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11th Iwasawa Conference (virtual International Conference) was organized as follows. (See PDF program)"International Conference on State-of-the Art Catalysis and Surface/Interface Science for Sustainable Societyー11th Iwasawa Conference"
March 11, 2022. Online Conference(9:00ー18:00 JST, 0.00ー9:00 GMT)
(Cooperation: The Chemical Society of Japan, Catalysis Society of Japan, The Japan Society of Vacuum and Surface Science, The Japanese Society of Synchrotron Radiation Research, The Japan Petroleum Institute)

(2022/03/11)
Dr. Miwa and Dr. Yoshida arrived at specially appointed associate professor.

(2021/04/01)
“The Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon” Award 2019 from the Emperor and Prime Minister, Commemorative Lectures and Party at Sanjo Conference Hall, UT and at Lever son Verre Hongo, Nov. 24, 2019.

(2020/01/09)
Prof. Iwasawa was awarded with “The Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon” from the Emperor and Prime Minister in May 21, 2019.
(2019/05/31)
Prof. Yasuhiro Iwasawa became President of Japan Union of Chemical Science and Technology (JUCST).
(2018/06/14)
RSC PCCP Blog; PCCP Prize Winners and Award Ceremony at the 98th CSJ Meeting on March 24, 2018.
(2018/04/27)
Interntional Symposium as UEC 100th Anniversary Commemorative Event was organized by UEC on Oct. 28 - 30, 2017. Members of our group won the RSC prizes.
(2017/11/27)
"XAFS Techniques for Catalysts, Nanomaterials, and Surfaces" (Y. Iwasawa, K. Asakura and M. Tada eds) has now been published from Springer, New York. (November, 2016)
(2016/12/30)
Interntional Symposium as UEC 100th Anniversary Commemorative Event will be organized by UEC (honorary chair: T. Fukuda (President), Chair: Y. Iwasawa (Professor)).
(2016/12/29)
10 selected students from 6 Asian Universities which are a part of the Sakura Science Program (JST) came to visit Innovation Research Center for Fuel Cells (Professor Iwasawa) in the University of Electro-Communications, including a guided tour of BL36XU beamline of UEC and NEDO in SPring-8 on 4th and 5th Oct. 2016.
(2016/11/01)
Achievements Symposium held at Okazaki Conference Center, National Institutes of Natural Sciences for the 3rd year Anniversary Symposium of the Spring-8 BL36XU Beamline Construction on 2nd Aug. (Tues), and the report has been published on the University of Electro-Communications website.
(2016/08/30)
We will organize "Forefront Symposium on In situ/Operando, Time-resolved and Spatially-resolved (Imaging) Analysis for Fuel Cell Catalysts" to commemorate 3 year anniversary of SPting-8 BL36XU beamline construction on August 2, 2016 at Okazaki Conference Center.
(2016/07/08)
Prof.Iwasawa was awarded from The Surface Science Society of Japan (SSSJ), May 21, 2016.
(2016/05/27)
Prof.Iwasawa was awarded The Foundation Lectureship Award 2015 in Physical Chemistry from Federation of Asian Chemical Societies (FACS), March 16-17, 2016.
(2016/03/25)
Yasuhiro Iwasawa is selected as a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK.
(2016/01/13)
Prof. Yasuhiro Iwasawa delivered the IEICE (The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineerings) Sponsored Lecture at Multi Media University (MMU) in Malaysia on 14th Dec. 2015.
(2015/12/25)
Prof.Iwasawa was awarded The Foundation Lectureship Award 2015 in Physical Chemistry from Federation of Asian Chemical Societies (FACS)
(2015/09/07)
Press release about the result of the study on nano-XAFS-STEM/EDS measurement.[PDF:1.64MB, Japanese]
(2015/07/17)
Lists of publications in 2013 - 2014 have been updated.
(2015/07/17)
Fuel cells in the spotlight, featured in UEC e-Bulletin (Vol. 5, 2015).
(2015/03/25)
Fuel cell seminar by Prof. Y. Iwasawa for visiting students from ASEAN universities under JST Sakura Science Plan program, Nov. 17, 2014
(2014/11/26)
Press Release for Mapping Pt Chemical Species in Fuel Cells by nano-XAFS.[PDF 858kB]
(2014/11/18)
Department’s second year Masters student, Hikaru Hotta, is awarded for his poster at 4th CSJ Chemistry Festa (Tower hall Funabori, 10/14~16)
(2014/11/14)
Visit of 30 students at Australian Universities to Innovation Research Center for Fuel Cells
(Iwasawa lab) at UEC, June 18, 2014.
(2014/06/26)
Visit of students at Multimedia Univ., Malaysia to Innovation Research Center for Fuel Cells (Iwasawa lab) at UEC and our new beamline BL36XU@SPring-8; Photo at the President Office, May 21, 2014.
(2014/06/25)
【Re-post】
The link to the interview article with Yasuhiro Iwasawa (the director of Innovation research center for fuel cells) in SPring-8 "Hikari-no-hiroba" is added to the banner menu on top page. The article was previously posted in June 2012.
(2014/01/06)
The 5th Iwasawa conference "The most advanced catalytic chemistry/Surface science for sustainable society" was held on October 22, 2013.
(2013/11/01)
The observing meeting for the fuel cell XAFS new beamline (BL36XU) at the University's SPring-8 hosted by Fuel Cell Development Information Center (FCDIC) was held on October 4, 2013.
(2013/10/15)
The 16th International Symposium on Relations between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis (ISHHC-16) that Yasuhiro Iwasawa (the director of Innovation research center for fuel cells) served as a honorary organization committee chairperson was successf
(2013/08/13)
Our center also participated in "2013 the industry-academia-government collaboration day Graduate School Open Laboratory" held on June 5.
(2013/06/11)
Professor Iwasawa became an academic committee member for Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials(Xiamen Univ., Fudan Univ., Univ. of Sci. & Tech. of China) - <The certificate of appointment was awarded from Professor Yuan>
(2013/03/29)
Specially appointed professor Yasuhiro Iwasawa (the director of Innovation research center for fuel cells) was awarded the title of honorary member from the Chemical Society of Japan (31,000 members).
(2013/03/29)
Specially appointed professor Yasuhiro Iwasawa (the director of Innovation research center for fuel cells) was awarded the title of Honorary Fellow from the Chemical Society of China (50,000 members as officially announced). Honorary Fellow is deemed as the most prestigious title in the Chemical Society of China and he was awarded the title due to his great contribution to the chemical field study (catalyst science) and the Chinese chemical field.
(2013/03/08)
The world's first and most advanced beamline for fuel cell catalyst XAFS measurement was successfully completed.
(2012/12/26)
Our research "the Most advanced synchrotron radiation XAFS beamline construction and the Fuel cell development research with XAFS" is introduced in "Hikari-no-hiroba" of the section SPring-8 (the large-scale synchrotron radiation facility) (PDF).
(2012/05/22)
Professor Yasuhiro Iwasawa (The director of the Innovation Research Center for Fuel Cell) was introduced in "Hikari-no-hiroba" of the section SPring-8.
(2012/05/22)
With the presence of their Majesties the Emperor and Empress, the opening ceremony of the 14th International Association of Colloid and Interface Scientists Conference (IACIS2012)( Honorable Chair: Yasuhiro Iwasawa, Chair: Kazue Kurihara) was held at the
(2012/05/18)
Professor Yasuhiro Iwasawa as the director of Innovation Research Center for Fuel Cell (also the president of the Chemical Society of Japan) attended the 80th Anniversary Memorial Ceremony for the Chemical Society of China (April 13 at Sichuan University
(2012/04/13)
Professor Yasuhiro Iwasawa received the Achievement Award from the Surface Science Society of Japan in May 2011. He was awarded because of his great contribution to support the society to be an incorporated association. He had also previously received the Surface Science Society of Japan Award in 2000.
(2011/05/30)
Specially appointed associate professor Shinichi Nagamatsu received the Poster Award at Asian Academic Seminar - the Joint seminar held by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the Ministry of Science & Technology of India (November 29 - December 4, 2010 Calcutta, India)
(2010/12/27)
We are now exhibiting the picture of the opening ceremony for the Innovation Research Center for Fuel Cell.
(2010/09/02)
The Innovation Research Center for Fuel Cell (the director: Yasuhiro Iwasawa) has been established at the University of Electro-Communications.
(2010/07/12)
We are now recruiting a specially appointed associate professor for SPring-8 at the University of Electro-Communications. (Please refer to PDF for details)
(2010/06/06)
The NEDO fuel cell catalyst XAFS project has just started!
(2010/06/06)
With the initiation of fuel cell innovation research, the homepage of Innovation Research Center for Fuel Cells has been established.
(2010/05/28)
PCCP Prize Winners and Award Ceremony at the 99th CSJ Meeting on March 18, 2019.
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