Shigeru Okamoto

Materials Science and Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology.

Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan.

Tel/Fax: +81-52-735-5273

e-mail: okamoto.shigeru@nitech.ac.jp

 Shigeru Okamoto received his master’s and PhD (1997) degrees in engineering at Kyoto University, Kyoto with a specialty in Physical Chemistry. He joined Materials Science and Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology in 1994 as an Assistant Professor after finishing the Research Fellowship for Young Scientists by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for two years (1992 – 1994). He has been an Associate Professor since 2005. His research activity ranges from the chemical synthesis to the demonstration of new physical properties, such as miscibility, optical properties, mechanical properties, structural analyses. Starting with the design of multibolock copolymers showing a novel structure with a three-fold symmetry. Then he conducted Dynamic Studies on Order-Order Transition of Block Copolymer when he joined Strategic Japanese-Korean Cooperative Programme (1998 – 2000).

 Okamoto started the research on Fabrication of Photonic Crystals using Microdomain Structures in Semidilute Solutions and the Optical Properties under the collaboration with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) (2004 – 2008), which aimed at “fabrication of novel materials using International Space Station and industrial application,” and he is still working on the optical properties. He received “International Materials Research Prize” for his seminal contribution to Structural Control Methods for Non-Linear Optical Block Copolymers from “World Forum on Advanced Materials (POLYCHAR 2016 of IUPAC).

 Besides the core research mentioned above, Okamoto was a member of construction committee of “SAXS and WAXS simultaneous measurement apparatus for BL-9C at Photon Factory of KEK, Tsukuba. He has been also a member of construction committee and of steering committee and a research fellow at Aichi Synchrotron Radiation Center and has constructed the SAXS beam line (BL8S3).