A Novel “frozen liquid crystal” material is synthesized and characterized by electron crystallography and shows the potential for a flexible, printable organic semiconductor

Director General Maki Kawai has been elected to the membership of the Japan Academy

Assoc. Prof. Yasutomo Segawa has been awarded the Chemist Award BCA 2021

Assist. Prof. Seiichiro Izawa has been awarded the NF Foundation R&D Encouragement Award

About the next Director General of Institute for Molecular Science

Response to Novel Coronavirus Infections＜For Applicants＞：Entrance Examination (Winter of AY2021)

Information about application for April 2022 admission to SOKENDAI

Efficient photon upconversion at an organic semiconductor interface

120-year-old reaction turned on its head with environment-friendly, paste-based method

Gather before dry up! Tardigrade protein self-assembles into fibrous condensates under desiccation condition

Professor Kenji Ohmori is awarded the National Medal with Purple Ribbon by His Majesty the Emperor of Japan

Director General Kawai Maki has been designated as Person of Cultural Merit in 2021

Prof. Benjamin List, the former Foreign Councilor of IMS has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021

Dr. Lee Jihyun has been awarded the 7th SOKENDAI Award

A candidate of the next president of National Institutes of Natural Sciences has been selected

Assoc. Prof. Yoshitaka Taira has been awarded the Outstanding Presentation Award of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Radiation Chemistry

About the Level 1 Activity Restriction Period

Prof. Akihito Ishizaki has been awarded the 2021 Research Promotion Award of the Quantum Life Science Society

Prof. Masahiro Hiramoto has been awarded the M&BE Outstanding Achievement Award

About the Level 1 Activity Restriction Period

Assist. Prof. Takanori Koitaya has been awarded the 2021 Vacuum and Surface Science Journal Award of the Japan Society of Vacuum and Surface Science

“Bucket brigade” using lysine residues in RNA-dependent RNA polymerase of SARS-CoV-2

Photonics Spectra magazine shows the results of Project Prof. Takunori Taira in the magazine's chronological table of photonics

Assist. Prof. Takahiro Kosugi has been awarded the Young Scientist Excellence Award of Protein Science Society of Japan

Returned Asteroid samples imaged at ultra-high-resolution by the Phase 2 Curation “Team Kochi” at SPring-8: One of the world's most powerful Synchrotron Radiation Facilities

Engineered protein inspired by nature may help plastic plague

Researchers solve a puzzle to design larger proteins

Director General Maki Kawai has attended the award celemony of the Japan Academy Prize

SOKENDAI Response to Novel Coronavirus Infections＜For Applicants＞ : Entrance Examination (Summer of AY2021)

About the Level 0.5 Activity Restriction Period (June 21, 2021)

Assist. Prof. Maho Yagi-Utsumi has been awarded the Young Scientist Award of National Institutes of Natural Sciences

Assist. Prof. Saeko Yanaka has been awarded the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Award for Young Scientists, 2021

Bringing order to hydrogen energy devices

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Dr. Maki Kawai, Director General of IMS, has been appointed as a Member of the “United Nations 10-Member Group”

Assist. Prof. Seiichiro Izawa has been awarded the Outstanding Presentation Award of the 31st Japan OLED forum

About the Level 1 Activity Restriction Period (May 12, 2021)

Discovery of Huge Raman Scattering at Atomic Point Contact

Mr. Eiken Nakamura has been awarded the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Outstanding Support for Research Award)

Research paper by Project Prof. Masahiro Katoh et al. is featured on Nature Research Highlights

3D design leads to first stable and strong self-assembling 1D nanographene wires

Annual Review 2020

Senior Researcher Fumihiko Matsui has been awarded the NAGAI Foundation for Science & Technology Encouragement Award

Mr. Eiken Nakamura has been awarded the 39th CSJ Award for Technical Achievements

Researchers discover new organic conductor

Ultrafast intra-atom motion tracked using synchrotron radiation

A novel recipe for air-stable and highly-crystalline radical-based coordination polymer

Assoc. Prof. Emi Minamitani has been awarded the 2nd Fumiko Yonezawa Memorial Prize of the Physical Society of Japan

Researchers develop third and final ‘made-to-order’ nanotube synthesis technique

Assist. Prof. Seiichiro Izawa has been awarded the Young Scientist Award, Molecular Electronics and Bio Electronics Division in the Japan Society of Applied Physics

Assist. Prof. Seiichiro Izawa has been awarded the Konica Minolta Imaging Science Encouragement Award

About the Level 0.5 Activity Restriction Period (March 1, 2021)

Res. Assist. Prof. Hyo Yong Ahn gives a lecture on science in English（December 21, 2020）

Professor Kenji Ohmori chairs 2021 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on “Quantum Control of Light and Matter”

Japan's first English book Organic Solar Cells, edited by Prof. Hiramoto, has been published with Springer

About the Level 1 Activity Restriction Period (January 14, 2021)