Mitsutaka Fujita


Mitsutaka Fujita was a Japanese physicist. He proposed the edge state that is unique in the
graphene zigzag edges. Also, he theoretically pointed out the importance and
peculiarity of nanoscale and edge shape effects in nanographene. The
graphene nanoribbons was theoretically introduced by him and his research group
to study the nanoscale effect of graphene. He had been an associate professor in the Tsukuba University, and died by subarachnoid hemorrhage on March 18, 1998. His posthumous name is Rikakuin-Shinju-Houkou-Koji in Japanese.

Awards

After his death, the original paper of graphene edge state and graphene nanoribbons was
awarded the JPS Best Paper Award on March 2003 from the Physical Society of Japan.
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