Congatulations Yuta and Wataru for getting the Poster Prize at The 46th Workshop on Photochemistry for Young Researchers! We'd appreciate the organizers for their great efforts.

Our previous group member Tomoyuki has returned to Japan after a short postdoc stay at the Wasielewski lab. Thanks for the Northwestern wine glass!
Tomoyuki has just been appointed as an Assistant Professor at Kyushu University. Huge congratulations, best of luck in your future endeavors!

Congratulations Wataru for getting the poster prize at ISMSC2025!!

Many thanks Christian Doonan for visiting us and giving an inspiring seminar! We enjoyed delicious sushi too much so totally forgot to take a photo😅 Instead here’s a photo with his favorite Taiyaki. See you soon in Kyoto next week!

It was our great pleasure to host Prof. Shie-Ming Peng from NUS today. We appreciate the beautiful coordination chemistry of “Peng Dragon” and the interesting stories related to Prof. Nozoe.

Thank you @mirceadinca.bsky.social for visiting us and giving the truly inspiring talk! We learned a lot from you and enjoyed the fun time with you 🍤 Hope to have you again in Tokyo!

@buchergroup.bsky.social and I really enjoyed the ISMAR-ENC dinner at the aquarium. It’s not just aquarium, very artistic. Lovely, precious time…
It was such a wonderful week to meet many great scientists. Many thanks to the organizers and hope to see you all again soon!

The first group photo of the Yanai Lab at the University of Tokyo😄
Our new history begins here!!

Welcome Taiga, Ayane, Kenta, Takayasu, Takumi, and Takeyuki to the Yanai Lab!! Let's explore new photochemistry together!

The member list of our HP has been updated:
sites.google.com/view/nobuhir...

Brijith visited us and gave a wonderful seminar, thank you! We had a nice discussion about multinuclear NMR and many other things and enjoyed 🍣

Yesterday was the last day of Bhavesh at the Yanai lab. We already start to miss you, because your presence and contributions have been incredible… Best of luck with your new journey!!!

Beautiful sakura welcome me back to Japan🌸
Amazing Botanical Garden of the University of Tokyo

It was fantastic to visit @ashokaj.bsky.social and Archana @berkeleylab.lbl.gov and have exciting discussions. Thank you for hosting me so nicely! It was an interesting experience to have Japanese food in Berkeley and indeed it was very 👍

Wonderful hanging out with @spectreresearch.bsky.social
after QIS symposium happy hour of ACS Spring Meeting over 🌮 🍻
I promised to visit @UNSW in the near future!!

We had a farewell party for Bhavesh. He stayed 3 years with us and made a huge contribution for acene-based projects. He was truly wonderful member so we’re very sad to say goodbye 😢
But we should celebrate his new position in Finland, good luck with your new adventure, Bhavesh!

Thank you Sebastian for visiting us and giving a wonderful talk! He will stay a few more days for discussion, and hopefully will come back again for a longer stay. Looking forward to new collaborations!

We appreciate Aron @lonepair.bsky.social for your truly inspiring talk in Tokyo! We had great discussions and enjoyed good seafoods. We look forward to hosting your longer stay next time!!

It was a great visit to Yonsei University last week. I really appreciate Dongho and Woojae for the kind invitation and wonderful hospitality. I enjoyed the discussion about singlet fission and many other things very much. Looking forward to seeing you all again soon!

We have developed biocompatible Molecular Quantum Nanosensors (MQNs) and demonstrated intracellular quantum thermometry.
Thanks to the uniform structure of molecules, MQNs exhibit narrower ODMR peak distribution than NV center in nanodiamond.
Check it out in ChemRxiv:
chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...