Kun’ichi Miyazawa, Ph.D., is Head of the Fullerene Engineering Group at the Advanced Nanomaterials Laboratory, the Ecodevice Group at the Ecomaterials Center at the National Institute of Materials Science.

Dr. Miyazawa’s research interests include novel synthesis routes for nanomaterials, and he has multiple patents for synthesis of fullerenes and carbon nanotubes.

Representative publications:

Asaka K, Kato R, Miyazawa K, Kizuka T. Deformation of multiwalled nanometer-sized carbon capsules. Appl Phys Lett. 2006, 89, 191914.1-191914.3.

Minato J, Miyazawa K, Suga T. Morphology of C60 nanotubes fabricated by the liquid–liquid interfacial precipitation method. Sci Tech Adv Mater. 2005, 6, 272-277.

Miyazawa K, Suga T. Transmission electron microscopy investigation of fullerene nanowhiskers and needle-like precipitates formed by using C60 and (η2-C60)Pt(PPh3)2. J. Mater Res. 2004, 19, 2410-2414.

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Representative Publications