POLYMERS Vol.61　No.7 July 2012

POLYMERS　Vol.61　No.7

COVER STORY
Polymers for Building the Future Network Society

High-definition televisions, smartphones, tablet PCs, high image quality digital cameras and high-resolution video cameras are widely used, and we can easily enjoy beautiful pictures. These tools, created by information technology (IT), can reveal their full value with a connection to a broadband communication network. We feel their future potential when we use video communication on a smartphone over the internet. It has the potential to satisfy human's desire for limitless interaction. However, to realize “real communication” as if we meet face-to-face by telecommunications systems, technologies of communication devices, displays, and data storage are only starting successfully and further contribution is still required from polymer science and technology. Evolution from IT to information and communication technology (ICT) is steadily advancing. We are now facing the start of an era when we can vividly communicate by high image quality pictures. In the present edition, we look into the future brought by ICT and introduce polymers that contribute effectively to improve future communication, displays and data storages, and so on.

（Editors : TAGAYA, IYODA, K. TANAKA, and NAKAGAWA）

Digest for English Readers

456

Hot Topics in Polymer Science in Japan

459

Commentary

Promising Future of Photo Active Polymers

Seizo MIYATA

460

COVER STORY: Highlight Reviews

Photonics Polymer and Face-to-Face Communication	Yasuhiro KOIKE	461
Metamaterials and Nanofabrication	Nobuyuki TAKEYASU	464
Optical Information Processes and Displays Based on the Interaction Between Light and Organic / Polymer Materials	Fuyuki ITO	467

PolyMANGA

470

COVER STORY: Topics and Products

Retardation Films Based on Molecular Design and Nano Structural Control Technologies	Akihiko UCHIYAMA	471
Transparent Conductive Sheet Application of Large-Area and Low-Temperature Synthesized Graphene	Masataka HASEGAWA, Jaeho KIM, Masatou ISHIHARA, Takatoshi YAMADA	473
High Speed Plastic Optical Fiber	Hirotsugu YOSHIDA	475
Development of Three-Dimensional Vector Wave Recording	Takashi FUKUDA, Daisuke BARADA, Toyohiko YATAGAI	477

Polymer Science and I: A Personal Account

Enjoy the Present Moment

Tamami TAKIGAWA

479

Messages: “Work and Life”

Beyond the Bias and Barriers

Hisako OHTSUBO

480

Front-Line Polymer Science

Precision Polymer Synthesis via Olefin Metathesis Polymerization

Shingo KOBAYASHI

481

MACRO Economy

486

SPSJ 60th Anniversary: Message from Local Divisions

487

Messages from SPSJ

491

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