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Kobe Univ.
SATO Lab. 
Welcome to SATO Lab.
We mainly study the structure and properties of polymers by vibration spectroscopy.
＜Call for Graduate Students＞
If you are interested in researching polymer spectroscopy, please contact us in advance before visiting our laboratory.
＜Join us＞
The Sato lab. is recruiting postdocs via funding through JSPS(Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)fellowships.
[2022]
2022 November 12
Experiment@FSBL03XU, SPring-8
2022 September 6 Presentation
The research result was presented at the 71st Symposium on Macromolecules @ Hokkaido University, Japan (Ito, Morooka, Sato)
2022 July 15 Presentation
The research results were presented at The annual Kobe Polymer Research Symposium @ Sannomiya, Kobe (Yamamoto, Gao, Segawa, Ito, Maruyama)
2022 June 30 Neｗｓ
Professor Sato give a lecture at OPTRONICS Seminer
2022 May25-27 Presentation
The research results were presented at the 71th SPSJ Annual Meeting @ Online Virtual Meeting (Gao, Segawa, Yamamoto, Maruyama Ito)
2022 May News
A new member is joining us -Dr. Nami Ueno.Welcome to Sato Laboratory!
2022 April News
The new semester begins ！
[2021]
2022 March Publication
Erika Mitani, Yukihiro Ozaki, Harumi Sato
"Two types of Cdouble bondO⋯HO
hydrogen bonds and OH⋯OH (dimer, trimer, oligomer) hydrogen bonds in PVA
with 88% saponification/PMMA and PVA with 99% saponification/PMMA blends and
their thermal behavior studied by infrared spectroscopy" is published in Polymer.
2021 Ｄｅｃｅｍｂｅｒ Publicatioｎ
「Spectroscopic Techniques for Polymer Characterization: Methods, Instrumentation, Applications 」edited by Prof. Sato and Prof. Yukihiro Ozaki will be published by WILEY-VCH
2021 November Neｗｓ
Professor Sato has been admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). The FRSC is a title given to researchers who have made outstanding contributions to the field of chemistry.
The Royal Society of Chemistry is the oldest society in the world, with a history of 170 years, and has members not only in the UK but all over the world. It publishes many top-level chemistry-related journals and books, and is a world leader in chemistry research, education, and awareness.
2021 December 16-21 Presentation
The research results will be presented at Pacifichem ＠virtual-only event (Sato, Mitani, Ito)
2021 September Publication
Miroslaw Antoni Czarnecki, Yusuke Morisawa, Yukiteru Katsumoto,
Tomoyuki Takaya, Swapnil Singh, Harumi Sato and Yukihiro Ozaki
" Solvent Effect on Competition Between Weak and Strong Interactions in Phenol Solutions Studied by Near-infrared Spectroscopy and DFT Calculations" is published in Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.
Also selected as Back Cover!
2021 September Publication
Tulika Sharma, Yoshiaki Nishio, Yuichiro Tamano, Harumi Sato, Isao
Takahashi"Correlation of physical aging and glass transition
temperatures in ultrathin polystyrene films supported on SiO2" is published in Polymer.
2021 July 9 Presentation
The research results will be presented at The annual Kobe Polymer Research Symposium @ Online Virtual Meeting (Sato, Mitani, Ito, Yamamoto)
2021 ＭａｙNeｗｓ
An article about Professor Sato's research, which was planned mainly by Shogo Tsuchihara a graduate of Sato Laboratory (completed the master's program in 2015), was introduced in the Asahi Shimbun
2021 Ｍａｙ Publication
Mao Nochi of Sato Lab (completed the master's program in 2020)
" Water-induced conformational changes in the powder and film of ε -poly(L)lysine studied by infrared and Raman spectroscopy Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy" is published in Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy.
2021 ＭａｙNeｗｓ
Professor Sato will give a lecture at HORIBA Raman School.
June 22nd 14:10- 「Plastic seen in Raman spectrum」 Harumi Sato
Click here to apply→HORIBA Raman School
2021 Ｍａｙ Publication
A collaborative research paper between Professor Sato and Imperial College London " Visualization of Inter- and Intramolecular Interactions in Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate)/Poly(L-lactic acid) (PHB/PLLA) Blends During Isothermal Melt Crystallization Using Attenuated Total Reflection Fourier Transform infrared (ATR FT-IR) Spectroscopic Imaging" is published in Applied Spectroscopy.
2021 May26-28 Presentation
The research results will be presented at the 70th SPSJ Annual Meeting @ Online Virtual Meeting (Sato, Mitani, Ito, Yamamoto)
2021 April Publication
Tatsuro Nasu of Sato Lab (completed the master's program in 2020)
" Study of changes in water structure and interactions among water, CH2, and COO− groups during water absorption in acrylic acid-based super absorbent polymers using Raman spectroscopy"
is published in Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy.
2021 April News
The new semester begins
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[2020]
Prof.Sato had an invited speak at The 8th International Workshop on Far-Infrared Technologies (IW-FIRT2021)
2021 January Publication
Yumiko Yamamoto of Sato Lab (completed the master's program in 2019)
" Differences in Intermolecular Interactions and Flexibility between Poly(ethylene terephthalate) and Poly(butylene terephthalate) Studied by Far-Infrared/Terahertz and Low-Frequency Raman Spectroscopy"
is published in Macromolcules. This study clarified the difference in intermolecular interaction and motility of polymers with similar structures using vibration spectroscopy and quantum chemistry calculations in the low wavenumber region.
2020 October Publication
A collaborative research paper between Professor Sato and Imperial College London " Simultaneous Visualization of Phase Separation and Crystallization in PHB/PLLA Blends with In Situ ATR-FTIR Spectroscopic Imaging" is published in Macromolcules. This is a summary of the research results of the 2019 Imperial College London.
2020 Sptember16-18 Presentation
The research results were presented at the 69th Symposium on Macromolecules @ Online
Virtual Meeting (Sato, Nasu, Nishimae, Nochi)
2020June Publication
Sato Lab's Dian Marlina (graduated from the doctoral program in 2019)'s
paper " A Study on Blend
Ratio-dependent Far-IR and Low-frequency Raman Spectra and
WAXD Patterns of Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate)/poly(4-vinylphenol)
Using Homospectral and Heterospectral Two-dimensional
Correlation Spectroscopy”was published in Analytical Sciences. This is a study that captures the
interaction in a polymer blend using vibration spectroscopy and 2DSCOS
in the low frequency domain.