetic phenomena that occur at these scales and elucidate the mechanisms involved.

Information society and virtual (distance) education.

New communication and information technologies are becoming the main force of the “new industrial revolution, which multiplies the capabilities of human intelligence”. The idea of an information society was formulated in the late 1960s – early 1970s. The term “information society” was coined by Yuri Hayashi, professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Researchers and developers of the information society theory are: M. Castells, F. Webster, E. Giddens, J. Habermas, D. Martin, D. Bell, G. Molitor, O. Toffler, Z. Brzezinski, A. King, D. Nesbit, A. Touraine, P. Drucker, M. McLuhan. The term “information society” reveals the objective process of society becoming gradually aware of the importance of information as some independent fundamental entity (along with energy and matter) and its transformation into a real productive force.

Lecture notes on Generalised Hydrodynamics

These are lecture notes for a series of lectures given at the Les Houches Summer School on Integrability in Atomic and Condensed Matter Physics, 30 July to 24 August 2018. The same series of lectures has also been given at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, October 2019. I overview in a pedagogical fashion the main aspects of the theory of generalised hydrodynamics, a hydrodynamic theory for quantum and classical many-body integrable systems. Only very basic knowledge of hydrodynamics and integrable systems is assumed.