JUNCTION: Japan-US Network for Clean Energy Technologies Involving Oriented Nanotubes 2025

The "PIRE-ASPIRE-JUNCTION" project is "Partnerships for International Research and Education"-"Japan-US Network for Clean Energy Technologies Involving Oriented Nanotubes (JUNCTION)". In this project, we will advance clean energy science and technologies using nanotubes and nanomaterials through various joint researches between US and Japan.

The project title is "JUNCTION". We put two meanings on the term “JUNCTION". One is the“JUNCTION” for the US and Japanese scientists to facilitate collaborative research and education; the other is the “JUNCTION” of nanotubes, 2D materials, and nanomaterials, where we have our scientific and technological interests. Here we organize the fifth workshop of this JUNCTION program (the 3rd in the USA). This workshop is intended to provide a forum for discussing science, measurement techniques, and applications related to the subject of “JUNCTION”. We wish the workshop can work as a JUNCTION to facilitate active collaborations among US-Japan researchers.

In this workshop, we have invited talks regarding the topics of oriented nanotubes, including carbon nanotubes and inorganic nanotubes (hetero-nanotubes), junctions at 2D interfaces, and THz spectroscopy. We also offer a unique opportunity for you to present your work through a poster presentation. Your contribution will be a valuable addition to our workshop. If you want to join the WS with or without a poster presentation, please register here by the end of Aug. 2025.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Buffalo!                Vasili Perebeinos (Univ. at Buffalo, USA) - local organizer

Organizers 

• Geoff Wehmeyer (Rice Univ., USA)
• Kazuhiro Yanagi (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Japan)
• Jun Kono (Rice Univ., USA)
• Junichiro Shiomi (Univ. Tokyo, Japan)

Speakers (alphabetically) 

• Motoaki Bamba (Yokohama National Univ., Japan)
• Jonathan Bird (Univ. at Buffalo, USA)
• Weilu Gao (Univ. of Utah, USA)
• Shengxi Huang (Rice Univ., USA)
• Ikufumi Katayama (Yokohama National Univ., Japan)
• Jun Kono (Rice Univ., USA)
• HaeYeon Lee (Rice Univ., USA)
• Shigeo Maruyama (Univ. Tokyo, Japan)
• Kazunari Matsuda (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
• Yuhei Miyauchi (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
• Matteo Pasquali (Rice Univ., Japan)
• Vasili Perebeinos (Univ. Buffalo, USA)
• Jiang Pu (Tokyo Inst. Tech., Japan)
• Junichiro Shiomi (Univ. Tokyo, Japan)
• Alexey Volkov (Univ. of Alabama, USA) 
• Geoff Wehmeyer (Rice Univ., Japan)
• Kazuhiro Yanagi (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Japan)
• Jana Zaumseil (University of Heidelberg, Germany)