Ph.D student Mulimani won the Oral Presentation Award at the 2025 Annual Japanese Photochemistry Conference.

Master student Shimura won the Poster Presentation Award at the 2025 Annual Japanese Photochemistry Conference.

Ph.D student Rajashekhar K. Mulimani won the Poster Presentation Award at the 49th Symposium on Organic Electron Transfer Chemistry.

The website for "The Pursuit of Functionality Woven by π-Molecular Complexity" of the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) has been launched."

The first author paper by Ph. D candidate (D0) Shimura has been accepted by ACS Materials Letters.

The first author paper by PhD student Rajashekhar Mulimani has been accepted by Advanced Materials.

The Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) "The Pursuit of Functionality Woven by π-Molecular Complexity" [Representative: Professor Shigehiro Yamaguchi (Nagoya University)], has started. Hirata Laboratory is in charge of "Triplet engineering of advanced π-conjugated molecules".

The paper by Master's student Ueda was selected as a hot paper in the Journal of Materials Chemistry C and was featured on the cover. 

Hirata introduced his research at the invited talk at SICC12 held in Singapore. 

The first author paper by Master's student Ueda has been published in J. Mater. Chem. C. 

Hirata gave a presentation at PhotoIUPAC2024 held in Valencia, Spain. 

Hirata participated in the 3rd Molecular Bioreaction Emergence Symposium (the 3rd Fukushima Panel Event) of the JST FOREST Fusion Forum held at OIST (see the gallery for photos). The page for the meeting is here. 

Hayashi, a 3rd year doctoral student, and Dr. Hirata gave a presentation at SPIE Photonics Europe held in Strasbourg, France (see gallery for details) 

We will continue to push forward with Phase 2 research of JST's FOREST program.