Research Center for Organic Electronics ＞ News 2021

List of News

Dec. 28, 2021 【Paper】A paper related to Dehao JIANG, a 1st-year doctoral student of Kido/Sasabe/Chiba lab, and Associate Professor Hisahiro SASABE was published on Advanced Optical Materials (IF: 9.926) (Wiley).

Dec. 23, 2021 【Information】The 10th Germany-Japan Joint Workshop "'Flexible Electronics' and 'Sensors for Health'" will be held on January 31st, 2022 (online).

Dec. 07, 2021 【Award】Atsuki SASAKI, a 2nd-year doctoral student of Suzuri lab, Takahashi lab, received Student Presentation Award of Research Group on the Interaction between Polymer and Water and Separation Science.

Nov. 27, 2021 【News Release】(Yamagata) The news related to professor Takeshi SANO and professor Yoshiyuki SUZURI titled "The students of Yamagata Prefectural Yonezawa Technical High School visited Innovation Center for Organic Electronics and studied the cutting-edge technologies." was released.

Nov. 19, 2021 【Information】The 4th YU-SDGs Cafe "An exchange meeting for the women and young researchers ~From the point of view of SDGs~" will be held on December 16 (online).

Nov. 16, 2021 【News Release】(Asahi) The news related to professor Yasuki YAMAUCHI titled "Yamagata University conducted a questionnaire survey for the citizens of Yonezawa about the sleeping situation under the COVID-19 environment." was released.

Nov. 13, 2021 【News Release】(Yamagata) The news related to the peanuts made in Kaneyama Town titled "Yamagata Prefectural Shinjo-Kamuro Industrial High School students tried to make trial sweets using Kaneyama peanuts from this spring" was released.

Oct. 29, 2021 【Paper】A paper related to Assistant Professor Yi-Fei WANG of Tokito/Kumaki/Sekine lab, titled "Flexible printed temperature sensor with high humidity stability using bilayer passivation" was published on Flexible and Printed Electronics.

Oct. 29, 2021 【Lecture】Professor Shizuo TOKITO will be have a lecture titled "The health care and medical applications of flexible printed electronics" at 60th Meeting of High Performance Paper Society, Japan (online, from November 25th~December 25th).

Oct. 26, 2021 【Information】A kickoff symposium of Good Sleep Consortium of Yamagata University will be held on November 4th in Tokyo.

Oct. 21, 2021 【Award】Professor Yasuki YAMAUCHI received METI Minister Awards for the Industrial Standardization Project 2021 fiscal year.

Oct. 20, 2021 【Paper】A paper related to a 3rd-year doctoral course of Yokoyama lab, Yoshihito SUKEGAWA, titled "Model-free analysis of molecular orientation in amorphous organic semiconductor films for understanding its formation dynamics: methods and systematic investigation" was published on Org. Electron. (IF 3.721).

Oct. 13, 2021 【Press Release】The news related to Assistant Professor Tomochika HARADA titled "Yamagata University COI will have a joint exhibition with Tohoku University COI and Ritsumeikan University COI in Science Agora 2021" was released in a regular press conference of Faculty of Engineering.

Oct. 13, 2021 【Press Release】The news related to professor Yasuki YAMAUCHI and academic-industrial collaboration associated professor Eiko INOUE titled "A questionnaire survey related to sleeping and life will be executed with the cooperation of Yonezawa city" was released in a regular press conference of Faculty of Engineering.

Oct. 13, 2021 【Press Release】The news related to Professor Takeshi Sano titled "The latest research achievements will be displayed in CEATEC 2021 on line ~Research Center for Organic Electronics~" was released in a regular press conference of Faculty of Engineering.

Oct. 07, 2021 【Press Release】The news related to Professor Junji KIDO titled "A high-presence remote medical examination system utilized OLED technology starts the operation" was released in a regular press conference of Yamagata University.

Oct. 02, 2021 【News Release】(Mainichi) The news related to professor Yasuki YAMAUCHI titled "Yamagata University starts to make an investigation on how to get good sleep through learning from 9 themes, such as light, housing, food, etc" was released on Mainichi Shimbun.

Sep. 28, 2021 【Adopted】Hiroki ARAI, a 2nd-year doctoral student of Kido/Sasabe/Chiba lab, has been informally designated as DC2 for 2022 fiscal year through the Research Fellowship for Young Scientists program of JSPS.

Sep. 27, 2021 【Paper】A paper related to Associate Professor Kuniaki NAGAMINE titled "Stable Immobilization of Mediator in Porous Carbon Material via Capping Technique for Fabricating Sensitive Enzyme-based Glucose Sensor" was was published on Sensors & Materials.

Sep. 24, 2021 【Paper】A paper related to Tatsuki SASAKI, a 2nd doctoral student of Takahashi and Suzuri lab, and Professor Yoshiyuki SUZURI titled "Nanometer-Thick SiN Films as Gas Barrier Coatings Densified by Vacuum UV Irradiation", was published on ACS Applied nano materials（IF: 5.097）.

Sep. 18, 2021 【News Release】(Yamagata) The news related to professor Yasuki YAMAUCHI titled "Yamagata University established Good Sleep Consortium, a cooperative business unit, aiming to research how to get a good sleep and solve the problem of the modern people" was released on Yamagata Shimbun.

Sep. 17, 2021 【TV Broadcast】(YBC) The news related to Yamagata University Good Sleep Consortium Information Session held at Yamagata High Technology Center on September 16th (Thursday) was introduced in the News show of Yamagata Television (YBC).

Sep. 17, 2021 【Award】Hiroki ARAI, a 2nd-year doctoral student of Kido/Sasabe/Chiba lab, received Student Poster Award of A-COE 2021 at Aichi Institute of Technology. Guanting LIU (D3) also joined the poster presentation at this conference.

Sep. 04, 2021 【News Release】(Yamagata) The news related to professor Junji KIDO titled "Yamagata University developed an OLED lighting for bed room, which can reduce glare and provide a good sleep" was released on Yamagata Shimbun on September, 4th.

Sep. 03, 2021 【Paper】A paper related to Associate Professor Daisuke YOKOYAMA's lab titled "Active refractive index control using a stably evaporable perfluororesin for high-outcoupling-efficiency organic light-emitting diodes" was selected as the front cover of Journal of Materials Chemistry C.

Sep. 03, 2021 【Paper】A joint research paper between Tokito/Kumaki/Sekine lab and POSTECH (Korea), titled "Layout-to-Bitmap Conversion and Design Rules for Inkjet-Printed Large-Scale Integrated Circuits" was published on Langmuir.

Sep. 03, 2021 【Paper】A joint research paper between Tokito/Kumaki/Sekine lab and Queensland University of Technology, titled "Single and dual-gate organic field-effect transistors based on diketopyrrolopyrrole-diethienothiophene polymers: performance modulation via dielectric interfaces" was published on Materials Research Express.

Sep. 02, 2021 【TV Broadcast】(YTS) A research result related to Professor Junji KIDO's research group titled "Yamagata University will start to sale OLED Lamp from next April" was introduced in the "Super J Chanel" of Yamagata Television.

Sep. 02, 2021 【TV Broadcast】(TUY) A research result related to Professor Junji KIDO's research group titled "Yamagata University developed an OLED bedside lighting" was introduced in the "N Star Yamagata" of Yamagata Television.

Sep. 02, 2021 【Press Release】The news related to Professor Junji KIDO titled "The research group developed an OLED lighting to provide a good sleep ~The subdued light can support a good quality sleep~" was released in a regular press conference of Yamagata University.

Aug. 31, 2021 【Information】Yamagata University will have 6 Good Sleep Consortium Information Sessions from September 16 to October 15 in Yamagata, Osaka, Fukuoka and Sendai. For more information, please check the URL below.

Aug. 30, 2021 【Information】A discussion between Yamagata University and National Graduate Institute For Policy Studies (GRIPS) for the development of new organic solar cell applications that contribute to the SDGs was introduced in the web site of GRIPS.

Aug. 19, 2021 【Paper】A paper related to Assistant Professor Yi-Fei Wang (Tokito lab), titled "Deep Eutectic Solvent Induced Porous Conductive Composite for Fully Printed Piezoresistive Pressure Sensor" was published on Advanced Materials Technologies.

Aug. 17, 2021 【TV Broadcast】(YTS) A research result related to Professor Junji KIDO's research group titled "Aiming to get rid of the problem Food Loss from Yonezawa" was introduced in the "Tuesday News Ichioshi" of Yamagata Television.

Aug. 12, 2021 【Press Release】The news related to Professor Yasuki YAMAUCHI's sleeping research titled "Good Sleep Consortium was established ~A demonstration platform aiming to improve the quality of sleep and realize to provide a good sleep~" was released in a regular press conference of Yamagata University.

Aug. 10, 2021 【Paper】A paper related to Kazuki KOSEKI, a graduate of Masuhara lab, titled "Effect of Surface Silanol Density on the Proton Conductivity of Polymer-Surface-Functionalized Silica Nanoparticles" was published on ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering as the cover art.

Aug. 04, 2021 【News Release】(Nikkei Sangyo) The news related to professor Junji KIDO titled "Can OLED lighting make sound sleep?" was released.

Jul. 26, 2021 【Paper】A paper related to Associate Professor Daisuke YOKOYAMA's lab titled "Active refractive index control using a stably evaporable perfluororesin for high-outcoupling-efficiency organic light-emitting diodes" was published on Journal of Materials Chemistry C (IF 7.393), and also was selected as one of the Journal of Materials Chemistry C Hot Papers. This is a joint research result with AGC Inc. and Noguchi Lab of Meiji University.

Jul. 14, 2021 【News Release】(Asahi) The news related to professor Junji KIDO titled "Professor Kido's research group made an investigation on energy metabolism when a person is slept, and found that OLED lighting in the bed room can improve the quality of sleep better than LED" was released.

Jul. 09, 2021 【Paper】A paper related to Dr. Ryutaro KOMATSU, a graduate of Kido/Sasabe/Chiba lab, and Associate Professor Hisahiro SASABE titled "Bis(triphenylamine)benzodifuran Chromophores: Synthesis, Electronic Properties and Application in Organic Light-Emitting Diodes", was published on Frontiers in Chemistry (IF: 5.221).

Jul. 05, 2021 【TV Broadcast】(YTS) A research result related to Professor Junji KIDO's research group titled "To get a deep sleep using OLED" was introduced in Yamagata Television (YTS).

Jul. 01, 2021 【Press Release】The news related to a joint research result between professor Junji KIDO and professor Kunpei TOKUYAMA (University of Tsukuba) was released in a regular press conference of Yamagata University.

Jul. 01, 2021 【Information】Professor Hiroshi ITO (Vice Dean of Faculty of Engineering), Professor Yoshihiro Ohba (Research Leader of COI) and Associate Professor Eiko INOUE (Academic-Industrial Collaboration) visited Yonezawa City Hall, and had a meeting with Vice Mayor and the charge persons of the department of Health and Welfare.

Jun. 29, 2021 【Information】An open symposium "Active and Healthy Smart Communities with Organic Technology" will be held on July, 1st (online).

Jun. 28, 2021 【Paper】A paper related to Hiroki ARAI, a 2nd-year doctoral student of Kido/Sasabe/Chiba lab, and Associate Professor Hisahiro SASABE titled "Asymmetric Spirobiacridine-based Delayed Fluorescence Emitters for High-performance Organic Light-Emitting Devices", was published on the Front Cover of Chemistry A European Journal (IF: 4.857) (Wiley).

Jun. 25, 2021 【News Release】(Nikkan Kougyo) The news related to a joint research result between Ushiokemikkusu, CHIRACOL and Mituskami Lab about "an amplifier with organic semiconductor" was released on Nikkan Kougyo Shimbun and its web site on June 25.

Jun. 23, 2021 【News Release】(Yamagata) The news related to professor Junji KIDO titled "Professor Kido gave a lecture to the 6th grade students of Yonezawa Nanbu Elementary School, and told them that Yonezawa city owns the world-first" was released.

Jun. 06, 2021 【News Release】(Yomiuri) The news related to professor Junji KIDO receiving the 62th Fujihara Award was released on Yomiuri Shimbun on June, 6th.

Jun. 04, 2021 【News Release】(Yamagata) The news related to professor Junji KIDO receiving the 62th Fujihara Award was released on Yamagata Shimbun on June, 4th.

Jun. 03, 2021 【Paper】A paper related to project researcher Dr. Anubha Bilgaiyan and Associate Professor Makoto MIZUKAMI titled "Flexible, high mobility short-channel organic thin film transistors and logic circuits based on 4H-21DNTT" was published on Scientific Reports.

May 31, 2021 【Paper】A paper related Guanting LIU, a 3rd doctoral student of Kido/Sasabe/Chiba lab, titled "Facile synthesis of multi-resonance ultra-pure-green TADF emitters based on bridged diarylamine derivatives for efficient OLEDs with narrow emission", was published on Journal of Materials Chemistry C (IF: 7.059) (Royal Society of Chemistry).

May 28, 2021 【Award】Professor Junji KIDO received the 62th Fujihara Award from the Fujihara Foundation of Science that is an award to praise the researcher who contributes to the scientific-technological development. Also, Professor kido will give an interview at regular press conference of Yamagata University on June, 2.

May 19, 2021 【Paper】A paper related a project researcher Subhash SINGH of Tokito/Kumaki/Senkine lab, titled "Flexible high-performance organic thin film transistors and PMOS inverters: Trap controlled grain boundaries and contact resistance effect in different channel length devices", was published on Synthetic Metals.

May 19, 2021 【Paper】A paper related a project researcher Subhash SINGH (Tokito/Kumaki/Senkine lab), titled "Flexible Low-Voltage Organic Thin Film Transistors and PMOS Inverters: Effect of Channel Width on Noise Margin", was published on Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics.

May 19, 2021 【Paper】A paper related a joint research between Tokito/Kumaki/Senkine lab and POSTECH (Korea), titled "Flexible and Printed Organic Nonvolatile Memory Transistor with Bilayer Polymer Dielectrics", was published on Advanced Materials Technologies.

May 10, 2021 【Lecture】(July, 2nd) Professor Shizuo TOKITO will be invited as a guest speaker in Internal Laboratory Web Scientific Seminar (online) held by CEA (Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives), and will have a lecture titled "Flexible and Printed Organic Sensors and IoT Applications".

May 10, 2021 【Lecture】(June, 5th) Professor Shizuo TOKITO will be have a special lecture titled "Health Management and Medical Application of Flexible Organic Sensor" at 29th Meeting of Japanese Society of Physical Fitness and Sports Medicine (Tohoku Region).

May 10, 2021 【Lecture】(June, 3rd) Professor Shizuo TOKITO will be invited as a guest speaker in International 3D, 4D Printing Online Seminar (zoom) held by KFPE (Korea Flexible & Printed Electronics Society), and will have a lecture titled "Flexible and Printed Organic Sensors and IoT Applications".

May 03, 2021 【Paper】A paper related to Hiroki ARAI (D2) and associate professor Hisahiro SASABE of Kido/Sasabe/Chiba lab, titled "Asymmetric Spirobiacridine-based Delayed Fluorescence Emitters for High-performance Organic Light-Emitting Devices", was accepted by Chemistry A European Journal (IF: 4.857) (Wiely).

Apr. 26, 2021 【Paper】A paper related to Yoshihito SUKEGAWA, a 3rd-year doctoral student of Yokoyama Lab, titled "Effect of the conformer distribution on the properties of amorphous organic semiconductor films for organic light-emitting diodes", was published on Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics（IF 3.43). It is a joint research result between Yokoyama Lab and Katagiri Lab.

Apr. 12, 2021 【Web Release】A joint research result between Tokito/Kumaki/Sekine lab and Tokyo University of Science titled "Wearable Biofuel Cells that Produce Electricity from Sweat" was released on YouTube on April, 12.

Apr. 02, 2021 【News Release】(Dempa Digital) The news related to a joint research result between Tokito/Kumaki/Sekine lab and Tokyo University of Science titled "Tokyo University of Science's research group developed a wearable battery ARAI enables to generate electricity through sweat" was released.

Apr. 01, 2021 【Paper】A paper related to assistant professor Yi-Fei WANG of Tokito/Kumaki/Senkine lab, titled "Fully Printed PEDOT:PSS-based Temperature Sensor with High Humidity Stability for Wireless Healthcare Monitoring" was ranked in top 100 of most downloaded materials science papers published in 2020 (Scientific Reports).

Mar. 29, 2021 【Paper】A paper related to assistant professor Tomohito SEKINE of Tokito/Kumaki/Senkine lab was published on Small Science (vol. 1, pp: 2100002-21000010 (2021)), and was selected as Inside Front Cover.

Mar. 24, 2021 【Web Release】【TV Broadcast】(Hongkong TV) Smart Mirai House was introduced in Hongkong TV program "Nae, Nippon Ichi", which was also released in YouTube.

Mar. 24, 2021 【News Release】【Web Release】(Yamagata) The news related to assistant professor Tomochika HARADA titled "Yamagata University and University of Nutrition Sciences start to do the demonstration at Onogawa Onsen to show the 'visualization' related to the onsen and the mental and physical refreshment" was released.

Mar. 18, 2021 【Award】3 students of Tokito/Kumaki/Sekine lab received awards from the University. Yuki HONMURA (B4) received Hata Itsuzou Award, Keita ITO (B4) and Shunya CHIBA (B4) received Excellent Student Awards.

Mar. 08, 2021 【Information】The application of "Smar-Chair", a chair equipped with seat-type sensor and developed by Tokito/Kumaki/Senkine lab, has been promoted in a joint research with KDDI Research Atelier.

Mar. 05, 2021 【Paper】A paper related to Professor Tsukada YOSHIDA titled "Single-Component Organic Solar Cells Based on Intramolecular Charge Transfer Photoabsorption" was published on MDPI, Materials (IF 3.057).

Mar. 05, 2021 【News Release】(Yamagata) The news related to professor Junji KIDO titled "Professor Kido received CSJ Award from the Chemical Society of Japan for the 2020 fiscal year" was released.

Mar. 04, 2021 【Paper】A paper related to Andreas RINGLEB, a doctoral student of Justus Liebig University Giessen, who joined Summer Program in Yoshida lab in 2019 was published on Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (Royal Society of Chemistry) (IF3.430).

Mar. 02, 2021 【Information】The 4th Soft Matter Robotics Symposium (SOFUMO) will be held online on March 15th.

Mar. 02, 2021 【Paper】A paper related to researcher Dr. Yoshida of Suzuri lab titled "Photochemical Conversion of Ethanolamine-Zn2+ Complex Gel under Vacuum Ultraviolet Irradiation Associated with Color-Tunable Photoluminescence" was published on the Journal of Physical Chemistry C (IF=4.189) (ACS). This is a joint research with Yoshida lab.

Mar. 01, 2021 【Exhibition】Innovation Center for Organic Electronics (INOEL) will participate in an exhibition in Smart Energy Week that will be held in Tokyo Big Sight from March 3rd~5th.

Feb. 28, 2021 【News Release】(Kahoku) The news related to assistant professor Tomochika HARADA titled "Yamagata University started to collect datas to demonstrate the hot spring effect at Onokawa Onsen" was released.

Feb. 27, 2021 【News Release】(Asahi) The news related to assistant professor Tomochika HARADA titled "Yamagata University's research group started to do a joint research with Onokawa Onsen to show the hot spring effect related to the sleeping" was released.

Feb. 22, 2021 【Award】5 master course students (M2) of Kido/Sasabe/Chiba Lab got the Excellent Student Awards from Yamagata University for the 2020 fiscal year.

Feb. 19, 2021 【News Release】(Yomiuri) The news related to assistant professor Tomochika HARADA titled "Yamagata University started to investigate the hot spring effects on sleeping at Yonezawa Ryokan with University of Nutrition Sciences" was released.

Feb. 15, 2021 【Paper】A paper related to Wei-Cheng CHEN san, who was an exchange student of Kido/Sasabe/Chiba Lab, and Assistant Professor Takayuki CHIBA titled "High Luminescence and External Quantum Efficiency in Perovskite Quantum-Dots Light-Emitting Diodes Featuring Bilateral Affinity to Silver and Short Alkyl Ligands" was published on Chemical Engineering Journal (IF: 10.652).

Feb. 12, 2021 【News Release】(Nikkei) The news related to assistant professor Tomochika HARADA titled "Yamagata University made experiments to show the hot spring effect related to bathing and sleeping" was released.

Feb. 10, 2021 【Press Release】The news related to assistant professor Tomochika HARADA titled "Yamagata University, University of Nutrition Sciences and Onogawa Onsen Tourism Executive Committee start to do the demonstration to show the 'visualization' related to onsen and the mental and physical refreshment" was released in a regular press conference of Faculty of Engineering.

Feb. 10, 2021 【Lecture】Takeo SHIBA project professor (Tokito/Kumaki/Sekine lab) will have an online lecture on February 18 at "Next-generation sensor symposium -Thinking of sensor technology in the new normal era".

Feb. 09, 2021 【Paper】A paper related to an ex-student of Tokito/Kumaki/Senkine lab, Yusuke ICHIMURA, titled "A fully screen-printed potentiometric chloride ion sensor employing a hydrogel-based touchpad for simple and non-invasive daily electrolyte analysis" was published on the website of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry.

Feb. 09, 2021 【Magazine Release】Professor Shizuo TOKITO's essay titled "Our way to get to industry-academia-government collaboration" was published on JST Industry-Academia-Government Journal (January issue). The venture "Future Ink" and the production "seat sensor" were introduced in the essay.

Feb. 05, 2021 【Paper】A paper related to Zhen-Li YAN san, who was an exchange student of STEP-YUFE (a short-period exchange program), and Assistant Professor Takayuki CHIBA (Kido/Sasabe/Chiba Lab) titled "Stable Blue Perovskite Light-Emitting Diodes Achieved by Optimization of Crystal Dimension through Zinc Bromide Addition" was published on Chemical Engineering Journal (IF: 10.652).

Feb. 01, 2021 【Information】The 9th Germany-Japan Joint Workshop “Flexible, Printed Electronics and Sensors” will be held on February 26, 2021 on the web.

Jan. 28, 2021 【Award】Professor Junji KIDO received the 73th CSJ Award from the Chemical Society of Japan.

Jan. 04, 2021 【Information】A research result related to seat sensor developed by Tokito/Kumaki/Sekine lab 's research group titled "A secret of 'a big sensor' that enables to measure biological data naturally in the daily life -Feeling nothing when being measured" was published on a web media "EMIRA".