Mr. Rafael Benjamin Berk (NUPACE student) and Mr. Kota Takei (G30 student) have joined our laboratory.

Ms. Pei SHI has joined our laboratory as a special research student.

Ms. Bingjie WANG has joined our laboratory as a research student.

Ms. Bingjie WANG, student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, has joined our laboratory as a NUPACE student.

Dr. Yukikazu Takeoka, Associate Professor, received the SPSJ Mitsubishi Chemical Award.

Our Paper received the Excellent Paper Award in the Japanese Liquid Crystal Society ("Free-surface molecular command systems for photoalignment of liquid crystalline materials", Nat. Commun., 5, 3320 (2014))

Mr. Richard HUANG, student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, has joined our laboratory as a visiting student of Campus Asia Program.

Ms. Sunyoung KANG has joined our lab from Seoul National University as a visiting student of Campus Asia Program.

Dr. Mina HAN has been promoted as Associate Professor at Tottori University.