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Release on IMHEN website: Meeting with IMHEN (under MONRE) about LCS development and exchanging the information of HAQMN project in EANET and SATREPS project 9 JAN 2025.

IMHEN – VIỆN KHOA HỌC KHÍ TƯỢNG THỦY VĂN VÀ BIẾN ĐỔI KHÍ HẬU

1. SATREPS has started in October 2023, 2023/11/06

2. A symposium for Output 5 was held in Hanoi, 2024/03/04

3. Workshop for Output 3 was held in Phu Yen province, 2024/07/08

4. Principal Investigator, Prof. Mawatari and his members visited Vietnam to have discussions on Output 1, 2, 3 in July 2024, 2024/07/20

5. Vietnam Science and Technology Day (18 May 2024), 2024/07/20

6. Project Leaflet, 2024/07/20

7. Discussion on Training Needs for Provincial Officials/ Output 3 Meeting with InNet-MONRE on 23 August 2024, 2024/07/27

8. Project Logo & “EDFEN”, 2024/09/15

9. Equipment Operation Check and Set-up Conducted at R&E Center in Hoa Lac, 2024/09/15

10. Observation of R & E Center in Hoa Lac, 2024/09/19

11. Output 4: Two Professors from The University of Tokyo delivered the lectures in VNU-HUS, 2024/10/21

12. Output 4: The Development of Future Talent and Networks in the fields of Environmental and Analytical Chemistry, 2024/10/30

13. The First Joint Coordinating Committee Meeting of JICA SATREPS Project EDFEN held on 30 October 2024, 2024/10/31

14. dvancing Microfluidic Technology in Vietnam (MAR 2025) Nhan Dan Newspaper: https://nhandan.vn/ung-dung-cong-nghe-vi-luu-kiem-soat-an-toan-thuc-pham-va-chat-luong-moi-truong-post865450.html

15. elease on IMHEN website: Meeting with IMHEN (under MONRE) about LCS development and exchanging the information of HAQMN project in EANET and SATREPS project 9 JAN 2025.IMHEN – VIỆN KHOA HỌC KHÍ TƯỢNG THỦY VĂN VÀ BIẾN ĐỔI KHÍ HẬU

16. Output 3: The 1st Trial Training conducted at HUS (APR 2025) VNU HUS Website: https://hus.vnu.edu.vn/tin-tuc-su-kien/hop-tac-va-phat-trien/dao-tao-giang-vien-nong-cot-ve-quan-trac-moi-140927.html
VNU HUS Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HusFanpage/posts/1113158327520470?rdid=XQ0OZ8PKOHBx35or#

17. Pioneering the Application of Microfluidic Technology in Food Safety Control and Environmental Quality Management (JUNE 2025)
Department of Science and Technology, VNU Website: https://www.facebook.com/khoahocvacongngheVNU/posts/pfbid0UNeYKvSQGTVS6yyPvXrXVSpMbrVAUMQUqi2MRKc5WDWCHA3fwZSiupzdfYapsQDCl

18. Opening ceremony on 18 NOV 2025
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19. 2nd JCC meeting on 19 NOV 2025

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Publications

  1. Binyou Huang, Roichi Ohta, Kazuma Mawatari (2026)
    Minimally Invasive Flow and Pressure Sensing in Microfluidics via Dissolvable Bubbles and Two-Stage Deep Learning. IEEE Sensers Journal, accepted.
  2. Chenyu Zhou; Ruying Wang; Sangming Xu; Ryoichi Ohta; Hidekatsu Tazawa; Kazuma Mawatari (2026). Physics-Guided Machine Learning for Real-Time, Non-Contact Quantification of Liquid Volume at micro litter under Cyclone Flow, Analytical Sciences, in press.
  3. Tazawa, H., & Mawatari, K. (2024). Room-temperature mL-to-μL quantitative liquid concentration device for cyclone flow. Analytical Sciences, 40(1), 23-30. Selected as Hot Article
Room-temperature mL-to-μL quantitative liquid concentration device for cyclone flow - Analytical Sciences
Highly sensitive quantitative analysis of liquids is required in various fields. Analytical instruments and devices such as chromatography, spectroscopic analys...

3. Ruriko Kawanabe, Hidekatsu Tazawa, Kazuma Mawatari (2024), Ayumi Yoshizaki, Anaytical Sciences, 41, 145-150.

Room temperature quantitative liquid concentration device and application to interleukins analysis in a B-cell culture medium - Analytical Sciences
In biological analysis and medical diagnosis, there is an increasing demand for improving the lower detection limit without deteriorating the quantitativity; ho...

Conference

  1. Juntao Jiang1, Hidekatsu Tazawa1, Tran Dinh Trinh2, Nguyen Van Noi2, Mawatari Kazuma1 (1 Waseda University, 2 VNU University of Science) Soft Bonding Microfluidic Device for Electric Field-Based Heavy Metal Extraction 第85回分析化学討論会、愛媛、2025年5月31日~6月1日
  2. (with review) Hidekatsu Tazawa1, Juntao Jiang1, Tran Dinh Trinh2 Nguyen Van Noi2, Ruying Wang1, Xuan Yan1, Sanming Xu1, Ryoichi Ohta1 and Kazuma Mawatari1(1 Waseda University, 2 VNU University of Science), Detachable and open-column concentration device for rapid and sensitive on-site environmental monitoring, MicroTAS2025, 3 November 2025
  3. (Keynote) Kazuma Mawatari (Waseda University), AI-based concentration device and sensor for microfluidics, BCEIA2025, Beijing, 11 September 2025
  4. (Plenary)Kazuma Mawatari (Waseda University), Progress of microfluidic technologies based on AI, CJK2025, Xiamen, 22 September 2025
  5. (with review)Ruying Wang1, Suyang Liu1, Ryoichi Ohta1, Hidekatsu Tazawa1, Noi Van Nguyen2,and Kazuma Mawatari1(1 Waseda University1, 2 VNU University of Science), A room-temperature microfluidic quantitative concentration pipete, MicroTAS2025, 3 November 2025
  6. (Plenary) Kazuma Mawatari(Waseda University), Toward size limit in fluidics utilizing nanofluidics, 10th Shanghai International Symposium on Analytical Chemistry, Shanghai, China, 18 November 2024
  7. Hidekatsu Tazawa (University of Tokyo), Kazuma Mawatari (Waseda University), SAMPLING INTERFACE: ROOM TEMPERATURE QUANTITATIVE LIQUID CONCENTRATION DEVICE, MicroTAS 2023, POLAND, 15-19 October 2023
  8. (Invited)Kazuma Mawatari (Waseda University), Macro-to-micro concentration devices for microfluidics, IEEE nanomedicine 2023, Okinawa, 7 December 2023

Patents

Two patents were applied (announced after the opening)