2022/6/3
Warm welcome, a new PhD student, Ma Zongpeng coming from China
2022/5/24 Open position We are now recruiting a new postdoc fellow starting from July 2022 or later. Please check the details here.
2022/5/13
Visiting professor, Prof. Hsiang-Lin Liu (National Taiwan Normal Univeristy), arrives our lab and will stay until January 2023 during his sabbatical. Welcome!
2022/4/19
Our review paper on the new KAKENHI (MEXT) Program, "Science of 2.5D Materials", has been published in Sci. Tech. Adv. Mater. This paper introdues our new project and proposes a novel concept of "2.5D materials".
2022/4/7
Our paper on the machine learning analysis of graphene is highlighted by AZO NANO
2022/4/6
Warm welcome, new master course students, Emoto and Kuroki !
2022/4/1
Dr. Pablo is appointed as a Research Associate Professor of Kyushu University
2022/1/19
Pablo's new paper on the determination of twist angle of bilayer graphene by machine learning and Raman spectroscopy has been published in ACS Appl. Nano Mater..
2021
2021/12/10
Our new paper on the observation of coupling and decoupling in bilayer graphene has been published in Nano Letters. This is the collaboration with Prof. Suenaga (Osaka Univ), Dr. Lin (AIST), and Prof. Matsumoto (Tokyo Polytechnic Univ).
2021/10/19
Our new finding of new 2D structures in confined nanospace of bilayer graphene has been published in Advanced Materials. This is the collaboration with Prof. Suenaga (Osaka Univ), Dr. Lin (AIST), Prof. Krasheninnikov (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf) and Prof. Matsumoto (Tokyo Polytechnic Univ).
2021/9/7
Prof. Ago gave an invited talk at SSDM2021 (online)
2021/8/26
Prof. Ago gave a plenary talk at 2DMAT2021, which is held both online and in Paris.
2021/6/8
On June 10, Ago is giving an invited talk at 2D Experimental Pilot Line (2D-EPL) workshop of EU Graphene Flagship（Wafer Level Single Crystalline 2D Materials event). Details and registraion are here.
2021/4/5
Three new master couse students, Otsu, Kusunose, Nakayama, have joined our lab. Welcome!
2021/4/1
Warm welcome, Dr. Taira, from Univ. Tokyo! He is appointed as a JSPS Fellow.
2021/3/30
Hyungoo's new paper on the artificially stacked bilayer WS2 has been published in ACS Applied Nano Materials. Hyungoo is now in EPFL, Switzerland.
2021/3/24
Koki and Syota received the master degrees. Congratulations and good luck at the new places!!
2020
2020/12/21
Our paper collaborated with Prof. Kishida of Nagoya University has been published in Journal of Physical Chemistry C. This is the collaboration with Prof. Schluze of Leibniz Institute of Surface Engineering, Germany.
2020/11/30
Rasel's paper on the water purification using h-BN membranes has been published in Chemical Engineering Journal. This is the collaboration with Prof. Schluze of Leibniz Institute of Surface Engineering, Germany.
2020/10/22
Prof. Ago gave a Keynote talk at the h-BN Workshop of Graphene2020 by online.
2020/9/30
Hyungoo and Ufuk recieved the PhD degrees from Kyushu University. They join A. Kis lab. in EPFL and NTT research lab., respectively. Good luck with their future!!
2020/9/22
Former graduate student, Yuki's new paper on the growth of uniform multilayer h-BN has been published in ACS Appl. Electron. Mater.
2020/9/22
Ufuk's new paper on the CVD growth and optical properties of 2D perovskites has been published in Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. This is the collaboration with Prof. Nishibori of Tsukuba University.
2020/8/20
Hyungo and Ufuk have finished the final defense (public) for their PhD degrees.
2020/5/19
Congratulations, Pablo and Yuri, for the publication in ACS Nano! We develped a new method to control the stacking order of bilayer graphene which can be useful for semiconductor applications. This is the collaboration with Tokyo Univ., AIST, and Kwansei Gauin Univ.
2020/5/5
Our new paper has been published in ACS Omega. This is the collaboration with Prof. Takahashi of Kyushu University, supported by JST-CREST project.
2020/4/25
Our new paper has been published in ACS Nano. This is the collaboration with Dr. Suenaga and Yung-Chang (AIST) and many teams in South Korea and Taiwan.
2020/4/1
Warm welcome to Yuji, Tohru (master course), and Hsin (research student from Taiwan). Welcome to our team!!
2020/3/4
<OPEN POSITION> JSPS Postdoc Fellowship for Foregin Researchers : one position is avaliable for the next submission from our group (starting from October 2020 for 2 years). Please contact Prof. Ago for this application (deadline of the contact is March 16, 2020). Currently, one of our lab members, Dr. Das, is supported by this JSPS Fellowship.
2019
2019/12/16
Our new paper has been published in Nano Energy. This is the collaboration with Prof. Ohno and Dr. Aji of Nagoya Univ, and highlighted in many medias.
2019/10/21
Ufuk's paper has been published in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. This is the collaboration with Kyoto Univ., Tsukuba Univ., and AIST.
2019/10/15
Our previous paper published inChem. Soc. Rev. has been selected as top 5% highly cited paper in Royal Society of Chemistry journals.
2019/10/11
Prof. Ago gave an invited talk at RPGR2019.
2019/9/6
Hyungoo's paper has been published in Adv. Mater. This is the collaboration with Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Tsukuba Univ., and Kyushu Synchrotron Light Res. Center.
2019/9/5
Prof. Ago gave an invited talk at SSDM2019.
2019/7/25
Alex's paper has been published in Nanoscale. This is the collaboration with AIST and Kwansei Gakuin Univ.
2019/6/6
We have "35th nanotech seminar" by Dr. Suenaga and Dr. Yung-Chang from AIST.
2019/4/18
We support the submission to JSPS Fellowship (postdoc position) which starts from April, 2020. The detailed information is here. Please contact us.
2019/4/16
Welcome back, Satoshi (technical staff), to our team !!
2019/4/3
Warm welcome to Koki, Shota (master course) and Hitomi (technical assistant). Welcome to our team!!
2019/3/20
Yuki has received the PhD degree. Masato, Syun, and Daichi received the master degrees. Congratulations and good luck in new places!!
2019/3/15
Our new paper has been published in Scientific Reports. This is the collaboration with Shibaura Inst. Tech. and Tsukuba Univ.
2019/2/4
Our new paper has been published inScience Advanced. This is the collaboration with AIST. This work is press released by Kyushu Univ. and AIST (both in Japanese).
2019/2/3
Our new paper has been published in npj 2D Mater. and Applications. This is the collaboration with Nagoya, Tsukuba, Tokyo, Hokkaido Univ. and AIST.
2018
2018/9/26
Our new paper has been published in Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. This is the collaboration with Tsukuba Univ. and Kyoto Univ.
2018/10/4
We have "34th Nanotechnology Seminar" by Dr. Rozan Mohamad Yunus of National University of Malaysia.
2018/9/26
Our new paper has been published in ACS Nano reporting the highly epitaxial growth of MoS2 atomic layers and the graphene-MoS2 in-plane heterostructure. This is the collaboration with AIST, NPL (UK), Tsukuba Univ., and Kwanseigakuin Univ.
2018/6/16
Our new paper has been published in ACS Nano reporting the CVD synthesis of high-quality, uniform multilayer h-BN which will boost the 2D materials applications.
2018/5/28 JSPS Postdoc Fellowship for Foregin Researchers: One position is avaliable for the next submission from our group (Start from April 2019, deadline is August 6. Please contact Prof. Ago by July 15, 2018 for the application from our lab). Detailed information can be found here.
2018/4/16
Welcome back, Pablo!!
2018/4/10 Congraturations! Yuri (master course student) recieved the Young Scientist Poster Award at the 54th Fullerenes-Nanotubes-Graphene General Symposium
2018/4/5
New master course students (Hiroki, Daiki, and Amane) have joined our group. Welcome!
2018/3/30
Our new paper has been published in Nature Communications reporting the ultrahigh speed IR emission from graphene which can be applied to optical communications. This is the collaboration with Prof. Maki (Keio Univ.).
2018/3/22
Our new paper has been published in Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. reporting the moisture barrier properties of monolayer graphene. This is the collaboration with Prof. Ueno (Shibaura Inst. Tech.).
2018/3/15
We had "33rd Nanotechnology Seminar" by Prof. Yutaka Ohno of Naoya University.
2018/3/2
PhD student, Yuki, has visited National Graphene Institute, University of Manchester for one month.
2018/2/27
Our recent work on the intercalation in bilayer graphene has been highlighted by Nature INDEX ("Graphene sandwich fillers have potential").
2018/2/24 JSPS Postdoc Fellowship for Foregin Researchers: One position is avaliable for the next submission from our group (Starting from October 2018, deadline is March 28, 2018. Please contact Prof. Ago by March 10, 2018 for the application from our lab). Detailed information can be found here.
2018/1/17 Dr. Rasel Das (Leibniz Institute for Surface Modification) has recieved the JSPS Fellowship starting from April, 2018. JSPS website
2018/1/4
Our new paper has been published in Chem. Mater.. This is the collaboration with Dr. Suenaga's group (AIST), Prof. Okada's group (Tsukuba Univ.), Prof. Nagashio (Univ. Tokyo), and Dr. Panchal (NPL, UK).
2017
2017/12/28
Our new paper has been published in J. Phys. Chem. C. This is the collaboration with Prof. Hibino (Kwansei Gakuin Univ.).
2017/12/16
Our new paper has been published in Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.. This is the collaboration with Prof. Nakashima and Yamamoto (GIC).
2017/11/30 Congraturations! Kenshiro (master course student) recieved Outstanding Paper Award at CSS-EEST19
2017/10/27
Our new paper has been published in Adv. Funct. Mater.. This is the collaboration with Prof. Fukuda (RIKEN).
2017/10/6
Warm welcome, Ufuk (new PhD student) from Turkey!
2017/9/25
Ding recieved PhD and joins Furukawa Battery Co. Good luck!
2017/9/19
Our new paper has been published in Adv. Mater. (IF=19.8). This is the collaboration with Prof. Okada (Tsukuba Univ.), Prof. Matsuo (Univ. Tokyo), and Prof. Matsumoto (Tokyo Polytech. Univ.).
2017/7/11
Our new review paper has been published in Chem. Soc. Rev. (IF=38.6). This is co-authored by Pablo (former postdoc) and Mark (Univ. Manchester).
2017/7/5
We recieve new research grant from JSPS (Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory))
2017/6/1 JSPS Postdoc Fellowship for Foregin Researchers: One position is avaliable for the next submission from our group (Start from April 2018, deadline is August 2. Please contact Prof. Ago by July 15, 2017 for the application from our lab). Detailed information can be found here.
2017/5/26
Excellence in Review Award from Chemistry of Materials (ACS)
2017/5/15 Congraturations! Uchida (PhD student) received Young Scientist Presentation Award from The Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP)
2017/4/6 New master course students (Akiyama, Oyama, Tanaka) and one research student (Alex) has joined our group. Welcome to the Advanced Nanomaterials Science Lab!
2017/3/28 Congraturations! Nakandakari (master course student) recieved the Young Scientist Poster Award at the 52nd Fullerenes-Nanotubes-Graphene General Symposium
2017/3/13 PhD student, Dong's paper has been published in Appl. Surf. Sci. (Behavior and role of superficial oxygen in Cu for the growth of large single-crystalline graphene). Free access until 2017/4/29 is here.
2017/2/28 PhD student, Uchida's paper has been published in Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. (Epitaxial chemical vapour deposition growth of monolayer hexagonal boron nitride on Cu(111)/sapphire substrate).
2017/1/5 We will have the 30th nanotechnology seminar "Doping and band structure engineering of 2D materials" by Assoc. Prof. S. I. Khondaker of University of Central Florida on Jan. 12 (Thu)
2016
2016/12/1
PhD student, Dong's paper has been published in ACS Nano ("Spatially Controlled Nucleation of Single-Crystal Graphene on Cu Assisted by Stacked Ni"). Congratulations!
2016/10/1
Our research center is reorganized to "Global Innovation Center (GIC)"
2016/8/29
Our former postdoc, Mark Bissett, is appointed as Lecturer in the National Graphene Institute of Manchester University, UK. Good luck with Mark's new lab! His photo in our lab is here
2016/7/12
Our bilayer graphene growth paper is highlighted as a cover of Chem. Mater.
2016/6/29
Our former student, Dr. Rozan, has become a senior lecturer/research fellow in National University of Malaysia. Congratulations and good luck!
2016/6/27
Joint research on electrical and thermal measurements iin suspended monolayer graphene has been published in J. Appl. Phys. . This is the collaboration with Profs. Takamatsu, Wang (Kyushu U.) and Prof. Zhang (Tsinghua U.).
2016/6/6
Our recent paper becomes #1 most read paper in Chem. Mater. June, 2016 (Link).
2016/6/1
Our work on the growth of uniform bilayer graphene has been published in Chem. Mater. This is the collaboration with Profs. Hibino (Kwansei Gakuin U.) and Okada (Tsukuba U.). Highlighted as ACS Editors' Choice (link). This article becomes an open access paper.
2016/5/2 JSPS Postdoc Fellowship for Foregin Researchers : One position is avaliable for the next submission from our lab (starting from April 2017, deadline for the application August 6, 2016). Please check here for the details.
2016/4/28
Joint research on spin-charge conversion in graphene has been published in Phys. Rev. Lett. This is the collaboration with Profs. Shiraishi (Kyoto), Kuwabata (Osaka), and Takenobu (Waseda).
2016/4/6
We welcome four new master course students joined in our lab (Masanori, Chiho, Kenshiro, and Yuri).
2016/4/6
We welcome four new master course students joined in our lab (Masanori, Chiho, Kenshiro, and Yuri).
2016/4/1
Our lab has moved to KASTEC (Art, Science and Technology Center for Cooperative Research, Kyushu University)
2016/3/11
Our new paper (visualization of grain structures of 2D materials) is published in ACS Nano
2016/3/1
We had the 28th nanotechnology seminar "Nano spintronics" by Prof. Hirohata of York University, UK
2016/2/24
Joint research (heat transport in suspended graphene) with Profs. Zhang (Tsingha) and Takamatsu (Kyushu) is published in Scientifc Reports
2016/2/1
Pablo's paper (gate-tunable doping of graphene) is published in ACS Nano
2016/1/21
Joint research with Profs. Zhang (Tsingha), Takamatsu, and Takahashi (Kyushu) has been published in Carbon
2015/9/10
Rozan's paper has been published in Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. ("Vertical heterostructures of MoS2 and graphene nanoribbons grown by two-step chemical vapor deposition for high-gain photodetectors")
2015/7/24
Ohta's paper has been published in Chem. Mater. ("Growth dynamics of single-layer graphene on epitaxial Cu surfaces")
2015/06/01
Prof. Ago presented an invited talk at ECS 227th Meeting in Chicago
2015/05/16
New technical staff, Fukamachi, has joined our group.
2015/04/30
Dean of Kyushu University visited our lab
2015/04/08
We welcome new master course students, Kinoshita, Shiiba, and Nakandakari.
2014/02/21
Mark moves to University of Manchester, UK. Good luck!
2013
2013/12/04
Pablo's paper on graphene nanoribon production is featured as a front cover of Adv. Mater (link).
2013/11/19
We recieve a new fund from JSPS (PRESTO) for "Synthesis and nanoelectronics of two-dimensional integrated atomic layers"
2013/11/18
Izumi's paper on a new bottom-up growth method of graphene nanoribbons is publied in ACS Nano (link). This is the collaboration with H. Hibino of NTT Research Lab.
2013/10/17
Mark's paper on strain effect on chemical reactivity of graphene is publied in ACS Nano (link). This is the collaboration with S. Okada of Tsukuba University.
2013/09/30
Yui's paper on molecular selfassembly on CVD graphene is published inJ. Phys. Chem. C (link). This is the collabration with C. Wei and A. Wee of NUS. This paper highlights the cover.
2013/09/19
Pablo's paper on top-down production of dense arrays of graphene nanoribbons is published in Adv. Mater (link).
2012/04/06
New students (Kurniawan and Takesaki) join our group.
2012/04/01
New member (Dr. Wanyin Ge) joins our group from Kyoto Univ.Welocome tou our group!
2012/03/27
Master course students (Ito and Yoshida) and undergrad student (Tanoue) graduated. Good luck!
Ito recieved the excellent student award from Department.
2012/02/01
New member (Dr. Mark Bissett) joins our group from Flinders Univ., Austraria. Welocome!
2012/01/16
New member (Dr. Pablo Solis Fernadez) joins our group from Natl. Inst. Carbon, Spain. Welocome to CE group!
2012/01/16
PhD student (Yui Ogawa) stays for 2 month in National University of Singapore (NUS) for international collaboration with Dr. Chen Wei. Prof. Ago gave a talk at NUS.
2012/01/12
Our graphene paper is published in Carbon.
2011
2011/12/28
Our graphene paper is published in JPC Lett.
2011/12/05
Prof. Ago recieved the commendation from Kyushu Univ. for his research activity
2011/11/24
MC student (Kazuma Yoshida) and PhD student (Yui Ogawa) recieved the outstanding poster award and outstanding paper award, respectively
2011/11/14
PhD student (Yui Ogawa) recieved the outstanding presenttion award from the Japan Society of Applied Physics
2011/10/07
PhD student (Yui Ogawa) won the young researcher award from Fullerene-Nanotube-Graphene Society
2011/09/30
Postdoc position closed
2011/09/27
PhD student (Carlo Orofeo) recieved the PhD (Carlo will work for NTT Basic Res. Lab. from April, 2012)
2011/08/04
Postdoc position available
2011/06/18 Carlo's paper on graphene synthesis ranked #1 in the number of download for 1 week, and #2 for 1 month in Nano Research
2011/04/11
New members join our group (Kayou, Miyashita, Tanoue)
2011/02/14
Prof. Ago recieved Funding for World-Leading Innovative Research on Science and Technology from JSPS
2011/01/11
Our paper featured the collage cover of J. Phys. Chem. series
: One position is avaliable for the next submission from our group (Start from April 2019, deadline is August 6. Please contact Prof. Ago by July 15, 2018 for the application from our lab). Detailed information can be found here.
by Dr. Placidus Amama, University of Dayton Research Laboratory (UDRI), USA