5 Research Frontier of Developing Energy and Environmental-friendly Materials

Wednesday, September 30
Venue: Convention Hall 300/Conference Room 405

Research Frontier of Developing Energy and Environmental-friendly
Materials
The topics in this section are focused on recent progress in a variety of fields related toenergy-related functional and sustainable materials including fuel cells, photovoltaics,
nano-functional systems, etc.
Session Organizer: Tatsuya Nabeshima
Session 4 / 5
Universe Evolution and Matter Origin / Research Frontier of Developing Energy andEnvironmental-friendly Materials

9:00-9:10

9:10-9:45

9:45-10:20
10:20-10:45

10:45-11:20

11:20-11:55
11:55-13:00

Chair: Fumihiko Ukegawa, University of Tsukuba
Director, Center for Integrated Researchin Fundamental Science and Engineering,
Kazuyuki Kanaya
University of Tsukuba
Opening Address and Introduction to CiRfSE
CERN, Switzerland
Guillaume Unal
Tentative: LHC/ATLAS and Higgs
Chair: Eiji Nishibori, University of Tsukuba
Center for Materials Crystallography (CMC),
Bo Iversen
Aarhus University
Watching nanocrystals form
Break
Chair: ShinIchi Esumi, University of Tsukuba
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Roy Lacey
Particle correlation studies in RHIC-BES: Probes for the critical end point in
the QCD phase diagram
Chair: Junji Nakamura, University of Tsukuba
National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory,Junfa Zhu
University of Science and Technology of China
Applications of synchrotron radiation soft X-ray spectroscopies in the studies
of energy-related functional materials
Lunch (3F Convention Hall 300)

Session 5: Research Frontier of Developing Energy and Environmental-friendly Materials(4F Conference Hall 405)
Chair: Yutaka Moritomo, University of Tsukuba
Department of Physics, Tamkang University
Cheng-Hao Chuang
13:00-13:35 X-ray spectroscopic study for different surface bonding environments ofgraphene oxide41

13:35-14:05
14:05-14:15
14:15-14:45

14:45-15:10
15:10-15:20

15:20-15:55

15:55-16:25
16:25-16:35

16:35-17:05

17:05-17:30

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Photon Factory, Institute of Materials Structure
Science (IMSS), KEK
Visualizing bond formation in solution with femtosecond X-ray scattering
Break
The Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP),
Synchrotron Radiation Research Organization,
Yoshihisa Harada
the University of Tokyo
A new perspective on the structure of water: An electronic structure study
Division of Physics, Faculty of Pure andHideharu Niwa
Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba
Operando soft X-ray emission spectroscopy of non-Pt oxygen reduction
catalysts for polymer electrolyte fuel cells
BreakChair: Junfa Zhu (National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory,
University of Science and Technology of China)
Department of Chemistry and Department ofYu Kwon Kim
Energy Systems Research, Ajou University
Enhanced catalytic activity of chemically modiﬁed TiO2 nanocrystals
Division of Applied Chemistry, Faculty ofShin-ichiro Fujita
Engineering , Hokkaido University
Mechanism of methanol synthesis over Cu/ZnO: Difference between CO2 andCO hydrogenations
BreakChair: Tatsuya Nabeshima, University of Tsukuba
Global Research Center for Environment and Energy
Tsuyoshi Takata
based on Nanomaterials Science (GREEN), NIMS
Development of photocatalysts for water splitting under visible light irradiation
Tsukuba Research Center for Interdisciplinary
Materials Science (TIMS), Graduate School ofJunpei Kuwabara
Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba
Practical synthetic method of conjugated polymer materials for organic
photovoltaics
Shin-ichi Adachi