Research

Research Interests

The majority of my research is concerned with understanding the behavior of liquid crystal director. This work is interdisciplinary and involves both theory and experiment; an indication of the breadth of investigations undertaken is given by the following list of projects.

(a) Investigation of the director distribution and dynamics of liquid crystals studied by deuterium NMR spectroscopy


(b) Dielectric properties and two dimensional orientational ordering of a liquid crystal mono-layer


(c) Study of the director fluctuation and deformation affected by external fields


(d) Development of fast optical switching using liquid crystals

Professional experience

2011 - 2013
A member of the board of Association of Electricity and Telecommunication Engineering for Land and Infrastructure
2007 - 2010
Chairman of 2nd and 3rd International Symposium on the Manipulation of Advanced Smart Materials
2005 - 2008
Guest Editor of Thin Solid Films
2005 - 2008
Director of the Institute for the Industrial Research of Osaka Sangyo University
2005
A member of organizing committee of The Int. Sympo. on the Manipulation of Advanced Smart Materials
2002 – 2003
Local organizing chairman of the annual meeting of The Japanese Liquid Crystal Society (Nara, Japan)
2003 – 2005
A member of organizing committee and editorial board of 2003, 2004, 2005
2000 – 2011
A member of organizing committee of The 4th – 9th Int. Conf. on Nano-Molecular Electronics
2000 – 2001
Organizing chairman of The 2nd Anglo-Japanese Seminar on Liquid Crystals (York, UK)
2000 – 2001
A member of the board of directors of The Japanese Liquid Crystal Society
1999 – 2001
A member of organizing committee of The 18th Int. Liquid Crystal Conf. (Sendai, Japan)
1998 – 2000
Guest Editor of Molecular Crystals & Liquid Crystals

Publications

  • Papers
  • Books

    • National and International Collaborations

    (a) Professor Mitsumasa Iwamoto

    (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) Dielectric properties and two dimensional order of a liquid crystal mono-layer on a water

    (b) Professor Hiroyoshi Naito

    (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan) Manipulation of the nematic director alignment on surface boundaries with a weak anchoring strength

    (c) Professor Geoffrey R. Luckhurst

    (University of Southampton, UK) Molecular and director dynamics of liquid crystals using deuterium NMR spectroscopy

    (d) Dr. "Tim" Bakir A Timimi

    (University of Southampton, UK) Molecular and director dynamics of liquid crystals using deuterium NMR spectroscopy

    (e) Dr. Herbert Zimmermann

    (Max-Planck-Institut fuer medizinische Forschung) Synthesis of liquid crystals and deuteriation of liquid crystals

    (f) Professor Zhong-can Ou-Yang

    (Chinese Academy of Science, China) Statistical physics of liquid crystals

    (g) Prof. Rauzah Hashim

    (University of Malaya, Malaysia) Investigation on hydration dynamics of self-assemblies using deuterium NMR and time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy

    (h) Prof. Alexander V. Zakharov

    (Saint Petersburg Institute for Machine Sciences, The Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) Study on the dynamics of the director relaxation process in a liquid crystal film, which are based on the hydrodynamic theory including both director reorientation and velocity field.