Size dependent lattice constant change of thiol self-assembled monolayer modified Au nanoclusters studied by grazing incidence x-ray diffraction

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Toshihiro Kondo is a Professor of Chemistry Division in Ochanomizu University, Japan since 2010. He received his B. Eng. and M. Eng. degrees from Waseda University in 1987 and from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1989, respectively. He received Ph.D. from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1993. He worked in Hokkaido University as Research Associate between 1991 and 2002 and in Ochanomizu University as Associate Professor between 2002 and 2009.

His research focuses on electrochemistry, surface science, and interfacial physical chemistry and has lectures about analytical chemistry and instrumental analysis. 

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Takuya Masuda is currently a senior scientist of the Research Center for Advanced Measurement and Characterization of National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan. He joined NIMS as an adjunct researcher in the Global Research Center for Environment and Energy based on Nanomaterials Science (GREEN) in April 2010, and was promoted to be the current position in April 2014. He is also a visiting associate professor at the Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering of Hokkaido University from October 2014. His research interest centers on the development of in situ techniques to observe a wide range of electrochemical events taking place at the solid/liquid interfaces and their applications to energy materials such as fuel cells, photocatalysts and rechargeable batteries.

 Prior to joining NIMS, Takuya Masuda earned a doctorate in chemistry from Hokkaido University. He worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in Arizona State University and an assistant professor in Hokkaido University.

 October 2012 – March 2016, Takuya Masuda was selected as a researcher of the Promoting Individual Research to Nurture the Seeds of Future Innovation (PRESTO) which is a funding program to promote fundamental research, conducted by Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).  

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Motoko Harada received a B.S and M.S. degrees in Hokkaido University, Japan in 2006 and 2008, respectively. She joined Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Research Laboratory in 2008, where she studied electrochemistry and analytical techniques and so on until 2012. After she studied electroless plating for printed board, she moved to battery research department in 2013.

She has been studying separator for lead-acid batteries for Idling-Stop vehicles until today. Ms. Harada is a member of the electrochemical Society of Japan. 

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Osami Sakata received the Ph.D. degree with a major in materials science from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan. He has investigated structures of surfaces and thin film interfaces since 1984. He extended dynamical X-ray diffraction for such crystal surfaces using synchrotron X-ray experiments performed at the Photon Factory from 1984 to 1998. He studied surfaces with Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA, and Advanced Photon Source, Argonne, IL, USA, from 1998 to 2000. His research place has moved to the SPring-8 since 2000. At first, he was involved in construction of the beamline BL13XU for surface and interface structures.

He moved to the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) as the station director at the beamline BL15XU since 2011. His research is in interfaces, thin films, and nanoparticles using synchrotron X-rays.  

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Yohio Katsuya is a principal engineer at the Synchrotron X-ray Station at SPring-8 of National Institute for Materials Science. He received M.S. (1986) and D.Sc. (1989) in Macromolecular science from Osaka University. He started his career as a protein crystallographer but then become an engineer of synchrotron beamline and x-ray diffraction equipment for the last 10 years. 

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Kohei Uosaki is a Fellow, an Executive Adviser to the President, Director of Center for Green Research on Energy and Environmental Materials, Director of Global Research Center for Environment and Energy based on Nanomaterials Science (GREEN), and Principal Investigator International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA) of the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and an Adjunct Professor of the Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering and Professor Emeritus of Hokkaido University. He received his B. Eng. and M. Eng. degrees from Osaka University in 1969 and 1971, respectively, and Ph.D. from the Flinders University of South Australia in 1976. He worked in Mitsubishi Petrochemical and Oxford University before his appointment in Hokkaido University as Assistant Professor at the Chemistry Department in 1980. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1981 and Professor in 1990.He joined NIMS in 2010.

He has published more than 400 original papers and 100 review articles and book chapters on the subjects in wide ranges of surface physical chemistry including semiconductor electrochemistry, bioelectrochemistry, self-assembled monolayers, electrocatalysis, development and application of novel techniques for solid/liquid interfaces such as scanning probe microscopy, non-linear spectroscopy, surface x-ray scattering and x-ray absorption spectroscopy using synchrotron radiation.

Currently, he is leading “Specially Promoted Research for Innovative Next Generation Battery, Advanced Low Carbon Technology R & D Program (ALCA-SPRING)” of Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) as Program Officer. He was awarded BCSJ Award and the Society Award of the Chemical Society of Japan, Special Lectureship Award of the Japanese Photochemistry Association, the Society Award of the Surface Science Society of Japan, Distinguished Alumni Award and Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science of the Flinders University of South Australia. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the International Society of Electrochemistry, the Electrochemical Society, and the Chemical Society of Japan. He acted as Editor and Advisory Board Member of various international journals. His current interests include interfacial energy conversion.