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300 Appendix D. Site Reports—Japan<br />

Site:<br />

The University of Tokyo<br />

Department of Chemical Engineering<br />

Faculty of Engineering<br />

Kogakukan #5, Room 709<br />

Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan<br />

Fax: (81) 3-5689 7352<br />

Date Visited: 22 July 1997<br />

WTEC:<br />

Hosts:<br />

D.T. Shaw (report author)<br />

Prof. H. Komiyama, Dept. of Chemical Systems Engineering<br />

Dr. H.S. Zhou<br />

Dr. Fumihiro Wakai, Professor, Center of Materials Design,<br />

Tokyo Institute of <strong>Technology</strong>, Yokohama<br />

BACKGROUND<br />

The University of Tokyo is the oldest <strong>and</strong> the most prestigious university<br />

in Japan. Prof. Komiyama belongs to the Department of Chemical Systems<br />

Engineering, which is one of three departments (the other two are the<br />

Department of Applied Chemistry <strong>and</strong> the Department of Chemistry <strong>and</strong><br />

Biotechnology) in the Department of Chemical Engineering. His work on<br />

nanoparticles has focused on the synthesis <strong>and</strong> optical properties of<br />

nanocomposites of metal/organic, organic/metal, metal/semiconductor, <strong>and</strong><br />

semiconductor/semiconductor particles. More recently, coated selfassembled<br />

nanoparticles have also been studied.<br />

Overall, Prof. Komiyama’s work on nanoparticles <strong>and</strong> nanoparticle<br />

structures has focused on fundamental studies of the effects of quantum<br />

confinement of heterostructured nanoparticles <strong>and</strong> nanoparticle structures.<br />

Prof. Komiyama’s laboratory is extremely well equipped <strong>and</strong> has formed<br />

strong connections to other research laboratories both within <strong>and</strong> outside<br />

Japan. At the present time, all his research projects appear to be<br />

experimental. In fact, the last theoretical work was conducted in cooperation<br />

with Prof. Joseph W. Haus (Physics Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic<br />

Institute, RPI) who visited him for one year in 1992.

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