247th ACS National Meeting

“Gold nanoparticle vesicles as a drug delivery carrier enabling rapid drug release upon light irradiation” (Oral)
○Kenichi Niikura, Naoki Iyo, Yasutaka Matsuo, Hideyuki Mitomo, and Kuniharu Ijiro

“Enhanced cellular uptake of amphiphilic gold nanoparticles bearing ester groups” (Poster)
○ Kenya Kobayashi, Kenichi Niikura, Chie Takeuchi, Kyoji Hagiwara, Yoshihiro Ito, Yoshihito Osada, and Kuniharu Ijiro

“Janus gold nanoparticles: Control of the phase separation of two surface ligands” (Poster)
○Ryo Iida, Kenichi Niikura, Shota Sekiguchi, Hedeyuki Mitomo, and Kuniharu Ijiro

“Single-stranded RNA selective permeation through nanopores in a virus capsule surface” (Poster)
○Naotoshi Sugimura, Kenichi Niikura, Kyoji Hagiwara, Chie Takeuchi, Hideyuki Mitomo, and Kuniharu Ijiro

1st International Symposium on Ambitious Leader’s Program for Fostering Future Leaders to Open New Frontiers in Material Science

“Fabrication of Janus Gold Nanoparticle and Their Self-Assembly Behaviors” (Poster)
○Ryo Iida, Kenichi Niikura, Hedeyuki Mitomo, and Kuniharu Ijiro

“Fabrication of Water Dispersible Gold Nanoparticle Vesicles Using Carbohydrate Derived Fluorinated Surface Ligands” (Poster)
○Jinjian Wei, Kenichi Niikura, Hedeyuki Mitomo, and Kuniharu Ijiro

“Fabrication of RNase H-encapsulated Virus-like Particles and Their Enzymatic Reaction in the Nano-space” (Poster)
○Naotoshi Sugimura, Kenichi Niikura, Kyoji Hagiwara, Hirohumi Sawa, and Kuniharu Ijiro

The 14 th RIES-HOKUDAI International Symposium

“Dynamic Control of the Distance between Metal Nanostructures by using Polymer Network” (Talk Session)
○Hideyuki Mitomo, Kenta Horie, Naonobu Shimamoto, Yasutaka Matsuo, Kenichi Niikura, and Kuniharu Ijiro

“Dynamic control of the interparticle gaps of gold nanoparticles transferred onto the gel films for surface enhanced Raman scattering” (Poster)
○Kenta Horie, Hideyuki Mitomo, Guoqing Wang, Yasutaka Matuso, Kenichi Niikura, Takaharu Tani, Masayuki Naya, and Kuniharu Ijiro

“Fabrication of Amphiphilic Janus Gold Nanoparticles and their Self-Assembly in Water” (Poster) Poster Award!!
○Ryo Iida, Kenichi Niikura, Shota Sekiguchi, Hedeyuki Mitomo, and Kuniharu Ijiro

Sixth French-Research Organization-Tohoku University Joint Workshop on Frontier Materials “Frontier 2013″

“Stimuli-Responsive Metal Array Structure on the Hydrogel” (Poster)
○Hideyuki Mitomo, Kenta Horie, Guoquing WANG, Yasutaka Matsuo, Kenichi Niikura, Takeharu Tani, Masayuki Naya, and Kuniharu Ijiro

International Symposium on Advanced Soft Materials

“Hybridization of inorganic matters to polymer gels for enhancing the strength and functionality” (Poster)
○Hideyuki Mitomo, Naonobu Shimamoto, Ken-Ichi Sano, Yoshihito Osada, and Kuniharu Ijiro

“Enzymatically hydrolytic lift-off method of DNA brush synthesized by surface initiated polymerization” (Poster)
○Yasunobu Suzuki, Asumi Eguchi, Hideyuki Mitomo, Yasutaka Matsuo, Kenichi Niikura, and Kuniharu Ijiro

“Fabrication of Janus Gold Nanoparticles with Hydrophilic/Hydrophobic Face and their Self Assembly Behaviors” (Poster)
○Ryo Iida, Kenichi Niikura, Shota Sekiguchi, Hedeyuki Mitomo, and Kuniharu Ijiro

“Dynamic control of gold nanoparticles transferred onto the gel films for Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering” (Poster)
○Kenta Horie, Hideyuki Mitomo, Guoqing Wang, Yasutaka Matuso, Kenichi Niikura, Takaharu Tani, Masayuki Naya, and Kuniharu Ijiro