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Director’s note Dear Reader,

It is my sincere pleasure to deliver this year’s first issue of Shimadzu Journal. As part of its core
mission, Shimadzu has been actively promoting joint research and development with
universities, research institutes, and companies with innovative technologies.

Based on this policy, adding to existing Innovation Centers in the U.S. and China, in Europe
Shimadzu designated advanced universities and research institutes that conduct joint research
and development with Shimadzu as innovation centers, and established a headquarters at its
subsidiary, Shimadzu Europa GmbH, located in Duisburg, Germany. In addition, Shimadzu
established an Innovation Centre in another overseas subsidiary, Shimadzu (Asia Pacific) Pte
Ltd., to manage advanced joint research and development with local researchers. This
Innovation Centre started operations on November 17.
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The work performed at these Innovation Centers is key to developing relationships and
introducing new solutions to the scientific community. One such solution, a Trace Moisture
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Analysis GC, was created in 2017. This system was developed at Shimadzu’s U.S. Innovation
Anal
Cent
Center. Developed in close collaboration with Dr. Daniel W. Armstrong, Robert A. Welch
Distinguished Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, and MilliporeSigma, the life
Distin
science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, this system consists of Shimadzu's
scien
Nexis GC-2030 equipped with our proprietary Barrier Ionization Discharge detector and
Nexis
MilliporeSigma's unique capillary column, which was originally developed by Dr. Armstrong.
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With this system, users can precisely analyze PPM levels of water in gas and some liquid
samp
samples.
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We are very excited about the potential of the new trace moisture analysis GC, and eager to
share
share more about it in a future issue of Shimadzu Journal. At the same time, we are proud to
present this issue of Shimadzu Journal, which focuses on Material Science. For an insight from
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a cus
a customer, we interviewed Dr. Gunnar Merz, CEO and Chair of the Board of CFK Valley e.V.,
Germ
Germany, which is an internationally recognized competency network for carbon fiber
reinf
reinforced plastic. Also, Associate Professor Kazuo Tanaka and Professor Yoshiki Chujo of Kyoto
University shared with us their research concerning the development of Solid-State Emissive
Univ
Materials based on Aggregation-Induced Emission-Inducible Organoboron “Element-Blocks”.
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Thank you for being a partner of Shimadzu. We hope this journal will be of great help to all of
Than
you. We welcome your feedback at any time.
you.
Yours Sincerely,
Shuzo Maruyama
General Manager, Analytical & Measurement Instruments Division