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Regular Articles ꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏ 1

Urban Engineering
Urban Design and Engineering
Current and Future Situations of Automatic Driving in China and Japan
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Evaluation of Road Space Reallocation Arrangement and Rest Space Installation for
Pedestrians and Cyclists Using the Level of Service Concept on Midosuji Boulevard
Haruka KAWACHI, Nagahiro YOSHIDA, Pola BERENT ꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏ

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Vital Reactions as a Measure of Stress Levels in Bicycle Riders According to Degree of Task
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Mechanical and Physical Engineering
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Applied Chemistry and Bioengineering
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List of Presentations at International Conferences ꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏꞏ 85
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Applied Chemistry and Bioengineering
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Urban Engineering
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Current and Future Situations of Automatic Driving in China and Japan
HAINAER BULATAI* and Takashi UCHIDA**(Received 2FWREHU 31, 2019)

Synopsis
Conducting social acceptance surveys in Japan and China requires understanding of the current situation of
automatic driving technology and the difficulties posed by transmission of future technologies. To analyze the statusquo and to assess differences in automatic driving in China and Japan, this research begins with assessment of thethree basic technologies of automatic driving. Then identification technology, programming technology, and control
technology are analyzed by comparing the equipment of intelligent auxiliary systems of companies in China, Japan,
and the United States. By analyzing the current state of development, the company plans can indicate the future ofautomatic driving.
KEYWORDS: Automatic driving, Control, Planning, Recognition technology, V2X

1. Research Background
Transportation services have evolved over time and have greatly affected people's lives and urban activities.
Automatic driving technology, including artificial intelligence technology, is expected to be realized in the future.
Most fatal accidents result from driver error. The practical use of automatic driving is therefore expected to reduce
driver-related traffic accidents considerably. Two main types of automatic driving technologies are expected toreduce traffic congestion and to strengthen international competitiveness. “Automatic” driving uses sensors andcameras attached to the car while sensing pedestrians and obstacles, along with road surface information such as
roads, signs, and signals. "Infrastructure cooperation" can hold the city together and protect safety.
Comparison of self-regulated cars developed by Alphabet Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc. shows that thecoordination type is more dependent on the construction of infrastructure. Smart city infrastructure is being built inseveral countries. Shanghai particularly has launched a new smart city construction policy. Current automatic
driving technologies cannot cope with complex traffic conditions. All problems cannot be solved by each vehicle.
Therefore, automatic driving technology and transportation systems should be regarded together. In economicallydeveloped countries, road development and infrastructure development are fundamentally completed. Maintenanceis almost impossible. Viewed in that light, infrastructure development has not been completed in China and otherintermediate countries that are expected to realize “automatic” automatic driving. Nevertheless, in China, where
there is a demand for urban development, it is reportedly more efficient to develop it as a set with automatic
operations as a whole. Furthermore, using not only visual information such as green and red traffic lights, but also
information such as signal change timing and road congestion, vehicles will be able to adjust speed efficiently. The
best automatic driving technology method must be chosen based on infrastructure development and roaddevelopment in Japan and China.
2. Research Purpose and Method
By grasping the main technologies for automatic driving, technologies that can be realized in 10 years are* Student, Master Course of Department of Urban Engineering** Professor, Department of Urban Engineering－1－predicted by the roadmap of companies in Japan and China. For different regions in Japan (city, region) and China(observation, center, northwest region), infrastructure development, inputs of social capital, traffic demand, etc. canbe predicted. Future difficulties posed by dissemination of automatic driving technology are forecast. Future studies
will administer social acceptance surveys of Japan (city, region) and China (coastal, central, and northwest) after
assessment of the current status of automatic driving technology and difficulties faced by future technology
transmission. For this study, based on the present circumstances in each country1)-3), literature search, and analysesof the automatic driving technology used by each company4)-10), the potential for future systems is predicted.
3. Main Technology of Automatic Driving
The automatic driving system senses the surrounding environment of the vehicle based on the environment
sensing technology, and independently controls the steering and speed of the vehicle through the vehicle centercomputer according to the information obtained by the sensing, so that the vehicle can safely and reliably travel andreach the predetermined destination.
The key technologies of automatic driving are recognition technology and control technology. Recognition
technology is the basis of driverless driving. Vehicle control technology is the core of driverless driving, including
trajectory planning and control execution. The two technologies complement each other to form the key technology
of intelligent driving vehicles. The system composition is shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1: Overall relevance of automatic driving technology.
3.1 Recognition technology
Automatic driving technology acquires and processes environmental information mainly for state recognition
and V2X（Vehicle-to-everything .communication is the passing of information from a vehicle to any entity that may
affect the vehicle, and vice versa. It is a vehicular communication system that incorporates other more specific typesof communication as V2I (vehicle-to-infrastructure), V2N (vehicle-to-network), V2V (vehicle-to-vehicle), V2P(vehicle-to-pedestrian), V2D (vehicle-to-device) and V2G (vehicle-to-grid).）network communication, which uses
the latest communication and network technology to enable information sharing, interconnection, and control
coordination between automatic vehicles and external infrastructure and equipment. State recognition collects andprocesses ambient and local environmental information via onboard sensors, mainly including traffic conditions andvehicle conditions.

－2－Realization of a traffic condition recognition function depends on the sensors and corresponding detection
technologies. Depending on how the traffic environment information is obtained, these sensors are classifiable into
two types:
1) Passive environmental sensors do not emit signals themselves, but instead receive environmental information byreceiving external reflections or radiated signals including cameras, visual sensors, and acoustic sensors such as
microphone arrays.
2) Active sensors such as radar, millimeter wave radar, and ultrasonic radar, and active environmental sensors
actively transmit signals to the external environment for environmental sensing.
Realization of the vehicle state detection function is based mainly on global position systems (GPS) such as the
Beidou Navigation Satellite System, and Inertial Navigation System. These devices are designed to obtain
information such as vehicle speed and attitude orientation and to provide effective data for automatic vehicle
position and navigation.
3.1.1 Camera
Vision sensors used in automatic driving are mainly industrial cameras, which present important advantages overconsumer cameras, such as high image stability, transmission capabilities, and interference prevention capabilities.
According to the output data signal, industrial cameras can be analog or digital. Depending on the chip type, they
are classifiable as charge-coupled device (CCD) cameras and complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS)
cameras. Visual sensing technologies are classifiable into three main types as presented in Table 1.
Table 1: Features using visual sensing technology of three types－3－

3.1.2 Radar
The radar sensor (Table 2) generally includes a transmitter, transmission antenna, receiver, reception antenna,
display, and processing unit. It also includes auxiliary devices such as a power supply devices, data recording
devices, and interference prevention devices.
Table 2: Features of Radar

3.1.3 Positioning and navigation technology
Automatic driving is based on automatic navigation. It obtains the relative positional relation between the vehicle
and the external environment. It is also necessary to ascertain the absolute position of the vehicle through recognitionof the vehicle state.
Position data of an automatic driving vehicle cannot exist independently of the recognition condition benchmark(generally designated as a coordinate system). The vehicle positioning performance results corresponding todifferent benchmarks are vastly different. Standards often used for automatic driving include geodetic coordinate
system (WGS-84 / CGCS 2000), camera coordinate system, image coordinate system, radar coordinate system, anddriver recognition coordinate systems. After the benchmark is selected, information such as the vehicle orientation,
ambient environment, and map are mapped and marked. One or more maps based on these coordinate systems are
generated. In these drawings, the driving situation map based on the driver's cognitive coordinate system can reflect
the selection attention, and can move in synchronize with the vehicle.
Most current automatic driving uses GPS / BDS + INS in combination because traffic environments are complex
and variable. Single navigation systems are often limited by their own flaws: they cannot guarantee accurate
positioning and navigation.
3.1.4 V2X and 5G
Vehicle to Everything (V2X) network communication connects vehicles, roads, and users, mainly using radio
frequency identification (RFID), cameras, and cloud servers to improve driving safety and driving efficiency.
Consequently, traffic information such as road conditions, road information, and pedestrian information areinterchangeable.
The V2X network communication technical capabilities used for automatic driving are short network accesstime, low transmission delay, high transmission reliability, low interference, high information security, and spectrum－4－reusability. In addition, large amounts of data must be analyzed and processed. To do so, sensors of different types
must be used rationally with V2X technology to elucidate rules from data we have acquired for effective
representation.
Realization of V2X technology is generally based on hardware platforms such as RFID, camera equipment, andvehicle sensors. The V2X network communications industry is divided into two standards and industry camps:
Dedicated Short Range Communication and LTE-V2X technology (Table 3).
Table 3: Features of DRSC and LTE technologies

3.2 Planning technology
Planning technology, a direct representation of automated driving intelligence, plays a decisive role in driving
safety and performance. Planning technologies includes hierarchical, responsive, and hybrid types (Table 4). Figure
2 portrays the relations among A, staged system structure, B, reactive system structure, and C, hybrid system
structure.
Automatic driving planning technology is at the heart of automatic driving. Improper driving decisions affectthe safety, energy saving, and comfort of the car itself, reducing external traffic flow efficiency. National andinternational scholars have achieved some results with vehicle intelligent driving planning methods based on
environmental information and vehicle conditions. The systems can cope with complex and dynamic actual traffic
scenarios.
Development and integration of an automatic planning system are divisible into four transaction loops each.
They can perform information fusion, task specification, track specification, and anomaly handling.
Table 4: Features of the respective types of planning technology－5－Figure 2: Planning technology structure.
Planning is the basis for automatic driving navigation and control. From the perspective of trajectory
determination, it is divisible into two levels: global planning and local planning. The task of global planning is toplan a path that can be passed without collision from the starting point to the target point according to the global
map database information. Because the route generated by the overall route plan cannot be a rough route from thestarting point to the target point, automatic driving does not incorporate consideration of details of direction, width,
curvature, road crossings, or obstacles. It is affected by the local environment while driving. Effects of its own state
uncertainty will encounter various unmeasured conditions. Therefore, the automatic driving process requires ideal
local path planning without collision based on local environmental information and its own state information.
Depending on the driving environment characteristics, key points and difficulties in local path planning of
automatic driving differ.
1) On the highway, the vehicle driving environment changes slowly, but demands high accuracy. Automatic driving
vehicle control is easy. A main problem is the speed algorithm, which can obtain environmental information andposition accuracy of route searching.
2) On urban roads, the road environment is more complicated, but the traffic environment is more complex andmore obstacles exist nearby. Therefore, to identify the functions and obstacles of smart car roads, requirements will
be higher. Path planning is necessary mainly for modeling the environment surrounding the vehicle and for obstacle
avoidance, especially for dynamic obstacle direction and speed prediction.
3) On non-separated roads with an off-road environment, no clear road boundary exists in the environment where
smart cars are located. The roads are wavy and might have large pits and mounds. An important requirement is
identification of areas that are accessible by the vehicle.
3.3 Control technology
Key technologies for automatic driving are environment recognition technology and vehicle control technology.
Environment recognition technology is the foundation of driverless operation. Control technology is the core ofdriverless operation including trajectory planning and control execution. These two technologies complement eachother to form key technologies for automatic vehicles. The system configuration is shown in Figure 3. The automatic
driving process is divisible into three parts.

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Figure 3: Structure of control technology.
1) External environment is recognized by radar, camera and vehicle network connection system
2) Based on intelligence sensing fusion information, we learned external scenes through intelligent algorithms.
Information, vehicle trajectory planning, vehicle anthropomorphic control to traffic flow,3) Tracks the planning trajectory targets, controls the drive movement of the vehicle's throttle, brakes and steering,
adjusts the vehicle's running speed, position and direction, etc. to ensure vehicle safety, operability and stability.
Overall, the process tracks the planning trajectory targets, controls the drive movement of the vehicle's throttle,
brakes, and steering, and then adjusts the vehicle's running speed, position, and directionto ensure vehicle safety,
operability, and stability.
The core technology for automatic driving control is vehicle longitudinal and lateral control technology.
Longitudinal control requires vehicle drive and brake control, lateral control, i.e. steering wheel angle adjustment
and tire force control. Automatic vertical and horizontal control are implemented to control driving of the vehicle
automatically with given targets and constraints.
Artificial intelligence based control technology uses artificial intelligence to establish a direct mapping processfrom driving environment to driving behavior. Specifically, an advanced driver model to complete the actual driving
process is established within the cognitive range. The control process need not establish a mathematical model ofthe controlled object. It has strong mobility and real-time performance.
The vehicle front–rear control is control of the travel speed, i.e., control in a direction in which the distance
between the vehicle speed and the front and rear vehicles or obstacles is controlled automatically. Cruise control
and emergency brake control are examples of automatic driving vertical control. Control difficulties of this type canbe attributed to the control of motor drives, engines, transmissions, and brake systems. Different motor engine
transmission models, vehicle motion models, and brake process models are combined with different controller
algorithms to form different vertical control modes.

－7－4. Current Situations and Roadmaps of Automated Driving in Japan, China, Europe, and the United States
4.1 Current status of support driving systems in Japan, China and Europe, and the United States
Automatic driving technology requires various corresponding systems to be configured on a smart car to achieve
its complex functions.
When regarding the overall level, driving support level 2 is currently at the center, but among them, one can findthat it is the current stage in which automatic driving systems of level 3 or higher related to 17) FSDC are beginning
to appear (Table 5 & 6).
Table 5: List of automatic driving support systems.

Table 6: Driver manufacturer's equipment support system.

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The respective companies have realized different driving support systems, but system implementation iscontinuing under various conditions. Technologies are not perfect. Moreover, functions such as ABE have
limitations in inter-vehicle distance control depending on circumstances. Many functions of APAS might not bedisabled depending on the road conditions, vehicle conditions, weather conditions, even if the ACC function is usedin limited areas on expressways and motorways. Although driving support system vehicle technology is incomplete,
Chinese, Japanese, and American companies are working actively on improving them. Among them, somedevelopment models such as those for Tesla and NIO vehicles are considering automatic support system as basic
car functions. However, regarding the status of the overall automatic support system development, the development
center of Japanese and Chinese companies will depend on the respective company technologies and respective
country policies. Presumably, safety will be the primary consideration in Japan.
4.2 Automatic driving roadmap organization of China, Japan, and the United States.
4.2.1 China
The Chinese government will gradually support the standardization and independence of the automatic driving
technology industry. However, the government's policy is put forth in the literature particularly highlights
integration of communication technology and manufacturing industry in a new era. According to a plan proposedin April 2017 <Automotive Industry Medium- to Long-Term Development Plan>, in 2020, more than 50% of cars
are equipped with driving assistance (DA) partial automated driving (PA), or conditional automated driving (CA)systems. The installed cars (about 10%) might be accelerated by the explosive development of automatic driving
technology.
Chinese cities are experiencing severe traffic congestion because of increased car ownership, irregular driving
habits, and reduced vehicle usage. Commuting is inefficient and congestion-inducing, with great amounts of timespent in traffic and parking. Automated driving with intelligent networking can free up driving time, optimize theuse of road resources, and smooth road traffic. New car sales in China account for a large share of new car sales
worldwide. Therefore, technology can be promoted easily. Changes might be more acceptable for internet vehicles
in areas where the mobile internet is developing rapidly in China
China is more likely than other mature market countries to use mobility services. The use of mobility services
has changed consumers' traditional views of car ownership. Chinese consumers are expected to accept self-drivingcars readily. However, public awareness of automatic driving remains low. Few automobile technology enthusiasts
are strongly interested in automatic driving. Technologies must be launched widely. Safe driving and "The Dolly
Problem" with a conservative attitude are the main reasons for refusal of automatic driving.

7DEOH 7: Automatic driving roadmap organization of China.

－9－4.2.2 Japan
In Japan, the future needs of a mobile society are classified roughly into large urban areas, suburbs, local cities,
and depopulated areas. In large urban areas, public transportation is expected to be developed further. Suburbs andsmaller cities present possibilities for practical use, such as driverless ride sharing and driverless taxis. Door-to-doortransportation methods are used mainly for personal cars, with travel to school, work, hospitals, and shopping foreveryday life. In less populated areas, practical application of low-speed automatic driving buses and driverlesstaxis can be considered in cooperation with local governments.
In Japan, networks, intelligence, and road safety concepts are integrated. The plan is divided into three stages:
driving assistance, V2X, and the realization of three stages of more advanced road safety.
The period of 2020 to around 2025 represents the first stage of introduction of automatic driving vehicles.
Presumably, automatic driving vehicles and general vehicles will use public roads simultaneously. The share ofautomatic driving vehicles is expected to be small.
Table 8: Automatic driving roadmap organization of Japan.

4.2.3United States and Europe
In the United States, the government management system is decentralized. The legal environment is moving
forward. The US traffic management system is managed by many state and local governments. Over the past two
years, 23 states in the United States have introduced Driving Laws, The 5 states have adopted automatic driving
laws. The US Road Traffic Safety Administration Safety Rulesare an approximation of the management system.
The United States has adopted administrative law that establishes Federal Automobile Safety Standards.
Those standards facilitate mandatory installation of vehicle DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communications).
The Highway Safety Authority has established a transportation change research center to establish self-driving car
guidelines and policy frameworks and to facilitate demonstration testing. The HSA has a comprehensive layout
from strategy, legislation, and testing levels. Current traffic laws in the United States prohibit self-driving cars thatare not equipped with steering wheels and brakes.
Gaining passenger confidence is important for expanding the acceptance of general automatic vehicles. The Intel
Automatic Driving Improvement Report states that when people's trust is reflected in the experience of trust andhuman interaction with computers, people will make a big difference in machine safety and trust.
Table 9: Automatic driving roadmap organization of Europe and the United States.

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5 Conclusions
As described herein, countries are preparing actively for automatic driving in terms of policy and economy
transformation, new energy vehicle creation, and favorable conditions establishment for automatic driving. The
likely roadmaps of that development seem clear.
In the 2020s, automatic driving on highways will be possible. The adoption of safe driving support systems andthe spread of 5G and V2X can reduce traffic accidents considerably.
In the 2030s, all of the following can be expected: automatic driving on general roads, widespread use of cars
equipped with automatic driving systems, exclusive road traffic flow control for automatic driving vehicles,
elimination of traffic congestion, improved punctuality of movement, reduction of resources related to movement,
and fewer traffic accidents. Great progress can be expected, especially with smart cities. With the realization of amobile society centered on vehicles equipped with automatic driving systems in the 2040s and the development of
automatic driving technology, the structure of society is expected to change dramatically.
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10) Tesla homepage https://www.tesla.com/ja_jp/models－11－Evaluation of Road Space Reallocation Arrangement and Rest Space Installation
for Pedestrians and Cyclists Using the Level of Service Concept on Midosuji Boulevard
Haruka KAWACHI*, Nagahiro YOSHIDA**, Pola BERENT***(Received October 31, 2019)
Synopsis
The road space reallocation project on Osaka’s main street, Midosuji, started in 2017 to realize the concept ofhuman-centered urban spaces in response to the change of social trends and conditions. The pilot project has been
undertaken to increase spaces for pedestrians and cyclists. While the “Level of Service” concept was widely
employed to evaluate user comfort issues in the transportation field, it is unknown whether it could apply to thesespace differences and evaluate the reallocation effect correctly. In this study, we show the elements that are notexpressed by the Level of Service and are directed towards a more realistic comfort assessment; for example, rest
spaces in road designs, and the expected and necessary speed to avoid worsening traffic flow.
Keywords: Pedestrian transportation plan, bicycle transportation plan, Road space reallocation, Level of service,
Comfort, Rest space
1. Research Background and Objectives
In recent years, waning interest in owning a car has been observed among young people, along with its use as amode of urban transport. The reason is, the youth generally demonstrate lower interest in cars. Moreover, people
are relatively more concerned of their environmental impact and in addition, they have more interest in healthy
activities. This shift has generated a renewed emphasis on walking and cycling activities. On Central Midosuji
Boulevard in Osaka, noticeable changes have been observed since it was built decades ago, in the ways people
behave in relation to it and also in the state of the surrounding areas. To reorganize Midosuji in accordance with thischanging social situation and the needs of the time, a pilot project is undertaken to close one side of the street, widen
the sidewalk, and build a bike lane (Figure 1). This place-making project is initiated to consider the comfort of users
and to incorporate pedestrian-centric ideas, with the latter guided by the principle of transforming a car-centricstreetscape into a human-centric one1).
Level of Service (LOS) is used as an index to express the comfortability of this kind of space for transportation;
the U.S. Highway Capacity Manual2) (HCM) defines six LOS grades, on the scale of A to F (A represents the bestand F represents the worst). However, limiting the consideration to factors related to transportation may notadequately represent the comfortability of a mixed-use space such as Midosuji, with broad spaces for commingled
pedestrians and cyclists, which has other spatial features that relate to its changing streetscape and appeal as a place
for leisure.
For this study, we focused on road space reallocation and the effect of a rest space on the sidewalk. A direct survey
was conducted of pedestrians and cyclists traversing on broad pedestrian-oriented road spaces of Midosuji, with anobjective to evaluate the effects of this streetscape reallocation on both groups in terms of transportation, space, andpassers-by, using the concept of service levels. Thereby, proposing the place-making elements will further improvethe comfortability when the pilot-project segment is extended in the future.

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Figure 1: Road space reallocation overview

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* Student, Master Course of Department of Civil Engineering** Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering*** Visiting PhD Student (JSPS Fellow), Centre for Urban Sustainability and Resilience,
Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, University College London

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2. Research methodology
2.1. Survey overview
To understand the comfortability of pedestrian spaces of Midosuji, Osaka, Japan, we performed surveys onpedestrians and cyclists on three sections: (a) narrow section, (b) wide section without rest space, and (c) wide
section with rest space (Table 1). To calculate LOS and assess the traffic situation, a video-based study was
conducted, and a questionnaire was administered to gather subjective assessments. Table 3 shows key elements of
the questionnaire used for analysis.
Table 3 shows the breakdown of the width of pedestrian and cyclist spaces in each target sections. Figure 2 shows
the personal information of the questionnaire survey for pedestrians and cyclists and traffic volume for pedestrians
and cyclists on the survey date.
(a) narrow section
Questionnaire survey

2017/07/22 (SAT) 9:00–19:00
2017/08/04 (FRI) 13:00–19:00
2017/08/05 (SAT) 13:00–19:00

Video survey

2017/07/22 (SAT) 9:00–19:00

Traffic volume
at peak hour(b) wide section without rest space2017/07/22 (SAT) 9:00–19:00
2017/08/04 (FRI) 13:00–19:00
2017/08/05 (SAT)13:00–19:00
2017/12/03 (SUN)11:00–19:00
2017/07/22 (SAT) 9:00–19:00
2017/12/03 (SUN)11:00–19:00

Pedestrians: n=84
Cyclists: n= 8
Pedestrians: 3,248 p
Cyclists: 69 bicycles[The following include cyclists traffic
volume on roadway]
Cyclists: 213 bicycles

Question
Comfortability when traveling
Importance (whole road)
Importance (road elements)
Rest space
Expected speed※ to calculate LOS, we use the data on 12/3.

Pedestrians: n=93
Cyclists: n=14
Pedestrians: 3,316 p
Cyclists: 316 bicycles[The following include cyclists traffic
volume on roadway]
Cyclists: 358 bicycles(c) wide section with rest space2017/11/19 (SUN) 11:00–19:00

2017/11/19 (SUN) 11:00–19:00
Pedestrians: n=79
Cyclists: n=11
Pedestrians: 2,727 p
Cyclists: 300 bicycles[The following include cyclists traffic
volume on roadway]
Cyclists: 321 bicycles

Table 2: Contents of Questionnaire survey

Methodology on answer
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6（6 levels）
space, safety, speed, length of road, other users, surroundings
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6（6 levels）
path width, verge width, lighting, users speed, volume of pedestrians, volume of cyclists
path maintenance, street furniture, surroundings
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6（6 levels）
I am more comfortable / I am less comfortable / my comfort is unaffected（3 levels）
same as now / slower than now / faster than now（3 levels）

Table 3: Breakdown of streetscape breadth in target segments(a) narrow section

Path width[m]Sidewalk
Bicycle lane
Rest space
Trees
Walkable path width
Total width

3.4 (not separate)
2.3
3.4
5.7

(b) wide section
without rest space
7.6
2.6
3.0
10.2
13.2

(c) wide section
with rest space
5.6
1.7
2.9
3.0
7.3
13.2

■ Pedestrian [p]▲ Cyclist

4000

350

3318

3500

2910

3000
2500

250

17:00

16:00

15:00

50

14:00

1000

13:00

100
12:00

150

1500
11:00

2000

Figure 2: Personal information of questionnaire survey and traffic volume for pedestrians and cyclists

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300
200

2753

18:00

Subject

Table 1: Survey overview

2.2. Analysis methodology
In the questionnaire survey, which serves as subjective indices, respondents scored comfortability on a 6-point
scale (1 being very uncomfortable and 6 being very comfortable).
For objective indices, we used the LOS of HCM, which rates density, flow rate, speed, and number of congestion
events on each 10-minute peak (Table 4). However, we used the formula based on research by H. Yamanaka et al.3)
to calculate pedestrian density. In addition, we used cyclists overtaking pedestrians or pedestrians passing each otheras the number of congestion events.
The peak time for (a) according to the “Midosuji Pilot Project Study of Cyclist & Pedestrian Traffic Volumes”—
which was conducted by the city of Osaka in November–December 2016 and referenced a post-improvement study
near the pilot segment used in this study—is 18:30–18:40. Peak times in (b) and (c) were initially measured as
11:00–19:00 for pedestrian and cyclist traffic volume; subsequently these were measured as 17:00–18:00 for (b)and 15:00–16:00 for (c), and from them, the peak time for (b) is 17:00–17:10 and for (c) is 15:00–15:10.
Table 4: Video analysis method for calculating pedestrian LOS(a) narrow section
18:30–18:40
area: 3.4m(width)×4.5m (length)
calculated every 30 seconds

Time
Density[p/m2]
Flow rate[p/min/m](b) wide section without rest space(c) wide section with rest space
17:00–17:10
15:00–15:10
area: 5.8m (width)×17.55m (length)
calculated every 30 seconds
calculated every 1 minutearea: 4.5m (length)
calculated the passing time for 30
area: 17.77m (length)
seconds every 2 minutes and calculated calculated the passing time for 30 seconds every 1 minute and calculated the average
the average

Speed
[m/s]

�

The number ofcongestion events[events/h]�𝐹𝐹� � 𝑄𝑄�� �1 � � �/𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃, 𝐹𝐹� � 𝑄𝑄�� �1 � � �/𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃, 𝐹𝐹 � 𝐹𝐹� � 0.5𝐹𝐹�����

F: total the number of congestion events [events/h],𝐹𝐹� , 𝐹𝐹� : number of passing / opposing events [events/h],
𝑄𝑄�� , 𝑄𝑄�� : bicycle flow rate in the same /opposing direction [bicycles/h],𝑆𝑆� , 𝑆𝑆� : mean pedestrian /bicycle speed on the path [m/s], and
PHF: peal time factor (=0.83)
calculated the number of congestion events by using Flow rate and speed

3. Survey results
3.1. Subjective assessment
3.1.1 Comfort
Figure 3 shows the comfort score for pedestrians and cyclists. Going from segment (a) to (b), the width of the
sidewalk affected the comfort score for pedestrians, raising it from 3.46 to 4.10; going from segment (b) to (c), thepresence of inviting features slightly increased the score from 4.10 to 4.22. In the HCM, LOS is determined basedon the assumption that wider roads increase comfort; while (a) and (b) reflect that trend, (b) and (c) show that
comfort can be increased by the presence of inviting features, even when the width is reduced.
For cyclists [(a) to (b)] the width of the sidewalk affected the score, raising it from 2.63 to 3.86; going from segment(b) to (c), the presence of inviting features slightly decreased the score from 3.86 to 3.73. It was greatly affected by
the decrease in the path width.
Narrow section

Narrow section

Wide section without rest space

Wide section without rest space

Wide section with rest space

Wide section with rest space

2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
2.5
3.0
3.5
Figure 3: Left; Comfort score for pedestrians (n=369), Right; score for cyclists (n=41)

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3.1.2 The factors affecting subjective comfort
Figure 4 shows the importance of factors contributing to comfortability. We can say the following.
Pedestrians:
・The whole road; from the top “safety,” “space,” “surroundings”
・Road elements; “path width,” “volume of pedestrians,” “volume of cyclists,” “surroundings”
・Pedestrians do not feel important about speed elements (e.g. The whole road; “speed,” road elements; “users
speed”), however LOS includes the elements.
Cyclists:
・The whole road; from the top “safety,” “space” “other users”
・Road elements; “path width,” “volume of pedestrians,” “volume of cyclists,” “path maintenance”
・Cyclists do not feel important about all elements, except for some, on section (b).
The whole road

Road elements

Length of road
5.5

Verge width
5.5Path width

4.5

SafetyPedestrian

1

3.5

6
5

2

4

2

Space

3.5

Volume ofpedestrians

2.5

Other Users

4.5

1

Speed

Volume of cyclists

Users’ speed
9

8
7

2.5

Street furniture

6

3Lighting

5

43

Surroundings

Path maintenance

Surroundings
Length of road
5.5

1

Speed

3.5 6

1

5

Volume ofpedestrians

2.5

Space

5.5

Path width

4.5

CyclistSafetyVerge width324

Users’ speed

4.5
3.5 9

2

7
8

2.5

6

3

Volume ofcyclists

Other Users

Surroundings

Surroundings

Street furniture

5

4Lighting
Path maintenance

Figure 4: Importance of factors contributing to comfortability; pedestrians; n=370, cyclists; n=39

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3.1.3 The rest space
Figure 5 shows the comfort on installing rest spaces. We presented the respondents with the following question:“For each factor below, please rate its importance for your comfort when traveling on a mixed/segregated sharedpath.” For pedestrians, by installing the rest space on the sidewalk, the answer “I am more comfortable” increases
31.0 points from 24.7 to 55.7%, and the answer “I am less comfortable” decreases 15.2 points, going from 21.5%
to 6.3% (t=-4.61**, df=170). While for cyclists, the answer “I am more comfortable” slightly increases from 16.7%
to 27.2% and the answer “I am less comfortable” is almost unchanged from 25.0% to 27.2% (t=0.27, df=21, ns),
and the answer “my comfort is unaffected” is nearly half the answers on both sections.

Wide section without rest space

Wide section without rest space

Wide section with rest space

Wide section with rest space

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%I amI ammore
comfortablemore
comfortable
I am less comfortable
I am less comfortable

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%I am moreMy
comfortablecomfort is unaffected
I am less comfortable

Figure 5: Comfort on installing rest spaces; pedestrians; n=172, cyclists; n=23
3.1.4 The expected speed
Figure 6 shows the expected speed when pedestrians and cyclists are traveling. We presented the respondents withthe following question: “What is the speed you want to pass?” For pedestrians, the answer is almost unchanged in
the three sections. [(a)(b)t=-0.38, df=270, ns、(a)(c)t=0.44, df=156, ns、(b)(c)t=0.93, df=268, ns] While for cyclists,
the answer “Same as now” decreases gradually [(a) 87.5%→(b) 40.9%→(c) 36.4%], and the answer “Faster thannow” increases gradually [(a) 12.5%→ (b) 27.3%→(c) 45.5%]. However, no significant difference is found in any
sections because of fewer answers [(a)(b)t=-0.16, df=24, ns、(a)(c)t=-1.95, df=15, ns、(b)(c)t=-1.45, df=25, ns].

narrow section

narrow section

wide section without rest space

wide section without rest space

wide section with rest space

wide section with rest spaceSame as now

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Slower than now

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Faster than now
No answer

Figure 6: Changing of the expected speed; pedestrians; n=370, cyclists; n=41

3.2. Objective assessment
Figure 7 shows the average LOS scores, based on different criteria, and the LOS rank from HCM. We can say thefollowing.
(a)(b):
・density improved in the LOS rank, however, flow rate and the number of congestion events remained at therank of A, and the speed was considerably worse compared to other criteria.
・in the LOS score, all of criteria except the number of congestion events improved the traffic flow, inparticular, flow rate improved from 14.3p/min/m to 5.8p/min/m.
(b)(c):
・the increase in the number of passing/opposing events resulted in a decrease in the LOS rank, i.e., from B
to C, and lower speeds resulted in a further decrease in its rank, i.e., from C to D. The other criteria remainedat the rank of A.
・in the LOS score, traffic flow conditions deteriorated in all criteria.

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2.0[p/min/m]
14.3
1.48

1.5
1.0
0.5
0.0

1.25
0.97
0.70
0.31

(a)
①

×

15
7.0

1515.01.211313.01111.0
99.0

0.88
6.9
5.8
0.15
(b)
②

Flow rate [p/min/m]

0.17
(c)
③

A

6.0
13

B

5.0
11

C

4.0
9
3.0
7
2.0

D

77.0

E

55.0

F

Speed [m/s](a)①
Density[p/m2]

(b)
(c)
②
③
Number of events [/min]

5
1.0

Figure 7 (Left) LOS scores, (Right) LOS rank
4. Discussion
For pedestrians from subjective comfort, they feel more comfort by installing rest spaces even if the path width
narrowed. From objective comfort, however, the LOS rank and score did not improve and some criteria worsened.
Regarding the importance of factors contributing to comfortability, pedestrians feel important about the criteria
included in the LOS (e.g. space, volume of pedestrians and cyclists), while not about speed; in other words, thefeeling did not change by widening the path width and installing a rest space. We focused on the expected speed,
but we could not confirm the change in feelings.
For cyclists from subjective comfort, they feel both comfortable and uncomfortable by installing rest spaces. Thechange in the traffic flow by changing path width influences on the comfort for cyclists, unlike pedestrians. The
trend is also significant in the importance of factors contributing to comfortability; it can be said that there is themost comfort in section (b), since the importance is low at (b) where the path width is the widest. Regarding the
expected speed, cyclists cannot surpass their expected speed step by step from (a) to (c); it is one of the factors
indicating the least comfort, but it is not significant. Then, in section (a), cyclists can pass their expected speed. This
was the reason why they passed the roadway at the peak time. However, we questioned cyclists who passed on the
sidewalk (if they felt uncomfortable on the sidewalk, they would pass on the roadway).
5. Conclusions
This study shows that, for pedestrians, essentially for broad mixed-use spaces (as in Midosuji Boulevard, Osaka)
are essentially for pedestrians and cyclists, and that there is some consistency between subjective and objective
evaluations by road width widening, but there is not that by installing rest spaces. Because Due to of this, the LOS
criteria from the Highway Capacity Manual cannot completely express user comfortability. For cyclists, however,traffic flow ion their passing space more influences on their comfort more than the road design, and they want topass faster.
Further study needs to be done to improve the LOS by incorporating the effects of the rest space and the expected
speed.
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Vital Reactions as a Measure of Stress Levels in Bicycle Riders According to Degree of Task
Katsumasa TATSUNO* and Nagahiro YOSHIDA**(Received October 31, 2019)

Synopsis
In this study, the amount of stress felt by bicycle riders is analyzed to obtain a method for measuring therelationship between the stress factors of the rider and the rider reaction to the environment, particularly whileriding in bike lanes. Several vital reaction indices are used in a variety of traffic environments with differing
stress factors. This study examines individual differences to include the level of riding experience andcomplexity of bicycling tasks to better explicitly consider the differences in experience related to stress andthe complexity of riding in each environment. We also compare the differences in the vital reaction by the
influence of individual based on biking experience and complexity of biking tasks. Results indicated thatduring a ride in the bike lanes, multitasking induced higher values in all indices of vital reactions, comparedwith the responses recorded under single-task conditions. It was also found that the vital reactions in subjects
who rode their bikes daily tended to be higher under all biking conditions compared with the reactions of those
who rode bikes only occasionally.
KEYWORDS: Bicycle, Stress, Vital Reaction, RRI, Biking Task
1. Introduction
Bicycles have become a popular means of transportation owing to their excellent mobility, contribution to
reducing the environmental load, and positive impact on rider health. There are various types of bicycle lanes
on sidewalks and roadways that separate or share the space with other modes of traffic. Because of the variationin the biking skill of individual riders, the usage rate of bike lanes varies from one type of bicycle lane toanother. How the rider evaluates the environment influences whether or not the rider feels comfortable riding
their bicycle; thus, it is essential to consider the subjective and objective assessment of the rider when
examining what makes a traffic lane desirable from the rider point of view. Previous studies have shown thatsafety, stress, and the level of comfort for bicycle riders affects their choice of lanes. Research has evaluatedstress reactions in the traffic lane by measuring the heart rate variability interval (RRI), galvanic skin response(GSR), and electroencephalogram (EEG) when riding a bicycle, driving a car, or walking2), and there is also
research using electromyogram (EMG) for stress measurement in the medical field4). This research hasprovided established data of rider reaction during bicycle operation as a stress reaction using various indices.
However, cycling requires physical activity performed under complex task conditions. Previous studies haveshown that personal attributes, such as gender and the presence or absence of knowledge regarding traffic rules,
affect the selection of a traveling lane from the various types of bicycle traffic lanes6) available. Furthermore,when riding a bicycle, the person who rides the bike simultaneously processes many other tasks; requirements
will change significantly depending on the road surface condition and road outline of the selected lane. It is
expected that the biking task is closely related to the psychological load of the person when riding a bicycle;
thus, there is a need to evaluate rider reaction comprehensively, including the degree of the biking task, theconscious ability of the rider, and riding confidence. However, few research examples capture the interaction
between rider reaction, factors in the traffic environment, and rider knowledge.
In this study, to obtain essential knowledge regarding the method of measuring the relationship between stressfactors and reactions related to bicycle use, RRI, EMG, and GSR are measured in multiple traffic situations
with different biking tasks and stress factors. Then, by conducting a comparative analysis of the rider reaction
during bicycle operation and the degree of riding skill required in each traffic situation, it was experimentally
examined whether evaluation of the usage environment was possible using a vital reaction index.

* Student, Master Course of Department of Urban Design and Engineering** Associate Professor, Department of Urban Design and Engineering－19－2. Definition
2.1 Definition of stressStress is generally defined as a “non-specific vital reaction caused by an external stimulus”. At present, thepositive aspects of stress are also of interest, as moderate stress has the effect of increasing energy, increasing
clarity, and helping the person under stress to understand the situation more accurately7). In this study, wedefined all vital reactions caused by physical and psychological loads during bicycle operation as stress
reactions, considered the influence of the biking environment on riders as external stimuli, and examined therelationship between them.
2.2 Definition of biking task
Bicycle riders handle many tasks when traveling in a bicycle lane. When the traffic lane changes, the types
and number of functions required for the bicycle rider differ, and it is expected that they will appear as a vital
reaction on the load on the rider.
Therefore, in this study, we defined a biking task as the workload required to travel in each lane when riding
a bicycle. The workload is the total amount of external conditions and demands that act to change thephysiological and psychological state of a person8). In the experiment, the degree of a biking task was expressedas an experimental factor that characterized the complexity of the task. For instance, in a closed space, simple
tasks can be performed without the effect of external factors; however, tasks performed on actual roads, where
there are various external factors, require greater complexity.
2.3 Overview of vital reaction index(1) Autonomic nervous system
The autonomic nervous system controls functions essential for life support, such as blood circulation,
respiration, and body temperature regulation, and is composed of a sympathetic nervous system and aparasympathetic nervous system. The sympathetic nervous system works to increase the activity level andathletic ability of the body, and functions mainly when it is active, nervous, and stressed. Reactions caused bysympathetic nerves include an increase in heart rate and blood pressure, increase in blood flow to muscles due
to contraction of peripheral blood vessels, improvement in oxygen uptake capacity due to a rise in the
respiratory rate, and increase in sweat on the palms and soles of the feet.
(2) Heart rate variability interval (RRI)
Heart rate variability represents the variation in the range between the R-waves of the electrocardiogram.
When the RRI is reduced more than usual, stress is considered to be occurring.
(3) Electromyogram (EMG)
The electromyogram detects a slight change in potential difference occurring in the muscle, and the amplitude
fluctuation of the myoelectric becomes more significant than usual during a stress reaction. The
electromyogram waveform is composed of a positive waveform and a negative waveform with the baseline as
the boundary; however, to facilitate understanding during analysis, RMS waveform processing is performed
to reverse the negative waveform and display it as a positive waveform.
(4) Galvanic skin response (GSR)
The galvanic skin response is an electrical change that occurs temporarily on the skin due to sweating or
similar due to a strong stimulus or mental activity. If the value increases, stress is considered to be occurring.
In general, an electrode is often placed on the fingertip with the highest concentration of sweat glands tomeasure this response.
2.4 Overview of measuring equipment
As a measuring instrument, a biology sensor manufactured by S&ME (Fig. 1) was used to measure the RRI,
EMG, and GSR of the subject while riding a bicycle. The heart rate sensor electrode was attached to the chest,
and the sweat sensor electrode was attached to the index finger and ring fingertips. After a simple experiment
to compare reaction due to exercise and stress reduction, the masseter muscle of the masticatory muscle wasselected among five muscle candidates, and the electrode attachment of the myoelectric sensor was placed.
The measurement interval of each sensor was measured at 0.5 s intervals for RRI and 0.001 s intervals for－20－

EMG and GSR, and recorded in the data logger.
3. Experimental
3.1 Outline of biking experiment
A biking experiment was conducted to compare the electrode mounting positions and examine how the vital
reaction index reacts to biking tasks. The subjects were five male students with different bicycle riding
experiences (2 daily riders, 3 non-daily riders), and the experimental course was divided into two routes—
simple path and complex path (real road). The experimental course (Fig. 2) used for the simple biking task
was set up in a university without the influence of other traffic. The experimental course (Fig. 3) used for more
complex biking was a 1.5km long course composed of a bicycle track and a shared-use path on an actual road,
set in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture. The width of each lane is 1.1m on the bicycle track and 1.35m on theshared use path with visual separation9). The biking experiment on the campus was conducted on January 16,
2018, and the experiment on the actual road was held on January 25, 2018. At the time of measurement, to set
the vital reaction in the exercise state to a reasonable value, the resting state for 5 minutes and the bicycle
running state for 3 minutes were measured for a specific time, then, the measurement was performed on thecourse.
3.2 Analysis method
This study demonstrates that by using individual differences in biking experience and complexity of biking
tasks you can see how they relate to stress and the complexity of the task required for different environments.
This study compared the differences in vital reactions by the influence of individual differences, such as biking
experience and sophistication of biking tasks. A comparison was performed using the mean value and variancevalue of each vital reaction. Here, the variance represents the fluctuation range of the vital reaction.

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Figure 3. Experimental courses in Sakai City

Figure 4. Reaction characteristics of vital reactions
4. Results
4.1 Vital reaction characteristics running on a simple course
A comparison of the reaction characteristics of vital reactions of each obstacle in the biking course (Fig. 4)
revealed that RRI and GSR exhibited a gradual response for almost all subjects and continued for a certain
period of time under conditions where biking loads, such as narrow roads and log bridges, continued. GSR and
EMG also tended to react instantaneously to steering operations such as wobbling, slalom, turning right,
turning left, and avoiding obstacles. There was no reaction to movements such as hand signals and left/rightconfirmation.
Regarding individual differences, a comparison of the changes in vital reactions due to the frequency of daily
use of bicycles caused by activities such as going to school revealed an RRI with a greater tendency to decrease－22－

or increase than for students who did not use bicycles at school. In GSR, there was a tendency that thenumerical fluctuation at the time of reaction was significant. In EMG, there was no difference in reaction
depending on the frequency of bicycle use. Even for students with the same rate of use, RRI and GSR showedsignificant differences in the time to return to normal values after the values fluctuated.
4.2 Changes in vital reactions depending on degree of biking tasks
The five subjects were classified according to the difference in their biking experience, and vital reactions
due to simple biking tasks in campus experiments and vital reactions due to complicated biking tasks in roadexperiments were compared by the average values of each group (Fig. 5).
Consequently, as tasks became more complex, RRI values tended to decrease, and EMG and GSR values
tended to increase gradually. Therefore, it was found that the vital reactions increase as biking tasks become
more complicated.
Regarding changes in vital reactions due to differences in biking experience, RRI decreased as tasks became
more complicated for both regular and infrequent bikers. However, there was no significant difference inreaction between subjects who rode bicycles daily and those who did not. Moreover, in EMG and GSR,
compared to subjects who ride bikes infrequently, the subjects who rode them regularly tended to have a moresignificant reaction under any biking task. A possible reason for the difference in biking experience is that
EMG and GSR have a faster reaction rate to stressors than RRI. Perhaps in addition to the overt mental load,such as a collision or contact typically felt by a bicycle rider, regular riders are also subjected to greater
potential psychological pressure from risk prediction. Therefore, it is reasoned that experienced riders weremore responsive to stress.
4.3 Evaluation of each traffic lanes
The comparison of the traffic lane for each single road section and intersection (Fig. 6), in the individual roadsection, shows that the stress value was higher in the bicycle track for EMG and GSR. In addition, at theintersection, the stress value was higher in the shared use path for RRI and EMG. It was assumed that thebicycle track would be more comfortable to travel than the shared use path, however, it appeared that roadconditions, such as the width of the traffic lane and curve, and traffic conditions, such as the distance between
the opposing bicycles, impacted the original assumption. As for the width of the traffic lane, the bicycle trackwith a diameter of 1.3 m feels more squeezed than the shared use path with a width of 3.5 m (lane coloring
section 1.35 m) where the travel position cannot be specified. Therefore, a more significant response wasdemonstrated during passing in the bicycle track for EMG and GSR. In addition, because the RRI and EMG
responded more significantly to the curves existing in the bicycle track, it became clear that the lane outline
was also a factor affecting the vital reaction.
From these results, it is expected that RRI is suitable as an index for evaluating the entire section, and EMG
and GSR are suitable as an index for assessing the degree of each stressor. In particular, EMG and GSR havedifferent reaction rates, such that aptitude may differ depending on the duration of the bike ride. Therefore,
EMG is suitable for stressors with low biking loads such as avoiding pedestrians, bicycles and obstacles.
Furthermore, GSR may be ideal for stressors with continuous biking loads, such as the width of the traffic lane,
fences, and curves.

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From the results of this experiment, RRI and GSR showed reactions that gradually started and continued
when biking loads were maintained. In addition, EMG tended to respond to steering operation instantaneously.
A comparison of the changes in vital reactions depending on the degree of difficulty biking tasks, it was foundthat the essential reaction increased as biking duties become more complicated for all vital reaction indices.
Regarding changes in vital reactions in EMG and GSR due to individual differences such as biking experience,compared to subjects who did not ride bicycles daily, experienced bike riders tended to have a more significant
reaction under any biking task.
Thus, it is clear that the vital reactions of bicycle riders are greatly influenced by the degree of difficulty
biking tasks required for traveling in each lane, the biking experience of riders, and their physical ability.
Furthermore, as a result of evaluation of traffic lanes, it became clear that even lanes separated from cars andpedestrians, such as bicycle-only lanes, can become a stress factor by route design, such as the width of traffic
lanes and curves. These factors need to be considered in the design of future traffic lanes.
Prior to future development, it is necessary to classify in detail all biking tasks required for traveling in eachtraffic lane by measuring vehicle behavior and analyzing the relationship between the rider vital reactions andbiking tasks.
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Abstracts of Papers
Published in Other Journals

Mechanical and Physical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Development of Heating Test Equipment for Improved Utilization of Superheated Steam: Monitoring Color
Change in Food at High Temperature
Y. TANADA, H. IYOTA, H. SAKAI and K. FUKUCHI
Proc. of the 4th Asia Color Association Conference, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Dec. 5-8, pp.258-262 (2018).
Superheated steam, i.e., high-temperature steam above the boiling point at atmospheric pressure, has been widelyused as a heating medium in food baking/drying equipment. The humidity inside the baking/drying equipment
have temporal and spatial distribution because there is an inflow of indoor air during food insertion. However, aslight humidity change can influence the heat transfer to the food, which can seriously affect its quality. To solvethese problems and improve the utilization of superheated steam, a test apparatus that can set and control theheating conditions was developed in this study. By using this apparatus, we could observe the change in foodcolor under various humidity conditions. To measure the spectral reflection spectrum on the surface of a foodsample, spectroscopic measurement devices were installed. A sweet potato slices was inserted at the bottom of thetest chamber and heated for 12 minutes with hot air and superheated steam, both at a flow rate of 1 m/s, and atemperature of 200°C. The difference in color change due to the heating media could be observed; the redness ofthe sample heated with superheated steam was slightly more intense than that of the sample heated with hot air.
Gloss Distribution Measurement of Foods and their Visual Palatability Evaluation
M. ISOMI, H. IYOTA and H. SAKAI
Proc. of the 4th Asia Color Association Conference, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Dec. 5-8, pp.165-171 (2018).
We conducted sensory tests to determine the preference of food appearance by paying special attention to theirglossiness. We prepared chicken meatloaf, cookies and fried rice samples; they were all replica foods made ofplastic resin, and by painting gloss/matte varnishes, high-, medium-, and low-gloss samples were manufactured. A
total of 32 subjects (16 males and 16 females, age 21-24 years old) evaluated the glossiness of foods under the
daylight-color or light-bulb-color illumination. The results are as follows: (1) The gloss evaluation of the food is
not affected by the color temperature of the light source. (2) Food glossiness tends to be emphasized incomparison with that of industrial products. (3) Glossy foods look like warm, fresh and tasty.
Evaluation of Surface Color of Steam-Cooked Manju through Non-Contact Colorimetric Measurement
Using Dome Illumination: Effect of Processing Conditions
H. YAMAMOTO, H. SAKAI, S. KITAMURA, M. TAKAYAMA and H. IYOTA
Proc. of the 4th Asia Color Association Conference, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Dec. 5-8, pp.172-177 (2018).
This paper outlines the results of experimental measurement of the colors of two types of steamed buns (Mugwort
Manju and brown Sugar Manju) that were steamed using a continuous steamer, typically used in a food factory. A
precise color information was achieved and the effect of the amount of air mixed in the steamer on the color andgloss of the baked food was investigated. It was established that the value of lightness, L*, increased withsteaming, and, as the aeration amount decreased or the humidity in the steamer increased, this value also increased.
In addition, it was found that the value of glossiness, Gs(20°), decreased with heating and tended to decrease
further with increasing humidity in the steamer. The results indicated that the glossiness of the steamed Mugwort
Manju was higher than that of the brown Sugar Manju.
Non-Contact Colorimetric Measurement Using Dome Illumination for Complex Shape Objects
H. SAKAI, M. ISOMI and H. IYOTA
Proc. of the 4th Asia Color Association Conference, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Dec. 5-8, pp.183-186 (2018).
A method is discussed to measure the color distributions of complex shape objects such as rocks, woods, foods in
the SCE (Specular Component Excluded) and SCI (Specular Component Included) modes. Commerciallyavailable colorimeters are usually contact-type and work perfectly right out of the box for flat and uniform
surfaces. However, they are not used for rough and/or non-uniform surfaces of complex shape objects. For such
surfaces, non-contact measurements are required and users have to set up the illumination and the colorimeter
separately. These operations are not easy; for example, improper illuminations may cause shades on the sample
surfaces. To solve this problem, we have developed an integrating sphere (called "dome illumination") with a－29－

movable light-trapping plate for illumination. It is a spherical dome whose inner surface was painted white, andlarge enough for samples to be placed on the stage in the middle of the dome; an illuminating light source wasplaced below the sample stage so that samples could be illuminated only by the indirect diffuse light. This dome
illumination makes it possible to get an unshaded image of rough surfaces when observed from the top of thedome. Moreover, the movable light trap works as a switch of specular components to obtain the colorimetricimages in both SCI and SCE modes. In addition, the gloss distribution can be derived by comparing the SCI and
SCE images because their difference is caused by the specular gloss of a sample surface. This paper outlines thecolorimetric system with dome illumination and movable light traps we developed. Also, the procedure is
described to derive the gloss distribution of rough surfaces by comparing the SCI and SCE images.
Theory and Practice of Color Measurement
H. SAKAI and H. IYOTA
Abstract Book of 2nd Int. Conf. on Appl. Sci., Eng. and Interdisciplinary Studies (2nd ASEIS 2019), Pathumthani,
Thailand , July 4-5, No. S2IN2 (2019).
The color we perceive on an object’s surface depends not only on the object itself, but also on the light source andobserver. Therefore, to compare measured colors, the standard procedures recommended by the Commission
Internationale de l’Eclairage (CIE) should be followed. However, these do not work well for rough andnon-uniform surfaces of complex shaped objects, such as rocks, wood, and food. This is because the CIE
standards assume a flat and uniform object surface. To solve this problem, we propose an integrating sphere with a
movable light-trapping plate for illumination to measure color distributions of rough and non-uniform surfaces. It
is a spherical dome whose inner surface is painted white, and large enough for objects to be placed on a stage inthe middle of the dome. An illuminating light source is placed below the stage so that objects can only beilluminated by indirect diffused light. This dome illumination makes it possible to obtain unshaded images ofrough surfaces.
In-situ Color Measurement in Steam Oven for Food Quality Analysis
H. IYOTA and H. SAKAI
Abstract Book of 2nd Int. Conf. on Appl. Sci., Eng. and Interdisciplinary Studies (2nd ASEIS 2019), Pathumthani,
Thailand , July 4-5, No. S2O1 (2019).
We introduce a colorimetric method for visual evaluation of foods, an in-situ color measurement during foodprocessing using a spectrometer and a glass fiber probe. A crumb of sliced white bread was used as the sample
foodstuff to demonstrate the performance of the method. The baking process and the quality of the baked productwere investigated. Producing delicious-looking food is one of the qualities required incoming cooking equipment.
The color measurement method introduced is very useful for evaluating cooking equipment from the visual
aspects of foods.
Control of Droplet Movement on a Plate with Micro-Wrinkle by Difference of Wettability
Kenji KATOH, Eriko SATO, Shin’ya YOSHIOKA and Tatsuro WAKIMOTO
Experiments in Fluids, Vol. 60, No. 9, 140, 11pages (2019).
In this study, we consider the control of a liquid droplet movement rolling down on an inclined plate withgravitational force using a micro-wrinkle on a wall. The micro-wrinkle was manufactured by the buckling of athin polymer film (poly(N-vinylcarbazole), PVK) on a base polymer (poly(vinyl chloride), PVC). The PVC was
stretched once and then PVK (~ 100-nm thickness) was spin-coated on the surface of the base polymer at ambient
temperature. When the strain was released in a thermostatic chamber heated above the glass transition temperatureof PVC, a two-dimensional micro-wrinkle having a wavelength of several micrometers was formed on the surface.
The advancing and receding contact angles were measured in directions parallel and perpendicular to the wrinkle.
It was observed that there were several degrees of contact angle anisotropy. When the droplet was set on thewrinkle surface inclined at 45° to the gravitational force, the direction of droplet movement could be changed by~ 20° from the gravitational direction. The deflection angle was estimated from a theoretical model with theprinciple of minimum work of the contact line.
Length of Bubble Dispersion Region in a Cylindrical Bath Subjected to Side Gas Injection through an
L-shaped Lance
Tatsuro WAKIMOTO, Yuki FUKUI, Kenji KATOH and Manabu IGUCHI
Advanced Experimental Mechanics, Vol. 4, pp. 67-73 (2019).

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Dissolved oxygen in liquids plays an important role in a variety of fields such as materials engineering. For
example, the dissolution rate of oxygen into a molten metal bath is responsible for the efficiency ofdecarburization in the steelmaking industry. Oxygen is commonly introduced into the bath using many kinds ofinjection devices. The dynamic behavior of oxygen bubbles mainly governs the oxygen dissolution rate. Water
model experiments were carried out in a previous study to understand the oxygen bubble behavior and dissolution
rate for basic three (bottom, side, and top) gas injection systems. The side gas injection was found to be mosteffective for oxygen dissolution. This is probably because the oxygen dissolution rate is closely associated withthe length of bubble dispersion region in the bath. In this study air was injected horizontally into a cylindricalwater bath through an immersed L-shaped lance. The dispersion pattern of bubbles and related bath surface
oscillations were observed with a high-speed video camera and a still camera. An empirical equation was
proposed for the length of bubble dispersion region, LBS, based on the data on LBS measured in this study.
Bubble Dispersion Behavior in a Cylindrical Bath Stirred by Horizontal Gas Injection from an L-shaped
Lance
Yuki FUKUI, Tatsuro WAKIMOTO, Kenji KATOH and Manabu IGUCHI
Journal of the Japanese Society for Experimental Mechanics, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 250-257 (2018) (in Japanese).
The dissolution rate of oxygen into a molten metal bath is responsible for the efficiency of decarburization in thesteelmaking industry. Oxygen is commonly introduced into the bath using many kinds of injection devices. The
dynamic behavior of oxygen bubbles thus generated in the bath mainly governs the oxygen dissolution rate.
Model experiments were carried out in this study to understand the oxygen bubble behavior. Water and air werechosen for the models of molten metal and oxygen, respectively. Air was injected horizontally into a cylindricalwater bath through an immersed L-shaped lance. The dispersion patterns of bubbles and related bath surface
oscillations were observed with a high-speed video camera and a still camera. The patterns were classified into
seven types under the experimental conditions considered in this study.
A Study on Surface Property of Molten Solder in Oxidative Environment
Tatsuro WAKIMOTO, Kokichi ABE, Kenji KATOH, Yoshiaki UEDA (Setsunan Univ.) and Manabu IGUCHI
Proc. of the 13th International Symposium on Advanced Science and Technology in Experimental Mechanics,
F01141, 3 pages (2018) (on USB memory).
Surface tension of liquid metal varies in oxide condition for a short time since it is sensitive to surface oxidation.
The temporally varying surface tension, i.e. dynamic surface tension, has great impact on many industrial
processes relating to liquid metal．In this study, we measured the dynamic surface tension of solder in different
oxidation environment by capillary jet method, as well as well-known static surface tension by pendant drop
method. While the measured static surface tension decreased with increasing oxygen concentration at oxygen
concentrations less than 0.025% because of oxygen adsorption to the surface, it increased at high concentrations
greater than 0.025%. The static surface tension also increased with drop diameter at the high oxygen
concentrations. The extraordinary behavior in high-oxygen environment suggests the formation of oxide layer.
The measured dynamic surface tension indicated fast decrease from initial value to equilibrium surface tension for
2 - 4ms under the oxygen concentration of around 0.02%.
Ultrasonic Testing of GFRP Laminate Degraded by Hot Water from One surface
Akihiro WADA, Tomohiro YAMASAKI and Kazuyoshi WASEDA
Journal of the Society of Materials Science, Japan, Vol. 68, No. 5 (2019), pp. 436-442.
Ultrasonic wave is applied to damage evaluation of GFRP laminate degraded by hot water from one surface.
GFRP vessels have been used for storage of both acid solution and alkaline solution because of their excellent
corrosion resistance. In these days, integrity evaluation of GFRP vessels has attracted much attention as thenumber of aged vessels increases. Although degradation proceeds gradually from the inner surface of vessels,
sensors can only be attached on the outer surface. Then the through-thickness method for damage evaluation isrequired. In this research, GFRP plates are degraded by hot water from one surface, and through-thickness
ultrasonic inspection is conducted to reveal the dependence of ultrasonic characteristics on damage state of theplates. Beside wave attenuation and velocity, characteristics of reflected waveforms from the degraded surface are
analyzed. It is found that the envelope of echo from the degraded surface reflects damage propagation in the
thickness direction, and it can be used as damage index of GFRP vessels.

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Development of Magnetic Bridge Inspection Robot Aimed at Carrying Heavy Loads
Yodai MATSUMURA, Takehiro SHIBA, Satoshi ITO, Yuya KAWASE and Yogo TAKADAInternational Journal of Robotic Engineering, Vol.3, Issue 2, 10 pages (2018).
This paper presents a bridge inspection robot capable of traveling on inner right-angled paths. Locomotion of the
newly developed robot is achieved via two motor-driven wheels that are composed of steel yokes, acrylic plates,
and neodymium magnets. When the wheel contacts a steel plate, it forms a magnetic circuit and generates a strong
force. Owing to this force, the robot can move with heavy objects attached. However, when the wheels strongly
adsorb on two surfaces at right-angled junctures, the robot becomes unable to move. To peel the wheels awayfrom one surface, a mechanism is needed to eliminate the strong magnetic force. To achieve this, the robot has
been equipped with a pushing mechanism that allows for travel on any inner right-angled path. In this study, theperformance of the robot was tested on a steel box that imitated a box girder. The robot was able to carry heavy
objects, and it also showed an ability to travel along paths that included a right-angled juncture by utilizing thepushing mechanism.
Development of a Compact Wall-Climbing Robot Capable of Transitioning among Floor, Vertical Wall andCeiling
Yodai MATSUMURA, Koyo KAWAMOTO and Yogo TAKADA
Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, Vol.37, No.6, pp.1-10 (2019) (in Japanese).
Many social infrastructures in Japan have been intensively developed since the period of high economic growth,and the aging of them is progressing. Therefore, periodic inspections and repairs are necessary. Inspections requirehuge costs and take a long time because inspectors visually inspect bridges directly using scaffolds or special
cranes. Practical bridge inspection robots are strongly required to reduce the costs and time associated withinspection of bridges. In recent years, various robots have been developed for bridge inspections. However, manyof these robots lack the ability to locomote within inspection areas. Therefore, there are many paths which theycannot move under the three-dimensional complex environments of actual bridges. Practical bridge inspection
robots are required to be able to transition between a horizontal plane and a vertical plane. Additionally, they arealso required to be capable of traveling through bolted splicing parts. However, robots capable of running throughthese paths have not been reported. We developed a compact wall-climbing robot BIREM-IV which is equippedwith four rimless wheels as driving wheels. Strong permanent magnets are attached to its rimless wheels.
Therefore, the robot can move around while adsorbing on a steel structure. Furthermore, the running performanceof the robot was examined by experiments. It was confirmed that this robot can easily run through bolted splicing
parts. Moreover, this robot can surely transit among floor, vertical wall, and ceiling without falling from thestructures.
Investigation of Rotors Imitating Bird Wings to Reduce Electricity Consumption of HORNET
Yogo TAKADA, Tatsuki KANADA, Takahiro TANAKA and Yodai MATSUMURA
Journal of Aero Aqua Bio-mechanisms, Vol.8, No.1, pp.48-53 (2019).
To address the deterioration of bridges and buildings, we have developed a robot, HORNET, toinspect building walls. This robot travels on the wall surface using propellers with wheels on the wall. As therunning duration is short on smooth surfaces, the crosssectional shape of the rotor was designed to reduce thepower consumption using two-dimensional numerical analysis using a genetic algorithm. Furthermore, wemanufactured several kinds of rotors imitating birds and performed experiments to determine the ideal shape toreduce electricity consumption. Experiments were also conducted to evaluate the performance when the rotor was
attached to HORNET. First, we developed HORNET's dynamic model and evaluated the performance by runninga simulation on a route imitating the actual inspection route. Additionally, by installing a new rotor in HORNET,
we evaluated the running performance on the up and down paths.
Small Robotic Fish with Two Magnetic Actuators for Autonomous Tracking of a Goldfish
Takuya ARITANI, Naoki KAWASAKI and Yogo TAKADA
Journal of Aero Aqua Bio-mechanisms, Vol.8, No.1, pp.69-74 (2019).
In this study, we describe a palm-sized robotic fish that can automatically track a goldfish. A robotic fish issuitable for ecological surveys because it is difficult to be noticed by aquatic animals. However, so far, there is nopalm-sized robotic fish that can automatically track an aquatic animal. Automatic tracking by the robot is carriedout by recognizing the goldfish with a camera and changing the swimming direction towards the goldfish. To
follow the agile movement of the goldfish, the robot has a high turning ability with multiple joints. Finally, we
have confirmed the robot can track a goldfish.

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Testing the Repellent Effects of Construction Materials on the Attachment of the Invasive Golden Mussel,
Limnoperna fortunei, in a Japanese Urban Tidal RiverK. MATSUI (Kindai University), T. FUMOTO (Kindai University), H. KAWAKAMI
Limnology, 20, pp.131–136 (2019).
The golden mussel, Limnoperna fortunei, is native to South China but has spread to Japanese freshwater
environments as a nuisance invasive species. The golden mussel colonizes hard manmade substrates and its
attachment can cause economic losses at water intake facilities. To evaluate the repellent effects of the highalkalinity (pH 12–13) of freshly prepared cement mortar on golden mussels, test pieces made of cement were
immersed in a Japanese urban tidal river. Compared with coated mortar, and wood and limestone test pieces, thecement mortar did not show significant repellent effects on golden mussel attachment. Therefore, concrete
constructions on riverbanks may be a preferred substrate for golden mussel colonization. A 4-year immersion
experiment showed that copper substrate had a strong repellent effect on biofouling, while cement mortar,aluminum, and stainless steel did not have any adverse effects on golden mussel attachment. This experiment also
revealed the settlement of invasive golden mussel in an urban tidal area where the salinity fluctuated up to 20.0‰.
Confocal Micro XRF Monitoring of Microbially Influenced Corrosion Process of Steel Samples
J. CHIN, R. HOSOMI, H. KAWAKAMI, K. TSUJI
Adv. X-Ray. Chem. Anal., Japan, 50, pp.169-175 (2019)(in Japanese).
X-ray fluorescence analysis (XRF) is a non-destructive method. There is a lot of applications like analysis ofindustrial material. A confocal micro XRF instrument enables elemental analysis of point-limited region. The
confocal micro XRF instrument was applied to in situ analysis of microbiologically influenced corrosion process.
Finally, it was realized to visualized Fe distribution corroded from steel sample in the solution. (This is identical tothe abstract that will appear in the section of Applied Chemistry and Bioengineering).
TEM Observation of Cells Treated with Metal Ions
Y. KIKUCHI, M. TAKAOKA, Y. NISHIOKA, H. KAWAKAMI
J. Jap. Inst. Copper, 58, pp. 285-289 (2019) (in Japanese).
Copper, Silver, Nickel and Zinc are well known as antibacterial metal. Introducing antibacterial metals into
environment surface in hospitals will decrease the number of viable bacteria on the surface of medical instruments
and foods making appliances. On the other hand, the antibacterial (killing) mechanism of antibacterial metals has
not yet been fully described. A couple of explanations have been proposed. (1) Reactive oxygen species are
generated from the metal surface. (2) Hydrogen peroxide is caused by Fenton-type reactions. (3) Metal ion
combines with bacterial cell components. But how to change of bacterial cell structure by killing action comeabout is not known yet. In this investigation, imaging of cell structures damaged by metal ion is attempted.
Bacterial cells were treated with an antibacterial metal ion solution. Treating times were varied from 2 hour to 12
hour. The treated cells were collected by gentrification, chemically fixed, and embedded in resin. Ultra-thinsections were cut from them and observed by transmission electron microscope. Precipitates in damaged cell wereanalyzed buy EDX. In this investigation, as first trials, Ag was selected. Ag has the most strong killing effectcompared with Cu, Ni, and Zn. Ag ion content of the solution was 5 ppm. Staphylococcus aureus was tested. The
antibacterial property was evaluated in accordance with JIS Z 2801. The structure of Staphylococcus aureus
sustained increasing damage with the laps of time. After at least 4 hour, small particles of precipitate in thedamaged cells were found. From the precipitates, Ag and S were detected by EDX analysis. IT appears that Ag ion
diffused in to cell and combine with cell components. Consequently, an activities of Staphylococcus aureus aredramatically decreased. Also, cell wall thickness decreased with exposure time. From the obtained results, thepossible killing mechanisms are discussed. Finally, this study concludes that TEM observation is a useful a tool
for this type of investigation.
Effect of Addition of Rust Inhibitor on Antibacterial Activities of Oxygen Free Copper Immersed
Repeatedly in NaOCl Aqueous Solution
Y. TODA, H. KAWAKAMI, Y. SUETAKE (Naigai Chemical Products), K. MARUGAME (Naigai Chemical
Products)
J. Jap. Inst. Copper, 58, pp. 273-278 (2019) (in Japanese).
Copper is known as antibacterial metallic material. Introducing such copper into frequently hand-touched places
has been considered to reduce risks of outbreaks of illnesses caused by pathogens on environmental surfaces.
When copper is used in environmental surfaces, surfaces of copper are exposed to the surrounding environmentand become contaminated by various substances in the surroundings. As surfaces contamination can reduce the－33－antibacterial activity of copper, cleaning henceforth must be carried out periodically on the contaminated surface.
However, due to the cleaning agents such as the ethanol aqueous solution (EtOH) and the sodium hypochlorite
aqueous solution (NaOCl aq.) used for wipe-cleaning, copper surfaces may be corroded and the antibacterial
activities may be lost. In this study, we carried out surface chemical analysis using x-ray photoelectron
spectroscopy (XPS) and evaluate the antibacterial activities of copper submerged in cleaning agents. Also, in thisstudy, the antibacterial activities of copper compounds formed on the copper surfaces submerged in cleaning
agents were evaluated. Copper surfaces submerged in distilled water, EtOH and NaOCl aq. were corroded and theantibacterial activities decreased. Cu, Cu2O, CuO, Cu(OH)2 and CuCl2 were present on the copper surfaces
submerged in cleaning agents. The strength of the antibacterial activities was in the order Cu2O, CuCl2 > CuO >Cu(OH) 2 > CuCO3. When benzotriazole as a rust inhibitor was added to NaOCl aq., the antibacterial activities ofcopper decreased. Other inhibitors, i.e. sodium hexametaphosphate, sodium molybdate dihydrate, trisodium
phosphate, to lyltriazole and sodium tungstate dihydrate as a rust inhibitor, was used, NaOCl aq., the antibacterial
activities of copper improved in comparison with NaOCl aq. without the inhibitors. In particular, the antibacterial
activities of copper submerged in trisodium phosphate inoculated NaOCl aq. was almost equivalent to that ofclean copper.
Interlaminar Toughening for CFRP Laminates by Introducing Mesh Interlayers with Different Opening
Areas
Hayato NAKATANI and Masato NAKANE
Proc. Future Generation Symposium on Composite Materials 2019, Shirahama, Japan, August 26-27, paper ID:
GS01 (2019).
A polymer mesh inserted between CFRP plies as an interlayer produces more complex path of crack as interfacialdebonding between polymer matrix of CFRP and the mesh and this fracture behaviour results in improved
interlaminar toughness. The present study evaluates the interlaminar toughness of UD-CFRP laminates withdifferent opening area under constant wire diameter (45μm) of the introduced mesh layers. 4ENF tests haverevealed that there is an apparent peak value of interlaminar toughness GIIR with opening area of 46%. A micro
focus X-ray CT system has successfully reconstructed an overview images of the crack that show much more
complex switches of the crack plane inside the laminates with mesh opening area of 46%. It is indicated that theinterlaminar fracture toughness of the CFRP laminates with mesh interlayers should be dominated by complex
crack growth both in microscopic level as the interfacial debonding and in macroscopic level due to the switchesof the crack plane.
Effects of Layer Thickness and Annealing on Vickers Hardness and Wear Resistance in Ni-P / Zn-Ni
Multilayered Films
H. KANEMOTO, T. KAWAMURA and Y. KANEKO
J. Surface. Finish. Soc. Japan, Vol.70, pp.115-121 (2019).
Ni-P / Zn-Ni multilayered structures were fabricated by an alternate electroplating using two electrolyte baths. The
multilayered structures were grown on a steel substrate. To investigate the effect of component layer thickness andannealing on hardness and wear resistance, we prepared two series of the multilayered structures. In one series,
the Ni-P and Zn-Ni layers had equal thicknesses of 200 nm, 500 nm, and 1000 nm, while the other series had theconstant Ni-P layer thickness of 500 nm. Then, the electroplated films were annealed at 573K for 2 hours. For all
the multilayered structures, the annealing led to increases in hardness and wear resistance due to hardening in the
Ni-P layers. Among the multilayers having the same component thickness, the 500-nm layer thickness showed thehighest hardness and wear resistance. In the annealed multilayers having the constant Ni-P thickness of 500 nm,
the hardness and wear resistance increased with decreasing Zn-Ni layer thickness. Our key finding is that theannealed multilayers consisting of 500-nm Ni-P and 100-nm Zn-Ni layers exhibited a higher wear resistance thanan annealed Ni-P film, by a factor of three.
Constitutive Equations for Rubber under Abrupt Change in Strain Rate Direction
Y. TOMITA and M. UCHIDAKey Eng. Mater., Vol. 794, pp. 9-18 (2019).
We proposed constitutive equations for the strain rate and temperature-dependent behavior of rubber by
employing the nonaffine molecular chain network theory and reptation theory. The finite element homogenization
method along with the proposed constitutive equations have the capability of predicting the deformation behaviors
of particle-filled rubber under changes in volume fractions, distribution patterns, and size heterogeneity of theparticles without additional parameters. The only existing problem is the modest estimation of the stiffness of－34－

rubber immediately after the abrupt change in strain rate direction (ACSD) as can be seen in the cyclic
deformation behavior. We restricted our attention to the generalization of our nonaffine molecular chain network
theory to overcome the problems associated with ACSD. We consider the effect of the delay of deformation insurrounding chains on the elasticity modulus by introducing an amplification parameter dependent on the current
chain stretch and direction of strain rate immediately after ACSD. The potential of the proposed constitutive
equations is examined against the predictability of the experimentally obtained deformation exhibiting ACSD.
Macroscopic and Microscopic Non-uniform Deformations of Polycrystalline Pure Copper during Uniaxial
Tensile Test with High Stress GradientA. TANIGUCHI, T. MAEYAMA, M. UCHIDA and Y. KANEKOKey Eng. Mater., Vol. 794, pp. 246-252 (2019).
Metallic materials usually have microscopically heterogeneous structures, such as polycrystalline structures,
affecting macroscopic mechanical characteristics. Both macroscopic and microscopic non-uniform deformationsof polycrystalline pure copper under a moderate stress gradient were investigated. In this study, macroscopic andmicroscopic non-uniform deformations under higher stress gradients are investigated. Uniaxial tensile tests using
three-curve specimens with different curvatures and grain sizes were performed. In order to evaluate theheterogeneous strain field in the specimen surface, the development of the displacement field was measured using
the digital image correlation method (DIC). The stress field was evaluated by coupling the DIC and finite-element
methods. In smaller-grain specimens, a strong strain concentration was generated in the minimum cross-section
area. Although a strong strain concentration was also confirmed in a larger-grain specimen, the strain fielddepended not only on the specimen shape but also on the microscopic heterogeneity. This microstructure-driven
non-uniform deformation was also observed in the specimen with a larger curvature radius. These results indicatedthat the macroscopic non-uniform deformation should be estimated by the material parameter related to themicroscopic heterogeneity.
Evaluation of Effect of Sample Size and Layer Direction on Mechanical Property of Specimen
Manufactured by FDM-Type 3D PrinterH. AKIYAMA, M. UCHIDA and Y. KANEKOKey Eng. Mater., Vol. 794, pp. 324-332 (2019).
In the present study, we investigate the effect of the sample size and layer direction on mechanical properties ofthe specimen fabricated by the FDM-type 3D printer under 4-point bending test. Acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene(ABS) was employed as a source material. Bending tests were performed under several experimental conditions oflayer direction, dimension of the specimens and supporting distance. The relationship between bending load anddisplacement depended strongly on the layer direction. Young’s modulus increased with increasing supporting
distance, particularly, when the filaments were parallel to the loading direction. The strain distribution during thebending test was evaluated by DIC. When the supporting distance was short, strain distribution obtained from DIC
became different from the theoretical distribution. This result indicated that the prominent shear deformation
occurs in the bending of the printed material when the supporting distance is short. Subsequently, FEM analysis
was performed to remove the error in the estimation of Young’s modulus due to the shear deformation, and thecorrecting equation was proposed.
Evaluation of the Effects of Cross-linking and Swelling on the Mechanical Behaviors of Hydrogels using theDigital Image Correlation Method
M. UCHIDA, T. SENGOKU, Y. KANEKO, D. OKUMURA, H. TANAKA and S. IDASoft Matter, Vol. 15, pp. 3389-3396 (2019).
Experimental evaluation and modeling are important steps in the investigation of the mechanical behaviors ofhydrogels in the small- to large-strain range. In this study, the effects of cross-linking and swelling on the truestress–strain response of a specific type of hydrogel (polyacrylamide) were evaluated using a uniaxial tensile test.
The development of true strain on the surface of the hydrogel was measured using the digital image correlation
method. The specimens with higher cross-link density exhibited a higher initial elastic modulus and earlier
orientation hardening. The initial elastic modulus was reduced by the swelling, whereas the orientation hardening
occurred in an earlier strain range in the swollen hydrogel. The mechanical responses of the as-prepared andswollen hydrogels with different cross-linker contents were fitted using a non-Gaussian statistical model. The
conventional model underestimated the decrease in the elasticity owing to the swelling effect and overestimatedthe increase in the stress in the large-strain range. The mechanical model was suitably modified to yield an
accurate reproduction of the mechanical responses. The proposed model, which was characterized by five material－35－

parameters, was found to reproduce the characteristics of the mechanical responses of the as-prepared and swollenhydrogels with different cross-linker contents.
Evaluation and Modeling of Mechanical Behaviors of Thermosetting Polymer under Monotonic and Cyclic
Tensile Tests
M. UCHIDA, R. WAKUDA and Y. KANEKO
Polymer, Vol. 174, pp. 130-142 (2019).
A nonlinear elastic-inelastic model for a thermosetting polymer is proposed based on the molecular chain network
theory. In the proposed model, the bond of the polymer chain is divided into physical and chemical bonds, and thephysical bond is allowed to separate and recombine during the deformation. The decrease in the rigidity andincrease in the inelastic strain are related to the development of the physical bond density to represent thecharacteristic deformation behavior of the polymer. A rate-form large deformation constitutive equation is thenformulated based on the updated Lagrangian method. Additionally, deformation behaviors of the epoxy undermonotonic and cyclic tensile tests were evaluated by experimental and computational studies. The experimental
results of the monotonic tensile test displayed a gradual transition from elastic to inelastic deformation, strain
softening behavior after the macroscopic yielding stress, and an increase in the initial slope and the macroscopic
yielding stresses with an increasing strain rate. The computational model can represent such characteristics bycontrolling the development of the physical bond density. In a cyclic test, a decrease in the rigidity and an increasein the residual strain with increasing cycles were observed even in a small strain range. Such inelastic deformation
depended on the strain rate and the given upper stress in the cyclic test. Further, the proposed model successfully
reproduced such nonlinear behavior in the cyclic test.
Nonlocal Multiscale Modeling of Deformation Behavior of Polycrystalline Copper by Second-order
Homogenization Method
M. UCHIDA and Y. KANEKOThe European Physical Journal B, Vol. 92: 189, 11pp. (2019).
Engineering materials usually exhibit heterogeneity such as that observed in the polycrystalline structure of metals,
and this heterogeneity affects the nonuniform deformation of a material. In this study, the micro- to macroscopic
nonuniform deformation of polycrystalline copper specimen with a curved gage section is evaluated by a finite
element method (FEM) simulation based on the second-order homogenization method (2nd-HM). The effects ofthe microstructure size and macroscopic stress gradient on the nonuniform deformation of the material are theninvestigated by comparing the simulation and experimental results. A two-dimensional plane strain polycrystalline
microstructure was periodically applied to all the integration points in the macrostructure; the anisotropic
deformation of the crystal grains is represented by the conventional crystalline plasticity constitutive equation.
The computational results indicate that the interaction between nonuniform deformation on the micro andmacroscopic scales induces a slight size effect in the material. However, the FEM simulation based on the
2nd-HM could not predict the decrease in the macroscopic strain concentration in the specimens with large
crystalline grains, which was observed in the experimental studies, because of random strain localization resulting
from the microscopic heterogeneity.
Effects of Cross-link Density on Plastic Flow of Glassy Epoxy Networks
Shin’ya YOSHIOKA, Akira KAWAI and Yasuhito ITAMI
J. Soc. Mat Sci, Jpn, Vol.68, pp.13-19 (2019) (in Japanese).
Steady plastic flow of glassy epoxy networks having various crosslink density was analyzed with Eyring equation
to discuss the effect of crosslinked molecular structures on nonlinear viscoelastic behavior of glassy polymers interms of strain-induced structural change. Steady flow stresses of the glasses were calculated with modified stressoptical rule (MSOR) from stress and birefringence data observed during uniaxial stretching. Activation enthalpy
ΔH, activation entropy ΔS and activation volume va of the steady flow for each material were obtained asfunctions of stretching conditions by means of a special fitting method of Eyring equation proposed by Nanzai. As
having been reported for thermoplastic glassy polymers, ΔH, ΔS and va for each material were in uniquefunctional relations each other. The ΔH-ΔS relation for each material agreed fairly well with that derived fromWLF equation for the linear viscoelastic relaxation of the material in the molten state. This result confirms thatstrain-induced change of glassy structures into liquid-like ones is the essential mechanism of the nonlinear
viscoelastic behavior of glassy polymers independently of crosslink density. ΔH-ΔS relations for epoxy networks
showed only a weak dependence on the crosslink density, whereas va markedly increased with increasing crosslink
density. The steady flow stresses at an identical straining condition was almost the same for epoxy networks with－36－

different crosslink density except for materials with extremely high crosslink density, which showed a lower flow
stress. An increase of crosslink density probably makes va enlarge due to constraints introduced by crosslinked
structure, resulting in the reduction of flow stresses especially at extremely high crosslink density.

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Electronics and Informatics
Applied Physics and Electronics
Photoluminescence Polarization Characteristics of Self-Trapped Excitons in an Undoped -Ga2O3 Single
CrystalSuguru YAMAOKA, Yusuke MIKUNI, and Masaaki NAKAYAMA
Journal of Physics: Conference Series Vol.1220, 012030 (4 pages) (2019)
We have investigated the photoluminescence (PL) polarization characteristics of the self-trapped exciton (STE) in
an undoped -Ga2O3 single crystal at 77 K under three-photon excitation. From analysis of the polarization characteristics, we found that the STE PL is polarized almost parallel to the a-axis. The STE-PL polarization corresponds to the orientation of the self-trapped hole which was investigated in previous works using an electron-paramagnetic-resonance experiment and a first-principles calculation.
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/1220/1/012030
Spatially-Resolved Photoluminescence Study of Temperature Dependence of Exciton Inelastic Scattering
Processes in a ZnO Thin Film
Masaaki NAKAYAMA and Yojiro NAKAYAMA
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan Vol.88, 083706 (4 pages) (2019)
We have investigated the temperature dependence of exciton inelastic scattering processes, exciton–exciton scattering and exciton–electron scattering, in a ZnO thin film using spatially-resolved photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy. It was found that the PL band due to the exciton inelastic scattering process is selectively observed at aspot around a film edge away from an excitation spot. The selective observation enabled us to measure precisely
the PL-peak energy. The quantitative analysis of the temperature dependence of the PL-peak energy reveals thatthe exciton–exciton scattering, which occurs in a temperature region from 10 to ~160 K, changes to the exciton–electron scattering in a higher temperature region up to room temperature.
DOI: 10.7566/JPSJ.88.083706
Synergetic Enhancement of Light-Matter Interaction by Nonlocality and Band Degeneracy in ZnO Thin
Films
Takashi KINOSHITA, Takuya MATSUDA, Takuya TAKAHASHI, Masayoshi ICHIMIYA, Masaaki ASHIDA,
Yoshiaki FURUKAWA, Masaaki NAKAYAMA, and Hajime ISHIHARA
Physical Review Letters Vol.122, 157401 (4 pages) (2019)
This study aims to reveal the full potential of ZnO as an ultrafast photofunctional material. Based on nonlocal response theory to incorporate the spatially inhomogeneous quality of the samples coupled with experimental observations of linear and nonlinear optical responses, we establish the ultrafast radiative decay of excitons in ZnO
thin films that reaches the speed of excitonic dephasing at room temperature in typical semiconductors at a couple
tens of femtoseconds. The consistency between the observed delay-time dependence of the transient-grating signals and the theoretical prediction reveals that the ultrafast radiative decay is due to the synergetic effects of the
giant light-exciton interaction volume and the radiative coupling between multicomponent excitons.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.157401
Temperature Dependence of Photoluminescence Dynamics of Exciton-Exciton Inelastic Scattering in a
GaAs/AlAs Multiple-Quantum-Well Structure
Yuichiro MIYAZAKI and Masaaki NAKAYAMA
Journal of Physics: Conference Series Vol.1220, 012026 (4 pages) (2019)
We have investigated the photoluminescence (PL) dynamics of exciton-exciton inelastic scattering at temperaturesfrom 10 to 60 K. It was found that the energy dependence of the PL decay rate is scaled by that of the group velocity of the photon-like lower polariton (LP) at each temperature, taking account of the broadening factor of thepolariton state. This fact demonstrates that the PL decay rate is dominated by the photon-like LP which is the final
state of the exciton-exciton inelastic scattering process. The broadening factor is proportional to temperature,
which indicates the influence of acoustic phonon scattering on the LP state.
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/1220/1/012026
Synthesis of Mn-Doped ZnSe-ZnS Alloy Quantum Dots by a Hydrothermal Method
Hisaaki NISHIMURA, Yuxin LIN, Masayuki HIZUME, Taichi TANIGUCHI, Naoteru SHIGEKAWA, Tomomi－38－

TAKAGI, Susumu SOBUE, Shoichi KAWAI, Eiichi OKUO, and DaeGwi KIM
Chem. Lett. Vol. 48, pp. 1081–1083 (2019).
This study aims to report the hydrothermal synthesis of water-soluble Mn-doped ZnSe-ZnS alloy quantum dots
(QDs), wherein manganese (Mn2+) serves as an emission center. The alloy composition was controlled by themixing ratio of ZnSe:Mn and ZnS:Mn precursor solutions. The photoluminescence (PL) band originating from thed-d transition in Mn2+ was clearly observed. With an increase in the amount of ZnS in the alloy QDs, the absorption onset energy shifted toward higher energy, demonstrating the successful preparation of alloy QDs, and Mn PL
intensity increased as well.
doi:10.1246/cl.190365
Hydrothermal Synthesis of ZnSe:Mn Quantum Dots and Their Optical Properties
Hisaaki NISHIMURA, Yuxin LIN, Masayuki HIZUME, Taichi TANIGUCHI, Naoteru SHIGEKAWA, Tomomi
TAKAGI, Susumu SOBUE, Shoichi KAWAI, Eiichi OKUO, and DaeGwi KIM
AIP Advances Vol. 9, pp. 025223-1-025223-7 (2019).
Water-soluble Mn2+-doped ZnSe quantum dots (QDs) were synthesized using a hydrothermal method. The characteristics of the precursor solutions greatly affected the photoluminescence (PL) properties of the ZnSe:Mn QDs.
In QDs synthesized with alkaline precursor solutions, a PL band originating from the intra-3d shell transition of
Mn2+ is clearly observed, indicating that Mn2+ ions are thoroughly doped inside the ZnSe QDs. The PL quantum
yield of the ZnSe:Mn QDs synthesized under the optimum conditions reached 20%. By introducing a ZnS shell at
the surface of the ZnS:Mn QDs, the PL properties were improved and the PL quantum yield was further increased
to 30%.
doi:10.1063/1.5085814
Synthesis of Water-Soluble CuInS2 Quantum Dots by a Hydrothermal Method and Their Optical Properties
Kazutaka IIDA, Youta UEHIGASHI, Hideki ICHIDA, Hang-Beom BU, and DaeGwi KIM
Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. Vol. 92, pp. 930–936 (2019).
Water-soluble CuInS2 (CIS) quantum dots (QDs) were hydrothermally prepared in the presence ofN-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC) as a stabilizer, and the optimal hydrothermal synthetic conditions for NAC-capped CIS
QDs were investigated. The photoluminescence (PL) quantum yield (QY) of the CIS QDs synthesized under optimal conditions was 4%, which was comparable with the highest QY reported for water-soluble CIS core QDs.
The introduction of a ZnS shell produced CIS/ZnS core/shell QDs and further increased the PL QY to 30%. Furthermore, bilayer structures consisting of Au nanoparticles and CIS/ZnS QDs were fabricated using a layer-by-layer method to enhance the PL of the CIS/ZnS QDs on the basis of the localized surface plasmon resonanceof Au nanoparticles.
doi:10.1246/bcsj.20180399
Temperature Dependence of Photoluminescence Properties of Water-Soluble CdS Quantum Dots
Kunio SHIMURA, TaeGi LEE, and DaeGwi KIM
J. Physics: Conf. Ser. Vol. 1220, 012029-1-012029-4 (2019).
We investigated the size dependence of band-edge photoluminescence (PL) dynamics for CdS quantum dots
(QDs). The temperature dependence of the PL-decay profiles of CdS QDs with an average diameter of 3.7–6.0 nm
was measured. The PL-decay profiles became longer as the temperature increased. Further, it was found that thetemperature dependence of the PL-decay profiles depends greatly on the QD size. These experimental results canbe understood by considering that the magnitude of the splitting energy between the bright- and dark-exciton
states depends on the QD size and becomes larger as the QD size becomes smaller.
doi:10.1088/1742-6596/1220/1/012029
Absorption and Photoluminescence Properties of CdSe Quantum Dots Prepared by Hydrothermal Method
TaeGi LEE, Kaito NOGUCHI, Hisaaki NISHIMURA, and DaeGwi KIM
J. Physics: Conf. Ser. Vol. 1220, pp. 012028-1-012028-4 (2019).
Herein, we investigated the preparation and optical properties of water-soluble CdSe quantum dots (QDs). CdSe
QDs with a narrow size distribution were hydrothermally prepared by reacting Cd2+ with NaHSe in the presenceof N-acetyl-L-cysteine as ligand. Furthermore, photoluminescence quantum yield increased to ~47% when a ZnS
shell was applied to prepare the CdSe/ZnS core/shell QDs.
doi:10.1088/1742-6596/1220/1/012028－39－

Preparation of ZnSe-ZnS Alloy Quantum Dots by a Hydrothermal Method and Their Optical Properties
Hisaaki NISHIMURA, Yuxin LIN, Yuki KUNIMASA, and DaeGwi KIM
J. Physics: Conf. Ser. Vol. 1220, pp. 012027-1-012027-4 (2019).
We prepared colloidal ZnSexS1-x alloy quantum dots (QDs) and investigated their optical properties. ZnSexS1-x
QDs were successfully prepared by a hydrothermal method, which was confirmed by the results of X-ray structural analysis. When the alloy composition was decreased from x = 1 to 0, the absorption energy continuously
shifted to the high energy side. Band-edge photoluminescence (PL) was the main PL band in ZnSe QDs, whereas
only defect-related PL band was observed in ZnS QDs. The band-edge PL was clearly observed as the main PLband for x = 0.52 to 1, which shifted to the high energy side by decreasing x.
doi:10.1088/1742-6596/1220/1/012027
Temperature Dependence of Photoluminescence Properties of Water-Soluble ZnSe Quantum Dots
Yong-Shin LEE, Taichi TANIGUCHI, and DaeGwi KIM
J. Physics: Conf. Ser. Vol. 1220, pp. 012024-1-012024-4 (2019).
We have investigated the optical properties of ZnSe quantum dots (QDs) prepared by a hydrothermal method. The
photoluminescence (PL)-decay profiles become slower with an increase in temperature up to 160 K, contrary toan ordinary behaviour due to thermal quenching. The temperature dependence of the PL-decay profile is explained by a three-state model consisting of a ground state and two excited states of the lower-lying bound-excitonand higher-lying dark-exciton states. The analysis of the temperature dependence of the decay time indicates thatthe dark-exciton state contributes to the PL-decay process in the ZnSe QDs.
doi:10.1088/1742-6596/1220/1/012024
Correlated Roles of Temperature and Dimensionality for Multiple Exciton Generation and Electronic
Structures in Quantum Dot Superlattices
I-Ya CHANG, DaeGwi KIM, and Hyeon-Deuk KIM
J. Phys. Chem. C Vol. 123(2019) pp. 2549–2556.
Quantum dot superlattices (QDSLs), which are one-, two-, and three-dimensional periodic superlattices composedof QDs, induce dimensionality dependent quantum resonance among component QDs and thus represent a new
type of condensed matter exhibiting novel energy, exciton, and carrier dynamics. We focused on the two importantparameters, dimensionality and temperature, and identified their correlated roles to determine the electronic andphotoexcited properties intrinsic to each QDSL at each dimensionality and temperature. We computationallydemonstrated that the multiple exciton generation is significantly accelerated at higher temperature especially inthe higher-dimensional QDSLs, indicating their great advantage especially at ambient temperature compared to an
isolated zero-dimensional QD. Both dimensionality and temperature can be crucial and correlated parameters forindependent tailoring of the properties of the QDSLs without changing the size, shape, and compositions of component QDs. The physical insights and advantage of the QDSLs we found here will lead to designing efficient andspace-saving optoelectronic and photovoltaic devices that work at ambient temperature.
doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b10565
Absence of Delayed Fluorescence and Triplet–Triplet Annihilation in Organic Light Eemitting Diodes with
Spatially Orthogonal Bianthracenes
Yong-Jin PU, Rei SATAKE, Yuki KOYAMA, Takahiro OTOMO, Rika HAYASHI, Naoki HARUTA, Hiroshi
KATAGIRI, Daisuke OTSUKI DaeGwi KIM, and Tohru SATO
J. Mater. Chem. C Vol. 7 (2019) pp.2541–2547.
Two compounds, 2-methyl-9,10-bis(naphthalen-2-yl)anthracene (MADN), which has a single anthracene unit, and10,100-diphenyl-9,9’-bianthracene (PPBA), which has two spatially orthogonal anthracene units, were comparedand investigated in terms of photoelectric characteristics and the reverse intersystem crossing (RISC) process inorganic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). Transient electroluminescence (EL) measurements indicated large contributions of triplet–triplet annihilation (TTA) for MADN but almost no contribution of TTA for PPBA. The magnetic field dependence of EL for the two anthracene compounds was also different. The EL of MADN was sensitive to the magnetic field at high current density, but PPBA showed less dependence, which indicated the absenceof the TTA process for PPBA. TD-DFT calculations revealed that PPBA has doubly degenerate lowest triplet
states (T1 and T2) with a much lower energy than S1, which is unfavorable for thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF). The near-zero ΔEST between highly excited states Sm≥1 and Tn>2 is favorable to RISC at a highly
excited state. Oxygen quenching of photoluminescence only for PPBA and decreasing EL intensity with decreas-－40－

ing temperature only for PPBA support the existence of the RISC path from Tn>2 to Sm≥1. A high external quantum
efficiency of 11% in blue OLEDs with PPBA was obtained, indicating that this orthogonal anthracene type ofmolecular design for RISC at a highly excited state would expand the material development of compounds emitting blue fluorescence for OLEDs.
doi:10.1039/c8tc05817b
Dynamics of Quasiparticles Generation, Transport and Relaxation in Armchair-edge Graphene Nanoribbons
Yushi SAKAI and Akira TERAIJournal of the Physical Society of Japan, Vol. 88, 054718 (10 pages) (2019)
We study the dynamics of quasiparticles such as quasiparticles generation, charge transport and relaxation inarmchair-edge graphene nanoribbons of the ribbon width of six carbon atoms by numerical simulation. A polaronis created by hole injection into HOMO of the ribbons while a self-trapped exciton is created by photoexcitationof an electron from the HOMO to the LUMO. The dynamical simulations after hole injection or photoexcitation
have revealed that phonon fluctuations are necessary for the quasiparticles to be generated. The creation time becomes shorter as the amplitude of the phonon fluctuations increases. The polaron transport in the presence of abond-type defect is also investigated. It is found that the transmittance and the reflectance of the polaron dependon the position of the defect as well as the strength of the applied electric field. Under particular conditions, thepolaron may be split into fractions even though it is an elementary excitation. As for the exciton relaxation, it isfound that the exciton leaves oscillations of the bond distortion after photon emission. The oscillations are localized in space and quasi-periodic in time and therefore correspond to a breather or an intrinsic localized mode
known to exist in nonlinear differential equations and also in conducting polymers.
DOI: 10.7566/JPSJ.88.054718
Compositional nanoanalysis at grain boundaries in Si by atom probe tomography combined with FIB operated at low temperatures
Yutaka OHNO (Univ. of Tohoku), Yasuo SHIMIZU (Univ. of Tohoku), Naoki EBISAWA (Univ. of Tohoku), Koji
INOUE (Univ. of Tohoku), Yasuyoshi NAGAI (Univ. of Tohoku), Hideto YOSHIDA (Univ. of Osaka), Naoto
KAMIUCHI (Univ. of Osaka), Ryotaro ASO (Univ. of Osaka), Seiji TAKEDA (Univ. of Osaka), Jianbo LIANG,
and Naoteru SHIGEKAWA
Extended Abstracts of Europian Conference and Exhibition on Advanced Material and Processed (EUROMAT2019), 2019/9/3.
Impact of focused ion beam in the structural analysis of semiconductor interfaces fabricated by surface activated bonding
Yutaka OHNO (Univ. of Tohoku), Hideto YOSHIDA (Univ. of Osaka), Naoto KAMIUCHI (Univ. of Osaka), Ryotaro ASO (Univ. of Osaka), Seiji TAKEDA (Univ. of Osaka), Yasuo SHIMIZU (Univ. of Tohoku), Naoki
EBISAWA (Univ. of Tohoku), Yasuyoshi NAGAI (Univ. of Tohoku), Jianbo LIANG, and Naoteru SHIGEKAWA
Extended Abstracts of 30th International Conference on Defects in Semiconductors (ICDS30), 2019/7/23.
Direct bonding of diamond and dissimilar materials for power device applications
Jianbo LIANG, Yasuo SHIMIZU (Univ. of Tohoku), Yutaka OHNO (Univ. of Tohoku), Kenji SHIRASAKI (Univ.
of Tohoku), Naoki EBISAWA (Univ. of Tohoku), Yasuyoshi NAGAI (Univ. of Tohoku), Makoto KASU (Univ. ofSAGA), and Naoteru SHIGEKAWA
Extended Abstracts of 2019 International Symposium on Single Crystal Diamond and Electronics (SCDE 2019),
2019/6/10.
Impact of Ar atom irradiation on the crystallinity of GaAs/Si interfaces fabricated by surface activatedbonding at room temperature
Yutaka OHNO (Univ. of Tohoku), Reina MIYAGAWA (Nagoya Institute of Technology), Hideto YOSHIDA (Univ.
of Osaka), Seiji TAKEDA (Univ. of Osaka), Jianbo LIANG, and Naoteru SHIGEKAWA
Extended Abstracts of 2019 IEEE International Workshop on Low Temperature Bonding for 3D Integration(LTB-3D), pp.2 (2019).
Arsenic (As) vacancies are introduced beneath the GaAs surfaces irradiated by Ar atoms for surface activation,
while As interstitials are co-introduced at deeper regions. After 673 K annealing, As vacancies disappear by therecombination with As interstitials, via the migration of As interstitials.

－41－Effect of annealing temperature on diamond/Si interfacial structure
Jianbo LIANG, Yan ZHUO (Bristol of Univ.), Satoshi MASUYA (Univ. of SAGA), Manikant SINGH (Bristol ofUniv.), James POMEROY (Bristol of Univ.), Seongwoo KIM (Adamant Namiki Precision Jewel. Co., Ltd.), Martin KUBALL (Bristol of Univ.), Makoto KASU (Univ. of SAGA), and Naoteru SHIGEKAWA
Extended Abstracts of 2019 IEEE International Workshop on Low Temperature Bonding for 3D Integration(LTB-3D), pp.3 (2019).
Transmission electron microscope (TEM) observation showed that a 25 nm thick intermediate layer was formed at
the diamond/Si bonding interface without annealing, the intermediate layer thickness decreased with the annealing
temperature. No cracking even in nanometer scale occurred even after high-temperature annealing at 800 C.
Artifacts in the structural analysis of SAB-fabricated interfaces by using focused ion beam
Yutaka OHNO (Univ. of Tohoku), Hideto YOSHIDA (Univ. of Osaka), Naoto KAMIUCHI (Univ. of Osaka), Ryotaro ASO (Univ. of Osaka), Seiji TAKEDA (Univ. of Osaka), Yasuo SHIMIZU (Univ. of Tohoku), Naoki
EBISAWA (Univ. of Tohoku), Yasuyoshi NAGAI (Univ. of Tohoku), Jianbo LIANG, and Naoteru SHIGEKAWA
Extended Abstracts of 2019 IEEE International Workshop on Low Temperature Bonding for 3D Integration(LTB-3D), pp.55 (2019).
Atomistic structure of interfaces fabricated by surface activated bonding (SAB) at room temperature can be modified under the irradiation of a focused ion beam for structural analysis, presumably due to the migration of atoms
assisted by point defects that are introduced during the SAB process.
Atom probe tomography of GaAs homointerfaces fabricated by surface-activated bonding
Yasuo SHIMIZU (Univ. of Tohoku), Naoki EBISAWA (Univ. of Tohoku), Yutaka OHNO (Univ. of Tohoku),
Jianbo LIANG, Naoteru SHIGEKAWA, Koji INOUE (Univ. of Tohoku), and Yasuyoshi NAGAI (Univ. of Tohoku)
Extended Abstracts of 2019 IEEE International Workshop on Low Temperature Bonding for 3D Integration(LTB-3D), pp.56 (2019).
Elemental distribution around GaAs homointerfaces fabricated by surface-activated bonding (SAB) is examinedby atom probe tomography (APT). Our APT detected small amount of contaminants accidentally introduced on
the SAB interfaces. We confirmed that As-deficient intermediate layer at the as-bonded interfaces was recoveredby post-bonding annealing.
Fabrication of Diamond/Cu Direct Bonding for Power Device Application
Shinji KANDA, Satoshi MASUYA (Univ. of SAGA), Makoto KASU (Univ. of SAGA), Naoteru SHIGEKAWA,
and Jianbo LIANG
Extended Abstracts of 2019 IEEE International Workshop on Low Temperature Bonding for 3D Integration(LTB-3D), pp.57 (2019).
Direct bonding of diamond and Cu is successfully fabricated by surface activated bonding method. An almost fullcontact area of diamond and Cu is obtained. The effect of annealing temperature on the structure properties of thebonding interface is investigated under in-situ annealing in a transmission electron microscope (TEM).
Electrical properties of p+-GaAs//patterned metal layer/n+-Si junctions
Takashi HISHIDA, Jianbo LIANG, and Naoteru SHIGEKAWA
Extended Abstracts of 2019 IEEE International Workshop on Low Temperature Bonding for 3D Integration(LTB-3D), pp.58 (2019).
We successfully fabricate a p+-GaAs//patterned metal/n+-Si junction by the surface-activated bonding of ap+-GaAs substrate and a patterned metal layer formed on an n+-Si substrate in alignment to an SiO2 passivation
layer.
Bonding strength evaluation of Al foil/AlN junctions by surface activated bonding
Shotaro HORIKAWA, Sho MORITA, Jianbo LIANG, Yoshihisa KANEKO, Yoshitaka NISHIO (Toyo Aluminium
K. K.), Moeko MATSUBARA (Toyo Aluminium K. K.), Hiroshi ASAHI (Toyo Aluminium K. K.), and Naoteru
SHIGEKAWA
Extended Abstracts of 2019 IEEE International Workshop on Low Temperature Bonding for 3D Integration(LTB-3D), pp.59 (2019).
An Al foil/AlN junction is fabricated by bonding a 30-ȝm Al foil and a 650-μm AlN plate at room temperature and－42－473 K. Their bonding strength, which is measured by the 180º peel test, is estimated to be ~30 and ~ 60 N/m forjunctions fabricated by the room-temperature and 473-K bonding, respectively.
A polyimide film/aluminum foil junction by modified surface activated bonding
H. AKAZAWA, Jianbo LIANG, Yoshitaka NISHIO (Toyo Aluminium K. K.), Moeko MATSUBARA (Toyo Aluminium K. K.), Hiroshi ASAHI (Toyo Aluminium K. K.), and Naoteru SHIGEKAWA
Extended Abstracts of 2019 IEEE International Workshop on Low Temperature Bonding for 3D Integration(LTB-3D), pp.60 (2019).
We bond a polyimide (PI) film and an Al foil by modified surface activated bonding, in which the surface of Al
foil is only irradiated by the fast atom beam of Ar. It is found that the sputtered Al atoms are deposited on the surface of PI film and play a major role in fabricating the PI film/Al foil junction.
Analysis of SiC/Si Bonding Interface with Thermal Annealing Treatment by XPS
Zexin WAN, Liang JIANBO, and Naoteru SHIGEKAWA
Extended Abstracts of 2019 IEEE International Workshop on Low Temperature Bonding for 3D Integration(LTB-3D), pp.89 (2019).
Properties of SiC/Si bonding interface made by surface activated bonding are studied by X-ray photoelectron
spectroscopy of the SiC surface that are unveiled by removing Si substrates of SiC/Si junctions. By fitting the
XPS spectra, we found that the annealing of junctions brings about the shift in binding energy of Si-C bonding,which is in correlation with the reverse-bias current of SiC/Si heterojunction. The change in the binding energy isassumed to be attributed to the shift of Fermi level at the SiC surface due to the annealing.
Directly bonded n+-InGaP/n+-Si junctions with a low interface resistance
Moritake SAKIHARA, Liang JIANBO, and Naoteru SHIGEKAWA
Extended Abstracts of 2019 IEEE International Workshop on Low Temperature Bonding for 3D Integration(LTB-3D), pp.90 (2019).
We successfully fabricate a n+-InGaP/n+-Si junctions by the surface-activated bonding of n+-InGaP epi layersgrown on n+-GaAs substrates to n+-Si substrates. The achieved interface resistance, 0.059 Ωꞏcm2, is lower than
the interface resistance of directly-bonded n+-GaAs/n+-Si junctions.
Interfacial characterization of GaN/diamond heterostructures prepared by room temperature bonding forhigh power device applications
Jianbo LIANG, Yasuo SHIMIZU (Univ. of Tohoku), Yutaka OHNO (Univ. of Tohoku), Kenji SHIRASAKI (Univ.
of Tohoku), Yasuyoshi NAGAI (Univ. of Tohoku), Seongwoo KIM (Adamant Namiki Precision Jewel. Co., Ltd.),
Martin KUBALL (Bristol of Univ.), Makoto KASU (Univ. of SAGA), and Naoteru SHIGEKAWA
Extended Abstracts of 13th Topical Workshop on Heterostructure Miccroelectronics (TWHM 2019), pp.115-116(2019).
Fabrication of GaAs/Diamond direct bonding for high power device applications
Y. NAKAMURA, Yasuo SHIMIZU (Univ. of Tohoku), Yutaka OHNO (Univ. of Tohoku), Kenji SHIRASAKI(Univ. of Tohoku), Yasuyoshi NAGAI (Univ. of Tohoku), Makoto KASU (Univ. of SAGA), Naoteru SHIGEKAWA, and Jianbo LIANG
Extended Abstracts of 13th Topical Workshop on Heterostructure Miccroelectronics (TWHM 2019), pp.117-118(2019).
Direct Bonding of GaN and Diamond Without an Intermediate Layer at Room Temperature
Jianbo LIANG, Yasuo SHIMIZU (Univ. of Tohoku), Yutaka OHNO (Univ. of Tohoku), Kenji SHIRASAKI (Univ.
of Tohoku), Yasuyoshi NAGAI (Univ. of Tohoku), Seongwoo KIM (Adamant Namiki Precision Jewel. Co., Ltd.),
Martin KUBALL (Bristol of Univ.), Makoto KASU (Univ. of SAGA), and Naoteru SHIGEKAWA
Extended Abstracts of 13th International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors (ICNS’13), Bellevue, BP01.12(2019).
Electrical Properties of GaAs/GaN Junctions by Bonding GaN Layers Grown on Free Standing Substrates
Shoji YAMAJO, Jianbo LIANG, and Naoteru SHIGEKAWA
Extended Abstracts of 13th International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors (ICNS’13), Bellevue, BP02.10(2019).

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GaAs/Si Double-Junction Cells Fabricated by Sacrificial Layer Etching of Directly-Bonded III-V/Si Junctions
Ryo Kozono, Sanji Yoon, Jianbo Liang, Naoteru Shigekawa
The 46th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC 46),300 - Poster D9, June 16-21, 2019, CHICAGO, IL,USA.
A GaAs/Si double-junction cell is fabricated by directly bonding a GaAs single-junction cell structure grown on a
GaAs (001) substrate to a n-on-p Si subcell and separating the GaAs substrate using a sacrificial layer etching.
Before the sacrificial layer etching, the III-V/Si junction is annealed at 300 °C for 1 h so as to recrystallize theinterface and achieve an enough bonding strength based on the results of hard X-ray photoemission spectroscopy.
We obtain a bonding yield of ~80% after the sacrificial layer etching. We confirm that the fabricated double-junction cell normally operates by measuring its current-voltage and spectral-response characteristics.
Effects of Layered Cadmium-Based Nanoparticles on Si Solar Cells.
Yuki IDUTSU, Shun TANAKA, Liang JIANBO, Tomoki NARAZAKI, Hisaaki NISHIMURA, DaeGwi KIM,
Naoteru SHIGEKAWA
The 46th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC 46), 535 - Poster B1, June 16-21, 2019, CHICAGO, IL,USA.
We deposit Cd-based nanoparticles on Si solar cells using the layer-by-layer method and measure their current-voltage and spectral response characteristics. The solar cells covered by the nanoparticles show higher conversion efficiencies due to the interference of the layered nanoparticles. We also observe features indicating theenergy absorbance of the nanoparticles in the reflectance of cells.
Direct bonging of diamond and Cu at room temperature for power devise application
Jianbo LIANG, Shinji KANDA, Satoshi MASUYA (Univ. of SAGA), Makoto KASU (Univ. of SAGA), andNaoteru SHIGEKAWA
Extended Abstracts of 12th New Diamond and Nano Carbons Conference, S3-14-T (2019), Hualien, Taiwan.
Impurity distribution at Si/GaAs heterointerfaces fabricated by surface-activated bonding analyzed byatom probe tomography
Yasuo SHIMIZU (Univ. of Tohoku), Naoki EBISAWA (Univ. of Tohoku), Yutaka OHNO (Univ. of Tohoku),
Jianbo LIANG, Naoteru SHIGEKAWA, Koji INOUE (Univ. of Tohoku), and Yasuyoshi NAGAI (Univ. of Tohoku)
Extended Abstracts of 2018 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit, 2018-11-28, Boston, USA.
p+-Si/AlGaN/GaN HEMTs with Si/nitride bonding interface for high thermal tolerance
Shunichi KONO, Jianbo LIANG and Naoteru SHIGEKAWA
Extended Abstracts of International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors 2018 (IWN2018), ThP-ED-10, Kanazawa, Japan.
TEM characterization of GaAs/GaN heterointerface fabricated by surface activated bonding
Shoji YAMAJO, Jianbo LIANG and Naoteru SHIGEKAWA
Extended Abstracts of International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors 2018 (IWN2018), TuP-CR-18, Kanazawa, Japan.
Atom probe study of impurity distribution at Si/GaAs heterointerfaces fabricated by surface-activatedbonding
Yasuo SHIMIZU (Univ. of Tohoku), Naoki EBISAWA (Univ. of Tohoku), Yutaka OHNO (Univ. of Tohoku),
Jianbo LIANG, Naoteru SHIGEKAWA, Koji INOUE (Univ. of Tohoku), and Yasuyoshi NAGAI (Univ. of Tohoku)
Extended Abstracts of Summit of Materials Science 2018 (SMS2018), October 29-30, Sendai, Japan.
Low-Loss Characteristics of Metal-Foil-Based Passive Components by Surface-Activated Bonding Technologies
Keita MATSUURA, Jianbo LIANG, Koichi MAEZAWA (Univ. of Toyama), and Naoteru SHIGEKAWA－44－

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices 66, 3946 [7 pages] (2019).
Low-loss passive components for RF signals compatible with the on-wafer process are essential for realizing integrated circuits with high-frequency and high power operations. We successfully fabricate thick-metal lm-based
coplanar waveguides (CPWs) and inductors (INDs)bydirectlybondinga17-µm-thick Al foil to a sapphire (0001)
substrate and wet etching. The surface-activated bonding (SAB) technologies at room temperature are used. RF
characteristics of the foil-based passive components are compared with those of components made of 1-µm thickevaporated Al layers. We obtain a better insertion loss and a higher Q -factor for foil-based CPWs and INDs, respectively. The measured characteristics are compared with those obtained by an analysis based on the equivalentcircuit scheme. Impacts of side etching of foils and surface oxidation on their characteristics are observed. Characteristicsofvirtualcomponentsmadeof1-µm-thick Al foils, i.e., 1-µm-thick Al lms with the same resistivity asthat of foils, are analytically investigated.
Macroscale synthesis of CuO nanowires on FTO plane substrate
Yota MABUCHI (Nagoya of Institute of Technology), Rashid Norhana MOHAMED (Nagoya of Institute ofTechnology), Xuyang LI (Nagoya of Institute of Technology), Jianbo LIANG, Naoki KISHI (Nagoya of Instituteof Technology), and Tetsuo SOGA (Nagoya of Institute of Technology)
Modern Physics Letters B 33, 1950138 [4 pages] (2019).
This study aims to fabricate copper oxide (CuO) nanowires by annealing a copper film formed on a charged filmof fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO). However, from the viewpoint of stress and growth of nanowires, it is difficult
to mass-produce CuO nanowires on the entire region of the macro area on the plane substrate. In the proposed
study, this was made possible by modifying the substrate’s structure.
Annealing effect of surface-activated bonded diamond/Si interface
Jianbo LIANG, Yan ZHUO (Bristol of Univ.), Satoshi MASUYA (Univ. of SAGA), Manikant SINGH (Bristol ofUniv.), James POMEROY (Bristol of Univ.), Seongwoo KIM (Adamant Namiki Precision Jewel. Co., Ltd.), Martin KUBALL (Bristol of Univ.), Makoto KASU (Univ. of SAGA), and Naoteru SHIGEKAWA
Diamond & Related Materials 93, 187-192 (2019).
From transmission electron microscope (TEM) observation, a 25 nm thick amorphous layer was confirmed at the
diamond/Si bonding interface without annealing, the amorphous layer thickness decreased with the annealing
temperature. No cracking even in nanometer scale occurred even after high-temperature annealing at 800 C.
From in-situ micro-Raman monitoring, the compressed stress was observed in the Si of the bonding interface
without annealing with respect to the bonding Si substrate. A tensile stress relaxation was observed in the diamondof the bonding interface with respect to the polished diamond. These results were attributed to the large load applied to the diamond and Si substrates during bonding process. After annealing at 400 C, the residual stress in the
Si of the bonding interface decreased, while the residual stress in the diamond of the bonding interface increased,
which should be due to the residual stress caused by the applied load was released by annealing process. The residual stress in the Si and diamond of the bonding interface increased and decreased, respectively, as the annealing
temperature increased from 400 to 1000 C. The main reason was due to the structure change of the amorphouslayer and the tensile stress relaxation in the diamond of the bonding interface.
Stability of diamond/Si bonding interface during device fabrication process
Jianbo LIANG, Satoshi MASUYA (Univ. of SAGA), Seongwoo KIM (Adamant Namiki Precision Jewel. Co.,
Ltd.), Toshiyuki Oishi (Univ. of SAGA), Makoto KASU (Univ. of SAGA), and Naoteru SHIGEKAWA
Applied Physics Express 12, 016501-1 – 016501-5 (2019).
Diamond/Si bonding interface with an entire contact area and high thermal stability is achieved by surface activated bonding method. The fabrication of diamond field-effect transistors (FETs) on the diamond bonded to Si isdemonstrated. The FET exhibits clear saturation and pinch-off characteristics. A 5-nm-thick SixCx-1 layer wasformed at the interface with annealing at 1000 °C. The layer was formed by the inter-diffusion of carbon and Si
atoms near the bonding interface, which plays a role of residual stress relaxation between diamond and Si. These
results suggest that diamond/Si heterostructures are applicable for combining diamond devices with Si LSI.
Hard X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy investigation of annealing eﬀects on buried oxide in GaAs/Si junctions by surface-activated bonding
Shoji YAMAJO, Sanji YOON, Jianbo LIANG, Hassanet SODABANLU (Univ. of Tokyo), Kentaro WATABABE(Univ. of Tokyo), Masakazu SUGIYAMA (Univ. of Tokyo), Akira YASUIC (JASRI/Spring-8), Eiji IKENAGA(JASRI/Spring-8), Naoteru SHIGEKAWA－45－

Applied Surface Science 473, 627-632 (2019).
Hard X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy measurements are performed on ≈10-nm-thick GaAs lm/Si substrate
junctions fabricated by the surface activated bonding and selective wet etching. The chemical shifts of Ga-O and
As-O signals in Ga 2p3/2 and As 2p3/2 core spectra indicate that oxides are formed in a part of GaAs lms neighboring GaAs/Si interfaces due to the surface activation process. Analyses of Ga-O and As-O signals show that the
thickness of such buried oxides is decreased due to a post-bonding annealing at temperatures up to 400°C. Thismeans that the electrical properties of bonding interfaces, which are in the meta-stable states, are improved by theannealing. The thickness of oxides is diﬀerent from that of amorphous-like transition layers at the GaAs/Si interfaces observed by transmission electron microscopy.
How Membrane Lipids Influence Plasma Delivery of Reactive Oxygen Species into Cells and Subsequent
DNA Damage: An Experimental and Computational Study
Jonas Van der PAAL (University of Antwerp), Sung-Ha HONG (University of South Australia), Maksudbek
YUSUPOV (University of Antwerp), Nishtha GAUR (University of South Australia), Jun-Seok OH, Robert D.
SHORT (University of Lancaster), Endre J. SZILI (University of South Australia) and Annemie BOGAERTS(University of Antwerp)
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. Vol. 21, 19327 (15 pages) (2019)
The mechanisms of plasma in medicine are broadly attributed to plasma-derived reactive oxygen and nitrogenspecies (RONS). In order to exert any intracellular effects, these plasma-derived RONS must first traverse a major
barrier in the cell membrane. The cell membrane lipid composition, and thereby the magnitude of this barrier, ishighly variable between cells depending on type and state (e.g. it is widely accepted that healthy and cancerous
cells have different membrane lipid compositions). In this study, we investigate how plasma-derived RONS interactions with lipid membrane components can potentially be exploited in the future for treatment of diseases. We
couple phospholipid vesicle experiments, used as simple cell models, with molecular dynamics (MD) simulationsof the lipid membrane to provide new insights into how the interplay between phospholipids and cholesterol may
influence the response of healthy and diseased cell membranes to plasma-derived RONS. We focus on the (i) lipid
tail saturation degree, (ii) lipid head group type, and (iii) membrane cholesterol fraction. Using encapsulated molecular probes, we study the influence of the above membrane components on the ingress of RONS into the vesicles, and subsequent DNA damage. Our results indicate that all of the above membrane components can enhanceor suppress RONS uptake, depending on their relative concentration within the membrane. Further, we show thathigher RONS uptake into the vesicles does not always correlate with increased DNA damage, which is attributed
to ROS reactivity and lifetime. The MD simulations indicate the multifactorial chemical and physical processes atplay, including (i) lipid oxidation, (ii) lipid packing, and (iii) lipid rafts formation. The methods and findings presented here provide a platform of knowledge that could be leveraged in the development of therapies relying on
the action of plasma, in which the cell membrane and oxidative stress response in cells is targeted.
DOI: 10.1039/C9CP03520F
Development of an Ambient Air Flow Rotating Arc Jet for Low-Temperature Treatment
Vladislav GAMALEEV (Meijo University), Naoyuki IWATA (Meijo University), Jun-Seok OH, Mineo
HIRAMATSU (Meijo University) and Masafumi ITO (Meijo University)
IEEE Access Vol. 7, 93100 (8 pages) (2019)For low-temperature atmospheric pressure plasma treatment applications, we developed a novel rotating arc jet
operated using various gases, including ambient air. We demonstrate the operation of plasma via the injection ofvarious gas mixtures and tune operation parameters to achieve a low-temperature gas output from the arc jet. The
rotating arc jet has an efficiency two orders of magnitude higher in the generation of reactive oxygen and nitrogenspecies than commercially available conventional nonequilibrium atmospheric pressure plasma jets operated withHe or Ar gases. The high concentration of reactive species and use of ambient air as a process gas is promising forbiomedical and agriculture applications. This work is a step toward the commercial use of plasma jets operated
with ambient air.
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2928419
Rethinking Surface Reactions in Nanoscale Dry Processes toward Atomic Precision and beyond: A Physics
and Chemistry Perspective
Kenji ISIKAWA (Nagoya Univ.), Tatsuo ISHIJIMA (Kanazawa Univ.), Tatsuru SHIRAFUJI, Silvia ARMINI(IMEC), Emilie DESPIAU-PUJO (Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS), Richard A. GOTTSCHO (Lam Res. Corp.),
Keren J. KANARIK (Lam Res. Corp.), Gert J. LEUSINK (TEL Technol. Cent., America, LCC), Nathan－46－

MARCHACK (IBM T. J. Watson Res. Cent.), Takahide MARUYAMA (ULVAC Inc.), Yasuhiro MORIKAWA(ULVAC Inc.), Gottlieb S. OEHRLEIN (Univ. Mary Land), Sangwuk PARK (Samsung Electron. Co., Ltd.), Hisataka HAYASHI (Toshiba Memory Corp.), Keizo KINOSHITA (AIO Core Co., Ltd.)
Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., Vol. 58, SE0801 (14 pages) (2019)
In this review, we discuss the progress of emerging dry processes with atomic precision. Researchers in the fieldof plasma processing and surface science have addressed the increasingly challenging demands of material selectivity by utilization of synergistic enhancement of etching or deposition. The discussion encompasses major challenges in the plasma science and technology community. The focus of the review is advances in atomic layer
etching and area-selective deposition with activation or deactivation, especially in terms of materials scaling andvariety. Control of high-aspect-ratio feature fabrication in semiconductor manufacturing and etched shapes of interior features at the nanoscale are needed. Issues related to profile distortion have received much attention.
State-of-the-art techniques used in semiconductor manufacturing are reviewed and future challenges are outlined.
DOI: 10.7567/1347-4065/ab163e
Formation of Freestanding Thin Films on Liquid Surfaces: Printing on Liquid Surfaces
Tatsuru SHIRAFUJI
J. Print. Sci. Technol., Vol. 56, 181-187 (2019) (in Japanese)
Freestanding thin films have been used for various purposes such as for separation and wound dressing as well as
applications in sensors, catalysts, supercapacitors, and artificial organs. Most of the freestanding thin films used inthese applications are fabricated via the peeling-off of films that have been formed on solid substrates. In this review, we discuss possible methods and advantages of the direct formation of thin films on liquid surfaces without
peeling-off processes; these methods are denominated as “printing on liquid surfaces.”
Reaction Kinetics of Active Species from an Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jet Irradiated on the Flowing―
Water Surface ―Effect of Gas-drag by the Sliding Water Surface―
Tatsuru SHIRAFUJI and Jun-Seok OH
J Photopolym Sci Technol. Vol. 32, 535 (6 pages) (2019)
We performed numerical simulations for investigating atmospheric pressure humid air chemistry triggered bymetastable argon atoms fed from an atmospheric pressure plasma jet (APPJ) irradiated on a flowing water surface.
We discuss the gas-drag effect caused by the flow of water surface. The gas-drag effect may alter spatial profilesof gas-phase species around the APPJ. It may alter also spatial profiles of the flux of active species impinging on
the water surface. The numerical simulations have revealed that the flux profile of OH radicals is surely altered by
the gas-drag effect and its flux on the surface is reduced to 1/6 of that on the static surface.
DOI: 10.2494/photopolymer.32.535
Investigation on the Long-Term Bactericidal Effect and Chemical Composition of Radical-Activated Water
Naoyuki IWATA (Meijo University), Vladislav GAMALEEV (Meijo University), Jun-Seok OH, Takayuki OHTA
(Meijo University), Masaru HORI (Nagoya University) and Masafumi ITO (Meijo University)
Plasma Process Polym. Vol. 17, e1900023 (6 pages) (2019)
We treat deionized water using an atmospheric-pressure radical source to investigate the role of neutral radicals inthe bactericidal efficacy of radical-activated water (RAW). The bactericidal efficacy of RAW is investigated using
a colony forming unit assay with Escherichia coli. Both the bactericidal efficacy and reactive oxygen and nitrogenspecies (RONS) concentration in stored RAW are investigated over a period of a month. E. coli was completely
sterilized even in RAW stored for 7 days, indicating the strong bactericidal effect. However, deterioration of thebactericidal efficacy of RAW stored for 14 days is confirmed, which does not have a clear correlation with thetime evolution of the RONS concentration. This result becomes a strong evidence that RAW has long term bactericidal efficacy.
DOI: 10.1002/ppap.201900055
Simultaneous Achievement of Antimicrobial Property and Plant Growth Promotion Using Plasma- Activated Benzoic Compound Solution
Naoyuki IWATA (Meijo University), Vladislav GAMALEEV (Meijo University), Hiroshi HASHIZIME (Nagoya
University), Jun-Seok OH, Takayuki OHTA (Meijo University), Kenji ISHIKAWA (Nagoya University), Masaru
HORI (Nagoya University) and Masafumi ITO (Meijo University)
Plasma Process Polym. Vol. 17, e1900023 (6 pages) (2019)
This study assesses a potential use of the recently developed nonthermal atmospheric pressure plasma technology－47－

in hydroponic plant cultivation. Two types of plasma‐activated liquid solutions were compared, namely,
L-Phenylalanine (L-Phe), which had a benzene ring structure, and L-Alanine (L-Ala), which did not have a benzene ring structure. Antimicrobial property and plant growth enhancement were simultaneously obtained whenplasma-activated L-Phe was used. We found that the benzene ring structure in solution contributed to antimicrobial property. Further, colony forming unit assay indicated that 99% of Escherichia coli (E. coli) were eliminatedafter 24-h incubation and radish sprout growth increased by about 40% after 2 days of cultivation.
DOI: 10.1002/ppap.201900023
Tailoring the Chemistry of Plasma-Activated Water Using a DC-Pulse-Driven Non-Thermal AtmosphericPressure Helium Plasma Jet
Jun-Seok OH, Endre J. SZILI (University of South Australia), Akimitsu HATTA (Kochi University of Technology), Masafumi ITO (Meijo University) and Tatsuru SHIRAFUJI
Plasma, Vol. 2, 127 (10 pages) (2019)
We investigate the use of a DC-pulse-driven non-thermal atmospheric-pressure He plasma jet in the regulation ofhydrogen peroxide (H2O2), nitrite (NO2−), nitrate (NO3−), and oxygen (O2) in deionized (DI) water. The production of these molecules is measured by in situ UV absorption spectroscopy of the plasma-activated water (PAW).
Variations in the pulse polarity and pulse width have a significant influence on the resultant PAW chemistry.
However, the trends in the concentrations of H2O2, NO2−, NO3−, and O2 are variable, pointing to the possibility
that changes in the pulse polarity and pulse width might influence other plasma variables that also impact on the
PAW chemistry. Overall, the results presented in this study highlight the possibility of using DC-pulse-driven
plasma jets to tailor the chemistry of PAW, which opens new opportunities for the future development of optimal
PAW formulations across diverse applications ranging from agriculture to medicine.
DOI: 10.3390/plasma2020010
Plasma Polymerization Using Helium Atmospheric-Pressure Plasma Jet with Heptylamine monomer
Kyle G. DOHERTY (University of Liverpool), Jun-Seok Oh, Paul UNSWORTH (University of Liverpool), Carl
M. SHERIDAN (University of Liverpool), Peter WEIGHTMAN (University of Liverpool), James W. BRADLEY(University of Liverpool), Rachel L. WILIAMS (University of Liverpool)
Plasma Process Polym. Vol. 16, e1800185 (10 pages) (2019)
Atmospheric-pressure plasma jets can be used to modify surfaces in a spatially-defined manner. Operating thesejets in air is an efficient surface modification tool, however the resulting surface chemistries are limited by theplasma gases. In this study we demonstrate that plasma polymerization with heptylamine on polystyrene (PS) surfaces, using an atmospheric pressure plasma jet (APPJ), can enable mammalian cell attachment and growth. Importantly, the addition of the heptylamine monomer, in a helium carrier-gas, altered the spatially-defined treatmentarea in comparison to treatment with a helium plasma alone.
DOI: 10.1002/ppap.201800185
Modulating the Concentrations of Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species and Oxygen in Water with Helium and Argon Gas and Plasma Jets
Kotaro OGAWA (Kochi University of Technology), Jun-Seok OH, Nishtha GAUR (University of South Australia),
Sung-Ha HONG (University of South Australia), Hirofumi KURITA (Toyohashi University of Technology), Akira
MIZUNO (Toyohashi University of Technology), Akimitsu HATTA (Kochi University of Technology), Robert D.
SHORT (University of South Australia, University of Lancaster), Masafumi ITO (Meijo University) and Endre J.
SZILI (University of South Australia)
Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., Vol. 58, SAAB01 (9 pages) (2019)
We employed UV–vis spectroscopy to monitor real-time changes in the oxygen tension and concentration of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (RONS) in deionized (DI) water during treatments with helium (He) and argon(Ar) gas plasma jets. He and Ar gas jets are both shown to deoxygenate DI water with He being more efficientthan Ar, whilst the plasma jets deliver and regulate the concentrations of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), nitrite (NO2−)
and nitrate (NO3−) in DI water. The H2O2 and NO3− production efficiency varied between He and Ar plasma jets,
but was similar for NO2−. Whilst DI water fully equilibrated with ambient air prior to treatment (de-oxygenated byboth plasma jets) when DI water was first de-oxygenated by an inert gas jet treatment, both plasma jets were
found to be capable of oxygenating DI water. These insights were then used to show how different combinationsof plasma jet and inert gas jet treatments can be used to modulate O2 tension and RONS chemistry. Finally, potential further improvements to improve control in the use of plasma jets in regulating O2 and RONS are discussed.
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Effects of Sheath Gas Flow on He Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jet
Kotaro OGAWA (Kochi University of Technology), Hideki YAJIMA (ORC Manufacturing), Jun-Seok OH, Hiroshi FURUTA (Kochi University of Technology) and Akimitsu HATTA (Kochi University of Technology)
Appl. Phys. Express, Vol. 12, 036001 (5 pages) (2019)
It was demonstrated that employing a sheath gas flow was effective in the formation of long laminar flow of He
jet without turbulence by matching the gas velocities at the boundary between the He core jet and the N2 sheathgas flow. With the extension of He laminar flow, the plume length of plasma was significantly extended to morethan 20 mm at a 0.5-slm flow rate of He. The irradiation area for the direct plasma treatment of the target was
clearly limited within 2 mm even at a 10-mm distance from the target.
DOI: 10.7567/1882-0786/aafde9
The Dependence of Nonlinear Electrical Properties of Yeast Suspensions on Temperature and Electrode
Shape
Keita TAMURA, Masafumi MURAJI, Kenji TANAKA, and Tatsuru SHIRAFUJI
IEEJ Transactions on Fundamental and Materials, Vol.139, No.8, pp339-344 (2019)
We observed the temperature dependence of nonlinearity in the response waveform from a yeast suspension whenan alternating current (AC) voltage was applied. This observation is based on repeatable data of nonlinearity
measured over time. The nonlinearity in the response of the living yeast suspension was unique, and a relationshipbetween this nonlinearity and the growth state of yeast was identified. We suggest that this nonlinearity reflects
the electrical properties inherent in living organisms. Measuring the nonlinearity of the yeast suspension response
and accounting for temperature permits us to rapidly distinguish between living and dead yeast. Moreover, wefound that the nonlinearity depended on the shape of the electrodes. For each electrode shape, we investigated theeffects of field intensity and its distortion on the nonlinearity of the response using a computer simulation. We
suggest that the nonlinearity is strongly related to the field intensity and its distortion near the electrodes.
DOI: 10.1541/ieejfms.139.339－49－

Electrical and Information Engineering
A Novel Eye Tracking System to Expand Viewing Area in All Directions for Glasses-Free 3D Display
Displayable in Both Portrait and Landscape Modes
Hiiro NAKAMURA, Goro HAMAGISHI, Kayo YOSHIMOTO, Hideya TAKAHASHI, Takuya
MATSUMOTO, and Kaoru KUSAFUKA
Proc. The International Display Workshops, Nagoya, Dec. 11, Vol.25, pp.792-795 (2018).
We have previously proposed the see-through retinal projection type super multi-view head-mounted display(HMD). The smooth motion parallax provided by the super multi-view technique enables a precise
superposition of virtual 3D images on real scene. Moreover, if a viewer focuses one’s eyes on the displayed
3D image, the stimulus for the accommodation of human eye is reproduced naturally. To realize the super
multi-view condition, multiple parallax images must be projected onto the retina. However, in the previous
proposed HMD, since the respective parallax images were spatially divided and were projected onto theretina, the image resolution was low and the optical system was complicated. In order to overcome these
problems, we propose the improved see-through retinal projection type super multi-view HMD by using thetime division projection optical system. The proposed HMD consists of a multiple exposure holographic lenswith multi-convergence points, a high frame rate display device, and a high-speed optical shutter. Multiple
parallax images are displayed by time division and are converged on respective points by the holographic
lens. The optical shutter which synchronized to the display device passes only one convergence lightcorresponding to the right parallax image. Therefore, proposed HMD realizes the pseudo super multi-view
condition and displays the virtual image at the distance within ability for focusing on the human eye. To
verify the effectiveness of the proposed HMD, we confirmed the depth range of the 3D image by the
prototype of the proposed HMD was more than 250 mm in front of the pupil.
Vessel position estimation system based on pixel-wise refocusing using light field imaging
Kayo YOSHIMOTO, Hideya TAKAHASHI, and Kenji YAMADA (Osaka University)
Proc. SPIE Advanced Biomedical and Clinical Diagnostic and Surgical Guidance Systems XVII, San
Francisco, Feb. 26, Vol.10868, 108681M, CD-ROM (2019).
Venipuncture is a medical practice which is ordinarily performed in hospital. However, it is a difficult
procedure as the occurrence of many failure of the puncture and sometimes medical accidents such as nerve
damage and blood vessel damage are reported. This is caused by the difficulty of visually identification of
the blood vessel. Although the depth information of the blood vessel is also important, the existing system inclinical practice can visualize vessels only by two dimensional images. In our previous study, to estimate thethree dimensional position of the blood vessel, we have proposed the system based on refocusing using lightfield imaging. This method can obtain cross-sectional information of blood vessel emphasized using nearinfrared light at each depth. However, under the influence of the strong scattering characteristics of living
tissue, vascular fluoroscopic images obtained using infrared light are blurred. This is because the lightscattered from other paths overlaps with the light traveling straight through the influence of blood vessel
absorption. In order to suppress this blur, a system for removing scattered light is constructed. In order toeliminate the influence of scattering, a method of angular filtering using a lens array is adopted. Since thismethod uses lens arrays, it has high affinity with refocusing technology. First, we organize the expression
related our proposed system. Then, evaluate the basic principles of the proposed system by using bloodvessel simulated object.
Analysis of displayable depth range for retinal projection type super multi-view 3D head-mounted
display using the time division projection optical system
Hiroaki MAEDA, Junya KOHNO, Kayo YOSHIMOTO, and Hideya TAKAHASHI
Proc. SPIE Advanced in Display Technologies IX, San Francisco, Mar. 1, Vol.10942, 109420X, CD-ROM(2019).
We have previously proposed the retinal projection type super multi-view head-mounted display (HMD)
using the time division projection optical system. By using the super multi-view HMD, it is possible toprovide the viewer with the three-dimensional (3D) image that induces the accommodation of a human eye
naturally. In order to realize the super multi-view method, it is necessary to simultaneously project multiple
parallax images on the retina. However, when the parallax between each parallax image is large and the－50－corresponding pixels of each parallax image on the retina do not overlap each other, the retinal image isobserved as multiple projection images, therefore the accommodation cannot be induced. In this paper, toestimate the displayable range of 3D image of the proposed super multi-view HMD, we revealed therelationship between the number of parallax images and the displayable range of 3D image by using
Gullstrand’s schematic eye model and the analysis of the light intensity distributions of retinal images. In
order to verify the displayable range of 3D image, we constructed the prototype HMD which projected fiveparallax images on the retina. We confirmed that the displayable range of 3D image of the prototype HMD isfrom 900 mm to 2000 mm in front of human eye. By clarifying the relationship between the number ofparallax images and the displayable range of 3D image, it is possible to freely design the display range of 3Dimage of the retinal projection type super multi-view HMD.
3D display with active parallax barrier using the monochromatic LC panel of specifications same as
the image display panel
Tomoya TSUJINO, Hiiro NAKAMURA, Takuya FUJISHIMA, Goro HAMAGISHI, Kayo YOSHIMOTO,
Hideya TAKAHASHI, Takuya MATSUMOTO, and Kaoru KUSAFUKA
Proc. SPIE Advanced in Display Technologies IX, San Francisco, Mar. 1, Vol.10942, 1094211, CD-ROM(2019).
In the stereoscopic 3D display using the parallax barrier, the active barrier method can expand the viewing
area if the barrier pattern optimizes corresponding to the position of the observer by eye tracking. However,requiring not only the LC display panel but also the specially shaped LC panel for the active barrier, thissystem should be very expensive. We propose using the active barrier which is a monochromatic panel of thesame pixel shape as the image display panel. In the proposed method, it is easy to manufacture panels for theactive barrier, and the 3D display provide the wide viewing area and high quality 3D images for observers.
When the active barrier is a monochromatic panel having the same pixel shape as the image display panel,basically the barrier pitch cannot realize the ideal value. Thus, the observer cannot observe the stereoscopic
image in the full screen. In order to realize stereoscopic observation, we apply the cycle pitch composing thestereoscopic image. The cycle pitch composing the stereoscopic image is the method to bring the pitch
constituting the L/R image closer to the ideal value by periodically increasing the number of dots
constituting the L/R image. To confirm the effectiveness of the proposed method, the crosstalk of the
prototypes using film barriers were measured. Crosstalk was less than or equal to 10% at the viewing
distance of 421 mm to 1238 mm. That crosstalk can be reduced regardless of observation distance wasconfirmed.
A novel control method of the combination of simple active barrier pitch control and image processing
to extremely expand the viewing zone in forward and backward directions of stereoscopic 3D displays
Takuya FUJISHIMA, Hiiro NAKAMURA, Tomoya TSUJINO, Goro HAMAGISHI, Kayo YOSHIMOTO,
Hideya TAKAHASHI, Takuya MATSUMOTO, and Kaoru KUSAFUKA
Proc. SPIE Advanced in Display Technologies IX, San Francisco, Mar. 1, Vol.10942, 109420M, CD-ROM(2019).
We have previously proposed eye tracking system to expand viewing area in all directions for glasses-free
3D display. In this system, since the parallax barrier was fixed, the viewing zone was expanded by image
processing corresponding to the viewing position. Thus, there was a limit to expanding the viewing zone
only by image processing. On the other hand, we can expand the viewing zone by applying an active barrierthat changes to the optimum barrier pattern corresponding to the viewing position by eye tracking. However,to change the active barrier pattern, complex calculation and a specially designed active barrier LC panel are
required. To overcome this problem, we propose a novel control method to expand the viewing zone ofstereoscopic 3D displays with active parallax barrier in depth direction. The proposed method is the
combination of the simple generation method of a barrier pattern and the synthesis method of Left/Right
synthetic image corresponding to the viewing position. In this method, let the optimum barrier pitch be Bp atthe viewing distance d, we set the barrier pitch to x*Bp and synthesize the Left/Right image so that crosstalkis low at the same time at the viewing distance d/x. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, we
measured the crosstalk of the prototype 3D display. The crosstalk ratios at the optimum viewing distance1092 mm (d), 774 mm (d*3/4) and 546 mm (d*1/2) were 4.28%, 3.82% and 5.02%, respectively. Therefore,
low crosstalk 3D images could be observed.

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Applied Chemistry and Bioengineering
A Clue to High Rate Capability of Lithium-Ion Batteries Obtained by an Electrochemical
Approach Using “Diluted” Electrode
Kingo ARIYOSHI, Satoshi MIZUTANI, Tomoya MAKINO, and Yusuke YAMADA
J. Electrochem. Soc., Vol. 165, pp. A3965-A3970 (2018)
Rate capability of “diluted” electrodes composed of micron-sized particles of an active material,
Li[Li0.1Al0.1Mn1.8]O4 (LAMO), and a spectator material, Al2O3, were investigated to determine therate-limiting step during discharge accompanied with lithium insertion. Capacity retention based on the
LAMO-weight specific current density (C-rate) was significantly improved by reducing LAMO
contents in the diluted electrodes, whereas no significant difference was found in capacity retention
based on area specific current density. These results indicate that the rate-limiting step during discharge
is not Li-ion diffusion in the active materials, but the transportation of Li cations and counter anions in
the electrodes. Comparison of amounts of Li+ ions inserted to LAMO during charge with that supplied
from an electrolyte indicated that rate capability can be improved by increasing the amount of Li ions in
the pore of the electrode. The comparison also suggests that transportation of the counter anion causing
concentration overvoltage limits the rate capability.
Measurement of Side-Reaction Currents on Electrodes of Lithium-Ion Cells Using a Battery
Cycler with a High-Precision Current Source
Kingo ARIYOSHI, Yuki FUKUNISHI, and Yusuke YAMADAElectrochemistry, Vol. 87, pp. 188-192 (2019)
Capacity fading mainly caused by state-of-charge deviations between the positive and negativeelectrodes of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) can be accurately predicted if the rates of side reactions
occurring on these electrodes are known. Herein, we show that the rates of side reactions on LIB
electrodes can be determined using an in-house built high-current-precision battery cycler comprisinggalvanostat, charge/discharge control, and current switching units. An Li[Li1/3Ti5/3]O4/Li[Li1/3Ti5/3]O4(LTO/LTO) symmetric cell is used to verify that the battery cycler provides currents accurate enough todetermine side-reaction rates, and the rates of side reactions on LTO (negative) and LiNiMO (positive)
electrodes in an LTO/LiNiMO cell are compared with intrinsic values obtained for the symmetric cell.
Li2Ni0.2Co1.8O4 Having a Spinel Framework as A Zero-Strain Positive Electrode Material for
Lithium-Ion Batteries
Kingo ARIYOSHI, Yuki ORIKASA, Kensuke KAJIKAWA, and Yusuke YAMADA
J. Mater. Chem. A, Vol. 7, pp. 13641-13649 (2019)
Zero-strain insertion materials are ideal electrode materials for lithium-ion batteries because they do notundergo dimensional change during lithium insertion and extraction. Herein, a zero-strain insertionmaterial, Ni-substituted Li2Co2O4 (Li2Ni0.2Co1.8O4) having a spinel framework, was synthesized andcharacterized to study the zero-strain mechanism. The change in the lattice dimensions of
Li2Ni0.2Co1.8O4 during lithium extraction was very small (only 0.1%), confirming that Li2Ni0.2Co1.8O4 isa zero-strain insertion material. It had a flat voltage profile at 3.5 V with a reversible capacity of 100
mA h g-1, which was quite different from the voltage profile of LiCoO2 having a layered structure.
Detailed structural analysis by X-ray absorption spectroscopy revealed that there was no dimensionalchange because the changes in two crystallographic factors, contraction of the Co–O bond anddistortion of the oxygen sublattice, cancelled out. The zero-strain lithium-ion battery combined with
Li2Ni0.2Co1.8O4 and Li[Li1/3Ti5/3]O4 showed good cyclability.
Rate Capability of Carbon-Free Lithium Titanium Oxide Electrodes Related to Formation ofElectronic Conduction Paths Observed by Color Change
Kingo ARIYOSHI, Takaya INO, and Yusuke YAMADA
J. Power Sources, Vol. 430, pp. 150-156 (2019)
Lithium titanium oxide prepared by the hydrogen reduction synthesis of Li[Li1/3Ti5/3]O4 (LTO) exhibits
electronic conductivity. The product demonstrated a superior rate capability than pristine LTO upon theexamination of a pellet electrode in the absence of conductive additives. The rate capability of thepristine LTO pellet electrode is poor during the oxidation reaction due to low electronic conductivity ofthe electrode originated from insufficiently developed electronic conduction paths. In contrast, the rate－52－

capability during the reduction reaction is improved due to the formation of electronic conduction paths
resulting from transformation to the electronic conductor LTO during the reduction process. Visualinspection indicated that the formation and loss of electronic conduction paths in the electrode are key
to determining the rate capability of the LTO pellet electrode in the absence of a conductive additive.
Our results confirmed that this LTO exhibiting an electronic conductivity maintains an electronic
conduction path in the pellet electrode in the absence of a conductive additive during the redox reaction,
thereby resulting in an improved rate capability in both the oxidation and reduction reactions
Electrochemical Impedance Analysis of Li[Li0.1Al0.1Mn1.8]O4 Used as Lithium-Insertion Electrodesby the Diluted Electrode Method
Kingo ARIYOSHI, Satoshi MIZUTANI, and Yusuke YAMADA
J. Power Sources, Vol. 435, p. 226810 (2019)
Electrochemical impedance analysis was performed for Li[Li0.1Al0.1Mn1.8]O4 (LAMO) used as alithium-insertion electrode by the diluted electrode method to identify the origin of resistance.
Utilization of diluted electrodes, in which some portion of active material, LAMO, was systematicallyreplaced with the same amounts of spectator Al2O3 material to maintain the original structure of the
LAMO electrode, is a promising method to discriminate between the resistance attributed to thelithium-insertion reaction in LAMO (charge-transfer resistance) and that accompanied by conduction ofelectron and/or ion in the porous electrodes. Electrochemical impedance spectra of the diluted
electrodes consisted of two semicircles. The radius of a semicircle in the lower frequency region
depends on the LAMO content in a diluted electrode, indicating that the semicircle is associated withcharge transfer resistance. On the other hand, the radius of the other semicircle in the higher frequency
region is independent of the LAMO contents, suggesting that the semicircle is mainly related to theresistance accompanied by the porous structure of electrodes. Thus, the structure of lithium-insertion
electrode should be carefully considered in designing high-energy and high-power lithium-ion batteries
that employ thick electrodes.
Degradation Mechanism of LiCoO2 under Float Charge Conditions and High Temperatures
Motoyuki HIROOKA, Tomohito SEKIYA, Yoshitomo OMOMO, Masayuki YAMADA, Hideaki
KATAYAMA, Takefumi OKUMURA, Yusuke YAMADA, and Kingo ARIYOSHIElectrochim. Acta, Vol. 320, p. 134596 (2019)
Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) consisting of LiCoO2 and graphite electrodes exhibit a trade-off
relationship between their reversible capacity and cycle/calendar life in terms of the charge cut-off
voltage. That is to say, a higher charge cut-off voltage leads to a larger reversible capacity and shorter
cycle life. In order to develop LIBs that satisfy both performance criteria (i.e., have a high reversible
capacity as well as a long cycling life), the degradation mechanism of the LiCoO2 electrode under float
charge conditions and high temperatures is investigated while focusing on the relationship between the
structural deterioration of the electrode and capacity fading. Durability tests performed ongraphite/LiCoO2 cells under float charge conditions (4.4 V at 60 °C) induced a drop in the open-circuit
voltage as well as capacity fading in the LiCoO2 electrode along with the dissolution of a large numberof cobalt ions. Acoustic emission histometry, X-ray diffraction, and transmission electron microscopy
analyses of the LiCoO2 electrode after the float charge tests revealed that the degradation of the LiCoO2electrode during the float charge tests occurred as per the following steps: (1) the HF generated by thedecomposition of LiPF6 reacts with the charged LiCoO2 electrode, (2) the charged LiCoO2 electrode isdisproportionated into CoO2 and Co2+ ions, and finally (3) the CoO2 having an O1 structure decomposes
into cobalt oxides containing cobalt ions in a lower oxidation state, which is associated with theevolution of oxygen gas.
Comparative Measurements of Side-Reaction Currents of Li[Li1/3Ti5/3]O4 and Li[Li0.1Al0.1Mn1.8]O4
Electrodes in Lithium-Ion Cells and Symmetric Cells
Kingo ARIYOSHI, Yuki FUKUNISHI, and Yusuke YAMADA
J. Electrochem. Soc., Vol. 166, pp. A3314-A3318 (2019)
Lithium-ion batteries using Li[Li1/3Ti5/3]O4 and Li[Li0.1Al0.1Mn1.8]O4 (LTO/LAMO) are very attractive
for long-life and highpower applications. Capacity fading of the batteries mainly results from thedeviation in the state of charges (SOCs) of LTO and LAMO electrodes caused by the difference in theside reaction currents of the electrodes. In this study, “real” and “intrinsic” side reaction currents are－53－

measured in LTO/LAMO cells and symmetric cells of LTO/LTO and LAMO/LAMO, respectively. An
observed significant difference in the side reaction currents is affected by the coupled electrode. The
real side reaction currents for both electrodes are a few times larger than the intrinsic side reaction
currents at any temperature, which can be explained by taking into account the influence of oxidation(or reduction) products generated at the positive (or negative) electrode on the negative (or positive)
electrode. A mechanism of the side reaction inside the cell is proposed to explain the above
phenomenon. The mechanism indicates the importance for understanding the “secondary” effects ofside reactions, which are influenced by decomposition products on the other electrode, in addition to“primary” effects of side reactions such as the formation of solid electrolyte interphase.
Unique Half Embedded/Exposed PdFeCu/C Interfacial Nanoalloy as High-PerformanceElectrocatalyst for Oxygen Reduction Reaction
Biraj Jyoti BORAH, Himadri SAIKIA, Chiranjita GOSWAMI, Kumar Kashyap HAZARIKA, Yusuke
YAMADA, and Pankaj BHARALI
ChemCatChem, Vol. 11, pp. 3522-3529 (2019)
Design of high-performance non-Pt electrocatalyst for fuel cell applications is greatly anticipated.
Herein, we have developed a unique half-embedded and half-exposed interfacial PdFeCu nanoalloyanchored onto carbon matrix. The stable electronic coupling between the carbon matrix and PdFeCu
nanoalloy possess very fast interfacial electron transfer which in turn enhances the electron conductivity.
This makes the trimetallic
nanoalloy high performing oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) electrocatalyst in both basic and acidic
media. The PdFeCu/C nanoalloy exhibits enhanced electrochemically active surface area than various
PdFe/C bimetallics as well as benchmark 20 wt% Pt/C and Pd/C. As a result, it offers larger active sites
for ORR and eased the electron transport during the electrocatalysis. It exhibits 1.5- and 2.4-fold higher
mass activity incomparison to the Pt/C and Pd/C. Furthermore, it exhibits long term stability and low onset potential
compared to those of the other catalysts. Thus, the present investigation shows potential strategy for thedesign and synthesis of Pt-free electrocatalyst with remarkable catalytic activity and stability.
Technologies for Utilization of Hydrogen Peroxide as Energy Carrier
Yusuke YAMADA
Chemical Engineering, Vol. 64, pp. 466-470 (2019) (in Japanese)
Hydrogen peroxide is a potential chemical not only as a selective oxidant in various chemical processes
but also as an energy carrier. Hydrogen peroxide can be produced by selective two-electron reduction ofmolecular oxygen abundant in air using natural energy such as solar energy. Also, hydrogen peroxide
can be used as a fuel of direct hydrogen peroxide fuel cells for electric power generation.
Elemental Analysis of Three Kinds of Teas by Tabletop XRF Analyzer
Jingyuan ZHU, Haruna TAKAHASHI, Kouichi TSUJI
Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering Osaka City University, Vol.59, pp.1-5 (2018).
In this research, we investigated three kinds of tea samples by using tabletop XRF analyzer JSX-1000S (JEOL
Company, Japan). Each tea sample was tested in original state, powder state and tablet state with different
mass values. We could show the minimum mass for quantitative XRF analysis. By analyzing the X-ray
spectrum recorded for these samples, we found the possibility of XRF analysis as a method of tea quality
control and detecting tea producing area.
X-Ray Fluorescence and Emission: X-ray Fluorescence Theory
Kouichi TSUJI
Encyclopedia of Analytical Science 3rd Edition, edited by P. Worsfold, C. Poole, A. Townshend, M. Miró,
Elsevier, Vol. 10, pp. 471-481 (2019).
X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometry is an analytical technique used widely for elemental determinations inboth industrial, and research and development laboratories. It belongs to a family of atomic spectrometry
techniques but enjoys some distinctive analytical advantages compared with rival techniques, such as atomic
absorption spectrometry (AAS) and inductively coupled plasma–atomic emission spectrometry (ICP–AES).

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X-Ray Fluorescence and Emission: Wavelength Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence
Kouichi TSUJI
Encyclopedia of Analytical Science 3rd Edition, edited by P. Worsfold, C. Poole, A. Townshend, M. Miró,
Elsevier, Vol. 10, pp. 459-470 (2019).
The analytical capabilities of X-ray fluorescence (XRF) have been recognized since the work of Moseley, who,
in 1913 and 1914, published papers describing the systematic variation in fluorescence wavelength withatomic number and used this observation to characterize the elemental composition of brass. However, theperformance of early instrumentation was restricted by various technical difficulties, and it was not until 1948
that the prototype of the first commercial wavelength dispersive (WD)-XRF instrument was described byFriedman and Birks. Commercial instrumentation became available during the mid-1950s and wasprogressively adopted by laboratories involved in elemental analysis of a range of sample types.
X-Ray Fluorescence and Emission: Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence
Philip J. POTTS, Kouichi TSUJI
Encyclopedia of Analytical Science 3rd Edition, edited by P. Worsfold, C. Poole, A. Townshend, M. Miró,
Elsevier, Vol. 10, pp. 420-431(2019).
Although the principles and mechanism of excitation for energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (ED-XRF) areexactly the same as for wavelength dispersive (WD)-XRF, the analytical characteristics of ED-XRF
instrumentation demonstrate some significant differences, largely due to the different response characteristics
of an ED detector. Traditionally, ED detectors were popularly associated with the Si(Li) detector(lithium-drifted silicon). However, although Si(Li) remains the standard against which other detector types arecompared, technological advances have led to the introduction of alternative detector types, not the least thesilicon PIN diode, the silicon drift detector (SDD), as well as germanium, mercury(II) iodide, and othersemiconductor devices.
Obituary
Kouichi TSUJI
Adv. X-Ray. Chem. Anal., Japan, Vol.50, pp.1-5 (2019) (in Japanese).
Prof. Kichinosuke Hirokawa, emerits at KINKEN, Tohoku Univ., passed away on August 28, 2018 at the ageof 85. He was awarded by the Zuiho Chujusho on 2013. His main research results on atomic spectroscopy,
XRF, GDS, XPS, surface analysis were introduced.
“Advances in X-Ray Chemical Analysis, Japan” Edited by “The Discussion Group of X-Ray Analysis,
The Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry”
Kouichi TSUJI
Adv. X-Ray. Chem. Anal., Japan, Vol.50, pp.7-10 (2019) (in Japanese).
Elemental Distribution Analysis of Copper-based Preservative-treated Woods by Micro XRF Method
Momotaro NAKANISHI, Hitomi NAKANO, Yuko FUJIWARA, Yosihisa FUJII, Kouichi TSUJI
Adv. X-Ray. Chem. Anal., Japan, Vol.50, pp.105-112 (2019) (in Japanese).
Wood is useful as construction material; however, wood is not strong for decay and insect damages. Generally,
injecting copper-based preservative treatment is effective for these damages. However, in some cases, theamount of injection treatment is not enough and homogenous in wood. In previous studies, wood samples had
been cut to confirm Cu distribution in the samples. Analytical method for investigating the injection amount of
Cu is required in non-destructively and non-contact way. In this study, we attempted to acquire elemental
distribution in wood by using micro XRF method. European red pine (Pinus sylvestris) wood was measured by
micro XRF instrument manufactured in the laboratory. XRF images of Cu, Ca, and K were measured on thesurface and cross section of the wood sample. It was found that the injection depth of copper depended on the
structure of wood. In addition, the detection efficiency of Cu fluorescent X-rays was evaluated according toLambert-Beer’s law and compared with the experimental result.
Development of X-Ray Analytical Microscope for Painting Using Long Working Distance
Mono-Capillary
Hitomi NAKANO, Mai SAKAGUCHI, Takuma AMPO, Shintaro KOMATANI, Sumito OHZAWA, Yoko
IWASAKI, Moe KONDO, Kaori TAGUCHI, Naoyoshi MORI, Kouichi TSUJI
Adv. X-Ray. Chem. Anal., Japan, Vol.50, pp.151-160 (2019) (in Japanese).

－55－A nondestructive and noncontact analytical method has been required for measurement of arts and paintings, inorder not to hurt the samples. X-ray fluorescence analysis (XRF) is one of suitable techniques for this purpose.
To obtain elemental images, a micro-XRF spectrometer was developed using an X-ray micro beam. In order tomeasure paintings safely, we developed an X-ray mono-capillary focusing device with a long working
distance.z In this paper, we report obtained for Vincent van Gogh’s painting arts at POLA museum collection
by using the X-ray analytical microscope.
Confocal Micro XRF Monitoring of Microbially Influenced Corrosion Process of Steel Samples
Jigi CHIN, Ryohei HOSOMI, Hiroshi KAWAKAMI, Kouichi TSUJI
Adv. X-Ray. Chem. Anal., Japan, Vol.50, pp.169-175 (2019) (in Japanese).
X-ray fluorescence analysis (XRF) is a non-destructive method. There is a lot of applications like analysis ofindustrial material. A confocal micro XRF instrument enables elemental analysis of point-limited region. The
confocal micro XRF instrument was applied to in situ analysis of microbiologically influenced corrosion
process. Finally, it was realized to visualized Fe distribution corroded from steel sample in the solution.
Proposal of Elemental Determination Method of Human Hairs by Using Tabletop X-Ray Fluorescence
Analyzer
Takumi FURUSATO, Fumiyuki INOUE, Kouichi TSUJI
Adv. X-Ray. Chem. Anal., Japan, Vol.50, pp.177-184 (2019) (in Japanese).
Minerals play a great role in the human body. Therefore, it is important to know the excess or deficiency ofminerals for health examination. However, the mineral concentrations in the blood are kept constant due tohomeostasis, therefore blood tests cannot give us the abnormality. On the other hand, since hair takes in andholds mineral information, it is possible to examine the mineral concentrations in the body by measuring thehair itself. Therefore, we decided to study element determination method in hair more easily and quickly than
ICP-AES/MS analysis. In this study, we considered a scattered X-ray internal standard method using a tabletop
X-ray fluorescence analyzer. As a result, S, Ca, Zn in the hair could be quantified. However, for elements withsmall content such as Ca and Zn, the dispersion in quantitative value became larger. Also, since it depends on
the sample form, it was found that preparation method of hair sample is important.
67th Annual Denver X-Ray Conference [DXC] Report
Tetsuya YONEDA, Kouichi TSUJI
Adv. X-Ray. Chem. Anal., Japan, Vol.50, pp.67-70 (2019) (in Japanese).
Report on EXRS 2018 (European Conference on X-Ray Spectrometry) and X-Ray Research Trend
Yukie IZUMOTO, Tsugufumi MATSUYAMA, Hiroshi YOSHII, Kouichi TSUJI
Adv. X-Ray. Chem. Anal., Japan, Vol.50, pp.71-78 (2019) (in Japanese).
Progress and Application Examples of X-Ray Fluorescence Elemental Imaging Analysis Technology
Masaki YAMANASHI, Aoi YAMAUCHI, Kouichi TSUJI
Bunseki Vol.2019 (4), pp.146-153 (2019) (in Japanese).
X-ray fluorescence (XRF) is well known as a nondestructive elemental analysis technique under atmosphericpressure. In recent years, advances in X-ray optical elements and two-dimensional detectors have enabled
XRF imaging to obtain element distribution information in a large region in samples. This paper mainly
describes the elemental technologies related to XRF imaging with X-ray optics and two-dimensional detector,
and shows applications by this laboratory systems using them. In addition, XRF image processing using
compressed sensing is also introduced.
Multi-Modal Compositional Analysis of Layered Paint Chips of Automobiles by the Combined
Application of ATR-FTIR Imaging, Raman Microspectrometry, and SEM/EDX
Md Abdul MALEK, Takashi NAKAZAWA, Hyun-Woo KANG, Kouichi TSUJI, Chul-Un RO
Molecules, Vol.24, pp.1381 (2019).
For the forensic analysis of multi-layered paint chips of hit-and-run cars, detailed compositional analysis,
including minor/trace chemical components in the multi-layered paint chips, is crucial for the potential
credentials of the run-away car as the number of layers, painting process, and used paints are quite specific to
the types of cars, color of cars, and their surface protection depending on the car manufacturer and the yearof manufacture, and yet overall characteristics of some paints used by car manufacturers might be quite－56－

similar. In the present study, attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) imaging,
Raman microspectrometry (RMS), and scanning electron microscopy/energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometric(SEM/EDX) techniques were performed in combination for the detailed characterization of three car paintchip samples, which provided complementary and comprehensive information on the multi-layered paintchips. That is, optical microscopy, SEM, and ATR-FTIR imaging techniques provided information on thenumber of layers, physical heterogeneity of the layers, and layer thicknesses; EDX on the elemental chemical
profiles and compositions; ATR-FTIR imaging on the molecular species of polymer resins, such as alkyd,
alkyd-melamine, acrylic, epoxy, and butadiene resins, and some inorganics; and RMS on the molecularspecies of inorganic pigments (TiO2, ZnO, Fe3O4), mineral fillers (kaolinite, talc, pyrophyllite), and inorganic
fillers (BaSO4, Al2(SO4)3, Zn3(PO4)2, CaCO3). This study demonstrates that the new multi-modal approachhas powerful potential to elucidate chemical and physical characteristics of multi-layered car paint chips,
which could be useful for determining the potential credentials of run-away cars.
Evaluation of Full-Field Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence Imaging Apparatus and Super
Resolution Analysis with Compressed Sensing Technique
Aoi YAMAUCHI, Masanori IWASAKI, Kazunori HAYASHI, Kouichi TSUJI
X-Ray Spectrometry, DOI: 10.1002/xrs.3055 (2019)
A full‐field energy dispersive X‐ray fluorescence (FF‐EDXRF) imaging spectrometer that utilizes single‐
photon counting analysis with a charge‐coupled device was developed in our laboratory.
We evaluated the developed spectrometer with respect to its energy resolution, spatial resolution,
quantitative performance, and elemental imaging and compared it with the corresponding characteristics ofscanning‐type EDXRF spectrometers. In addition, we demonstrate that the limit of detection and sensitivity
deteriorate as the analytical area decreases. Finally, compressed sensing, which is a widely used information‐
processing technique, was applied for clearing XRF images.
In Situ Observation of Corrosion Process of Steel Sheet Under Stress Load by Confocal Micro X-Ray
Fluorescence Imaging
Kouichi TSUJI, Ryohei HOSOMI
Tetsu-to-Hagané, Vol.105, pp.975-980 (2019) (in Japanese).
Details of corrosion process of the steel sheet under stress load in the solutions have not been understoodwell. In this case, it is important to observe the corrosion process in liquid solutions by using nondestructive
analytical method. Therefore, we applied a confocal micro-XRF analytical method for this purpose. Thismethod enables a nondestructive elemental imaging near the surface of the materials in the solution. We
prepared a sample cell where a Zn plating steel sheet was placed under stress load in NaCl solution. Zn and
Fe XRF images were successfully observed in situ for 5 days in two analytical modes: cross sectional XRF
imaging and depth-selective XRF imaging.
Development of Cu/Ni Binary Catalyst for Hydrothermal Oxidation of Refractory Compounds
Noritsugu KOMETANI, and Masaaki NARITA
Proceedings of 12th International Symposium on Supercritical Fluids, Paper ID: OI04 (2018)
We have reported that Cu-based materials show a remarkable catalytic effect for the treatment of refractoryorganic compounds such as chlorophenol and trichloroethylene by catalytic hydrothermal oxidation, becauseof enhanced generation of hydroxyl radicals through Fenton-like reaction catalyzed by Cu(I) ion underhydrothermal condition. Here, we report that Cu/Ni binary catalyst exhibits a higher activity than Cu for thehydrothermal oxidation of 3,4-dichlorophenol. It is indicated by EXAFS data that the atomic interaction
between Cu and zero-valent Ni may accelerate Fenton-like reaction, resulting in enhanced degradation andmineralization of 3,4-dichlorophenol.
Oxygen additive effects on decomposition rate of poly(vinyl phenol)-based polymers using hydrogenradicals produced by a tungsten hot-wire catalyst
Masashi YAMAMOTO, Shiro NAGAOKA, Keisuke OHDAIRA, Hironobu UMEMORO, Hideo HORIBE
Thin Solid Films, Vol. 679, pp. 22–26 (2019)
For fabricating semiconductor devices and for microelectromechanical systems, photoresists are importantmaterials supporting photolithography processes. However, photoresists must be removed for subsequent
processes. An earlier study demonstrated that adding a small amount of oxygen gas to the atmosphere inwhich hydrogen radicals are produced increased the decomposition rate of a positive-tone novolac－57－

photoresist. For this study, we prepared polymers with different side chain structures based on poly(vinyl
phenol) (PVP). We examined the effects of added oxygen and the oxygen-added hydrogen radicals on thedecomposition rates of PVP-based polymers. Hydroxyl groups of PVP are partly substituted with
tert-butoxycarbonyl groups in order to use for base polymer of KrF photoresist. Results show that oxygen
addition can be useful for KrF photoresist removal.
Dynamics of the phase separation in a thermoresponsive polymer: accelerated phase separation ofstereo-controlled poly(N,N-diethylacrylamide) in water
Mitsuhiro MATSUMOTO, Takanori TADA, Taka-aki ASOH, Tatsuya SHOJI, Takashi NISHIYAMA, Hideo
HORIBE, Yukiteru KATSUMOTO, Yasuyuki TSUBOI
Langmuir Vol. 34(45), pp. 13690–13696 (2018)
We studied the dependence on tacticity of the dynamic phase separation behavior of thermoresponsivepoly(N,N-diethylacrylamide) (PDEA) in an aqueous solution. Using a laser temperature-jump technique
combined with transient photometry, we determined the time constants of the phase separation and foundthat both atactic and isotactic-rich PDEAs had fast and slow phase separation processes (τfast and τslow). The
fast process (τfast) was independent of the tacticity, irrespective of the concentration. On the other hand, theslow process had a strong dependence on the tacticity. We found the slow phase separation process got
considerably faster with increasing isotacticity in dilute solutions. This effect due to the tacticity of the
PDEA is totally different from that of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) and can be explained on the basis of thedifference between the hydrophobicity of atactic PDEA and that of isotactic-rich PDEA.
Oxidative Decomposition of Organic Compounds by Ozone Microbubbles in Water
Yuta KODA, Terumi MIYAZAKI†, Eriko SATO, Hideo HORIBE
J. Photopolym. Sci. and Technol., Vol. 32(4), pp. 615-618 (2019)
Oxidative degradation of poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) by ozone microbubbles (O3MBs) was investigated inwater. Ozone water are generally effective in oxidation reaction with a variety of organic compounds.
O3MBs have promise to improve the efficiency because it seems that O3MBs generates hydroxy radicals,
resulting in the higher active oxidative degradation. Herein, oxidative decomposition of PEG by O3MBs inwater was carried out and the products were characterized by 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) andmatrix assisted laser desorption/ionization fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry(MALDI-FT-ICR-MS). Through the continuous struggles, decomposition of PEG was promoted by O3MBs.
It was found that O3MBs with hydrogen peroxide added had the largest decomposition effect. The reason has
been veiled yet, however, the author reasons that O3MBs have promise as the novel degradation system.
Relationship between Oxygen Additive Amount and Photoresist Removal Rate Using H Radicals
Generated on an Iridium Hot-Wire Catalyst
Masashi YAMAMOTO, Tomohiro SHIROI, Tomokazu SHIKAMA, Shiro NAGAOKA, Hironobu
UMEMOTO, and Hideo HORIBE
J. Photopolym. Sci. and Technol., Vol. 32(4), pp. 609–615 (2019)
We examined an environmentally friendly photoresist removal method using radicals produced bydecomposing mixtures of hydrogen and oxygen on a hot iridium catalyst. We earlier reported that thedecomposition of photoresists was hastened by adding oxygen gas to a hydrogen flow using a tungsten
hot-wire catalyst. The rate increased with the oxygen additive amount up to about 1.0% and then decreased
gradually. The decrease is caused by the catalytic poisoning of O atoms on the catalyst surface because of its
poor oxidation resistance. In present study, we show that oxygen addition without catalytic poisoning iseffective to increase the decomposition rate. The poisoning can be avoided by using an Ir catalyst. The
decomposition rate showed an Arrhenius-type dependence on the substrate temperature. The rate increased
rapidly with increasing amounts of added oxygen to 1.0% and then the increase became more gradual. OH
radicals must play an important role to hasten the decomposition reactions.
A Comparison of Removal Phenomena in Photoresist Materials Using Laser Irradiation
Tomosumi KAMIMURA, Naoki NISHIOKA, Yuji UMEDA, Daichi SHIMA, Yusuke FUNAMOTO,
Yoshiyuki HARADA, Masashi YOSHIMURA, Ryosuke NAKAMURA, Hideo HORIBE
J. Photopolym. Sci. and Technol., Vol. 32(4), pp. 603–607 (2019)
Resist removal phenomena using laser irradiation were compared in the novolak resist and the PVP.
Thresholds for stripping from the Si wafer and damaged at the Si wafer were evaluated for the laser－58－

irradiating condition in the normal atmosphere and in the water. The PVP was found to be easy to be stripped
as compared with the novolak resist. Only in the water, the photoresist material was completely strippedfrom the Si wafer surface. The size of the changed area by the laser irradiation for the PVP wasapproximately 2 times larger than that of the novolak resist. Time-resolved images were also acquired in 400
ns and 7500 ns after the laser irradiation. The scattering condition of the PVP in the removal process wascompletely different from that of the novolak resist.
Formation of a single poly(N,N-diethylacrylamide) micro-droplet in water by coupling of photothermal
effects and an optical force
Mitsuhiro MATSUMOTO, Taka-aki ASOH, Tatsuya SHOJI, Takashi NISHIYAMA, Hideo HORIBE,
Yukiteru KATSUMOTO, Yasuyuki TSUBOIJ. Phys.: Conf. Ser. Vol. 1220, Article No. 012034 (2019)
Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) exhibits phase separation with lower critical solution temperature(LCST). In the 1990s, Masuhara and co-workers reported the first demonstration of optical trapping of
PNIPAM forming a micrometer-sized polymer droplet. Since then, this technique has attracted muchattention to create a molecular assembly in a microspace. In the present study, we targetedpoly(N,N-diethylacrylamide) (PDEA), which has an analogous chemical structure to PNIPAM. We
demonstrated that optical tweezers formed the unique micro-morphologies of a phase separated PDEA
droplet. Fluorescence microscopic images and Raman spectra of the PDEA droplet showed that a lot ofsmaller-sized water-rich micro-domains were inhomogeneously formed in the droplet. Such unique phaseseparation behavior was never observed in steady-state heating of an aqueous PDEA solution above its LCST.
Our results indicate that a novel micro-structure can be formed by coupling of an optical gradient force and alocal temperature elevation.
Photoresist removal using hydrogen radicals produced by tantalum hot-wire catalyst
Masashi YAMAMOTO, Tomohiro SHIROI, Tomokazu SHIKAMA, Shiro NAGAOKA, Hideo HORIBEAIP Conf. Proc., Vol. 2151, Article No. 020010 (2019)
Photoresist removal method using hydrogen radicals produced by decomposing hydrogen on a hot-wirecatalyst is one of an environmentally friendly methods. We examined the relationship between photoresist
removal rate and its surface temperature and the surface element analysis for a tantalum catalyst. In this study,
we considered an adaptability of the catalyst to the removal.
Coumarin Derivative Polymers for Thermo- and Light- Responsive Monofunctional Polymers: Effectof Additives on Thermo-Responsivity
Eriko SATOAIP Conf. Proc., Vol. 2040, Article No. 0200026 (4 pages) (2018)
Methacrylic and acrylic homopolymers containing a coumarin unit in the side-chain, which undergoes
reversible [2+2] cycloaddition by photoirradiation, are the very limited examples of the dual-stimuli
responsive monofunctional polymers. The coumarin derivative polymers show lower critical solution
temperature-type phase separation in some chlorinated organic solvents such as chloroform. In this study, thecontrol of the cloud points of the coumarin derivative polymers by the addition of low-molecular-weight
additives to the solution was investigated. It was revealed that the addition of low-molecular-weightcompounds, which would interact with the coumarin derivative polymers, such as coumarin,
3,4-dihydrocoumarin, chromone, and 9-bromoanthracene resulted in significant increase in the cloud points.
t was also found that the cloud points of the coumarin derivative polymer can be controlled by the addition
amount of the additives up to near the boiling point of the solvent.
Regiospecificity of Alternating Copolymerization of Cyclic Conjugated Dienes and Oxygen
Eriko SATO, Shuji TAKETANI, Chisato OMORI, Hideo HORIBE and Akikazu MATSUMOTO
Chem. Lett., Vol. 48(5), pp. 445-448 (2019)
Alternating radical copolymerization of cyclic conjugated diene monomers, i.e., cyclopentadiene and furan,with oxygen were carried out to generate degradable polyperoxides. The cyclopentadiene and furan
based-polyperoxides consisted of different regiospecific structures. The regiospecificity of the alternating
copolymerization was rationalized by the bond dissociation energies of the carbon-to-oxygen bond of theperoxy radicals based on density functional theory calculations. The thermal degradation behavior of theresulting cyclic conjugated diene-based polyperoxides was also investigated.

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Reductants for Polyperoxides to Accelerate Degradation at Elevated Temperatures
Eriko SATO, Michihiro YURI, Akikazu MATSUMOTO and Hideo HORIBE
Polym. Degrad. Stab., Vol. 162, pp. 47-54 (2019)
The alternating copolymer of a conjugated diene monomer and oxygen, i.e., polyperoxide, is a mainchain
degradable polymer and undergoes radical chain degradation by heating. During the degradation process,oxygen-centered radicals are formed and thus side reactions such as hydrogen abstraction from the polymer
by the oxygen-centered radicals and subsequent coupling, which prevent the degradation, sometimes takeplace. In this study, in order to promote the degradation of polyperoxides only at elevated temperatures while
maintaining their stability at ambient temperature, appropriate organic reductants, which do not significantly
react with the polyperoxides at 30 °C but react at 100 °C, were explored. N,N-Dimethylaniline, which is aconventional reductant for redox initiation systems, initiated the redox degradation of cyclopentadiene-based
polyperoxides even at 30 °C due to the very high nucleophilicity. The introduction of an electron donatinggroup at the para position, i.e., 4-dimethylaminoacetophenone, 4-dimethylaminobenzaldehyde, and4-dimethylaminobenzonitrile, successfully maintained the stability of the polyperoxide at 30 °C andaccelerated the degradation at 100 °C due to the reduced nucleophilicity. Similar results were obtained byusing 1-acetyl-2-phenylhydrazine and 1-phenyl-3-pyrazolidone (PhP) as a reductant, and PhP resulted in themost significant acceleration effect at 100 °C. The activation energy for the overall degradation of thepolyperoxide in the presence of PhP was much lower than that of the polyperoxide in the absence of areductant. In the case of sorbic ester-based polyperoxides, their stabilities at 30 °C were not maintained in thepresence of the reductants and the stability was improved by increasing the 2,5 structure regarding the diene
moiety in the main-chain.
Thermal Latent Reductants for Controlled Degradation of Polyperoxides and Their Application to
High Performance Dismantlable Adhesives
Eriko SATO, Chisato OMORI, Michihiro YURI, Yuta KODA and Hideo HORIBEACS Appl. Polym. Mater., Vol. 1(8), pp. 2140-2148 (2019)1-Phenyl-3-pyrazolidone (PhP) having an active hydrogen was blocked by phenyl isocyanate derivatives toreduce its nucleophilicity, and the potential of the blocked PhP as a thermal latent reductant generating theorganic reducing agent, PhP, was revealed for the first time. The degree of dissociation of the blocked PhP
during heating in solution can be controlled by the steric hindrance of the isocyanate-blocking agents. The
thermal latency of the blocked PhP for the sorbic ester-based polyperoxides, which undergo a serious
reductive decomposition by PhP even at 30 °C, was investigated to accelerate the decomposition of thepolyperoxides only at elevated temperatures. It was revealed that the stability of the polyperoxides was not
significantly affected at 30 °C, and marked reductive decomposition of the polyperoxides together withthermal decomposition took place at elevated temperatures. For the block PhPs, which are highly compatible
with the polyperoxides, the decomposition promotion effect increased with increasing the steric hindrance ofthe blocking agents, and the controlled decomposition of the polyperoxides was successfully achieved.
Moreover, the addition of the blocked PhP resulted in the complete solubilization of sorbic ester-based
cross-linked polyperoxides by heating, which was not able to be achieved without the blocked PhP. The
performance of the debondable adhesive by using the sorbic ester-based cross-linked polyperoxides was
improved by the addition of the blocked PhP, although hazardous isocyanate formation during the activation
process may limit the practical application. Specifically, a faster decrease in the lap-shear adhesion strengthby heating was accomplished. Furthermore, the same level of dismantlability was achieved in the wide rangeof heating temperatures and time, which is an important requirement for polyperoxides undergoingsignificant exothermic decomposition bringing about undesired temperature rise.
Control of Droplet Movement on a Plate with Micro-wrinkle by Difference of Wettability
Kenji KATOH, Eriko SATO, Shinya YOSHIOKA and Tatsuro WAKIMOTO
Exp. Fluid., Vol. 60, Article No. 140 (11 pages) (2019)
In this study, we consider the control of a liquid droplet movement rolling down on an inclined plate withgravitational force using a micro-wrinkle on a wall. The micro-wrinkle was manufactured by the buckling ofa thin polymer film (poly(N-vinylcarbazole), PVK) on a base polymer (poly(vinyl chloride), PVC). The PVC
was stretched once and then PVK (~ 100 nm thickness) was spin-coated on the surface of the base polymer
at ambient temperature. When the strain was released in a thermostatic chamber heated above the glasstransition temperature of PVC, a two-dimensional micro-wrinkle having a wavelength of several
micrometers was formed on the surface. The advancing and receding contact angles were measured in－60－directions parallel and perpendicular to the wrinkle. It was observed that there were several degrees ofcontact angle anisotropy. When the droplet was set on the wrinkle surface inclined at 45° to the gravitational
force, the direction of droplet movement could be changed by ~ 20° from the gravitational direction. The
deflection angle was estimated from a theoretical model with the principle of minimum work of the contactline.
(This is identical to the abstract that appeared in the section of Mechanical and Physical Engineering)
Facile Synthesis of Graft Copolymers Containing Rigid Poly(dialkyl fumarate) Branches byMacromonomer Method
Eriko SATO, Noboru TAMARI and Hideo HORIBE
J. Polym. Sci.: Part A, Polym. Chem., in press. doi.org/10.1002/pola.29499
Graft copolymers show microphase separated structure as seen in block copolymers and have lower intrinsic
viscosity than block copolymers because of a branching structure. Therefore, considering molding
processability, especially for polymers containing rigid segments, graft copolymers are useful architectures.
In this work, graft copolymers containing rigid poly(diisopropyl fumarate) (PDiPF) branches weresynthesized by full free‐radical polymerization process. First, synthesis of PDiPF macromonomers byaddition‐fragmentation chain transfer (AFCT) was investigated. 2,2‐Dimethyl‐4‐methylene‐pentanedioic
acid dimethyl ester was found to be an efficient AFCT agent for diisopropyl fumarate (DiPF) polymerization
because of the suppression of undesired primary radical termination, which significantly took place whencommon AFCT agent, methyl 2‐(bromomethyl)acrylate, was used. Copolymerization of PDiPF
macromonomer with ethyl acrylate accomplished the generation of the graft copolymer having flexiblepoly(ethyl acrylate) backbone and rigid PDiPF branches. The graft copolymer showed a microphaseseparated structure, high transparency, and characteristic thermal properties to PDiPF and poly(ethyl
acrylate).
Functionalization of Network Polymers Based on Reaction Control
Eriko SATO
Journal of Network Polymer, Japan, Vol. 40(1), pp. 30-36 (2019) (in Japanese)
Network polymers show excellent properties such as a high mechanical strength and solvent resistance. On
the other hand, the removal of network polymers is difficult due to insolubility. In order to solve the issue,
de-cross-linkable network polymers have attracted much attention. In this review, the design of network
polymers having degradable units is introduced with focusing on the main-chain degradable
polyperoxides-based network polymers and curable hyperbranched polymers having dense degradable
linkages. Curable adhesives are one of the applications of network polymers, and de-cross-linkablenetwork polymers can be used as dismantlable adhesives, which demonstrate both sufficient bonding
strength in use and easy debonding on demand. Increase in bonding strength by the network formation anddebonding by decreasing a mechanical strength and solubilization in response to de-cross-linking arereported.
Design of Dismantlable Adhesives Using Reactive Polymers
Eriko SATO
Journal of The Adhesion Society of Japan, Vol. 55(3), pp. 111-118 (2019) (in Japanese)
Dismantlable adhesives, which achieve enough adhesion strength in use and easy debonding on demand,
have attracted much attention from industrial and academic perspectives. Dismantlable adhesives are one ofpromising materials and technology for resource and energy savings. In this review article, the examples of
dismantlable adhesives based on various stimuli-responsive polymeric materials were introduced. Especially,
design and development of dismantlable adhesives using reactive polymers, such as degradable polymers,
cross-linkable polymers, and side-chain reactive polymers, were explained in detail.
Intrinsically permeable polymer vesicles based on carbohydrate-conjugated poly(2-oxazoline)s
synthesized using a carbohydrate-based initiator system
Tomoki NISHIMURA, Naoki SUMI, Yuta KODA, Yoshihiro SASAKI, Kazunari AKIYOSHI
Polym. Chem., Vol. 10, pp. 691-697 (2019)
Polymer vesicles with molecular permeability offer significant potential to contribute to the understanding of
biocatalytic processes in nano/micro compartments and therapeutic enzyme reactors. However, con- structing
such permeable vesicles remains challenging, as clear guidelines for the design of permeable membranes－61－remain elusive. In the present study we focused on a hydrophobic polymer with hydrogen bond donor andacceptor moieties, i.e., a polymer that exhibits a lower-critical-solution-temperature (LCST)-like behavior, asa suitable component for the permeable bilayer membrane. We have developed a carbohydrate-based initiatorsystem for the cationic ring opening polymerization of 2-oxazoline and synthesized molecular permeable
polymer vesicles based on an amphiphilic block polymer composed of maltotriose and poly(n-propyl
oxazoline) that exhibit LCST-like behavior. The resulting polymer vesicles are permeable to up to 1 kg
mol−1 of FITC-PEG. These findings represent a major milestone toward the development of (i) intrinsicallypermeable polymer vesicles and (ii) functional polymer vesicles for a broad range of fundamental andbiomedical applications.
Amphiphilic Poly[poly(ethylene glycol) methacrylate]s with OH Groups in the PEG Side Chains forControlling Solution/Rheological Properties and toward Bioapplication
Yuta KODA, Daiki TAKAHASHI, Yoshihiro SASAKI, Kazunari AKIYOSHIACS App. Bio Mater., Vol. 2, pp. 1920-1930 (2019)
Poly[poly(ethylene glycol) methacrylate]s with OH groups on the PEG side chains [poly(PEGOHMA)s]
were synthesized using ruthenium-catalyzed living radical polymerization (Ru-LRP) to diversify the polymer
design of PEGylated methacrylate-based copolymers. Poly(PEGOHMA)s could not be prepared using theapproach previously reported for the synthesis of poly[poly(ethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate[poly(PEGMA)]; therefore, the polymerization was adapted for poly(PEGOHMA)s. As a result, both
homopolymerization and random and block copolymerization of PEGOHMA with other hydrophobic
monomers were successfully achieved, resulting in the preparation of amphiphilic random block and starpolymers. The solution and bulk properties of PEGOHMA-based (co)polymers were markedly different fromthose of PEGMA-based (co)polymers. By reacting the OH groups with biotin, protein−poly(PEGOHMA)
conjugates were successfully prepared; however, it was not possible to prepare protein−polymer conjugatesusing terminal biotinylated PEGMA-based copolymers, owing to the steric hindrance of the unreactive PEG
side chains.
Unnatural Oligoaminosaccharides with N-1,2-Glycosidic Bonds Prepared by Cationic Ring-Opening
Polymerization of 2-Oxazoline-Based Heterobicyclic Sugar Monomers
Yuta KODA, Takaya TERASHIMA, Makoto OUCHIACS Macro Lett., Vol. 8, pp. 1456-1460 (2019)
Glycooligomers and glycopolymers (glycocompounds) play important roles in maintaining homeostasis in
biological systems. Glycobiology is a burgeoning area in the elucidation of biological systems for which themolecular design of glycocompounds requires further diversification, including both natural and unnatural
glycocompounds. Herein, we proposed a synthesis strategy based on the chain polymerization of deliberately
designed sugar monomers. Unnatural oligoaminosaccharides comprising N-1,2-glycosidic bonds weresynthesized without enzymes through the cationic ring-opening polymerization of 2-oxazoline-based
heterobicyclic sugar monomers. To achieve this, a heterobicyclic monomer [Glc(MeOx)], comprisingprotected glucosamine (GlcN) and 2-methyl-2-oxazoline (MeOx) rings, was designed. This monomer waspolymerized using a binary initiating system of tert-butyl iodide (t-BuI) and GaCl3 to afford
oligo[Glc(MeOx)]. The resulting structure corresponded to the condensation product of GlcN with
N-1,2-glycosidic bonds. After deprotection of oligo[Glc(MeOx)], the resulting oligoaminosaccharide had asecondary structure different to that of protected oligo[Glc(MeOx)]. Owing to the N-1,2-glycosidic bonds,
the oligoaminosaccharide was not degraded by chitinase, which hydrolyzes the condensation product of
GlcN with O-1,4-glycosidic bonds.
Crystallization-Induced Emission of 1,2-Bis(3-methyl-5-(4-alkylphenyl)-2-thienyl)perfluorocyclopentenes: A Mechanical and Thermal Recording System
Tatsumoto NAKAHAMA, Daichi KITAGAWA, Hikaru SOTOME, Syoji ITO, Hiroshi MIYASAKA, Seiya
KOBATAKE
Dyes and Pigments, Vol. 160, pp. 450-456 (2019)
Organic luminescent materials have attracted much attention due to potential application to organic
optoelectronics. Search for new molecules with high fluorescence quantum yield in solid states is one of themost important tasks in the research field of the organic luminescent materials. Here, we newly synthesizeddiarylethenes, 1,2-bis(3-methyl-5-(4-alkylphenyl)-2-thienyl)perfluorocyclopentenes having methyl, ethyl,n-propyl, and n-butyl substituents at the p-position of phenyl rings, and investigated their fluorescence－62－

properties in the solid states. The diarylethenes in the crystalline phase exhibited strong fluorescence withrelatively high fluorescence quantum yields (Φf) of 0.12–0.20 compared with those in the amorphous phase(Φf = 0.064–0.069), which indicates that the diarylethenes have crystallization-induced emission (CIE)characteristics. The diarylethene having methyl group as the alkyl chain has the highest Φf value among thediarylethenes that we synthesized in this work. We found that the amorphous solid of the diarylethene having
methyl group was crystallized after mechanical scratching followed by heating at 90 °C. We successfully
demonstrated reversible fluorescence recording based on CIE characteristics and mechanical scratching andheating induced crystallization.
Solid Emission Color Tuning of Polymers Consisting of BODIPY and Styrene in Various Ratios
Katsuya SHIMIZU, Daichi KITAGAWA, Seiya KOBATAKE
Dyes and Pigments, Vol. 161, pp. 341-346 (2019)
Random copolymers (poly(BOx-co-Sty)) consisting of boron dipyrromethene (BODIPY) monomer (BO) andstyrene (St) were synthesized to achieve multi-color and efficient emission in the solid state using St as aspacer. The emission color of the resulting copolymers changed from green to red by changing the content of
BO from 0.042 to 100 mol%. Fluorescence quantum yield (Φf) also increased with the content of St (Φf =
0.05–0.88) because the intermolecular distance between the BO fluorophores became longer. The absorption
and fluorescence properties of the copolymers in tetrahydrofuran were similar and independent of thecompositional ratios, and Φf was relatively high (0.65–0.81), which indicates that the intermolecularinteraction between BO fluorophores in the same polymer chain is small due to the lack of BO fluorophoreaggregation. However, emission color changes in the bulk powder were mainly derived from theintermolecular interaction between BO fluorophores in inter-polymer chains because the polymers wereintertwined with each other in the solid state. When the polymers in the solid state were annealed, theemission spectra were red-shifted and Φf decreased. It was concluded that the emission color changes of thepolymers were mainly induced by intermolecular interaction between BO fluorophores in the inter-polymer
chains.
Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Photon-Powered Actuators Based on Aligned Diarylethene Nanocrystals
Xinning DONG, Fei TONG, Kerry M. HANSON, Rabih O. AL-KAYSI, Daichi KITAGAWA, Seiya
KOBATAKE, Christopher J. BARDEEN
Chem. Mater., Vol. 31(3), pp. 1016-1022 (2019)
When photochromic molecules are organized in a crystal, the small-scale forces generated by molecular
photoisomerization events can combine together to generate work on micro- or macroscopic length scales. In
this work, photomechanical nanocrystals themselves are organized on macroscopic length scales using a
porous inorganic template. The organic diarylethene component provides the reversible photoresponse,
whereas the porous alumina component provides structural support and directionality. This hybridorganic−inorganic photomechanical material acts as a bending actuator. Using ultraviolet and visible photons
as power inputs, as little as 0.1 mg of reacted material generates enough force to tilt a 1.28 g mirror and steer
a laser beam. The motion can be cycled multiple times in air and under water. Actuator figures-of-merit suchas energy-to-work conversion efficiency and stiffness are probably limited by the high elastic modulus of the
inorganic template, providing an obvious pathway for optimization.
1,2-Diarylbenzene as Fast T-type Photochromic Switch
Daichi KITAGAWA, Tatsumoto NAKAHAMA, Yoshihiro NAKAI, Seiya KOBATAKE
J. Mater. Chem. C, Vol. 7(10), pp. 2865-2870 (2019)
Fast T-type photochromic molecules that isomerize only under photoirradiation are promising materials forophthalmic lenses, real-time holography, security systems, and super-resolution fluorescence microscopy. In
this study, we successfully developed a novel fast T-type photochromic molecular system, 1,2-diarylbenzene(DAB), by introducing tetrafluorobenzene to the ethene bridge unit of the typical P-type photochromic
diarylethene. DAB changed from colorless to blue only when irradiated with ultraviolet light because it
underwent photocyclization and fast thermal cycloreversion with a half-life of 130 ms at room temperature.
The dramatic acceleration of thermal cycloreversion was due to the significant increase in the energy gap
between the open- and closed-ring isomers and decrease in activation energy at the ground state. In addition,
DAB could undergo fast photochromic reaction even in the solid state. Thus, introduction of a benzene ringto the ethene bridge unit would lead to the development of new functions for 6π-electron photochromic
systems.

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Cyclization Reaction Dynamics of an Inverse Type Diarylethene Derivative as Revealed byTime-Resolved Absorption and Fluorescence Spectroscopies
Hikaru SOTOME, Daichi KITAGAWA, Tatsumoto NAKAHAMA, Syoji ITO, Seiya KOBATAKE,
Masahiro IRIE, Hiroshi MIYASAKA
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., Vol. 21(17), pp. 8623-8632 (2019)
Photocyclization reaction dynamics of an inverse type diarylethene derivative was investigated in alkane
solutions by means of ultrafast laser spectroscopies. Femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy showedthat the Franck-Condon state formed by photoexcitation is geometrically relaxed to a transient species within
100 fs and subsequently the cyclization process takes place with a time constant of 36 ps. This time constantis much longer than those in normal type derivatives. Steady-state and time-resolved fluorescencemeasurements with the aid of quantum chemical calculations revealed that there exist three kinds ofconformers, one parallel and two anti-parallel forms, in the ground state. One of the anti-parallel conformers
undergoes the cyclization reaction, while the other two conformers are nonreactive species and their major
relaxation processes are radiative decay and intersystem crossing into the triplet states. The triplet states thus
formed no longer undergo the cyclization reaction in the late time region.
Plasmon Enhanced Optical Responses of Diarylethene Molecules Adsorbed on Gold Nanorods
Syogo NODA, Seiju HASEGAWA, Hiroyuki HAMADA, Seiya KOBATAKE, Kohei IMURA
Chem. Lett., Vol. 48(6), pp. 537-540 (2019)
Assemblies of gold nanorods capped with poly-diarylethene (DE) were chemically prepared in a solution.
Plasmon assisted optical responses of the poly(DE) have been studied. Fluorescence from the open-form of
DE was mostly quenched near 550nm due to interband transition of gold, while fluorescence near 700 nm
was slightly enhanced by the longitudinal plasmon resonance. Cycloreversion reaction of the gold
nanorod-poly(DE) has been also studied, and it has been found that the reaction rate is enhanced by theplasmon excitation and increases nearly two-fold in the assembly. The magnitude of the enhancement isqualitatively consistent with the spatially and orientationally averaged value of the simulated optical fieldenhancements in the vicinity of the nanorod.
Photomechanical Bending Behavior of Photochromic Diarylethene Crystals Induced under PolarizedLight
Akira HIRANO, Daichi KITAGAWA, Seiya KOBATAKE
CrystEngComm, Vol. 21(15), pp. 2495-2501 (2019)
Materials that change their shape by external stimuli have been attracting much attention as artificial
mesoscopic actuators. In particular, photoresponsive molecular crystals are promising materials as
photoactuators. Although many kinds of crystals exhibiting photomechanical motions have been reported sofar, in many cases, light is irradiated to the crystal homogeneously. The details of the effect of irradiation
conditions have not been specifically examined. Herein, the effect of polarized ultraviolet (UV) light on thephotomechanical bending motion of diarylethene crystals was investigated. The bending speed uponpolarized UV light irradiation depended on the polarization angle. The dependence of the bending speed waswell correlated with the absorption anisotropy of the open-ring isomer in the crystal, which indicates that thephotochromic reaction depth from the crystal surface played an important role in controlling the bending
speed.
Efficient “Turn-off” Fluorescence Photoswitching in a Highly Fluorescent Diarylethene Single Crystal
Sanae ISHIDA, Daichi KITAGAWA, Seiya KOBATAKE, Sunnam KIM, Seiji KURIHARA, Tuyoshi
FUKAMINATO
Chem. Commun., Vol. 55(40), pp. 5681-5684 (2019)
A highly fluorescent diarylethene single crystal was successfully designed and prepared. The crystal shows
efficient “turn-off” fluorescence photoswitching with full reversibility. This might have originated from theamplified fluorescence quenching due to the intermolecular energy transfer process in the densely packed
and well-ordered single crystal.
Photoreversible Interference Color Modulation to Multicolor in Photochromic Molecular Crystals
Kohei MORIMOTO, Hajime TSUJIOKA, Daichi KITAGAWA, Seiya KOBATAKE
Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., Vol. 92(8), pp. 1299-1304 (2019)
Functional molecular crystals responsive to external stimuli represent a new frontier for material chemistry－64－and crystal engineering. Here, we report on the photoreversible interference color change in single crystals
composed of a photochromic diarylethene derivative, 1,2-bis(2-ethyl-5-phenyl-3-thienyl)perfluorocyclopentene. When the crystal was observed by rotating the sample stage at 45° from the extinction position
under crossed Nicols, it showed an interference color. Upon irradiation with ultraviolet light, the interferencecolor changed dramatically and instantaneously in response to photoirradiation due to the photocyclization
reaction from the open-ring form to the closed-ring form. The change was quite sensitive to thephotochromic reaction. It is attributable to the large decrease in retardation induced by the photocyclization
reaction in crystals. These results might provide new opportunities for application of photochromic crystals.
Effects of Template and Molecular Nanostructure on the Performance of Organic-Inorganic
Photomechanical Actuator Membranes
Xinning DONG, Tianyi GUO, Daichi KITAGAWA, Seiya KOBATAKE, P. PALFFY-MUHORAY,
Christopher J. BARDEEN
Adv. Funct. Mater., Vol. 30 (2), Article No. 1902396 (9 pages) (2020)
Porous anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) membranes template the growth of photochromic crystalline
nanowires. The resulting organic–inorganic composite can function as a photomechanical bending actuator.
In order to investigate how the nanostructural properties of both the organic and inorganic components affectthe photomechanical response, the composite mechanical properties are characterized using a variety ofmethods. There is a significant variation in both morphology and elastic modulus for two commerciallyavailable AAO templates with nominally identical pore diameters of 200 nm. After these templates are filledwith diarylethene molecules that undergo a ring-open to ring-closed photoisomerization, the light-generated
curvature and mechanical work are evaluated using two different methods. The templates with a lower
average elastic modulus (16 GPa vs 68 GPa) generate almost an order of magnitude more photomechanicalwork. The dependence of the photomechanical response on the chemical structure of the photochrome isassessed by comparing the performance of a diarylethene that undergoes a crystal expansion to that of one
that undergoes a contraction, which leads to a decrease in curvature. Both the inorganic template and theorganic active component play important roles in the overall photomechanical response, with substantial
room to improve
Molecular Design for a Write-by-Light/Erase-by-Heat Recording System Using Photochromic
Diarylethenes with Thermal Cycloreversion
Yuta SATO, Daichi KITAGAWA, Seiya KOBATAKE
Tetrahedron, Vol. 75(35), Article No. 130487 (7 pages) (2019)
We designed and synthesized photochromic diarylethenes for a write-by-light/erase-by-heat recording
system. The introduction of polar substituents at both sides of the diarylethene maintained thephotocyclization and photocycloreversion reactivities, but significantly affected the thermal cycloreversion
reactivity. The introduction of electron-withdrawing substituents accelerated the thermal reaction and theintroduction of electron-donating substituents suppressed the thermal reaction. The rate constants of thethermal reaction were well correlated with Brown-Okamoto's substituent constant σ+ that is a modified valueof Hammett's substituent constant σ. The large rate constants are ascribed to the lower activation energy forthe thermal reaction. These results provide new knowledge for the molecular design of diarylethenes for awrite-by-light/erase-by-heat recording system.
Photoluminescence ON/OFF Switching of CdSe/ZnS Core/Shell Quantum Dots Coated withDiarylethene Ligands
Yuya SETO, Rie YAMADA, Daichi KITAGAWA, DaeGwi KIM, Seiya KOBATAKE
Chem. Lett., Vol. 48(11), pp. 1394-1397 (2019)
CdSe/ZnS core-shell quantum dots coated with diarylethene ligands were successfully synthesized, and thephotoluminescence ON/OFF switching behavior of the quantum dots accompanying with the photochromic
reactions of the diarylethene was investigated. The quantum dots exhibited a fast speed ofphotoluminescence ON/OFF switching even in the low photocyclization conversion ratio of the diarylethene.
Photochromism
Seiya KOBATAKE
Frontiers in Photochemistry－Fundamentals of Organic Photochemistry for Future Materials, Kagakudojin,
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Photochromic compounds are classified into two types, T- and P-types. Among T-type photochromic
compounds, when the colored isomers are thermally stable and react to the colorless isomers by visible light,
such a phenomenon is called negative photochromism. The photochromic behavior of T- and P-type
photochromic compounds and negative photochromic compounds was described in this book.
Organic Crystals Transforming into Various Shapes Depending on Photoirradiation Direction
Seiya KOBATAKE
Optical (Kogaku), Vol. 48(2), pp. 53-58 (2019) (in Japanese)
Photochromic compounds undergo a photochemically reversible transformation reaction between two
isomers. Such molecules in organic crystals may be potentially useful for optoelectronic devices. To apply
photochromic diarylethene crystals, the materials are required to change large physical property byphotoirradiation. The photoinduced crystal shape changes of diarylethene microcrystals have been so far
reported. In the photoinduced crystal shape changes, there are contraction/expansion, bending, twisting, andso on, which depend on the molecular structure and the size of the crystal. This paper has focused on thephotoinduced crystal shape changes of diarylethene crystals depending on the crystal size, irradiation power,
irradiation wavelength, and the direction of the incident light.
Actuator Functions of Diarylethene Molecular Crystals, Chapter 5
Seiya KOBATAKE
Novel Approaches to Photofunctional Molecular and Polymeric Materials, CMC, pp. 50-60 (2019) (inJapanese)
Photomechanical behavior of molecular crystals consisting of photochromic diarylethenes was described inthis book.
30 Years Passing
Seiya KOBATAKE
Newsletter, The Technical Association of Photopolymers, Japan, Vol. 87, pp. 1-2 (2019) (in Japanese)
The development from micromachines to molecular machines and photochromic molecular crystal actuators
were described as a preface in this newsletter.
Functionalization and Creation of Photofunctional Photochromic Materials
Seiya KOBATAKE
Chemical Engineering (Kagaku kogaku), Vol. 83(11), pp. 699-702 (2019) (in Japanese)
Function of photochromic diarylethene derivatives, such as multicolor photochromism, light-starting
thermosensors, and photoactuators, was introduced.
Simultaneous Control of Crystal Habit and Particle Size of Ecabet Sodium Hydrate with Rapid
Cooling Crystallization and Temperature Cycling
Muneki KISHIDA, Koichi IGARASHI, Masayuki AZUMA and Hiroshi OOSHIMA
Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan, Vol.52, pp.455-464(2019)
A practical strategy for the simultaneous control of particle size and shape of active pharmaceuticalingredients has been investigated using ecabet sodium (Na-ECA) hydrate, which tends to generate large
plate-like crystals, as a model compound. In conventional batch-cooling crystallization, particle size andrelative thickness decreased with increasing cooling rates. However, the particle size was still too large
following fast cooling at a rate of 40°C/h. In rapid cooling crystallization with water, achieved by mixing hot
Na-ECA solution with cold water, the particle size and relative thickness became 1/3.8 and 1/3, respectively,
compared to that under batch-cooling crystallization at a rate of 40°C/h. It was also revealed that both theparticle size and relative thickness increased with temperature cycling; however, the morphology of theobtained particles was still plate-like. In rapid cooling crystallization in aqueous NaCl, the particle size was
reduced further to 1/4.7, and the relative thickness of the particle increased sixfold over that obtained inwater. Moreover, the shape of the particle evolved effectively by temperature cycling. Consequently, granularand smaller particles could be obtained successfully. The mechanism of shape evolution was also discussedwith respect to contact angles. Based on the qualitative analysis results obtained using Young’s equation, we
propose that shape evolution is induced by surface free energy, which drives the progression towards
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GLUT1-Mediated Endocytosis Could Be a Major Pathway for Internalization of Kojic Acid-Appended
Carborane Conjugate into Melanoma Cells
Satoshi DOWAKI, Koki MATSUURA, Riku KAWASAKI, Mitsunori KIRIHATA, Yoshihide HATTORI,
Yoshinori SAKURAI, and Takeshi NAGASAKIKURNS Progress Report 2018 pp. 85 (2019).
It is well known that the expression level of glucose transporter and uptake of glucose are increased in cancer
cells. We have previously reported the inclusion complex of kojic acid-appended carborane (CKA) withhydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin (HP-β-CD) as a novel boron agent is potent for melanoma targeting BNCT.
CKA/HP-β-CD complex showed melanoma cells selectivity, unique nuclear localization, and hightumor-suppression effect on BNCT toward melanoma-bearing mice. Herein, mechanism of highly efficientinternalization of CKA/HP-β-CD complex into melanoma cells is evaluated. Clear suppression of CKA
uptake by melanoma cells were observed in the presence of WZB117 inhibitor and siRNA for GLUT1.
Furthermore, CKA uptake obviously reduced when melanoma cells were incubated in the normal medium
with glucose. These results suggested that the internalization of CKA/HP-β-CD complex into melanoma
cells is enhanced with GLUT1-mediated endocytosis.
Chitin degradation enzyme-responsive system for controlled release of fibroblast growth factor-2
Akira TACHIBANA, Daisuke YASUMA, Ryo TAKAHASHI, Toshizumi TANABE
Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering, in press (2019)
Chitin is widely found in fungal cell walls and arthropod exoskeletons, and is used as a biomedical material.
However, chitin is not water-soluble, restricting its use for controlled release materials. We found thatwater-soluble chitosan can be acetylated to produce a chitin equivalent, or chitin gel. Chitin gel, produced bymixing chitosan solution with acetic anhydride, can be degraded by lysozyme and fetal bovine serum, so
could provide an ideal means for controlled release in biological systems. We tested a combination of chitin
gel with a chitin binding domain (CBD) fusion protein as a controlled release system regulated by chitin
degradation. A fusion protein consisting of fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF-2) fused to CBD bound the chitingel, and was released time-dependently rather than as an initial burst during lysozyme degradation,suggesting that this system could provide a means for controlled drug release in biological systems.
Contrastingly, the trinitrophenyl residue (TNP-X) covalently bound to chitin gel, and was released bylysozyme degradation with an initial burst. If release of CBD-FGF-2 were simply dependent on lysozyme
degradation of the chitin gel, the release behavior of CBD-FGF-2 would be similar to that of TNP-X, with an
initial burst. Therefore, we propose that CBD-FGF-2 repeats the cycle of binding, release, and re-binding to
the chitin gel during degradation. This system allows for a time-dependent, controlled release of CBD-FGF-2
without an initial burst.
Promoted performance of microbial fuel cells using Escherichia coli cells with multiple-knockout ofcentral metabolism genes
Yoshihiro OJIMA, Taichi KAWAGUCHI, Saki FUKUI, Ryota KIKUCHI, Kazuma TERAO, Daisuke
KOMA, Takashi OHMOTO, Masayuki AZUMA
Bioproc. Biosyst. Eng., in press
The effect of central metabolic activity of Escherichia coli cells acting as biocatalysts on the performance of
microbial fuel cells (MFCs) was studied with glucose used as the energy source. Milliliter-scale
two-chambered MFCs were used with 2-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone (HNQ) as an electron mediator.
Among the single-gene deletions examined, frdA, pdhR, ldhA, and adhE increased the average power outputof the constructed MFC. Next, multiple-gene knockout mutants were constructed using P1 transduction. The
Δ5 (ΔfrdAΔpdhRΔldhAΔadhEΔpta) strain showed the highest ave. power output (1.82 mW) and coulombic
efficiency (21.3%). Our results show that the combination of multiple-gene knockout in E. coli cells leads tothe development of an excellent catalyst for MFCs. Finally, preventing a decrease in the pH of the anodic
solution was a key factor for improving the power output of the Δ5 strain, and a maximum ave. power output
of 2.21 mW was achieved with 5% NaHCO3 in the buffer. The ave. power density of the constructed MFC
was 0.27 mW/cm3, which is comparable to an enzymatic fuel cell of a Milliliter-scale using glucose
dehydrogenase.
Knockout of pgdS and ggt gene changes poly-γ-glutamic acid production in Bacillus licheniformis
RK14-46
Yoshihiro OJIMA, Joji KOBAYASHI, Takeru DOI, Masayuki AZUMA－67－

J. Biotechnol., Vol. 304, pp. 57-62 (2019)
Poly-gamma-glutamic acid (γ-PGA) is a water-soluble, nontoxic biocompatible polymer, which isextensively used in medicines, foodstuffs, cosmetics, and in water treatment. We previously isolated a novel
γ-PGA producing strain Bacillus licheniformis RK14 from soil and developed a hyper-producing mutant
strain RK14-46 by an ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS) treatment. In this study, endo-type (pgdS) and exo-typeγ-PGA hydrolases (ggt) were disrupted by integrating plasmids into the genomic DNA of B. licheniformis
RK14-46 strain. Unexpectedly, we observed strong inhibition of γ-PGA production following deletion of the
pgdS gene, suggesting that pgdS is essential for γ-PGA biosynthesis in strain RK14-46, and in its parent
strain RK14. In contrast, γ-PGA production increased by the deletion of the ggt gene and reached 39 g/L in
the presence of 90 g/L glucose and elevated oxygen supply. Furthermore, γ-PGA from the ggt-disrupted
mutant (Δggt) maintained a larger molecular mass throughout the culture period, whereas that from theoriginal RK14-46 strain had degraded after glucose consumption. γ-PGA-containing culture supernatantsfrom Δggt strain showed greater flocculation efficiency in sewage sludge than supernatants from theRK14-46 strain, reflecting greater production of γ-PGA with larger molecular mass by the Δggt strain. Thisis the first report concerning the deletion of pgdS and ggt genes in B. licheniformis strain and the propertiesof γ-PGA obtained from the mutant strain.
Recovering metals from aqueous solutions by biosorption onto phosphorylated dry baker’s yeast
Yoshihiro OJIMA, Shogo KOSAKO, Maya KIHARA, Norikazu MIYOSHI, Koichi IGARASHI, Masayuki
AZUMA,
Sci. Rep., 9:225 (2019)
Biosorption is a cost-effective and simple technique for removing heavy metals and rare earth elements from
aqueous solution. Here, metals were recovered from aqueous solutions using phosphorylated dry baker’s
yeast cells. The cells were phosphorylated using cyclo-triphosphate, Na3P3O9. The total P content of thephosphorylated cells was ~1.0 mmol/g dry cell weight (DCW). The zeta potential of the phosphorylated cells
was −45 mV, two times higher than for the non-phosphorylated cells. The strong negative charges of thephosphorylated cells allowed the cells to adsorb heavy metal ions such as Cd2+, Cu2+, Pb2+, and Zn2+, theadsorption capacities of which reached ~1.0 mmol/g DCW. This adsorption capacity was the highest level
found in the previous studies using yeast dead biomass. The adsorbed metal ions were easily desorbed in 0.1
M HCl. The phosphorylated cells also adsorbed rare earth ions including Ce3+, Dy3+, Gd3+, La3+, Nd3+, Y3+,
and Yb3+ with high efficiency. Furthermore, the phosphorylated yeast cells selectively adsorbed the rare earth
ions (Nd3+ and Yb3+) from a solution containing heavy metals and rare earth ions because trivalent positively
charged ions were adsorbed preferentially over divalent ions. Thus, phosphorylated yeast cells therefore havegreat potential for use as novel bioadsorbents. It is also expected that this technique can be applied to many
microbial materials as well as yeast.
Inducing flocculation of non-floc-forming Escherichia coli cells (Review)
Yoshihiro OJIMA, Masayuki AZUMA, Masahito TAYA,World J. Microbiol. Biotechnol., 34:185 (2018)
The present article reviews several approaches for inducing flocculation of Escherichia coli cells. The
common industrially used bacterium E. coli does not naturally have floc-forming ability. However, there areseveral approaches to induce flocculation of E. coli cells. One is induction by flocculants— polyvalentinorganic salts, synthetic polymeric flocculants, or bio-based polymeric materials, including polysaccharide
derivatives. Another method is the induction of spontaneous flocculation by changing the phenotypes of E.
coli cells; several studies have shown that physical treatment or gene modification can endow E. coli cellswith floc-forming ability. Coculturing E. coli with other microbes is another approach to induce E. coli
flocculation. These approaches have particular advantages and disadvantages, and remain open toclarification of the flocculation mechanisms and improvement of the induction processes.
Crumbs3 is a critical factor that regulates invasion and metastasis of colon adenocarcinoma via thespecific interaction with FGFR1.
Hidekazu IIOKA, Ken SAITO, Masakiyo SAKAGUCHI, Taro TACHIBANA, Keiichi HOMMA, Eisaku
KONDO.
Int. J. Cancer 145(10):2740-2753. (2019)
Epithelial cell polarity regulator Crumbs3 (Crb3), a mammalian homolog within the Drosophila Crb genefamily, was initially identified as an essential embryonic development factor. It is recently implicated in－68－tumor suppression, though its specific functions are controversial. We here demonstrate that Crb3 strongly
promotes tumor invasion and metastasis of human colon adenocarcinoma cells. Crb3 centrality to tumor
migration was supported by strong expression at invasive front and metastatic foci ofcolonic adenocarcinoma of the patient tissues. Accordingly, two different Crb3-knockout (KO) lines,
Crb3-KO (Crb3 -/-) DLD-1 and Crb3-KO WiDr from human colonic adenocarcinomas, were generated by
the CRISPR-Cas9 system. Crb3-KO DLD-1 cells exhibited loss of cellular mobility in vitro and dramatic
suppression of liver metastases in vivo in contrast to the wild type of DLD-1. Unlike DLD-1, Crb3-KO WiDr
mobility and metastasis were unaffected, which were similar to wild-type WiDr. Proteome analysis of
Crb3-coimmunopreciptated proteins identified different respective fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR)
isotypes specifically bound to Crb3 isoform a through their intracellular domain. In DLD-1, Crb3 showedmembranous localization of FGFR1 leading to its functional activation, whereas Crb3 bound to cytoplasmic
FGFR4 in WiDr without FGFR1 expression, leading to cellular growth. Correlative expression between Crb3
and FGFR1 was consistently detected in primary and metastatic colorectal cancer patient tissues. Taking
these together, Crb3 critically accelerates cell migration, namely invasion and metastasis ofhuman colon cancers, through specific interaction to FGFR1 on colon cancer cells.
GPAT2 is required for piRNA biogenesis, transposon silencing, and maintenance of spermatogonia inmice.
Yusuke SHIROMOTO, Satomi KURAMOCHI-MIYAGAWA, Ippei NAGAMORI, Shinichiro CHUMA,
Tatsuhiko ARAKAWA, Toru NISHIMURA, Hidetoshi HASUWA, Taro TACHIBANA, Masahito IKAWA,
Toru NAKANO.
Biol. Reprod. 101(1):248-256. (2019)
PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs), a subclass of germ cell-specific noncoding small RNAs, are essential forde novo DNA methylation of retrotransposon genes in embryonic testes. PIWIL2/MILI, one of three mouse
PIWI family members, is indispensable for piRNA production, DNA methylation of retrotransposons
presumably via piRNA, and normal spermatogenesis. In vitro analysis using germline stem cells (GS cells)
revealed that glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase 2 (GPAT2), which is a mitochondrial outer membraneprotein involved in generation of lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) and highly expressed in testes, plays
important roles in spermatogenesis. Namely, GPAT2 binds to PIWIL2 and is closely involved in
the biogenesis of piRNAs; this process is independent of its enzymatic activity on LPA. However, GS cells
recapitulate only a limited phase of spermatogenesis and the biological functions of GPAT2 remain largely
unknown. In this study, we generated GPAT2-deficient mice and conducted comprehensive analyses. The
deficient mice showed defective piRNA production and subsequent de-silencing of IAP and Line-1
retrotransposons in fetal testes. In addition, apoptosis of pachytene spermatocytes was observed. Theseabnormalities were all common to the phenotype of PIWIL2-deficient mice, in which piRNA production was
impaired. GPAT2-deficient mice exhibited apoptosis in spermatogonia at the neonatal stage, which was notobserved in PIWIL2-deficient mice. These data show that GPAT2 plays a critical role in preventing
apoptosis in spermatogonia.

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Urban Engineering
Architecture and Building Engineering
Load-Carrying Capacity of Semi-Rigid Double-Layer Grid Structures with Initial Crookedness of Member
Huijun LI and Yoshiya TANIGUCHIEngineering Structures 184 (2019) 421-433
The main aim of the present study is to investigate the effect of joint bending stiffness and initial crookedness ofmember on load-carrying capacity of double-layer grid with different member slenderness ratios. Firstly, amechanical model of semi-rigidly jointed double-layer grid with initial crookedness of member is developed,
followed by verification of two simple grid structures. Then, the influence of joint bending stiffness and random
initial crookedness of member on load-carrying capacity of double-layer grid is systematically investigated. Finally,
failure mechanism and destructive process of the double-layer grid are discussed. The results indicate that the loadcarrying capacity of double-layer grid with initial crookedness of member is remarkably affected by joint bending
stiffness, especially for double-layer grid with slender member. The limit load of double-layer grid markedly
decreases when κ less than 1.5–2. The effect of initial crookedness of member on load-carrying capacity of doublelayer grid has a close relationship with member slenderness ratio. With the increase of member slenderness ratio,
the limit load reduction gradually increases. The distribution of random initial crookedness of member distinctly
affects the limit load of double-layer grid, and some of them can observably reduce the limit load, especially for
double-layer grid with large member slenderness ratio. The failure mode of imperfect double layer grid is affectedby distribution of initial crookedness of member and joint bending stiffness. The existence of random initialcrookedness of member can aggravate P-Δ effect, and some compression members of double layer grid lose theirstability prematurely, which further leads to the instability of whole double-layer grid.
Load Carrying Capacity of Three-Way Single-Layer Reticulated Dome with Initial Member Crookedness of
Prescribed Probabilistic Amplitude
Huijun LI and Yoshiya TANIGUCHI
Journal of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures, Vol.60(2019), No.2, pp.133-144
Single-layer reticulated dome is a typical imperfection-sensitive structure. Initial crookedness of member as a
typical imperfection innately exists in reticulated dome. The approach to establish reticulated dome with crooked
member is firstly presented, followed by the study of its effect on load-carrying capacity of single-layer three-way
reticulated dome. The main conclusions are summarized as follows: load-carrying capacity of the reticulated dome
is influenced by initial member crookedness. Compared with the perfect dome, mean of limit load reductions ofimperfect ones is 9.35%. The limit load reduction of the imperfect dome is closely related to the distributions ofcrooked member, and some of them can evidently reduce the limit load. Limit load of the dome obeys extreme I
type distribution. Instability modes of imperfect domes considered here belong to nodal instability triggered bymember buckling, and there is a dimple in each imperfect dome. The position of dimple is not unique, and it appears
in different locations depending on the shape of the imperfect dome. Moreover, the member buckling and the overall
buckling of imperfect domes happen simultaneously, i.e. the synchronous instability.
Prediction Method of Bearable PGA for Single Layer Lattice Domes under Vertical Loading
Yoshiya TANIGUCHI, Tomoya MATSUI, Susumu YOSHINAKA
Proceedings of the 12th Asian Pacific Conference on Shell & Spatial Structures, APCS2018, 458-467
This paper focuses on the elasto - plastic behavior of static and dynamic responses for single layer lattice domes,
which are subjected to vertical loads. The purpose is to make clear the relationship between seismic responses andstatic responses from the view point of input strain energy properties after and before yielding, and to estimate
bearable seismic levels with the information of static elasto – plastic behaviors. The static response compared is therelationships between equivalent velocities of strain energies and displacements. The dynamic response comparedis that between earthquake input acceleration PGA and equivalent velocities of strain energies.
Evaluation of XIMIS for assessing extreme pressure coefficients
Eri GAVANSKI, Nicolas J. Cook (Independent researcher in UK)
Front. Built Environ. 5:48. Doi: 10.3389/fbuil.2019.00048
Commonly used methods to estimate peak wind pressures on buildings are summarized. The Harris (2009)
penultimate XIMIS method is described and calibrated against Gumbel epochal extreme-value analysis (EVA), as
well as with the Hermite-Davenport peak factor method by Yang et al. (2013) (YGP) using a very long record of－70－

wind tunnel data from many pressure taps. The “industry standard” EVA, comprising 16 ten-minute epochs, gives
the best accuracy, but is inefficient in its use of data. YGP is the least accurate, with the largest anomalies
underestimating in reattachment zones. XIMIS is comparable to EVA for the same record lengths and remains better
than YGP for records up to six times shorter.
Examination on characteristics of negative peak wind pressures acting on multi-span saw-tooth and gableroofs for cladding and components design
Eri GAVANSKI, Takuya UMEGUCHI (Osaka City University), Hiroaki NISHIMURA (Association for Disaster
Prevention Research)
National Symposium on Wind Engineering, (3-5 Dec 2018, Tokyo, Japan)
The characteristics of negative peak external wind pressures acting on single and multi-span saw-tooth and gableroofs were examined by using wind tunnel test results performed on models with various roof slopes and the numberof spans. Differences in roof shape and slope change the location of negative peak pressure on the roof and its
magnitude. The difference in the number of spans between 1 and more than 1 span has significant effect on the
distribution of negative peak wind pressure. However, the increase of the number of spans more than 2 does notchange the wind pressure distribution. Comparisons with the specified values in ASCE7 in the United States werealso performed.
Thermal environment ranges providing good sleep quality in bedrooms during summer -Analysis ofuniversity students in Osaka
Noriko Umemiya, Hirona Bessho, Tomohiro Kobayashi, Yoshiki Tachibana and Yusuke Nakayama
Proceedings of the 10th Windsor Conference, Windsor, UK, 1210-1217, (2018).
A questionnaire survey and bedroom thermal environment measurements were conducted for 24 university students
for 581 nights in the peak of summer for three years to clarify subjective ranges of thermal comfort and good sleep
quality. Results revealed the following. 1) Thermal comfort decreased as the standard effective temperature (SET*)
increased when SET* was more than 21°C. 2) The SET* range at which more than 80% voted in three central
categories of seven-point thermal sensation scale was 19.3–22.7°C, ‘thermally acceptable’ temperatures were 17.7–
28.0°C. The good side of the sound sleep evaluation scale was 20.1–23.7°C. 3) Subjective sleep quality decreased
gradually when SET* exceeded 22°C. However, sleep quality related to Drowsiness and Fatigue recovery increased
when SET* exceeded 26°C. 5) The ratio of ‘thermal comfort’ for air conditioner (AC) non-use nights peaked when
SET* was 20°C, although it peaked at 25°C for AC use nights. 6) Subjective sleep quality decreased as SET*
increased for AC non-use nights, although it peaked at 25°C for AC use nights.
Simplified estimation on wind-induced natural ventilation rate caused by turbulence for a room with minutewind pressure difference
Tomohiro Kobayashi, Mats Sandberg, Takuya Fujita and Noriko Umemiya
Proceedings of Roomvent 2018, Espoo, Finland, (2018).
The goal of this study is to propose a new prediction method of the wind-induced natural ventilation rate that works
well for minute wind pressure difference. In this study, a rectangular single room model provided with two openings
is studied by Large Eddy Simulation (LES). First, the flow rate is measured by tracer gas method in a wind tunnel,
and it is simulated by LES to verify the accuracy. Then, a parametric study is performed by varying the opening
position and corresponding wind pressure coefficient difference (ΔCp). Finally, a equation to estimate the flow rate
is proposed where the standard deviation of ΔCp and mean velocity in the vicinity of the opening are considered asa key parameter to account for the effect of the turbulence on flow rate.
General wind pressure coefficient database and its application for estimation of natural ventilation rate ofmid- to high-rise office building
Yoshiko Kawawake, Tomohiro Kobayashi1 and Noriko Umemiya
Proceedings of Roomvent 2018, Espoo, Finland, (2018).
The final purpose of this study is to propose a simple estimation method of natural ventilation (hereinafter referred
to as NV) rate for mid- to high-rise office buildings. In this study, flow rate of the existing NV building is evaluatedby two types of wind pressure coefficient (Cp value), i.e., database values and experimental values obtained fromwind tunnel test with its scaled model. In the previous study, the database was organized by wind tunnel test withthe simplified city block model, which was aimed to obtain Cp values for various business districts with ease.
Comparing the flow rate calculated by database Cp values and that by the Cp values from the wind tunnel test for
actual city block, the usefulness of the database was investigated for shaft type NV system. However, in the shaft
type NV system, the main driving force is buoyancy, and Cp value is not dominant. In this paper, therefore, the－71－

validity of the database is studied also for other types of NV system utilizing wind. Namely, three different
ventilation types, cross-vent type, shaft type, and combined type are studied. It is finally shown that the Cp value
database arranged in the previous study can work well to predict NV rate even for cross-vent type and combined
type NV systems.
Relation among gazing point distribution, pupil size and illuminance for elderly people when walking
Umemiya Noriko, Shiramoto Yudai and Quiao Wei
Proceedings of the 11st Asia Lighting Conference, Kobe, Japan, 79-82, (2018).
Gazing points and pupil size of elderly people were measured when walking with face illuminance to prevent fall
accidents. Relations between gazing characteristics and illuminance were analysed, clarifying the following points.
1) Mean pupil sizes differed among participants, but the 25–75 percentile values were similar. 2) Individual
differences in the gradient of pupil size regression by illuminance were large. The pupil size changed little for about
35% of participants when the illuminance changed. Pupil responses against illuminance change were slight for them.
3) Gazing points were distributed vertically for participants, showing steep gradients, but the points wereconcentrated for participants showing moderate gradients. 4) Gazing points were distributed more evenly forparticipants who walked more than two hours per day.

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Urban Design and Engineering
Extending the Verbal Map Navigation System for Visually Impaired People and a Method of Virtual
Walk Experiment
Hiroko MATSUMOTO, Takashi UCHIDA, Risa SAKAGUCHIJapan Society of Traffic Engineers, Papers on Traffic Engineering, No. 38，pp. 243-248 (2018) (in Japanese)
Posterior Evaluation of the Small-Size River Development for the Nature-Friendly Environment andthe Water Amenity in the Built-Up Area— Analyses Based on the Actual Use Situation
Yasumasa FUKUSHIMA and Takashi UCHIDA
Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. D3, Vol.74, No.5, pp.I_117-I_128 (2018) (in Japanese)
In recent years the development of the urban river has been focusing on efforts for the environment and thewater amenity besides the flood control and the water utilization, in some cases however, the residents along
the river have failed to value and then water amenity has made little progress.
This paper takes a case of the waterfront development of the small size river in an emerging built-up area.
Going through several years after the project implementation, we take hold of the actual condition and theattitudes of residents by means of hearing survey to the inhabitants. This study performs analyses on the
results of actual condition survey towards the smooth implementation of the enterprise and the consensus
formation and in urban riverside development considering development methods in order to promote theutilization with high evaluations from the inhabitants as concrete strategies.
Examination of Dialogue Scenario Evaluation Index in Development of Dialogue Robot to Increase
Motivation of Going Out for Visually Impaired and Elderly People
Yuriko YOSHIKANE, Hiroko MATSUMOTO, Riho MORISAWA and Takashi UCHIDA
Japan Society of Civil Engineers，Proceedings of Infrastructure Planning, No. 58，pp.206_1-4 (2018) (inJapanese)
Micro Traffic Simulation to Examine Congestion-control Measures Using Pace Maker Lights
Takahiro IGAKI and Takashi UCHIDA
Osaka City University, Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Vol. 59, pp.7-17 (2018)
One cause of congestion on highways is “sag”: a section where the road gradient changes gradually fromdownward to upward. Drivers unconsciously reduce speed without anticipating the uphill part of this section.
That speed reduction is imitated by other drivers, creating congestion. Some attempts to use pace makerlights have been undertaken as measures against traffic congestion occurring at a sag. Some trial operations
are being conducted on various highways.
For this study, a micro traffic simulation using a car-following model with pace maker lights installed. Thena simulation was conducted of traffic conditions at the sag using time–space diagrams. Results confirmed thecharacteristics of the car-following model. Results demonstrated that different driving behaviors among
drivers affect congestion.
Possibility of Development of Educational Measures by Enacting the Ordinance for Safer Use of
Bicycles in Local Governments
Yasuyuki TAKEDA, Yasuo HINO and Takashi UCHIDA
Japan Society of Civil Engineers，Proceedings of Infrastructure Planning, No. 58，pp.136_1-6 (2018) (inJapanese)
Recently the movement of enacting the ordinance for promoting safer use of bicycles has been progressing in
local government, because of increasing the ration of traffic accidents concerned with bicycles. However, theeffects for enacting ordinance according to each concrete contents have not been yet clear.
Then in this study, based on a series of studies in corporation with the local governments enacted theordinance for safer use of bicycles, the effects and further required issues of educational measures byenacting ordinance were analyzed. As a result, the effects of educational measures based on the ordinancewere confirmed by using some specific indicators. In addition, the possibility of progressing measures forroad safety education was able to be referred, by holding these information un common among local
governments.

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Vital Reactions as a Measure of Stress Levels in Bicycle Riders According to Degree of Task
Katsumasa TATSUNO and Nagahiro YOSHIDA
Japan Society of Traffic Engineers, Papers on Traffic Engineering, No. 39，pp. 63-68 (2018) (in Japanese)In this study, in order to obtain basic knowledge on the method of measuring the relationship between stressfactors and reactions relating to the usage environment, stress generated in bicycle users are analyzed using aplurality of biological reaction indices in a plurality of traffic environments having different composition
contents of stress factors. We embody it using individual differences as driving experience and complexity ofdriving tasks as a driving course so that you can explicitly consider the driving experience difference related
to stress and the complexity of driving task required for bicycle use environment. And we compareddifferences in biological reaction by influence of individual differences such as driving experience andcomplexity of driving tasks. Results indicated that vital reactions while riding on the paths requiring
multitasking showed an increase on all indices compared to the reactions under single-task conditions. In
addition, it was found that the vital reactions in daily users tended to be larger under any driving conditions
compared to the reactions of occasional users.
Empirical analysis of hazard perception and driving behaviors among high school and college students
on motorcycles in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Takuya KONISHI and Nagahiro YOSHIDAThe International Association of Traffic and Safety Sciences, IATSS Research, Volume 42, Issue 4, pp.
171-179 (2018)
In Cambodia, motorcycle use has spread rapidly in recent years, and serious accidents involving motorcycles
have increased. Motorcycle accidents involving young people are particularly common, and there are various
issues concerning traffic safety. To understand the situation in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, we conducted aquestionnaire survey on driving attitude and behavior of motorcycle users targeted at high school and college
students and a video observation survey of motorcycle driving conditions. Based on the survey analysis
results, we held a traffic safety workshop (WS) comprising practical skills and classroom learning centeredon hazard anticipation. In this study, we conducted a statistical comparative analysis of driving behavior
frequency on non-intersection intervals of arterial roads before and after the WS, based on observational
results from video cameras mounted on motorcycles. The results showed that the WS effects were associatedwith a reduction in average travel speeds and changes in driving behavior, such as frequency of lanechanging. Different responses to the WS were observed according to attributes, and thus, the relationshipbetween the content of this kind of traffic safety WS and behavioral changes needs to be clarified and a moreadvanced traffic safety WS program developed.
A Study on the effect of Motorcycle Traffic Safety Workshop using Travel Speed and Vehicle Density
in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Toshiki KOYANAGI, and Nagahiro YOSHIDA
Osaka City University, Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Vol. 59, pp.19-25 (2018)
In Cambodia, motorcycle use has spread rapidly in recent years, and serious accidents involving motorcycles
have increased. In particular, many young motorcyclists have been involved in traffic accidents, and various
issues in traffic safety are remained. To understand the current situations related to these issues in Phnom
Penh, Cambodia, a video observation survey on driving situations of motorcycle users in high school anduniversity were conducted. Based on the results, a traffic safety workshop was held to improve their risk
perception ability and basic riding skills. In this study, a statistical analysis was conducted to compare travel
speed with vehicle density on arterial roads before and after the workshop. The results showed that travelling
speed decreased to be effects of the traffic safety workshop, and the vehicle density could be an explanatory
variable to represent various driving conditions of motorcycles including psychological effects.
Latent Opportunities for the Use of Two-Rider Bicycles and Associated Challenges by Welfare Service
Providers
Takuya KONISHI, and Nagahiro YOSHIDA
Osaka City University, Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Vol. 59, pp.27-30 (2018)
For persons with reduced mobility (PRM), the two-rider bicycle might be a potential, practical means oftransportation, and the development of bicycles that meet these needs is in progress. While it revealed that
there were many limits imposed on their use as a private use in a previous study, the opportunities forbusiness use or associated challenges remain unclear. Thus, the purpose of this study is to understand the－74－latent opportunities or use of two-rider bicycles by welfare service providers, as well as the associatedchallenges. A hearing survey was conducted on various type of welfare service providers that operatetransportation services for the elderly and people with disabilities. Furthermore, a questionnaire survey was
conducted on potential users after providing opportunities to experience two-rider bicycles. The results
confirmed that there were different types of latent opportunities for the use of two-rider bicycles by each typeof welfare service providers.
Study on Measuring Level of Stress for Bicycle Facilities using Vital Reactions taking Task Complexity
into Consideration
Katsumasa TATSUNO and Nagahiro YOSHIDA
Japan Society of Civil Engineers，Proceedings of Infrastructure Planning, No. 58，pp. 218_1-4 (2018) (inJapanese)In this study, in order to obtain basic knowledge on the method of measuring the relationship between stressfactors and reactions relating to the usage environment, stress generated in bicycle users are analyzed using aplurality of biological reaction indices in a plurality of traffic environments having different composition
contents of stress factors. We embody it using individual differences as driving experience and complexity ofdriving tasks as a driving course so that you can explicitly consider the driving experience difference related
to stress and the complexity of driving task required for bicycle use environment. And we compareddifferences in biological response by influence of individual differences such as driving experience andcomplexity of driving tasks.
Change of subjective and objective comfort for pedestrians and cyclists before and after Road space
reallocation: Case study of Midosuji in osaka
Haruka KAWACHI, Takashi UCHIDA and Nagahiro YOSHIDA
Japan Society of Civil Engineers，Proceedings of Infrastructure Planning, No. 58，pp. 239_1-4 (2018) (inJapanese)
The road space reallocation project on Osaka’s main street, Midosuji, started in 2017 to realize the concept ofhuman-centered urban spaces in response to the change of social trends and conditions. The pilot project has
been undertaken to increase spaces for pedestrians and cyclists. While the “Level of Service” concept was
widely employed to evaluate user comfort issues in the transportation field, it is unknown whether it could
apply to these space differences and evaluate the reallocation effect correctly. The objective of this study is tohelp proposal when we what comfort factor are. I conducted questionnaire and video survey on narrow road,wide road without rest space and wide road with rest space. The result shows possibility of effect to users’
comfort by rest space and expected speed. So I analyzed the relationship between subjective comfort andtraffic situation.
Analysis of Industrial Landscape Characteristics Considering Port Elements from Viewpoints on the
Water in the Hanshin Industrial Region
Hayato KITAGAWA and Nagahiro YOSHIDA
Japan Society of Civil Engineers，Proceedings of the annual meeting in Kansai，2 pages (2019) (in Japanese)
Distributed around rivers and harbors such as the Yodo River and Osaka Bay, the Hanshin Industrial Region
is Japan’s leading industrial area. The area developed around the steel and shipbuilding industries before thewar, while after the war, many food manufacturers located here, and recent redevelopments have resulted ina variety of landscapes existing in the industrial region. The Hanshin Industrial Region has high historicalvalue, and it is hoped that the landscape will be preserved and utilized as industrial heritage. However, thecomposition of elements making up the many viewpoints and landscapes in the region has not been
determined. Therefore, after fixing viewpoints out at sea and organizing/classifying the landscape elements,
this study conducted a fundamental analysis of the composition and locational characteristics of distinctive
port landscapes.
A comparative study on saturation flow rate of mixed traffic before and after signal installation in
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Kazuto IMAI and Nagahiro YOSHIDA
Japan Society of Civil Engineers，Proceedings of Infrastructure Planning, No. 58，pp. 258_1-4 (2018) (inJapanese)－75－

Change of Level of service on Sidewalk and Bicycle lane before and after installation the Rest Space on
Road Space Reallocation at Midosuji Street in Osaka
Haruka KAWACHI, Nagahiro YOSHIDAThe 8th Japan Cycling Congress, Poster session (2018) (in Japanese)Stress Evaluation using Vital Reaction Model for Bicycle Facilities
Katsumasa TATSUNO and Nagahiro YOSHIDAThe 8th Japan Cycling Congress, Poster session, (2018) (in Japanese)
Leaching characteristics of naturally derived toxic elements in the alluvial marine clay layer beneath
Osaka Plain, Japan: implications for the reuse of excavated soils
Hiroko Ito (Geo-Research Institute), Harue Masuda (Faculty of Science), Akihiko Oshima
Environmental Earth Sciences (2019) 78:589
The contamination risks by naturally derived toxic elements must be assessed to achieve a sustainablegeo-environment when utilizing excavated surplus soils. To estimate the controlling factors and risks ofgroundwater pollution associating with the application of recycled excavated surplus soils, the sequentiallyextracted fractions of major and toxic elements were analyzed and compared to the results of the simple
batch leaching test. The concentrations of bulk B and Pb of the Holocene marine clay layer Ma13 were themaximum 75 ppm and 28 ppm at the middle depth and varied similar to the change of clay fraction, while
the bulk As concentration was the maximum 12 ppm at the upper part of the Ma13. The B adsorbed onto theclay minerals was easily desorbed under the neutral pH condition. Arsenic was released especially from thetransitional sandy silt layers at the upper and lower parts of Ma13 where contacting with oxic groundwater.
The 0.45-μm filter required by Japanese regulations does not efficiently remove colloidal particles resulting
in poor reproducibility of batch leaching tests, especially for Pb. Also, relative indices of metal mobility
suggest that the long-term risk of groundwater contamination via the reuse of excavated surplus soils will not
be accurately estimated only by the simple batch leaching test. The change of redox and pH conditions
associating with relocation and preservation must be considered to fully evaluate the risk of toxic element
mobilization of the excavated surplus soils.
Measures of Subsidence in Natural or Artificial Low Land without Ground Improvement Ⅲ :Subsidence and Regional Ground Property
Akihiko Oshima,
Journal of the Society of Material Science Japan, Vol .68, No.5, pp. 450–455, 2019. (in Japanese)
Geotechnical problems and countermeasures in the Osaka Plain
Akihiko Oshima,
Geotechnical Engineering Magazine, Vol .67, No.9, pp. 43–50, 2019. (in Japanese)
Settlement Prediction Considering Cyclic Consolidation Behavior of Pleistocene Clay Layers by
Groundwater Level Fluctuation of Confined Aquifer at Maishima, Osaka City
Koudai Takeno (Department of Urban Engineering), Akihiko Oshima, Shuhei Temma (Department of Urban
Engineering), Masayoshi Nakao (Advanced Research Institute), Yauhisa Nakaso (Advanced ResearchInstitute)
Proceedings of the Kansai Geo-Symposium 2019, No. 1-1, pp. 7–12, 2019. (in Japanese)
Site Investigation Results at Bentencho, Minato-ku in Osaka City
Akihiko Oshima, Kondo Masahiro (West Japan Railway Company), Sakamoto Hiroaki (West Japan Railway
Company), Bando Masato (West Japan Railway Company), Nakai Takehiro (Kiso-Jiban Consultants) Fukai
Haruo (Kiso-Jiban Consultants), Koji Kubota (Soil and Rock Engineering)
Proceedings of the Kansai Geo-Symposium 2019, No. 2-1, pp. 50–55, 2019. (in Japanese)
Comparison of evaluation liquefaction risk in Bentencho area, Minato-ku, Osaka
Atsushi Sagawa (Chuo Fukken Consultants), Akihiko Oshima, Hiroyuki Goto (Kyoto University), Kenichi
Sueyoshi (Nippon Koei), Kai Seiji (Diaconsultants), Ken Kageyama (Kiso-Jiban Consultants), Mari Kasugai(Geo-Research Institute), Hisanori Nagai (Konoike Construction), Masato Bando (West Japan Railway
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Proceedings of the Kansai Geo-Symposium 2019, No. 2-2, pp. 56–59, 2019. (in Japanese)
Prediction of site amplification and liquefaction potential on subsurface ground in Osaka area basedon equivalent linear seismic response analysis
Kenichi Sueyoshi (Nippon Koei), Akihiko Oshima, Masataka Nakamura (All Nippon Engineering
Consultants), Teruyuki Hamada (Geo-Research Institute), Mari Kasugai (Geo-Research Institute), Toshiyuki
Hirai (Newjec)
Proceedings of the Kansai Geo-Symposium 2019, No. 2-3, pp. 60–65, 2019. (in Japanese)
Micro-tremor characteristics of large scale embankments in northern Wakayama city andconstruction age
Yasuyuki Nabeshima (Akashi College), Akihiko Ohshima, Katsyuki Kawai (Kinki University), Nobuyuki
Endo (Newjec), Kenjiro Fukutsuka(Earthtech Toyo), Kohei Toyofuku (Pacific Consultants)
Proceedings of the Kansai Geo-Symposium 2019, No. 2-4, pp. 66–71, 2019. (in Japanese)
Long-term variation of groundwater level and ground settlement in Osaka area
Toru Inaba (Penta-Ocean Construction), Junichi Nagaya (Geo-Research Institute), Mari Kasugai(Geo-Research Institute), Akihiko Oshima, Eiichi Isono (Morikawasakusen), Naoko Kitada (Geo-ResearchInstitute), Hironori Tanimoto (Kawasaki Geological Engineering)
Proceedings of the Kansai Geo-Symposium 2019, No.5-3, pp. 187–192, 2019. (in Japanese)
Example Collection of Liquefaction Countermeasure at City Area
Yuutatsu Nomaki (Oyo Corporation), Mari Kasugai(Geo-Research Institute)，Akihiko Oshima, Seiji Suwa
(Geo Office Suwa), Shigeyoshi Hirata (Daiwa House Industry)，Akira Fukai(Sekisui House)，Masashi
Yoshikawa (Kinjo Rubber)
Proceedings of the Kansai Geo-Symposium 2019, No. 5-4, pp. 193–196, 2019. (in Japanese)
Experimental relation between shear strength under low pressure and S-wave velocity of rocksubjected to mechanical weathering
Mohsin Usman Qureshi (Sohar University), IkuoTowhata (The University of Tokyo), and SuguruYamada
Soils and Foundations, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 27 September 2019.
The reduction in the shear strength of rock exposed on slope surfaces due to mechanical weathering is aubiquitous phenomenon in regions where extreme environmental conditions prevail, i.e., repeated changes intemperature and moisture. In dealing with the slope instability problems in such regions, the long-term
effects of weathering on the strength, deformation and durability characteristics of exposed rock areenvisaged in this study. Therefore, in addition to conducting multiple-cycle standard slake durability tests onrock samples taken from the lithologies of Pakistan and Japan, and on artificial soft rock, the decrease instrength and stiffness is also studied by reproducing mechanical weathering in the laboratory. The reproduced
laboratory weathering (RLW) is conducted with a new device that enables vacuumed saturation, freezing,
thawing, drying and cooling under a maintained level of confining pressure. The decrease in strength,
stiffness and durability is elucidated from the test results, which indicate that rock having a very low level ofreference strain (shear strength/modulus at small strain) is resistant to RLW and slaking. Intact rock exhibits
very low reference strain and this reference strain increases with an increase in the degree of weathering,which is the case of weathered rock. The decrease in the strength of rock is an important property for judging
the safety of rock slopes undergoing weathering. Thus, the relation between the strength and the S-wave
velocity of rock undergoing weathering is established. The authors recommend the use of this relation for aquick assessment of the strength of rock by briefly measuring the S-wave velocity of the weathered surface
layer. The relationship will assist practitioners in quickly screening potentially unstable slopes.
Basic Study on the Characteristics of Microscopic Flow nearby Porous Media in Wave Field
Sota NAKAJO, Izumi KODUKA, Gozo TSUJIMOTO, Takaaki SHIGEMATSU
Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B2 (Coastal Engineering), Vol. 74, No. 2, I_991-I_996(2018) (in Japanese).
The vertical two-dimensional microscopic flow nearby porous media in relatively long wave condition wasmeasured by using Particle Image Velocimetry technique and refractive index matching method. The resulton frequency analysis for time series of velocity in porous media shows considerable attenuation of wave

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energy. The turbulent velocity component was defined by decomposition based on the moving average
concept. The simplified assessment of the development process of turbulent velocity component was
conducted by volume average value of velocity and turbulent properties. The results revealed some specificdevelopment processes although there are some similarities between the wave driven flow and the oscillatory
flow field. In the case of this basic study, the turbulent velocity components in the vicinity of the bottom ofwave flume were more predominant than that of water surface area. However, these results based on very
limited condition, therefore we need more investigation based on various situations.
A Study on the Effect of Slit Specifications on Local Scouring Properties of the Pile-Supported Wave
Absorbing Breakwater
Takashi YAMANO, Daiki SAKAI, Takaaki SHIGEMATSU, Ryuichi FUJIWARA
Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B2 (Coastal Engineering), Vol. 74, No. 2, I_835-I_840(2018) (in Japanese).
About pile-supported wave absorbing breakwater having a horizontal slit, we confirmed that wave
dissipation performance did not have the difference so far even if slit shapes were different. However, wehave not been able to inspect it about the influence that slit specifications (shape, opening rate, position) giveto local scouring properties enough. In this study, we confirmed that scouring in case of the horizontal slit
structure grew big in comparison with vertical slit structure in breaking wave by a model experiment andguessed that the cause depended on synergy of the vortex of the perpendicular to have a horizontal axis in theretarding chamber and the vortex on the structure by numerical computation. In addition, in vertical slit
structure, a slit opening rate greatly influences maximum scouring right under the pile, and a slit position
influences the scouring of the lower slit wall.
A Study on the Scour Characteristics of Lower Vertical Plate in Wave Field
Yusuke NAKAHARA, Takaaki SHIGEMATSU
Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B2 (Coastal Engineering), Vol. 74, No. 2, I_829-I_834(2018) (in Japanese).
Since local scouring occurring at the foot of a flow-sediment control structure impairs the stability of thestructure itself, it is required to take some measures by predicting the scale of the scouring. In this study, thehydraulic experiment was carried out to investigate the effect of the vertical plate on the scouring
characteristics by observing the flow and sand migration phenomena in the vicinity of the vertical plate on
the flat sand bed in detail. Based on the experimental result, the mechanism of local scouring was
intellectualized and factors affect the characteristics of the local scouring were considered.
Quantification of Ecosystem Services at Tidal Flats in Osaka Bay Using Tidal Flat Health Index:
Characterization of the Tidal Flats by Comparison Between Tokyo Bay and Osaka Bay
Tomonari OKADA, Yugo MITO, Takanori SUGANO, Toshiyuki TAKAHASHI, Yoshihiro AKIYAMA,
Hiroshi KUROIWA, Toru ENDO, Sosuke OTANI, Susumu YAMOCHI, Yasunori KOZUKI, Takayuki
KUSAKABE, Koji OTSUKA, Ryoichi YAMANAKA, Takaaki SHIGEMATSU, Kazuyuki NAKANO,
Makoto USHIRO, Tomohiro KUWAE
Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B2 (Coastal Engineering), Vol. 74, No. 2, I_1417-I_1422(2018) (in Japanese).
In this study, the tidal flat health index (THI) was applied to four tidal flats in Osaka Bay to confirm theversatility of THI and understand the features in each tidal flat by comparing them with four tidal flats inTokyo Bay. The reference values (the best score of each health index) in the services, such as food supply
and water purification, related to the ecosystem states, in Osaka Bay were almost equal to those of Tokyo
Bay. The reference values in the services, such as tourism and recreation, influenced by the regional
population, were higher in Tokyo Bay than in Osaka Bay. However, the reference value of education was
higher in Osaka Bay compared to Tokyo Bay, suggesting that environmental learning is active in Osaka.
Principal component analysis of the nine services in the eight tidal flats in Osaka Bay and Tokyo Bay
revealed that 74% of the THI scores could be explained by 2 components: "utilization of people" and"biodiversity".
Turbulent Flow Induced by Oscillating Circular Cylinder Arrays
Takaaki SHIGEMATSU and Hiroshi Matsumoto
Proceedings of 36th Conference on Coastal Engineering, Vol. 38, https://journals.tdl.org/icce/index.php/icce/－78－

article/view/8380/7188.
Vegetation association plays important role in the shallower coastal zone for sediment control and thenutrient and carbon absorption. It is necessary to understand the fluid motion including turbulence in thevegetation so that we may evaluate precisely shallow water region including vegetation and wet land. As thefirst step of research on fluid motion in the vegetation, circular cylinders are sometimes used. Many
researches on the fluid force acting on the circular cylinder and fluid motion around the cylinder have beenachieved so far. However, the properties of turbulent flow induced around circular cylinders in a wave,
especially turbulence transition mechanism and spatial-temporal distribution of turbulence, are not almost
investigated. The purpose of this study is to understand the fluid flow including turbulent induced by wave
transmitting vegetation association. In this study fluid motion was measured by oscillating circular cylinderarrays in a tank by using the PTV technique.
Practical Formula for Effective Height of Impermeable Hanging Curtain in Steady Water Flow
Masahide TAKEDA, Takaaki SHIGEMATSU, Yoshinosuke KURAHARA, Chisato HARA and Yamato
NISHIYAMA
Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B3 (Coastal Engineering), Vol. 75, No. 2, I_409-I_414,(2019) (in Japanese).
This study aims to propose a new prediction formula of the effective height of a hanging curtain in steadywater flow. According to the hydraulic experiments and numerical calculations, the more practical
calculation formula of the effective curtain height was obtained using the ratio of dynamic pressure andweight and the ratio of the effective curtain height to the curtain length. Our formula is characterized in thatthe experimental coefficient is without user specification, and the weight is included in the formula, and theparameter using the ratio of the initial curtain height to the water depth is used.
Estimation of Characteristics of Micro-Barometric Wave and Its Effect on Longwave Propagation
Sota NAKAJO, Sooyoul KIM
Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B3 (Ocean Engineering), Vol. 74, No. 2, I_539-544, (2018)(in Japanese).
The characteristics of micro-barometric waves in Kyushu island estimated from analysis of high resolution
stationary data was similar between each station. The propagation speed and direction was estimated basedon cross-correlation analysis. Even if synoptic low-pressure development was similar, micro-barometricwave propagation process was different. Numerical simulation results show the possibility of significant
meteorological tsunami caused by very small amplitude pressure waves, and importance of group wave
characteristics, e.g. number of waves or wave length.
Proposal of an Empirical Equation for Storm Surges Employing a Stochastic Typhoon Model in the
Sea of Aki and Iyo-Nada
Tomohiro YASUDA, Kanoto YOKOYAMA, Shota HIRAI, Sota NAKAJO, Sooyoul KIM
Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B3 (Ocean Engineering), Vol. 74, No. 2, pp. I_581-I_586,(2018) (in Japanese).
Recently, the climate has become extreme by the influence of global warming, and frequency of strong
typhoon attack is getting increase. Particularly, storm surge disasters are influenced by intensified typhoons.
The number of observations of storm surges are limited and insufficient because hazardous storm surges are
low-frequency events. It is difficult to assess the probability of storm surges only based on observation data.
This study simulates storm surges employing a stochastic typhoon model and a non-linear shallow watermodel, and proposes an empirical equation. Analysis assesses the effect of the number of data and thetyphoon route on estimation accuracy by a proposed empirical equation targeting in Hiroshima (Aki-nadasea) and Matsuyama (Iyo-nada sea). As a result, errors and variations are reduced and the accuracy can be
improved by increasing the number of data. Also, even if tropical cyclones have the same scale, storm surge
are different by the difference of routes, which are dangerous semicircle and navigable semicircle. If
compute the coefficient after classifying the routes, the proposed method can estimate storm surges of highaccuracy at any locations.
Study for Impact of Climate Change on Typhoon and Wave in the Sea of Japan
Sooyoul KIM, Keishiro CHIYONOBU, Sota NAKAJO, Takao OTA, Tomohiro YASUDA
Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B2 (Coastal Engineering), Vol. 74, No. 2, pp. I_673-I_678,－79－

(2018) (in Japanese).
In this study, the effect of the climate change on typhoons in the Sea of Japan and waves on the Sanin coast
is examined. The global stochastic typhoon model is used to estimate typhoons in the present and futureclimates. The present typhoons of 5,382 in 1966 to 2008 and the future typhoons of 6,901 in 2088 to 2099
are estimated. The estimated typhoon is validated by IBTrACS with a linear interpolation method. It is foundthat the number of future typhoon increases in comparison to that of present typhoon. The future typhoon isaveragely stronger than the present typhoon. However, the extremely strongest typhoon is revealed in thepresent climate. The moving speed of the future typhoon is faster than that of the present typhoon. Series ofwave simulations with 10 strongest typhoons in the present and future climates showed that higher wave
heights appear than designed wave heights in a port on the Sanin coast.
Sensitivity of Tropical Cyclone Track to Assessment of Severe Storm Surge Event at Tokyo Bay
Sota NAKAJO, Hideyuki FUJIKI, Sooyoul KIM, Nobuhito MORI
Coastal Engineering Proceedings, Vol. 36, No. 1, 10p, doi: 10.9753/icce.v36.papers.5, (2018)
In total 82 tropical cyclones data was used to determine scenarios of translation speed, minimum centralpressure and track for risk assessment of storm surge at Tokyo Bay. The numerical simulation of waves andflows was conducted by solving non-linear long wave equations. The maximum surge height shows that the
typhoon passing through along northeast directional track is dangerous for Tokyo Bay. This trend confirms
the previous risk assessment was reasonable. However, it has been shown that the typhoon passing throughalong north directional track is also dangerous although the frequency is low. Especially, it is interesting thatthe typhoon passing through along northwest directional track causes distinctive resurgence and harbor
oscillation.
Morphological Changes at the Mouth of the Shirakawa River after Kumamoto Earthquake
Ryota YAMAGUCHI, Gozo TSUJIMOTO, Takaomi HOKAMURA, Sota NAKAJO, Ngoc Than NGUYEN
Proceedings of the 28th International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference, ISBN: 978-1-880653-87-6,
ISOPE-I-18-155, (2018).
The river mouth delta of this study is located on the center of the eastern coast of Ariake Bay, Kumamoto,Japan. Two earthquakes scaled of 7 on the Japanese scale struck Kumamoto Prefecture on April 14 and 16,
2016, and then about the 0.4 m ground subsidence was occurred. A large amount of sediment from the
Shirakawa River was discharged into the river delta due to a following-flood. The clinoform along thewater-route approximately propagated 150 m in the offshore direction and the bed level increased by about
1.5m. The estimated sediment discharge was 1.1×105m3/yr./km2 during 2014 to 2016, corresponds four times
during 1978 to 1997.
Projection of Decrease in Japanese Beaches Due to Climate Change Using a Geographic Database
Nobuhito MORI, Sota NAKAJO, Syohei IWAMURA, Yoko SHIBUTANICoastal Engineering Journal, Vol. 60, Issue 2, pp. 239-246, https://doi.org/10.1080/21664250.2018.1488513,(2018)
This study models shoreline retreat due to sea level rise by using geographic data and applies the model tofuture projections of decreases in beach area for 806 beaches in Japan. The model uses a foreshore slope(angle) based on data from a digital elevation model, and influence of the present simplified method for
estimation of the shoreline retreat is examined through comparisons with previous studies at typical locations.
The proposed method gives a distance of shoreline retreat due to sea level rise similar to that predicted using
the Bruun rule for minimal retreat less than 30 m, but the difference becomes substantial for more extensive
decreases. The decrease in beach area is projected for different sea level rises based on four Representative
Concentration Pathway (RCP) scenarios from the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change. The decrease in beach area becomes more severe for the RCP8.5 scenario, and the proposed
method predicts that a third of current sandy beaches in Japan will disappear. The extent of the decreasedepends not only on the sea-level-rise scenario but also on the SLR projection model.
An Experimental Study on the Interaction between Oscillatory Flow and Idealized Porous Bed
Takaaki SHIGEMATSU, Sota NAKAJO, Yuya OKADA
Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 85, pp. 981–985, (2018)
The microscopic structures of over and inside flow of a porous medium placed in oscillatory flow wasmeasured by the Particle Tracking Velocimetry with the refractive index matching method in order to－80－

investigate interaction between them. The strong shear flow was observed over the surface of the porous
medium and the thickness of shear flow varied with the phase of the oscillatory flow. It was found that the
thickness of non-dimensional shear flow was almost constant and that it did not depend on the Reynolds
number. It was found that the thickness of non-dimensional shear flow was almost constant and it
independented with the Reynolds number. Besides, it was also found that the phase difference between flows
over and inside the porous bed occurred. The characteristics of the spatial variance of velocity components
were shown in detail with the time phase variance. Further, the flow properties around the particle constitutes
porous body were measured and investigated in detail.
Estuarine Circulation Patterns in a Complex Geometry Estuary: Dinh An Estuary, Mekong River
Ngoc Than NGUYEN, Sota NAKAJO, Toshifumi MUKUNOKI, Gozo TSUJIMOTO
Environmental Processes, Vol. 5, Issue 3, pp. 503-517, (2018)
Estuarine circulation (EC) is a natural phenomenon that contributes to the evolution of estuaries worldwide.
This paper uses the Dinh An estuary, Mekong River as a case study to investigate patterns of EC in acomplex cross-section estuary. An Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) measured a series of riverdischarge and current profiles at a transect near the mouth of the estuary between 15 and 30 September 2009.
Tidal elevation was also recorded concurrently with the river discharge by using a leveling rod. The observed
data reveal that the river-discharge phase lagged 6 h behind the tidal phase in the high-flow season (May to
October). Four main types of EC were observed during the reversal time in the ebb tide with river discharges
in a range of −5000 m3/s to 13,600 m3/s. There were two main flood tide patterns, which corresponded to thedischarges from −6000 m3/s to 5000 m3/s. The classical EC type (seawater flows landward near the bed andriver water flows seaward near the surface) appeared only in the deepest channel in the ebb tide as saline
intrusion induced a density imbalance. The results suggest that tidal phase and bed geometry play importantroles in forming EC patterns in estuaries. This paper provides essential information related to flow structure
in complex bathymetry estuaries for further studies on saline intrusion, environmental processes, sediment
dynamic and estuarine morphology.
Practical Formula for Effective Height of Impermeable Hanging Curtain in Steady Water Flow
Masahide TAKEDA, Takaaki SHIGEMATSU, Yoshinosuke KURAHARA,
Chisato HARA and Yamato NISHIYAMA
Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B3 (Coastal Engineering), Vol. 75, No. 2, 409-414(2018)(in Japanese).
This study aims to propose a new prediction formula of the effective height of a hanging curtain in steadywater flow. According to the hydraulic experiments and numerical calculations, the more practical
calculation formula of the effective curtain height was obtained using the ratio of dynamic pressure andweight and the ratio of the effective curtain height to the curtain length. Our formula is characterized in thatthe experimental coefficient is without user specification, and the weight is included in the formula, and theparameter using the ratio of the initial curtain height to the water depth is used.
Modeling a Coastal Ecosystem to Estimate Climate Change Mitigation and a Model Demonstration inTokyo Bay
Akio SOHMA, Hisashi SHIBUKI (Mizuho Information and Research Inst.), Fumiyuki NAKAJIMA (The
Univ of Tokyo), Atsushi KUBO (Shizuoka Univ.), Tomohiro KUWAE (Port and Airport Research Inst.)
Ecological Modelling, 384 pp. 261-289 (2018)
An ecosystem model called the “EMAGIN-B.C. ver 1.0 (Ecosystem Model for Aquatic Geologic Integrated
Network for Blue Carbon)”, describing the Carbon-Nitrogen-Phosphorus-Oxygen-Calcium cycle wasdeveloped to estimate/predict carbon capture and storage in estuaries. EMAGIN-B.C. analyzes (1) carbon
burial, wherein carbon is captured biologically in the pelagic and benthic ecosystems and stored in deeper
sediments, (2) CO2 uptake at the ocean surface while considering the carbonate chemistry with total
alkalinity and Dissolved Inorganic Carbon (DIC) production/consumption due to biochemical processes, (3)DIC capture associated with grazing at the trophic level among phytoplankton, zooplankton, and benthic
fauna, (4) the effects of hypoxia on benthic fauna and bacteria by precise modeling of the biochemical
oxygen production/consumption and the resultant hypoxia, and (5) the carbon transport by integration withthe hydrodynamic model. EMAGIN-B.C. was applied to Tokyo Bay, a eutrophic, shallow coastal area, andreproduced the observations well. From the model outputs, it can be observed that Tokyo Bay shows
functions of climate change mitigation. In the one-year carbon budget, Tokyo Bay captured 16.6% of the－81－DIC from the atmosphere and river as organic matter by biological processes, and 3.9% of the total carbon
flowing from the atmosphere and river was stored in the deeper sediment layer.
Ecosystem Model Study on Long-term Dynamics of Dissolved Oxygen and Its Factors at the Bottom
Water in Tokyo Bay
Akio SOHMA and Takuro HARUTA
Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B2 (Coastal Engineering), Vol.74, No.2, pp. I_1273-I_1278,(2018) (in Japanese)
Hypoxia has been improving throughout Tokyo Bay, however, there are still seriously hypoxic areas. In thisstudy, we analyzed the secular change of dissolved oxygen (DO) and consumption mechanism of thesea-floor due to reduction of nutrients and COD inflow from the land from 1979 to 2009, using thebenthic-pelagic coupled ecosystem model, EMAGIN-H.P. As a result, the model demonstrated that there
were at least three types of areas: zone A, in which DO increases; zone B, in which DO turns from a decrease
to an increase; and zone C, where DO decreases. In addition, reduction of nutrients and COD inflow leads to(1) decrease of reduced substances (Mn2+, Fe2+, and S2-) and increase of benthic fauna due to improvement of
hypoxia at zone A, (2) decrease of reduced substances due to DO increase and decrease of benthic fauna due
to food shortage at zone C, and (3) increase of benthic fauna until 1994 with the improvement of hypoxia
and then a decrease due to food shortage at zone B. These results show that the optimal amount of nutrientsand COD inflow in view of both the increase of benthic fauna and the improvement of hypoxia differs fromarea to area.
Annual Variation of Air-Sea CO2 Flux at the River Mouth Area and Its Factors —Analysis of an
Ecosystem Model, EMAGIN_B.C.—
Akio SOHMA, Mizuki NAKAI, Atsushi KUBO (Shizuoka Univ.), and Tomohiro KUWAE (Port and Airport
Research Inst.)
Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B2 (Coastal Engineering), Vol.74, No.2, pp. I_1267-I_1272,(2018) (in Japanese)
The carbon capture and storage in the coastal shallow ecosystem is a hot topic because of its high potential.
The release and uptake of atmospheric CO2 at the air-sea boundary is an important element consisting theseries of carbon capture and storage of the shallow waters. In this study, we applied an ecosystem model,
EMAGIN_B.C., considering carbonate chemistry, food-web, and Carbon-Nutrients-Oxygen cycling in thebenthic-pelagic coupled system to Tokyo Bay, and analyzed the dynamics of air-sea CO2 flux and its factors
especially focusing on the river mouth area. As the result of the model analysis, CO2 was released from theocean to air at the river mouth area on an annual average basis, although CO2 was taken up at other areas inTokyo Bay. In addition, the CO2 release and CO2 uptake are repeated in the period from the end of April tothe end of November. The CO2 absorption period is thought to be dominated by the consumption of DIC byphotosynthesis, and the release period is thought to be dominated by consumption of total alkalinity by
nitrification.
Estimation of Air-sea CO2 Fluxes in Osaka Bay, Harima-hada and Ago Bay Bases on Spatial
Distributions Survey of Dissolved Inorganic Carbon
Toru ENDO, Junpei SHIMANO, Kenji IKENAGA, Hideki KOKUBU
Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B2 (Coastal Engineering), Vol. 74, No. 2, I_1315-I_1320(2018) (in Japanese).
To evaluate the air-sea CO2 flux of Osaka Bay, Harima Nada and Ago Bay, we conducted the spatial
distribution surveys of the dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) and pH. There are low DIC concentration in the
inner part of Osaka Bay where external load is large because DIC was consumed by photosynthesis ofphytoplankton. On the other hand, there are high DIC concentration in the Ago Bay where much organiccarbon was accumulated on the sea floor. We found that CO2 was absorbed basically in all seas at daytime
and, especially, Osaka bay had high CO2 absorption potential compared with the other seas.
CO2 fluxes were calculated based on a chemical equilibrium model of carbonic acid from the measurement
data of DIC and pH, air to sea CO2 flux was 12.6 to 14.0 CO2/m2/hr in Osaka bay, 1.5 to 3.7 CO2/m2/hr in
Harima Nada and 0.8 mg CO2/m2/hr in Ago Bay. The CO2 Flux of Osaka Bay was larger than the averaged
CO2 fluxes of coastal seas reported in around the world.

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Air-sea CO2 Exchange and dissolved Inorganic Carbon in an Inner Part of Osaka Bay, Japan
Toru ENDO, Junpei SHIMANO, Noriko HARADA, Daiki SAKAI, Ryuichi FUJIWARA
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Asian and Pacific Coasts, 1073-1079. (2019)
The carbon captured by coastal oceans and ecosystems called "blue carbon" is attracting attention to reducegreenhouse gas. Recently, field surveys on air-sea CO2 exchange have been conducted in various coastal seas
to reveal the blue carbon function. In this study, we investigated the vertical distribution of the dissolved
inorganic carbon (DIC) system in the inner part of Osaka Bay to reveal the air-sea CO 2 exchange
characteristics in port and harbor area. Field surveys were conducted on a vertical seawall in Naruo-hama of
Osaka Bay, Japan, during 12 months from November 2014 to October 2015 and during summer from August
to September 2016. The vertical distributions of DIC and pH were measured on site, and the CO2 partialpressure in water (pCO2w) was calculated based on carbon acid equilibrium. Water temperature, salinity andDO were also measured to examine the relationships the vertical distribution of DIC system and water mass
structure. Furthermore, the air-sea CO2 flux (FCO2) was estimated to examine the characteristics of the air-sea
CO2 exchange. DIC ranged from 787 to 2,111 mol kg-1, with seasonal and vertical change. DIC in thebottom layer increased during high water temperature period due to CO2 production by respiration anddecomposition, and DIC accumulated along with formation density stratification. The correlation between
DIC and pCO2w in surface layer was smaller than that in bottom layer because surface pCO2w fluctuated due
to inflow of river water or seawater mixing. This study area acts as CO2 sinks under calm conditions (FCO2 =-3.4 mmol-C m-2 d-1), however the site acts CO2 sources (1) when density stratification was relaxed (FCO2 =2.1 mmol-C m-2 d-1); (2) when water was mixed by disturbance such as typhoon (FCO2 = 1.3 mmol-C m-2 d-1);and (3) when it rained (FCO2 = 15.5 mmol-C m-2 d-1).

－83－List of Presentations
atInternational Conferences
Presenters are underlined in the list of authors.
†

Undergraduate or graduate students of the Faculty of Engineering, Osaka City University

Mechanical and Physical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Optical Control of Structural Transformation to Form Nano-scaled Phases Including sp3-like Interlayer
Bonds in Graphite
Eiichi INAMI, Keita NISHIOKA, Jun’ichi KANASAKI, Katsumi TANIMURA
The 15th International Conference on Laser Ablation, Maui-Hawaii, USA, September 8-13, 2019 (poster).
Formation Process of Grain Boundary Steps on Ultra-Precision Cut Surfaces of Polycrystalline Copper andZinc
T. MIYAGAWA†, T. TOKUYAMA†, H. KAWAKAMI, T TANAKA (Osaka Res. Inst. Indust. Sci. Tech.), Y. SATOICPE2018 17th International Conference on Precision Engineering, Kamakura, Japan, November 12-16, 2018.
Effects of Heating and Cooling Conditions on Mechanical Property of Stainless steel and Polyamide 6
Specimen under Tensile Test
H. KOBAYASHI†, M. UCHIDA, H. KITANO and Y. KANEKO
The International Symposium on Joining Technologies in Advanced Automobile Assembly 2018,
Kitakyushu, Japan, November 27-28, 2018.
EBSD Analysis on Microstructures Developed near Fracture Surface of a Fatigued Copper Single Crystal
Oriented for Single Slip
S. OKA†, Y. KANEKO, M. UCHIDA
The 14th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Engineering Plasticity and its Applications, Jeju island, Korea,
December 2-6, 2018.
Macroscopic and Microscopic Non-uniform Deformations of Polycrystalline Pure Copper during Uniaxial
Tensile Test with High Stress GradientA. TANIGUCHI†, T. MAEYAMA†, M. UCHIDA and Y. KANEKO
The 14th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Engineering Plasticity and its Applications, Jeju island, Korea,
December 2-6, 2018.
Evaluation of Effect of Sample Size and Layer Direction on Mechanical Property of Specimen
Manufactured by FDM-Type 3D PrinterH. AKIYAMA†, M. UCHIDA and Y. KANEKO
The 14th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Engineering Plasticity and its Applications, Jeju island, Korea,
December 2-6, 2018.
Deformed Structures of Multilayered Thin Films Fabricated by Electrodeposition
Y. KANEKO, T. KUBOMAE†, M. UCHIDA
4th International Symposium on Long-Period Stacking Order Structures and Mille-feuille Structure, Kumamoto,Japan, December 3-5, 2018.

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Electronics and Informatics
Applied Physics and Electronics
International Study of the Longer-lived Chemistry of Plasma Activated Water
Jun-Seok OH, Endre J. SZILI, Robert D. SHORT, Akimitsu HATTA, Mineo HIRAMATSU and Masafumi ITO
12th Asian-European International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering, Sep. 1-5, 2019, Jeju, Korea (Invited)
Effects of Dielectric Coating of an Internal Electrode for Coaxial-type Plasma/Liquid Interfacial Processes
Hiroki NAKATANI†, Jun-Seok OH, Tatsuru SHIRAFUJI
12th Asian-European International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering, September 1-5, 2019, Jeju, Korea(Poster)
Polymerization of EDOT Using Gas-liquid Interfacial Plasma
Ryoga KONISHI†, Shunta HIRANO†, Shiori AZUMA†, Jun-Seok OH, Tatsuru SHIRAFUJI
12th Asian-European International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering, September 1-5, 2019, Jeju, Korea(Poster)On the Preparation of Plasma Bullets Passing through a Dielectric Plate
Ryo MATOBA†, Yuki HAMAMOTO†, Masato OSHIRO†, Jun-Seok OH, Ryo SUGAMA (Faculty of Medicine),
Kumi ORITA (Faculty of Medicine), Hiromitsu TOYODA (Faculty of Medicine), Tatsuru SHIRAFUJI
12th Asian-European International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering, September 1-5, 2019, Jeju, Korea(Poster)
Discharge Characteristics of Atmospheric-pressure Plasma Reactor
Soshi IMAI†, Ikumi TAKAHASHI†, Yusuke SASAKI†, Tatsuru SHIRAFUJI and Jun-Seok OH
12th Asian-European International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering, Sep. 1-5, 2019, Jeju, Korea (Poster)
Plasma-Activated Water Generated by Air Discharge in Atmosphere-Pressure Plasma Reactor
Yusuke SASAKI†, Kenji MAEDA†, Tatsuru SHIRAFUJI and Jun-Seok OH
12th Asian-European International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering, Sep. 1-5, 2019, Jeju, Korea (Poster)
Lifetime of Bactericidal Efficacy in Oxygen-Radical-Activated Phenylalanine Solution
Naoyuki IWATA, Vladislav GAMALEEV, Hiroshi HASHIZIME, Jun-Seok OH, Takayuki OHTA, Kenji
ISHIKAWA, Masaru HORI and Masafumi ITO
12th Asian-European International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering, Sep. 1-5, 2019, Jeju, Korea (Oral)
Effective Treatment of Water by Low-Current Arc in Ambient Air
Vladislav GAMALEEV, Naoyuki IWATA, Jun-Seok OH, Mineo HIRAMATSU and Masafumi ITO
12th Asian-European International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering, Sep. 1-5, 2019, Jeju, Kore (Oral)
On the Formation of Polymerized EDOT Films Using Gas-liquid Interfacial Plasma
Tatsuru SHIRAFUJI, Shiori AZUMA†, Jun-Seok OH
34th International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases / 10th International Conference on Reactive Plasmas,
July 14-19, 2019, Sapporo, Japan (Poster)
Dynamic Analysis of Reactive Oxygen Nitrogen Species in Plasma-Activated Liquid by UV Absorption
Spectroscopy
Jun-Seok OH, Endre J. SZILI, Masafumi ITO, Akimitsu HATTA
Joint Conference of XXXIV International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases (XXXIV ICPIG) and the10th International Conference on Reactive Plasmas (ICRP-10), Jul. 14-19, Sapporo, Japan (Invited)
Generation of Bactericidal Efficacy in Neutral pH Range Using Oxygen-Radical Treatment of Organic
CompoundNaoyuki IWATA, Vladislav GAMALEEV, Hiroshi HASHIZIME, Jun-Seok OH, Takayuki OHTA, Kenji
ISHIKAWA, Masaru HORI and Masafumi ITO－88－Joint Conference of XXXIV International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases (XXXIV ICPIG) and the10th International Conference on Reactive Plasmas (ICRP-10), Jul. 14-19, Sapporo, Japan (Oral)
Influence of DC Substrate Bias Voltage on Deposition of Carbon Nanoparticles Produced by Ar+CH4 MultiHollow Discharge Plasma CVD method
Sung-Hwa HWANG, Kunihiro KAMATAKI, Naho ITAGAKI, Kazunori KOGA, Masaharu SHIRATANI, JunSeok OH and Tatsuyuki NAKATANI
Joint Conference of XXXIV International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases (XXXIV ICPIG) and the10th International Conference on Reactive Plasmas (ICRP-10), Jul. 14-19, Sapporo, Japan (Oral)
Analysis of Concentrations of Species Generated by Rotating Arc Jet in Gas Phase and Treated Liquid
Vladislav GAMALEEV, Naoyuki IWATA, Jun-Seok OH, Mineo HIRAMATSU and Masafumi ITO
Joint Conference of XXXIV International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases (XXXIV ICPIG) and the10th International Conference on Reactive Plasmas (ICRP-10), Jul. 14-19, Sapporo, Japan (Poster)
DC-Pulse Driven Plasma Jet Modulating Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species
Jun-Seok OH, Endre J. SZILI, Akimitsu HATTA, Masafumi ITO and Tatsuru SHIRAFUJI
International Forum on Functional Materials (IFFM) 2019, June 23-26, Gangneung, Korea (Invited)
Free Standing Functional Membrane Formation Using Plasma-liquid Interface Processes
Tatsuru SHIRAFUJI
Awaji Island Conference on Electron Spin Science & Technology 2019, June 16-19, 2019, Awaji, Japan (Invited)
Non-Thermal Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Generated Reactive Species Delivery into Biological Systems
Jun-Seok OH, Endre J. SZILI, Hideo FUKUHARA, Keiji INOUE, Robert D. SHORT, Akimitsu HATTA,
Masafumi ITO and Tatsuru SHIRAFUJI
the 6th Awaji International Workshop on “Electron Spin Science & Technology: Biological and Materials Science
Oriented Applications, June 16-19, Hyogo, Japan (Invited)
Pressure Gradient Sputtering Technology (PGS: High Vacuum Sputtering)
Ken YONEZAWA, Hiroki OOTA, Jun-Seok OH, Kazunori KOGA, Tatsuyuki NAKATANI, Masafumi ITO and
Masaharu SHIRATANIThe 15th International Symposium on Sputtering and Plasma Processes (ISSP 2019), June 11-14, Kanazawa, Japan(Poster)
Materials Processing by Efficient Utilization of Plasma-liquid Interface
Tatsuru SHIRAFUJI
24th International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry, June 9-14, 2019, Napoli, Italy (Invited)
Novel Bactericidal Method for Aquaculture Using Benzoic-Compound Solutions Treated with Oxygen
Radicals
Naoyuki IWATA, Vladislav GAMALEEV, Jun-Seok OH, Hiroshi HASHIZIME, Takayuki OHTA, Kenji
ISHIKAWA, Masaru HORI and Masafumi ITO
24th International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry (ISPC24), June 9-14, Naples, Italy (Oral)
Bactericidal Activity in Oxygen-Radical-Activated Water
Naoyuki IWATA, Vladislav GAMALEEV, Jun-Seok OH, Kenji ISHIKAWA, Masaru HORI and Masafumi ITO
24th International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry (ISPC24), June 9-14, Naples, Italy (Poster)
How the Cell Membrane Composition Influences Plasma-Induced Cellular Effects
Jonas Van der PAAL, Sung-Ha HONG, Maksudbek YUSUPOV, Nishta GAUR, Jun-Seok OH, Annemie
BOGAERTS, Endre SZILI
24th International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry (ISPC24), June 9-14, Naples, Italy (Oral)
3D Numerical Simulation of APPJ on the Flowing Water Surface
Tatsuru SHIRAFUJI, Jun-Seok OH, Masafumi ITO (Meijo Univ.)－89－

10th International Workshop on Microplasmas, May 20-24, 2019, Kyoto, Japan (Poster)
Microplasma Jet Contributes to Investigation of RONS Chemistry of Plasma-Activated Water
Jun-Seok OH and Tatsuru SHIRAFUJ
10th anniversary of International Workshop on Microplasmas, May 20-24, Kyoto, Japan (Oral)
Functional Thin Film Formation Localized at Plasma/Liquid Interface: A New Perspective of Plasma
Polymerization, Dedicated to Prof. Riccardo d'Agostino (June 17, 1942-April 21, 2018)
Tatsuru SHIRAFUJI
11th International Symposium on Advanced Plasma Science and its Applications for Nitrides and Nanomaterials /12th International Conference on Plasma-Nano Technology & Science, March 17-21, 2019, Nagoya, Japan (Invited)
The Influence of Pulse Voltage Polarity on Au-nanoparticle-embedded Film Formation on Aqueous Solution
in Contact with DBD
Shunta HIRANO†, Shiori AZUMA†, Yusuke NAKAMURA†, Toshiyuki ISSHIKI (Kyoto Inst. Technol.), Jun-Seok.
OH, Tatsuru SHIRAFUJI
11th International Symposium on Advanced Plasma Science and its Applications for Nitrides and Nanomaterials /12th International Conference on Plasma-Nano Technology & Science, March 17-21, 2019, Nagoya, Japan (Poster)
The Performance of Three-dimensionally Integrated Micro Solution Plasma Assisted with Argon Microbubble
Reiya NAKAGAWA†, Hiroto MASUNAGA†, Jun-Seok OH, Tatsuru SHIRAFUJI
11th International Symposium on Advanced Plasma Science and its Applications for Nitrides and Nanomaterials /12th International Conference on Plasma-Nano Technology & Science, March 17-21, 2019, Nagoya, Japan (Poster)
The APPJ Treatment for Improving Water Permeability of a Bone-regeneration Scaffold with GroundedElectrode
Yuki HAMAMOTO†, Masato OSHIRO†, Jun-Seok OH, Kumi ORITA (Faculty of Medicine), Hiromitsu TOYODA(Faculty of Medicine), Tatsuru SHIRAFUJI
11th International Symposium on Advanced Plasma Science and its Applications for Nitrides and Nanomaterials /12th International Conference on Plasma-Nano Technology & Science, March 17-21, 2019, Nagoya, Japan (Poster)
Simultaneous Achievement of Bactericidal Efficacy and Plant-growth in Neutral pH Range using RadicalActivated Benzoic Compounds
Naoyuki IWATA, Vladislav GAMALEEV, Jun-Seok OH, Hiroshi HASHIZIME, Takayuki OHTA, Kenji
ISHIKAWA, Masaru HORI and Masafumi ITO
11th International Symposium on Advanced Plasma Science and its Applications for Nitrides and Nanomaterials /12th International Conference on Plasma-Nano Technology and Science, March 17-21, Nagoya, Japan (Oral)International Study of Plasma Activated Water: Chemical Composition of RONS
Jun-Seok OH, Endre SZILI, Rrobert SHORT, Akimitsu HATTA, Mineo HIRAMATSU and Masafumi ITO
11th International Symposium on Advanced Plasma Science and its Applications for Nitrides and Nanomaterials /12th International Conference on Plasma-Nano Technology and Science, March 17-21, Nagoya, Japan (Oral)
Measurement of Water Cluster Ions in Plasma Plume of an Atmospheric Pressure He Plasma Jet
Jun-Seok OH, Yoshihiro NAKAI, Toshiyuki KAWASAKI, Tatsuru SHIRAFUJI, Masaru HORI, Mineo
HIRAMATSU and Masafumi ITO
40th International Symposium on Dry Process (DPS2018), Nov. 13-15, Nagoya, Japan (Poster)Analysis of Radical-Treated Amino Acid Using UV Absorption Spectroscopy for Plasma-Medical
Application
Noyuki IWATA, Hiroshi HASHIZUME, Jun-Seok OH, Masaru HORI and Masafumi ITO
40th International Symposium on Dry Process (DPS2018), Nov. 13-15, Nagoya, Japan (Poster)
Terahertz Emission from Coherent Longitudinal Optical (LO) Phonons and LO-phonon-plasmon Coupledmodes in a Low-Temperature-Grown GaAs Epitaxial Layer－90－

Hideo TAKEUCHI, Takuya NISHIMURA†, Masaaki NAKAYAMA, Andra CHEN, Richard L. FIELD, III, andRachel S. GOLDMAN
The 21st International Conference on Electron Dynamics in Semiconductors, Optoelectronics and Nanostructures(EDISON21), Nara Japan (July 14 – 19, 2019)－91－

Applied Chemistry and Bioengineering
Hydrogen Reduction Synthesis of Lithium Titanium Oxides as a High Rate Electrode without
Conductive Additive
K. ARIYOSHI, T. INO†, Y. YAMADAThe 22th International Symposium on Batteries, Fuel Cells and Capacitors, Osaka, November 27-29,
2018
Preparation of Mesoporous Assemblies Composed of Prussian Blue Nanospheres
S. YOROZU†, M. YAMANE†, H. TABE, Y. YAMADA
The 10th OCARINA International Symposium, Osaka, Japan, March 5-6, 2019 (poster)Synthesis of Coordination Polymers Involving 1,10-phenanthroline-5,6-diolate Iron(III) Complex
as a Monomer Unit
Y. KIMOTO†, H. TABE, Y. YAMADA
The 10th OCARINA International Symposium, Osaka, Japan, March 5-6, 2019 (poster)
Structure Analyses of the Solid Organic Molecule Hydrogen Peroxide Adducts
M. MAETANI†, H. TABE, Y. YAMADA
The 10th OCARINA International Symposium, Osaka, Japan, March 5-6, 2019 (poster)
Immobilization of Enzymes in a Bottom-up Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles Assembly
H. OSHIMA†, H. TABE, S. IKEYAMA, Y. AMAO, Y. YAMADA
The 10th OCARINA International Symposium, Osaka, Japan, March 5-6, 2019 (poster)pH-dependent Catalytic Activity of Prussian Blue Analogs with CN-deficient Sites for Hydrolysisof Organophosphates
M. YAMANE†, H. TABE, Y. YAMADA
The 10th OCARINA International Symposium, Osaka, Japan, March 5-6, 2019 (poster)High Stability of Ir(OH)3 Supported on a Bottom-Up Mesoporous Silica During Photocatalytic
Water Oxidation
G. SAKAMOTO†, H. TABE, Y. YAMADA
The 10th OCARINA International Symposium, Osaka, Japan, March 5-6, 2019 (poster)
Catalytic Activity of Cyano-Bridged Polynuclear Metal Complexes for Organophosphate
Hydrolysis
Y. YAMADAWorld Chemistry Forum 2019, Barcelona, Spain, May 22-24, 2019
High Stability of Ir(OH)3 Supported on a Bottom-up Mesoporous Silica for Photocatalytic Water
Splitting
G. SAKAMOTO†, H. TABE, Y. YAMADA
3rd Young Meeting of the International Solar Fuels Conference, Hiroshima, Japan, November 19-20,
2019 (poster)
Immobilization of Enzymes in a Bottom-up Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles Assembly toEnhance Catalytic Activity and Recyclability
H. OSHIMA†, H. TABE, S. IKEYAMA, Y. AMAO, Y. YAMADA
3rd Young Meeting of the International Solar Fuels Conference, Hiroshima, Japan, November 19-20,
2019 (poster)
Photocatalytic H2-evolusion Systems Constructed in Porous Protein Crystals
H. TABE, H. TAKAHASHI†, S. ABE, T. UENO, Y. YAMADA
3rd Young Meeting of the International Solar Fuels Conference, Hiroshima, Japan, November 19-20,
2019

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Subsurface Contribution to Photocatalytic Water Oxidation Catalysis of Cyano-bridged
Coordination Polymer Nanoparticles
H. TABE, A. KITASE†, Y. YAMADA
3rd International Solar Fuels Conference and International Conference on Artificial
Photosynthesis-2019, Hiroshima, Japan, November 20-24, 2019
Workshop Instructor on “Micro and Energy Dispersive XRF”
K. TSUJI
68th Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis Denver X-ray Conference, Lombard, Illinois,
U.S.A., August 5-9, 2019 (invited)
Workshop Instructor on “Trace Analysis”,
K. TSUJI
68th Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis Denver X-ray Conference, Lombard, Illinois,
U.S.A., August 5-9, 2019 (invited)
Scanning and Full Field X-Ray Fluorescence Imaging with Laboratory X-ray Source
K. TSUJI, M. NAKANISHI†, R. OZEKI†, T. MATSUYAMA
PSA-19, 8th International Symposium on Practical Surface Analysis, Hokkaido, Japan, November 3-8, 2019(invited)
Total Reflection X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis Using Carbon Coated Glass Substrate
K. TSUJI, S. MURAKAMI†, T. MATSUYAMA
18th International Conference on Total Reflection X-ray Fluorescence Analysis and Related Methods(TXRF2019), Girona, Spain, June 25-28, 2019
Full Field Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence Imaging Under Glancing Incidence Condition
K. TSUJI, A. YAMAUCHI, T. MATSUYAMA
18th International Conference on Total Reflection X-ray Fluorescence Analysis and Related Methods(TXRF2019), Girona, Spain, June 25-28, 2019 (poster)Trace Elemental Analysis of High Matrix Samples with Total Reflection X-Ray Fluorescence
Spectrometry
H. TAKAHARA, W. MATSUDA, Y. KUSAKABE, A. OHBUCHI, S. IKEDA, N. KAWAHARA†, T.
FURUSATO†, K. TSUJI
18th International Conference on Total Reflection X-ray Fluorescence Analysis and Related Methods(TXRF2019), Girona, Spain, June 25-28, 2019
Rapid and Effective Sample Preparation for TXRF Analysis of Drinking Water Containing Uranium
at Reference Level of Risk
T. MATSUYAMA, Y. IZUMOTO, Y. SAKAI, K. TSUJI, H. YOSHII
18th International Conference on Total Reflection X-ray Fluorescence Analysis and Related Methods(TXRF2019), Girona, Spain, June 25-28, 2019
TXRF Analysis Using Carbon Coated Glass Substrate in Comparison with Conventional Sample
Preparation
T. MATSUYAMA, H. YOSHI, K. TSUJI
68th Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis Denver X-ray Conference, Lombard, Illinois,
U.S.A., August 5-9, 2019
Full Field Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence Imaging and Compressed Sensing Analysis forSuper-Resolution Analysis
K. TSUJI, A. YAMAUCHI, T. MATSUYAMA
68th Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis Denver X-ray Conference, Lombard, Illinois,－93－

U.S.A., August 5-9, 2019 (poster)Confocal Line XRF Analysis in Comparison with Confocal Point Micro XRF Analysis
T. MATSUYAMA, S. SONODA†, H. NAKANO†, K. TSUJI
68th Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis Denver X-ray Conference, Lombard, Illinois,
U.S.A., August 5-9, 2019 (poster)Controlled Degradation of Polyperoxides for Application to High Performance Dismantlable
Adhesives
Eriko SATO
An International Conference on Colloid & Surface Science (Okinawa Colloids 2019), Okinawa, Japan,
November 3-8, 2019 (invited)
Monofunctional Dual Stimuli-Responsive Organogels: Thermo- and Photo-Responsive Behavior of
Coumarin Polymer-Based Organogel
Seidai OKADA†, Eriko SATO, Yuta KODA, Hideo HORIBE
An International Conference on Colloid & Surface Science (Okinawa Colloids 2019), Okinawa, Japan,
November 3-8, 2019 (oral and poster)Cononsolvency and Thermo-Responsive Behavior of Coumarin Derivative Polymers in Non-Hydrogen
Bonding Organic Solvents
Seidai OKADA†, Eriko SATO
2nd G'L'owing Polymer Symposium in KANTO (GPS-K 2019), Tokyo, Japan, November 30, 2019
Controlled Reductive Decomposition of Alternating Copolymers of Oxygen and Dienes Having
Different Regioselectivity and Their Application to Debondable Adhesives
Eriko SATO
The 16th Pacific Polymer Conference (PPC-16), Suntec, Singapore, December 8-12, 2019 (invited)
Photoinduced Shape Change of Crystals Composed of a Diarylethene with a Long Alkyl Chain
Takuya HIGASHIGUCHI†, Daichi KITAGAWA, Seiya KOBATAKE
10th OCARINA International Symposium, Osaka, Japan, March 5-6, 2019 (poster)
Photoluminescence Switching of Quantum Dot Coated with Diarylethenes by Photochromic Reaction
Yuya SETO†, Daichi KITAGAWA, DaeGwi KIM, Seiya KOBATAKE
10th OCARINA International Symposium, Osaka, Japan, March 5-6, 2019 (poster)
Bright and Tunable Emission of BODIPY in Solid State
Katsuya SHIMIZU†, Seiya KOBATAKE
10th OCARINA International Symposium, Osaka, Japan, March 5-6, 2019 (poster)
Unusual Photomechanical Behavior of Photochromic Diarylethene Crystals
Seiya KOBATAKE
24th International Conference on the Chemistry of the Organic Solid State (ICCOSS XXVI 2019), New York,U.S.A., June 16-21, 2019 (invited)
Effect of Illumination Conditions on Photomechanical Response of Diarylethene Crystals
Daichi KITAGAWA, Seiya KOBATAKE
24th International Conference on the Chemistry of the Organic Solid State (ICCOSS XXVI 2019), New York,U.S.A., June 16-21, 2019
Mechanism of Photoinduced Birefringence Change in Diarylethene Single Crystals
Kohei MORIMOTO†, Hajime TSUJIOKA†, Daichi KITAGAWA, Seiya KOBATAKE
24th International Conference on the Chemistry of the Organic Solid State (ICCOSS XXVI 2019), New York,U.S.A., June 16-21, 2019 (poster)－94－

Photo-Functional Materials using Photochromic Diarylethenes
Daichi KITAGAWA
Inner Mongolia-Japan International Joint Research: Functional Molecular Chemistry Lecture Meeting,Inner Mongolia, China, August 21-22, 2019 (invited)
Irradiation Method Dependence of Photoinduced Shape Change of Diarylethene Crystals
Seiya KOBATAKE, Daichi KITAGAWA, Akira HIRANO†
9th International Symposium on Photochromism (ISOP2019), Paris, France, September 23-27, 2019
Synthesis and Fluorescence Switching of Hyper-Branched Polymers Having Diarylethene at
Branching Point
Katsuya SHIMIZU†, Rémi MÉTIVIER (ENS Paris-Saclay), Seiya KOBATAKE
9th International Symposium on Photochromism (ISOP2019), Paris, France, September 23-27, 2019 (poster)Development of Novel Photomechanical Phenomena of Photoresponsive Molecular Crystals by
High-order Photoexcitation
Seiya KOBATAKE
Final International Symposium on Photosynergetics, Osaka, Japan, October 23-26, 2019
One-step optical resolution of alanine by preferential crystallization combined with enzymatic
racemization
T. FUJIMURA†, and K. IGARASHI
18th Asian Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering (APCChE) Congress, Sapporo, Japan, September
27-27, 2019 (oral and poster)
Enhancement of crystal nucleation of L-alanine by plastic piece moving in the solution
M. HANADA†, T. KOBAYASHI, and K. IGARASHI
18th Asian Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering (APCChE) Congress, Sapporo, Japan, September
27-27, 2019 (oral and poster)
Small scale continuous crystallizer to produce uniform small crystals
A. OKADA†, H. OOSHIMA and K. IGARASHI
18th Asian Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering (APCChE) Congress, Sapporo, Japan, September
27-27, 2019 (oral and poster)
Functional Evaluation of Kojic Acid Modified Carborane Developed as a Boron Drug for Melanoma
BNCT Satoshi DOWAKI†, Koki MATSUURA†, Riku KAWASAKI†, Yoshihide HATTORI, Yoshinori
SAKURAI, Shin-ichiro MASUNAGA, Mitsunori KIRIHATA, and Takeshi NAGASAKIThe 18th International Congress on Neutron Capture Therapy, Taipei, Taiwan, October 28-November 2,
2018; Preprints.
Cellular Uptake Mechanism of Kojic Acid Modified o-Carborane as a Boron Drug toward
Melanoma-Targeting BNCT
Takeshi NAGASAKI, Satoshi DOWAKI†, Riku KAWASAKI†, Yoshihide HATTORI, Yoshinori SAKURAI,
Shin-ichiro MASUNAGA, and Mitsunori KIRIHATA
The 10th Young Researchers BNCT Meeting, Helsinki, Finland, September 26- September 29, 2019;
Preprints.
Maximum oxygen transfer capacity with different shaking diameters in elevated viscosity media
Yoshihiro OJIMA, René HANKE (RWTH Aachen University), David WOLLBORN (RWTH Aachen
University), Jochen BÜCHS (RWTH Aachen University)
18th Asian Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering Congress (APCChE 2019), K313, Sapporo,
Japan, September 23-27, 2019
Identification and analyses of cell surface proteins involved in emulsification and macrophageactivation from Saccharomyces cerevisiae－95－

Mana UEDA†, Daiki SAITO†, Yoshihiro OJIMA, Masayuki AZUMA
18th Asian Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering Congress (APCChE 2019), PL328, Sapporo,
Japan, September 23-27, 2019 (Poster)
Efficient formation of Escherichia coli flocs by glycerol addition
Hiroaki HOMMA†, Mio OTSUKA†, Yoshihiro OJIMA, Masayuki AZUMA
18th Asian Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering Congress (APCChE 2019), PL329, Sapporo,
Japan, September 23-27, 2019 (Poster)
Promoted secretory protein production by constructing hyper-vesiculation strains of Escherichia coli
Tomomi SAWABE†, Katsuya KONAMI†, Yoshihiro OJIMA, Masayuki AZUMAThe 14th Asian Congress on Biotechnology (ACB2019), P2-122, Tamsui, Taiwan, July 1-4, 2019 (Poster)Construction of superior catalyst suitable for microbial fuel cell and effect of anode composition on
power of the fuel cell
Ryota KIKUCHI†, Taichi KAWAGUCHI†, Daisuke KOMA (Osaka Research Institute of Science andTechnology), Takashi OHMOTO (Osaka Research Institute of Science and Technology), Yoshihiro OJIMA,
Masayuki AZUMAThe 14th Asian Congress on Biotechnology (ACB2019), P2-143, Tamsui, Taiwan, July 1-4, 2019 (Poster)
Increased poly-γ-glutamic acid production by disruption of ggt gene in Bacillus licheniformis RK14-46
strain and its application for flocculation of real sewage sludge
Yoshihiro OJIMA, Joji KOBAYASHI†, Masayuki Azuma
The 14th Asian Congress on Biotechnology (ACB2019), S17-04, Tamsui, Taiwan, July 1-4, 2019－96－

Urban Engineering
Urban Design and Engineering
A Study on the Effect of Motorcycle Traffic Safety Workshop for High School and University Students
in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Toshiki KOYANAGI, Nagahiro YOSHIDA, and Yuto KITAMURA (The University of Tokyo)
Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., The United States of America, 13-17 January 2019.
Latent Opportunities for Two-rider Bicycles and Associated Challenges based on Assessments of its
Use by People with Reduced Mobility
Nagahiro YOSHIDA
VELO-CITY GLOBAL 2019, Dublin, Ireland, 25-28 June 2019. (Poster Session)
Changes in Subjective and Objective Comfort for Pedestrians and Cyclists After Road-Space
Reallocation: A Case Study of Midosuji, Osaka
Nagahiro YOSHIDA, Haruka KAWACHI†, Pola BERENT (University College London), and Taku
FUJIYAMA (University College London)
The 13th International Conference of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS), Colombo,
Sri Lanka, 9-12 September 2019.
Evaluation of Road Space Reallocation for Pedestrians and Cyclists Using the Level of Service
Concept on Midosuji Street in Japan
Haruka KAWACHI†, Nagahiro YOSHIDA, and Atsushi TAKIZAWA
The 20th International Walk21 Conference on Walking and Liveable Communities, Rotterdam, Netherlands,
7-10 October 2019.
The relationship between businesses’ handled amount and released/transferred amount of chemical
substances according to the PRTR system
Satoshi MIZUTANI, Ryusuke SUGIURA†, Satoshi NAKAMURA, Yoshinori YABUKI, Yusuke TAWA,
Kazushi NORO, Yoshinori KANJO
Proc. of the 5th 3R International Scientific Conference on Material Cycles and Waste Management (3RINCs),
Bangkok, Thailand, 27–28 February, 1 March 2019
An Experimental Study on the Interaction between Oscillatory Flow and Idealized Porous Bed
Takaaki SHIGEMATSU, Sota NAKAJO, Yuya OKADA
The 15th International Coastal Symposium (ICS), Busan, Republic of Korea, 13th-18th May, 2018.
Morphological Changes at the Mouth of the Shirakawa River after Kumamoto Earthquake
Ryota YAMAGUCHI, Gozo TSUJIMOTO, Takaomi HOKAMURA, Sota NAKAJO, Ngoc Than NGUYEN
The 28th International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference, Sapporo, Japan, 10th-15th June, 2018.
Sensitivity of Tropical Cyclone Track to Assessment of Severe Storm Surge Event at Tokyo Bay
Sota NAKAJO, Hideyuki FUJIKI, Sooyoul KIM, Nobuhito MORI
The 36th Conference on Coastal Engineering, Baltimore, Maryland, 30th July-3rd August, 2018.
Turbulent Flow Induced by Oscillating Circular Cylinder Arrays
Takaaki SHIGEMATSU and Hiroshi Matsumoto
The 36th Conference on Coastal Engineering, Baltimore, Maryland, 30th July-3rd August, 2018.
Projection of Future Change in Storm Surges by Artificial Neural Network and d4PDF
Yuji ARAKI, Tomohiro YASUDA, Nobuhito MORI, Sota NAKAJOThe 15th Annual Meeting Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, Honolulu, Hawaii, 3rd-8th June, 2018
Modelling the life cycles of harmful diatoms and its application to the benthic-pelagic coupledecosystem model, to reveal the mechanisms of the bleaching in aquacultured nori－97－

Akio SOHMA, Riku IMADA†, Tetsuya NISHIKAWA (Hyogo Prefectural Technology Center for Agriculture,
Forestry and Fisheries), Hisashi SHIBUKI (Mizuho Information and Research Inst.)
Proc. of the international Society for Ecological Modelling Global Conference 2019, GEN01.04, Salzburg,
AUSTRIA (2019.10) (on WEB)
Estimation on spatial distribution and ecosystem network of ayu Plecoglossus altivelis altivelis in the
inner part of Osaka Bay
Toru ENDO, Kentaro HIRANO†, Sosuke OTANI, Ryoichi YANAGAWA, Yasunori KOZUKI
12th International Conference on the Environmental Management of Enclosed Coastal Seas, Pattaya,
Thailand, November 4-8, 2018. (poster)
Air-Sea CO2 Exchange and Dissolved Inorganic Carbon Distribution in an Inner Part of Osaka Bay,Japan
Toru ENDO, Junpei SHIMAN, Noriko HARADA†, Daiki SAKAI, Ryuichi FUJIWARA
10th International Conference on Asian and Pacific Coastas, 2019, Hanoi Vietnam, September 25-28, 2019.

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