Hokkaido University

Hokkaido University Hokkaido MDX-1 5 2.5 oil-fired open cycle test facihty... 

Division of Materials Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University Kita-13 Nishi-8, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060 Japan... 

Faoulty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. 

The author thanks Dr. Norio Sato, Professor Emeritus of Hokkaido University for stimulating, fruitful discussion, and also thanks Professor Asanuma at Gunma Polytechnic College and Dr. Shinohara atNRLM-JST for providing many data for this paper. 

Carved wooden bears in all shapes and sizes overwhelmed Yngve and me at our visit to Noboribetsu in 1976. There was an afternoon to spare before the opening of the "Oji International Seminar on Theories and Ab Initio Computations of Molecular Electronic Structure" at Tomakomai, Hokkaido in the fall of 1976 so we wished to experience the hot springs. The train left us with a choice of buses, the desdnations of which were clearly indicated in Japanese writing. We found the right one and came to a city in a canyon where the sulfur fumes and hot water let themselves out. The kind reception by Kimio Ohno and Fukashi Sasaki at Hokkaido University remains a vivid memory. 

Chemical Engineering, Division of Chranical Process Engineering Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University, N13W8, Kita-Ku, Sapporo, 060-8628, Japan tago eng.hokudai.ac.jp... 

Masahiro Irie received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Kyoto University and his Ph.D. in radiation chemistry from Osaka University. He joined Hokkaido University as a research associate in 1968 and started his research on photochemistry. In 1973 he moved to Osaka University and developed various types of photoresponsive polymers. In 1988 he was appointed Professor at Kyushu University. In the middle of the 1980 s he invented a new class of photochromic molecules - diaryl-ethenes - which undergo thermally irreversible and fatigue resistant photochromic reactions. He is currently interested in developing singlecrystalline photochromism of the diarylethene derivatives. 

Kohei Uosaki received his B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees from Osaka University and his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from flinders University of South Australia. He vas a Research Chemist at Mitsubishi Petrochemical Co. Ltd. from 1971 to 1978 and a Research Officer at Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford University, U.K. bet veen 1978 and 1980 before joining Hokkaido University in 1980 as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry. He vas promoted to Associate Professor in 1981 and Professor in 1990. He is also a Principal Investigator of International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA) Satellite, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) since 2008. His scientific interests include photoelectrochemistry of semiconductor electrodes, surface electrochemistry of single crystalline metal electrodes, electrocatalysis, modification of solid surfaces by molecular layers, and non-linear optical spectroscopy at interfaces. 

Hokkaido University Graduate School of Science Division of Chemistry Sapporo 060-0810 Japan... 

Hokkaido University Research Institute for Electronic Science (RIES)... 

Catalysis Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Japan... 

Prof Dr. Norio Miyaura Division of Molecular Chemistry Graduate School of Engineering Hokkaido University Sapporo 060-8628 Japan... 

Molecule and Life Nonlinear Sciences Laboratory, Research Institute for Electronic Science (RIES), Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0812 Japan... 

H. B. Gray California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California, USA Y. Sasaki Hokkaido University Sapporo, Japan... 

Hokkaido University, Department of Chemical Process Engineering, Sapporo 060, Japan... 

We thank Dr. H. Minamikawa (AIST) for the synthesis of Mah (Phyt)2 and Dr. D. Zhou and Dr. K. Kawasaki (AIST) for the FFEM observations. We also thank Prof. Dr. N. Kamo (Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University) for providing us with BR and a valuable discussion. This work was performed as a part of the R D project of AIST (Physical properties of membrane protein/lipid assemblies) and also partly supported by the NEDO International loint Research Grant (No. 01GB1 Development of molecular device for hydrogen production). 

Shogo Saito Kyushu University, Kasuga-shi, Japan Masatsugu Shimomura Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan Tohru Takenaka Science University of Okayama, Okayama, Japan Tetsuo Tsutsui Kyushu University, Kasuga-shi, Japan Junzo Umemura Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Kenichi Yoshikawa Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan... 

Dr. Yanzhong Li Catalysis Research Centre and Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences Hokkaido University and CREST Sapporo 060811 Japan Dr. Steven S. Pfeiffer Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California Santa Barbara California 93106-9510 USA Dr. Bjorn Rinker... 

Prof. Tamotsu Takahashi Catalysis Research Center and Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences Hokkaido University and CREST Kita-ku... 

Norifumi Ukaji Environmental Cryobiology Group, Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan Jennifer L. Wolny Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Florida Marine Research Institute, St. Petersburg, FL Shizuo Yoshida Environmental Cryobiology Group, Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan... 

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