Masafumi Yano, Associate Professor; B. Engr., Osaka Institute of Technology, 1993; M. Engr., Osaka Institute of Technology, 1995; Ph.D., Osaka City University, 1998; Research Assistant, Kansai University, 2000; Lecturer, Kansai University, 2005; Associate Professor, Kansai University, 2010; affiliated academic society: Chemical Society of Japan.