Gather with your colleagues!
The plenary session is a highlight of every PRiME meeting, bringing participants from all symposia together to celebrate some of the field’s greatest minds.
Monday, October 7 | 1700h HST
HCC: Kalakaua Ballroom
Coordination Nanosheets – Electro-functional 2D Polymers of Metal Complexes
by Hiroshi Nishihara, Tokyo University of Science and The University of Tokyo
Hiroshi Nishihara
Hiroshi Nishihara is Vice President of Tokyo University of Science and Emeritus Professor of The University of Tokyo (U-Tokyo). His research area is electrochemistry, coordination chemistry, organometallic chemistry, photochemistry, and material science. Since 2013, when Prof. Nishihara synthesized the first example of conducting coordination nanosheets which are organic/inorganic hybrid 2D materials, he and coworkers have created various coordination nanosheets and discovered their unique properties and functions.
Prof. Nishihara received his DSc from U-Tokyo in 1982 and was then appointed Research Associate at Keio University. He served as Visiting Research Associate at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1987-1989 and was named Associate Professor at Keio University in 1992. He became Professor at The University of Tokyo in 1996, a position he held until he retired in 2020. Prof. Nishihara has received numerous awards including the 2016 Chemical Society of Japan Award, 2015 Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry Award, and in 2011, Doctor Honoris Causa from the Université de Bordeaux. He is a Fellow of The Electrochemical Society of Japan (2020) and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2014). Prof. Nishihara has served academic societies in diverse roles including as President of the Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry (2016-2020), President of The Electrochemical Society of Japan (2016-2017), Vice President of The Chemical Society of Japan (2013-2015), and Vice President of the International Society of Electrochemistry (2011-2013). He joined The Electrochemical Society in 1998 and has served with distinction on Society committees and in officer positions for the ECS Japan Section.
His lecture focuses on the rich science and technology of coordination nanosheets relating to electrochemistry and electronics. Read his full abstract here.
