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 University, Japan)
• Andrey Baydin (Rice Univeristy, USA)
• Jonathan Bird (University at Buffalo, USA)
• Arka Chatterjee (Rice University, USA) 
• Weilu Gao (University of Utah, USA)*
• Shengxi Huang (Rice University, USA)*
• Ikufumi Katayama (Yokohama National Univ., Japan)
• Jun Kono (Rice University, USA)*
• HaeYeon Lee (Rice University, USA)
• Shigeo Maruyama (Zhejiang University / The University of Tokyo / Nagoya University, China / Japan)
• Kazunari Matsuda (Kyoto University, Japan)*
• Yuhei Miyauchi (Kyoto University, Japan)
• Matteo Pasquali (Rice University, USA)
• Vasili Perebeinos (University at Buffalo, USA)
• Jiang Pu (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)*
• Junichiro Shiomi (University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Alexey Volkov (University of Alabama, USA) 
• Geoff Wehmeyer (Rice University, USA)
• Kazuhiro Yanagi (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan)
• Jumpei Yamada (Keio University, Japan)
• Jana Zaumseil (University of Heidelberg, Germany)