Kyoto Institute of Technology

Graduate School of Science and Technology Kyoto Institute of Technology Matsugasaki, Kyoto, Japan... 

Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan... 

Hiroshi Fukumura received his M.Sc and Ph.D. degrees from Tohoku University, Japan. He studied biocompatibility of polymers in the Government Industrial Research Institute of Osaka from 1983 to 1988. He became an assistant professor at Kyoto Institute of Technology in 1988, and then moved to the Department of Applied Physics, Osaka University in 1991, where he worked on the mechanism of laser ablation and laser molecular implantation. Since 1998, he is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Tohoku University. He received the Award of the Japanese Photochemistry Association in 2000, and the Award for Creative Work from The Chemical Society Japan in 2005. His main research interest is the physical chemistry of organic molecules including polymeric materials studied with various kinds of time-resolved techniques and scanning probe microscopes. 

Kyoto Institute of Technology Department of Polymer Science and Engineering Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku Kyoto 606-8585 Japan... 

Hitoshi Watarai Department of Chemistry, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan Yumi Yoshida Department of Chemistry, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan die Zhang Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry, England... 

AT T Bell Laboratories, 1,38,157,188,209,251 Chiba University, 421 Cornell University, 73,99,233 Hewlett Packard Laboratories, 329 Hitachi Ltd., 316 IBM Almaden Research Center, 26,56,73,99,114,382 Kanagawa University, 99 Kyoto Institute of Technology, 397 Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Ltd., 266... 

We wish to thank Dr. Osamu Ohara and Dr. Takahiro Nagase, Kazusa DNA Research Institute, for valuable discussions. We also thank Dr. Sumiharu Nagaoka, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Dr. Toshihiko Utsumi, University ofYamaguchi, and Dr. Susumu Tsunasawa, Shimadzu Corporation, for helpful discussions. 

Department of Chemistry and Materials Technology, Kyoto Institute of Technology,... 

Department of Chemistry and Materials Technology, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8585, lapan. Fax -1-81 75 724 7580 e-mail harada chem.kit. ac. j p... 

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