Risa Kasahara, a new fourth-year student in the Department of Chemistry, has been assigned as a new member for FY2025. We are looking forward to working with her.

Congratulations to M2 students Kamigaito and Sano for graduating with master’s degrees, B4 students Tsukiji and Kishi for graduating with bachelor’s degrees, and research student Yao Yao for graduating as a research student. We would like to congratulate them all! We sincerely wish them all the best in their new endeavors.

Chikamatsu gave an invited talk titled “Crystal structure and fluoride ion conductivity of strontium cerium fluoride thin films” at The 17th Industry-Academia Collaboration Subcommittee of the Fluorine Chemistry Society of Japan held at Waim Ochanomizu in Tokyo.

M2 Kamigaito gave an oral presentation and M2 Sano gave a poster presentation at the 13th Young Researchers’ Meeting on Fluorine Chemistry at Naha Cultural Arts Theater in Naha City.

The paper on the topochemical fluorination of bismuth iron oxide thin films has been published in Cryst. Growth Des.. It is the result of joint research with the University of Tokyo, Hokkaido University, and Tokyo Metropolitan University. “Topochemical Fluorination of Epitaxial Thin Films of Barium-Doped Bismuth Iron Oxyfluoride”

Chikamatsu gave an oral presentation titled “Preparation of bismuth oxyfluoride single crystal thin films and their room temperature multiferroic properties” at the 48th Annual Conference on MAGNETICS in Japan held at Akita University.

M1 Nakano and M1 Hagiwara gave oral presentations and M2 Kamigaito and M2 Sano gave poster presentations at The 85th JSAP Autumn Meeting 2024 at Toki Messe in Niigata City.

The paper on cation control in double-perovskite cobaltate films has been published in J. Mater. Chem. C. This is the result of joint research with Hokkaido University and RIKEN. “Cation-placement control in double-perovskite GdBaCo2O6 and its impact on magnetism via spin-state modification”

The paper on large tensile-strained barium titanate films has been published in CrystEngComm. This is the result of joint research with Hokkaido University. “Large tensile-strained BaTiO3 films grown on a lattice-mismatched La-doped BaSnO3 bottom electrode“

The collaborative research project “Development of room temperature multiferroic oxyfluoride thin films”, in which Chikamatsu is the principal investigator and is collaborating with Prof. Katayama of Hokkaido University, was awarded the 6th Materials and Devices Joint Research Award.