April 2009 - Present Assistant Professor in Research Center for Low Temperature and Materials Sciences July 2008 - March 2009 Postdoctoral fellow in Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences April 2005 - June 2008 Postdoctoral fellow in Research Center for Low Temperature and Materials Sciences Education: March 2005 Ph. D. (Eng.), “Studies on Electronic Properties of Organic Multi-Spin Systems” April 2000 - March 2005 Department of Molecular Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University April 1996 - March 2000 Department of Industrial Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University

Physical Chemistry/Organic Chemistry/Solid State Chemistry

Molecular magnetism Molecular conductor Photo-induced phase transition

A. Ito, R. Kurata, D. Sakamaki, S. Yano, Y. Kono, Y. Nakano, K. Furukawa, T. Kato, K. Tanaka, "Redox Modulation of Para-Phenylenediamine by Substituted Nitronyl Nitroxide Groups and Their Spin States", J. Phys. Chem. A, 117(48), 12858-12867 (2013) Y. Yoshida, M. Maesato, M. Ishikawa, Y. Nakano, T. Hiramatsu, H. Yamochi, G. Saito, "Charge-Transfer Solids Using Nucleobases: Supramolecular Architectures Composed of Cytosine and [Ni(dmit)2] Assembled by Multiple Hydrogen Bonds and Heteroatomic Contacts", Chem. Eur. J., 19(37), 12325-12335 (2013) D. V. Konarev, S. I. Troyanov, Y. Nakano, K. A. Ustimenko, A. Otsuka, H. Yamochi, G. Saito, R. N. Lyubovskaya, "Magnetic Coupling in the Fullerene Dimer {Co(Ph3P)(C6H5CN)}2(μ2-η2:η2-C60)2 with Two Zerovalent Cobalt Atoms as Bridges", Organometallics, 32(15), 4038-4041 (2013) M. Gao, C. Lu, H. Jean-Ruel, L. C. Liu, A. Marx, K. Onda, S. Koshihara, Y. Nakano, X. F. Shao, T. Hiramatsu, G. Saito, H. Yamochi, R. R. Cooney, G. Moriena, G. Sciaini, R. J. D. Miller,　"Mapping molecular motions leading to charge delocalization with ultrabright electrons", Nature, 496(7445), 343-346 (2013) T. Shirahata, K. Shiratori, S. Kumeta, T. Kawamoto, T. Ishikawa, S. Koshihara, Y. Nakano, H. Yamochi, Y. Misaki, T. Mori, "Structural Transitions from Triangular to Square Molecular Arrangements in the Quasi-One-Dimensional Molecular Conductors (DMEDO-TTF)2XF6 (X = P, As, and Sb)", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 134(32), 13330-13340 (2012) Y. Nakano, A. Ito, K. Tanaka, "Redox-switching of intramolecular magnetic interaction through π-conjugation mode change of 1,2-bis(4-dianisylamino)-1,2-bis(3-N-oxylamino)-substituted tetraarylethylene", Polyhedron, 30(18), 3106-3111 (2011) T. Murata, X.F. Shao, Y. Nakano, H. Yamochi, M. Uruichi, K. Yakushi, G. Saito, K. Tanaka, "Tuning of Multi-Instabilities in Organic Alloy, [(EDO-TTF)1-x(MeEDO-TTF)x]2PF6", Chem. Mater., 22(10), 3121-3132 (2010) Y. Nakano, Y. Misaki, M. Uruichi, K. Yakushi, H. Yamochi, "Charge disproportionation in a semiconducting θ-type salt of BTM-TTP", Physica B, 405(11S), S198-S201 (2010) Y. Nakano, T. Nishi, M. Uruichi, K. Yakushi, H. Yamochi, "Synthesis, crystal structure, and physical property of radical cation salt of 2-(thiopyran-4-ylidene)-4,5-ethylenedithio-1,3-dithiole (TP-EDTT): (TP-EDTT)2SbF6", Physica B, 405(11S), S49-S54 (2010) Y. Nakano, H. Yamochi, G. Saito, M. Uruichi, K. Yakushi, "Anion size and isotope effects in (EDO-TTF)2XF6", J. Phys.: Conf. Ser., 148, 012007/1-4 (2009) X.F. Shao, Y. Nakano, M. Sakata, H. Yamochi, Y. Yoshida, M. Maesato, M. Uruichi, K. Yakushi, T. Murata, A. Otsuka, G. Saito, S. Koshihara, K. Tanaka, "Room-Temperature First-Order Phase Transition in a Charge-Disproportionated Molecular Conductor (MeEDO-TTF)2PF6", Chem. Mater., 20(24), 7551-7562 (2008)