Prof. Nobuhiro Kihara
Kanagawa University
Japan
He studied at The University of Tokyo and then worked at the Research Institute of Resources Utilization at Tokyo Institute of Technology on the reaction of carbon dioxide with epoxide and the application of the resulting cyclic carbonate. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Fribourg University, Swiss, and worked as an Associate Professor at Osaka Prefecture University. He moved to Kanagawa University as a professor in 2005. His present research interest is on polycatenane, artificial molecular motor, the reaction field based on the molecular recognition, and the oxidatively degradable polymer.
