The Society of Polymer Science Japan (SPSJ) Wiley Award has been presented to Dr. Teruaki Hayakawa, Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Dr. Kotaro Satoh, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, both Japan.
Dr. Hayakawa is honored for research on the synthesis and structural control of polymers for nanofabrication, and Dr. Satoh for work on the precision polymerization of vinyl monomers by controlling different reaction mechanisms.
The prize is awarded to members of the SPSJ under 45 years of age to recognize creative and outstanding research in the field of either polymer chemistry or polymer physics. This year’s award was presented at the 64th Symposium on Macromolecules at Tohoku University, Japan, on September 16, 2015.
Teruaki Hayakawa studied at the engineering faculty at Yamagata University, Japan, and received his Ph.D. there in 2000. He then worked as a researcher at the Center of Macromolecular Technology, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology （AIST), Tsukuba, Japan. Today, he is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.
His research focuses on polymers and polymer thin films, materials for nanolithography, especially polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS)-containing block copolymers (BCPs), as well as high thermal-conductive epoxy resins.
Kotaro Satoh studied polymer chemistry at Kyoto University, Japan, and received his Ph.D. in engineering there in 2000 under the supervision of Mitsuo Sawamoto. In 2004, he became Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Applied Chemistry, Nagoya University, Japan, and was promoted to his current post as Associate Professor in 2007.
His research interests include the development of new polymer materials by means of well-controlled polymerizations, living polymerizations, and stereospecific polymerizations.
Selected Publications by Teruaki Hayakawa
- Preparation of hyperbranched polystyrene-g-poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) copolymers and its application to novel thermo-responsive cell culture dishes,
Yu Sudo, Hideaki Sakai, Yuta Nabae, Teruaki Hayakawa, Masa-aki Kakimoto,
Polymer 2015, 70, 307–314.
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2015.06.035 - Creation of Different Types of Patterns in the Selective–Area of Thin Films for Block Copolymer Containing Silsesquioxanes,
Suguru Ushiro, Rina Maeda, Sho Kubota, Lei Wang, Teruaki Hayakawa, Kohei Aida, Yasuhiko Tada, Hiroshi Yoshida,
Sci. Adv. Mater. 2015, 7, 969–973.
DOI: 10.1166/sam.2015.2165 - Sub-10-nm patterning process using directed self-assembly with high χ block copolymers,
Naoko Kihara, Yuriko Seino, Hironobu Sato, Yusuke Kasahara, Katsutoshi Kobayashi, Ken Miyagi, Shinya Minegishi, Koichi Yatsuda, Tomoharu Fujiwara, Noriyuki Hirayanagi, Hideki Kanai, Yoshiaki Kawamonzen, Katsuyoshi Kodera, Tsukasa Azuma, Teruaki Hayakawa,
J. Micro/Nanolith. MEMS MOEMS 2015, 14, 023502.
DOI: 10.1117/1.JMM.14.2.023502 - Spin-Coated Highly Efficient Phosphorescent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Based on Bipolar Triphenylamine-Benzimidazole Derivatives,
Ziyi Ge, Teruaki Hayakawa, Shinji Ando, Mitsuru Ueda, Toshiyuki Akiike, Hidetoshi Miyamoto, Toru Kajita, Masa-aki Kakimoto,
Adv. Funct. Mater. 2008, 18, 584–590.
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.200700913 - Solution-Processible Bipolar Triphenylamine-Benzimidazole Derivatives for Highly Efficient Single-Layer Organic Light-Emitting Diodes,
Ziyi Ge, Teruaki Hayakawa, Shinji Ando, Mitsuru Ueda, Toshiyuki Akiike, Hidetoshi Miyamoto, Toru Kajita, Masa-aki Kakimoto,
Chem. Mater. 2008, 20, 2532–2537.
DOI: 10.1021/cm7035458 - Synthesis and Characterization of Semiaromatic Polyimides Containing POSS in Main Chain Derived from Double-Decker-Shaped Silsesquioxane,
Shouming Wu, Teruaki Hayakawa, Ryohei Kikuchi, Stephen J. Grunzinger, Masa-aki Kakimoto, Hisao Oikawa,
Macromolecules 2007, 40, 5698–5705.
DOI: 10.1021/ma070547z
Selected Publications by Kotaro Satoh
- Monomer Sequence Regulation in Main and Side Chains of Vinyl Copolymers: Synthesis of Vinyl Oligomonomers via Sequential Atom Transfer Radical Addition and Their Alternating Radical Copolymerization,
Takamasa Soejima, Kotaro Satoh, Masami Kamigaito,
ACS Macro Lett. 2015, 4, 745–749.
DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.5b00379 - Cationic RAFT Polymerization Using ppm Concentrations of Organic Acid,
Mineto Uchiyama, Kotaro Satoh, Masami Kamigaito,
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 1924–1928.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201410858 - Controlled radical polymerization of styrene with magnetic iron oxides prepared through hydrothermal, bioinspired, and bacterial processes,
Arihiro Kanazawa, Kotaro Satoh, Shokyoku Kanaoka, Masato Kakihana, Makoto Kobayashi, Junki Sato, Hiroaki Imai, Yuya Oaki, Atsushi Arakaki, Kiyofumi Katagiri, Masami Kamigaito, Sadahito Aoshima,
RSC Adv. 2015, 5, 51122–51129.
DOI: 10.1039/c5ra09149g - Stereospecific Living Radical Polymerization: Dual Control of Chain Length and Tacticity for Precision Polymer Synthesis,
Kotaro Satoh, Masami Kamigaito,
Chem. Rev. 2009, 109, 5120–5156.
DOI: 10.1021/cr900115u - Stereoregulation in Living Radical Polymerization,
Masami Kamigaito, Kotaro Satoh,
Macromolecules 2008, 41, 269–276.
DOI: 10.1021/ma071499l - AAB-Sequence Living Radical Chain Copolymerization of Naturally Occurring Limonene with Maleimide: An End-to-End Sequence-Regulated Copolymer,
Kotaro Satoh, Masaru Matsuda, Kanji Nagai, Masami Kamigaito,
J. Am. Chem. Soc.2010, 132, 10003–10005.
DOI: 10.1021/ja1042353
Also of Interest
- Polymer Science Awards Bestowed,
ChemViews Mag. 2012.
Hideyuki Otsuka and Kazushi Kinbara, both Japan, have been awarded the Society of Polymer Science Japan Wiley Award
