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
Free access until 2017/4/29 is here.
by Dr. Placidus Amama, University of Dayton Research Laboratory (UDRI), USA