A photograph of a certain type of cherry blossoms bloomed in early May. At the peak bloom date, even leaves look beautiful. It’s fun to see cherry blossoms in each area of Japan and eat delicious foods with seeing them.

Pacifichem 2010, an International conference on chemistry, was held in Hawaii on last December. On my way from the conference building to the hotel, I stop at Waikiki beach to take a rest, and then…

We won the final match of “Tsutsumi-hai”, knockout-style baseball games in our department, toward Hirao laboratory at Kyocera Dome Osaka. The final score is 5 to 1!!

We visited Himeji in Hyogo prefecture as a lab trip. A group photo of our lab members taken at Koukoen, adjacent to Himeji Castle.

My research topic is “Fabrication of nanowires from ionic liquids”. What you see in the upper side in the picture is ionic liquids in sample tubes. I feel a frustration at the absence of nanowires in samples so far…but I will try my best!!