Kana Orihashi

Professional with Doctorate Degree

Practice Area
Technical Field

Physics, Optics, Materials

Ms. Orihashi specializes in electric materials, inorganic chemistry, and nanotechnology.  She also handles patent cases in the field of microstructure technology, non-metallic materials, organic chemistry, and polymeric molecules.

Ms. Orihashi conducted research on the optical properties of nanomaterials in graduate school.  Specifically, she designed and synthesized novel dye molecules and molecular assemblies (particularly metal-organic frameworks, MOFs), and evaluated their optical and spin properties.

Ms. Orihashi previously worked as a materials development engineer on a mass production project for rubber compound materials at a tire manufacturing company.

Education

Ph.D., Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University

Publications

- 2023. Spin-Polarized Radicals with Extremely Long Spin–Lattice Relaxation Time at Room Temperature in a Metal–Organic Framework, J. Am. Chem. Soc.
- 2024. Radical qubits photo-generated in acene-based metal–organic frameworks, Dalton Trans.