Journal of Materials Chemistry Blog

We are delighted to introduce the new Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Professor Hiroshi Imahori.

Professor Imahori completed his doctorate in organic chemistry at Kyoto University. From 1990-1992, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA. In 1992, he became an Assistant Professor at ISIR, Osaka University. In 1999, he moved to the Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, as an Associate Professor. Since 2002, he has been a Professor of Chemistry at the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University. Since 2007, he has also been a Principal Investigator at the Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI-iCeMS), Kyoto University. He has been awarded the Japanese Photochemistry Association Prize (2004), JSPS Prize (2006), CSJ Award for Creative Work (2006), Tokyo Techno Forum 21 Gold Medal Prize (2007), Osaka Science Prize (2007), and NISTEP Researcher Award (2007).

Hiroshi Imahori’s current interests involve artificial photosynthesis, molecular photovoltaics, organic functional materials, and drug delivery systems. To date, he has written more than 250 original papers, including:

Conjugated donor–acceptor (D–A) copolymers in inverted organic solar cells – a combined experimental and modelling study
Venla Manninen, Mika Niskanen, Terttu I. Hukka, Felix Pasker, Simon Claus, Sigurd Höger, Jinseok Baek, Tomokazu Umeyama, Hiroshi Imahori and Helge Lemmetyinen
J. Mater. Chem. A, 2013, 1, 7451-7462