On the morning of December 10, 2012, Dr. Nagao Kobayashi who is a full professor of Tohoku University in Japan visited Jiangsu University (JSU) and accepted the appointment as a pluralistic professor of JSU. The Dean of the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Professor Jimin Xie emceed the investiture ceremony. Vice-president of Jiangsu University, Prof. Chen Long attended the ceremony, and awarded the appointment certificate to Professor Kobayashi and also wore the emblem of JSU for him.

After the ceremony, Professor Kobayashi gave a lecture to more than 100 teachers and graduate students. The title of his lecture is “Synthesis, Applications and Practical Use of Functional Metallophthalocyanines”. During the lecture, he introduced the synthesis and application of functional metallophthalocyanines in different areas, such as to mimic the biological oxidation process, removing foul odor gasses, photodynamic therapy (PDT) of cancer.

The research interests of Prof. Kobayashi covered many different areas of phthalocyanine and porphyrin chemistry, with a strong focus on the synthesis, electrochemistry and optical spectroscopy. He has published over 300 research papers up to date and is also the co-author of 16 books related to his research on porphyrins and phthalocyanines.