Laboratory News

Apr. 1, 2023
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28/03/2023
The resignation greeting form Prf. Kogure.

17/02/2023
The last lecture of Prof. Kogure has held at Koshiba Hall.

01/09/2022
The date of Prof.Kogure's final lecture has determined.
Feb. 17th, 2023 at Koshiba hall The university of Tokyo
When the details have been finalized, we will publish them on our website.

23/07/2022
Ph.D. student Piyush Sriwastava finished his program in our lab and returned to his own country, India.

04/07/2022
The study of Mr. Gen Takahashi has introduced on You Tube.

20/06/2022
Mr.Piyush Sriwastava, an international student from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, has joined the lab for one and a half months.

01/04/2022
Dr. Hiroki Mukai has joined the lab.

24/03/2022

Graduate students have finished their courses.
M.Sc.: Mr. Shun Ebisawa

The list of their topics are listed here.

05/11/2021
Dr. Taiga Okumura received Excellent Oral Presentation Award at 10th Meeting of The Society for Remediation of Radioactive Contamination in Environment.

08/09/2021
Ph.D. student Junming Zhou finished his program in our lab and returned to his own country, China.

01/04/2021
Dr. Kazumi Yoshiya has joined the lab.

04/03/2021
Mr. Ryo Sugaya received Best Poster Award at The 19th International Conference on Textures of Materials.

01/02/2021
Dr. Sayako Inoue was assigned to the Geodynamics Research Center, Ehime University, as assistant professor.

29/01/2021
Dr. Taiga Okumura received Encouragement Award at The Society for Remediation of Radioactive Contamination in the Environment.

13/01/2021
Mr. Junming Zhou, an international student from Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences, has joined the lab for one year.

19/10/2020
The summary of the George Brown Award lecture by Prof. Kogure has published.

Published Article
Title: Visualization of clay minerals at the atomic scale
Author: Toshihiro Kogure
Clay minerals, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1180/clm.2020.27

17/10/2020
Dr. Taiga Okumura, Prof. Toshihiro Kogure and among others announced that Distinction between Radiocesium (RCs)-bearing Microparticles and RCs-sorbing Minerals Derived from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Using Acid Treatment (Japanese only).

09/06/2020
Ph.D. student, Gen Takahashi received Student Award Certification at 4th Asian Clay Conference.

23/03/2020
Graduate students have finished their courses.
M.Sc.: Mr. Ryo Sugaya
M.Sc.: Mr. Gen Takahashi

The list of their topics are listed here.

02/01/2020
Dr. Arkadiusz Derkowski, an associate professor, finished GSGC program and returned to his own country, Poland.

06/11/2019
Special lecture by GSGC associate professor Arkadiusz Derkowski was held on 4th and 5th November.

31/10/2019
The study of Dr. Taiga Okumura and Prof. Toshihiro Kogure are introduced in the journal.

NanotechJapan Bulletin (Japanese only)

here

31/10/2019
Dr. Taiga Okumura received Excellent Oral Presentation Award at 8th Meeting of The Society for Remediation of Radioactive Contamination in Envronment.

01/10/2019
Dr. Arkadiusz Derkowski, an associate professor from Polish Academy of Sciences, has joined the lab for three months as part of GSGC program (Global Science Graduate Course).

22/09/2019
Mr. Gen Takahashi received Excellent Oral Presentation Award at 2019 Annual Meeting of Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences.

18/09/2019
Dr. Sayako Inoue received CSSJ Best Presentation Award at 63th forum of The Clay Science Society of Japan.

01/07/2019
Prof. Toshihiro Kogure received George Brown Lecture Award 2019 of Minelal Socciety UK.

11/03/2019
Dr. Taiga Okumura and Prof. Toshihiro Kogure announced that Dissolution behavior of radiocesium-bearing microparticles released from the Fukushima nuclear plant.

23/02/2018
Dr. Taiga Okumura received Excellent Oral Presentation Award at the 7th Annual Meeting of the Society for Remediation of Radioactive Contamination in Environment(SRRCE). In addition, Dr. Iwao Shimoyama(JAEA) received Best Oral Presentation Award. Prof. Toshihiro Kogure and Dr. Taiga Okumura were co-presenters of his presentation.

26/06/2018
Dr. Taiga Okumura and Prof. Toshihiro Kogure announced that Loss of radioactivity in radiocesium-bearing microparticles emitted from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant by heating.

28/02/2018
Ph.D. student (JSPS research fellow) Ryosuke Kikuchi came back to the lab from one month stay in Polish Academy of Sciences.

23/02/2018
Ph.D. student Alexey N. TSELEBROVSKIY finished STEPS program in our lab and returned to his own country, Russia.

01/12/2017
Mr. Alexey N. TSELEBROVSKIY, an international Ph.D. student from Physics of the Earth Division, Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, has joined the lab for three months as part of STEPS program (Students and Researchers Exchange Program in Sciences).

12/09/2017
Ph.D. student (JSPS research fellow), Ryosuke Kikuchi received Best Student Paper Award of Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences.
Title: Cs-sorption in weathered biotite from Fukushima granitic soil
Authors: Ryosuke KIKUCHI, Hiroki MUKAI, Chisaki KURAMATA and Toshihiro KOGURE
JMPS, 110-3, 126-134., 2015 The award ceremony was held at the 2017 Annual Meeting of JAMS on September 12.

03/10/2016
Ph.D. student Ryosuke Kikuchi received Best Presentation Award of Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences.
The awarded presentation;
Ryosuke KIKUCHI (presenter), Hiroki Mukai, Toshihiro KOGURE
Title: 加水黒雲母の層間内におけるセシウムの拡散速度の定量

02/09/2016
Our boss is set to take up a Professor positon of Science at the University of Tokyo.
He received Phalaenopsis orchids from alumni and alumnae.

24/03/2016
Graduate students have finished their courses.
Ph.D.: Dr. Sayako Inoue
M.Sc.: Mr. Ryosuke Kikuchi
M.Sc.: Mr. Masahiro Yoshimura

The list of their topics are listed here.

12/02/2016
We announced (Japanese only) that weathered biotite sorbed Cs far more than the other clay minerals.

Published Article
Title: Cesium adsorption/desorption behavior of clay minerals considering actual contamination conditions in Fukushima
Authors: Hiroki Mukai, Atsushi Hirose, Satoko Motai, Ryosuke Kikuchi, Keitaro Tanoi, Tomoko M. Nakanishi, Tsuyoshi Yaita and Toshihiro Kogure
Scientific Reports, DOI: 10.1038/srep21543
PDF version

03/02/2016
We announced (Japanese only) about cesium-bearing radioactive microparticles from Fukushima nuclear power plant.

Published Article
Title: Internal structure of cesium-bearing radioactive microparticles released from Fukushima nuclear power plant
Authors: Noriko Yamaguchi, Masanori Mitome, Kotone Akiyama-Hasegawa, Maki Asano, Kouji Adachi and Toshihiro Kogure
Scientific Reports, DOI: 10.1038/srep20548
PDF version

13/07/2015
3rd year PhD student, Sayako Inoue; (JSPS research fellow) has been awarded for a prize of "Euroclay 2015 Best Student Oral Presentation".

20/04/2015
We posted some pictures of Field Trip to Fukushima on our Member page.

24/03/2015
A graduate student, Chisaki Kuramata has finished her master's course and acquired the degree.

12/03/2015
The research of Ms. Sayako Inoue is highlighted on the Clay Mineral Society News in Elements and CMS e-News.
You can find the News here.

Elements CMS news (excerpt)
CMS December e-News

11/11/2014
We issued a press release announcing that radioactive cesium in Fukushima's contaminated soil was sorbed in the weathered biotite.

School of Science, The University of Tokyo Press Releases (Japanese only)
NHK WORLD News (English page) et al.

Published Article
Title: Speciation of radioactive soil particles in the Fukushima contaminated area by IP autoradiography and microanalyses
Authors: MUKAI, Hiroki; HATTA, Tamao; KITAZAWA, Hideaki: YAMADA, Hirohisa: YAITA, Tsuyoshi; KOGURE, Toshihiro
Environmental Science & Technology, DOI: 10.1021/es502849e
PDF version

01/10/2014
Mr. Helmut Pristacz, an international Ph.D. student from Faculty of Geosciences, Geography and Astronomy, University of Vienna, has joined our Lab for five months program.
Please check also Members page.

24/03/2014
Our graduate student Mr. Taiga Okumura has earned a doctoral degree in science.

Thesis Title:
Study on structure control of biogenic calcite by intracrystalline organic molecules

26/12/2013
Ms. Inoue received 2013 Student Oral Presentation Award (2nd Place) at the Annual Meeting of The Clay Minerals Society.

The awarded presentation:
Structures of chlorite/serpentine minerals in Toyoha geothermal system, southwestern Hokkaido, Japan
50th Anniversary Meeting of the Clay Minerals Society

This news was posted on a web page of Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science, Univ of Tokyo.

11/12/2013
Prof. Toshihiro Kogure is co-author of the book recently released Handbook of Clay Science, 2nd Edition.
Handbook of Clay Science, Volume 5, Second Edition (Developments in Clay Science)
Editor(s) : Bergaya & Lagaly
Imprint: Elsevier
ISBN: 978-0080993645
USD 225.00

18/11/2013
Prof. Toshihiro Kogure has been elected as a Fellow of the Council of the Mineralogical Society of America (MSA).
MSA is the international body with regard to the science of mineralogy. He was credited with outstanding contributions to the fields of mineralogy, crystallography, geochemistry, and petrology.

01/10/2013
Dr. Kameda, Project Research Associate, took up a lecturer position at Department of Natural History Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University. A photo of send-off party has been posted at Member Page.

22/04/2013

Mr. Naoki Yokoo, who has completed his doctorate program, was granted a doctoral degree in science.

27/03/2013

Graduate students of Kogure laboratory have finished their master's course and acquired the degree.

Ms. Sayako Inoue (center) and Ms. Hyejin Kim (right)

11/09/2012
Ms. Inoue received Academic promotion fund award of Asian Clay 2012 from Clay Science Society of Japan and Award for The Best Poster of 2nd Asian Clay.

The awarded poster;
Ms. Sayako Inoue, Prof.Toshihiro Kogure,
Stacking disorder in chlorites from Toyoha geothermal system, Hokkaido, Japan
The 2nd Asian Clay Conference