Seiji Shinkai (新海 征治, Shinkai Seiji, born July 5, 1944) is a *anese chemist and professor of Kyushu University, and emeritus professor.

Contents

• 1 Early life
• 2 Career and research
• 3 Recognition
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Early life

Shinkai was born in *uoka prefecture, *an, in 1944. He completed his B.S. in 1967 and Ph.D. in 1972 from Kyushu University.

Career and research

He is known for his pioneering research in molecular self-*embly. Molecular self-*embly is the *embly of molecules without guidance or management from an outside source.

His main field of expertise and research interests are Host Guest Chemistry, Molecular Recognition, Liquid Crystals/Organic Gelators, Sugar Sensing/Sugar-Based Combinatorial Chemistry, Boronic-acids, Polysaccharide-Polynucleotide Interactions, Sol-Gel Transcription and Inorganic Combinatorial Chemistry. His most recent research is related to chiral discrimination using AIE.

In 1979 he published the first light driven molecular machine in Tetrahedron Letters.

To date (July 2019) he has published over 1024 original paper and 219 reviews and books.

Recognition

• The Chemical Society of *an Progress Award (1978)
• Izatt-Christensen International Award in (1998)
• Becker Lecture Award (1999)
• Vielberth Lectureship Award (2002)
• The Chemical Society of *an Award (2003)
• Western *an Culture Prize (2004)
• Toray Science and Technology Prize (2006)
• Daiwa Adrian Prize (2013)
• Clarivate Citation Laureates (2013)
• Molecular Sensors & Molecular Logic Gates (MSMLG) Award (2014)
• Received the Order of the Sacred Treasure from the Emperor of *an in 2017.
• Received the Person of Cultural Merit from the *anese Government in 2018.

References

External links

• In celebration of Seiji Shinkai's 70th Birthday from the Royal Society of Chemistry
• Interview with Seiji Shinkai in Chemical Communications