June, 14, 2024:

Shibayama HP moved to https://neutron.cross.or.jp/mitsu/

Jan. 7, 2024:

Lecture note (Introduction for Structural Analysis by SAS) has been uploaded to One Point Lecture.

Dec. 15, 2023:

Old link, SANS-U@JRR-3 (1992 - 2017) has been fixed. See, SANS-U, JRR-3.

Dec. 7, 2023:

One Point Math has been updated. See, One Point Math.

June 5, 2023:

OB Link is updated. Welcome, Hiroi Lab. to this link. See, OB-Link.

Apr. 26, 2023:

One Point Math has been launched. See, One Point Math.

Aug. 4, 2021:

OB Laboratories are linked. See, OB-Link.

Feb. 2, 2021:

Missing part of the Dissertations list, Master (KIT), was appended. See, Dissertations.

Nov. 2, 2020:

Shibayama's Retirement Memorial Lecture was given on Nov. 2, 2020 (15:30 - 17:20 JST). The details are given in the ISSP Home page.

Aug. 25, 2020:

Shibayama Laboratory@KIT Album (LabAlbum; side banner) has been uploaded, which shows highlights of his 16 year history at KIT.

June 17, 2020:

Shibayama Laboratory@ISSP Album (LabAlbum; side banner) has been uploaded, which shows highlights of his 20 year history at ISSP.

June 1, 2020:

Dr. Mitsuhiro Shibayama became Director, Neutron Science and Technology Center, Comprehensive Research Organization for Science and Society (CROSS)

Apr. 1, 2020:

Dr. Mitsuhiro Shibayama moved to Neutron Science and Technology Center, Comprehensive Research Organization for Science and Society (CROSS)

Mar. 31, 2020:

Dr. Mitsuhiro Shibayama retired from Univ. Tokyo on March 31, 2020.

Dec. 12, 2019:

Online on Advances in Engineering Soft-microgels: crossover from translational to jamming dynamics

Dec. 6, 2019:

U. Tokyo Press release
Polymer gel with a flexible and highly ordered three-dimensional network synthesized via bond-percolation

April 17, 2019:

Commendation, Science and Technology Award, MEXT.
See below.

July 2, 2018:

linked to Shibayama OB/OG Association.

Mar. 30, 2017:

ORCiD in *** Profle*** is updated.

Nov. 2, 2016:

The German Colloid Society committee has decided to award Prof. M. Shibayama the honor of next year’s “Colloid and Polymer Science Lecture 2017” at the Annual Meeting of the German Colloid Society in Munich in October 2017. The Meeting will be held at Technical University of Munich October 9-11, 2017.

June 20, 2016:

Plenary lecture at Polymer Network Groups Meeting 2016, Stockholm, Sweden

June 11 - 15, 2016:

Co-chaired, PP'2016, Guiyang, China

Jan. 1, 2016:

Happy New Year!

July 25, 2015:

New book review uploaded in Library (Jpn)

May 31, 2015:

Shibayama Lab. New Home Page Open!

Jan. 6, 2015:

Happy New Year!

June 21, 2014:

M. Shibayama's 60ty Birthday Party

Dec. 25, 2013:

Merry Christmas and Happy New year!

Nov. 1, 2013:

World Travel Album reformed and updated. Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Publication and Calendar upldated.

July 16, 2011: World Travel Album on page!

World travel album is uploaded. Scroll down this home page and enjoy a slide show.

July 15, 2011: Restoration in progress

Neutron scattering instruments owned by ISSP, U. Tokyo, Tohoku U, and Kyoto U. at JRR-3, JAEA, Tokai, were damaged by North-East Japan Earthquake (Mar. 11, 2011) are now under restoration. Ventiation of the Reactor Hall and Guide Hall was recovered on May 12. Since then, we checked dameges of instruments one by one and fixed the problems. Most of the instruments seem to be fine without serious damage. Restration of the JRR-3 building and related infrastructure will be finished by October, followed by inspection to reissue the licence. We expect that JRR-3 will start to operate next Feburary.
See, for the details at NLS-ISSP-Annoucement (Japanese only).
Mitsu

Career

Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1982
Res. Associate, U. of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1983.4-1984.9
Res. Associate, Kyoto Inst. of Tech. (KIT), 1984.10-1988.4
Associate Professor, KIT, 1988.5-1997.10
Professor, KIT, 1997.11-2000.8
Professor, Inst. of Solid State Physics (ISSP), U-Tokyo, 2000.9-2020.3
Director, Neutron Science Laboratory, ISSP, U-Tokyo, 2009.4-2020.3
Next Director, Neutron Science and Technology Center, CROSS, 2020.4-2020.5
Director, Neutron Science and Technology Center, CROSS, 2020.6-

Conference Chair

Vice Chairman, Polymer Network Group (2010 - 2014)
Co-Chair, Polymer International Symposium of Polymer Physics, Nanjing (2014)
Chairman, Polymer Network Group (2015 - 2018)

Co-Chair, Polymer International Symposium of Polymer Physics, Guiyang (2016)

Visiting Professorship

* 1991.4-1992.3 Visiting Scientist, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Prof. Toyoichi Tanaka)
* 1993.10-1994.6 Visiting Professor, Nagoya Institute of Technology,
* 1997.10-1998.3 Visiting Professor, Physics Department, Kanazawa University
* 1999.10 Visiting Professor, Faculty of Textile Science, Shinshu University
* 2002.10 Visiting Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Yamagata University
* 2004.4 Visiting Professor, Chemistry Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
* 2004.10 Visiting Professor, Physics and Chemistry Department, Chiba University
* 2007.11 Visiting Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University
* 2008.7 Visiting Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Nagoya University
* 2009.6 Visiting Professor, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University
* 2010.10 Visiting Professor, Faculty of Pharmacy and Medicine, University of Rome at La Sapienza, Italy
* 2010.12 Visiting Professor, Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology,
* 2017.12 Visiting Professor, Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University

* Award for Outstanding Achievementin Polymer Science and Technology (2019) (May, 2020), The Society of Polymer Science, Japan, Studies on Polymer Gels by Scattering Methods, See, for details.

* Commendation, Science and Technology Award (2019) (Apr., 2019), Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Scattering Studies on Structure and Properties of Polymer Gels, See, for details.

* Colloid and Polymer Science Lecture Award (2017) (Oct., 2017), The German Colloid Society, Precision Polymer Network Science with Tetra-PEG Gels, See, for details.

* The Award of the Japanese Society for Neutron Science (2014) (Dec., 2014), Studies on Structure and Deformation Mechanisms of Polymer Gels and Micelles by Neutron Scattering, See, for details (Jpn.)

* Paper Award, Physical Society of Japan (2012) (March, 2012),
for the paper entitled "A Periodic Structure in a Mixture of D2O/3-Methylpyridine/NaBPh4 Induced by Solvation Effect", K. Sadakane, H. Seto, H. Endo, and M. Shibayama, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn., J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. , Vol.76, No.11, 113602 (2007)

* The Award of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan (2009) (May, 2010), Precision Analysis of Polymer Gels by Neutron Scattering, Contents

* The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work, 2004, Studies of Inhomogeneities in Gels and Gelation Mechanism, Contents (ISSP News 2005; Jpn)

* Wiley Polymer Science Award, The Society of Polymer Science, Japan, 2000,Inhomogeneities and Dynamics of Polymer Gels, report

* Sakurada Takeshi Memorial Award, The Society of Fiber Science and Technology, Japan, 1991, Structural Analysis and Orientation Control of Multiphase Fibers and Films