“Memayu hayuning pribadi, kaluwarga, sesama, bawana”, briefly translated as “make good deeds for self, family, others and all entire the world”, this old-Javanese advice is my great guidance in my life path, where I will struggle myself to do every act in my life with that motivation. And has a direct impact in my scientific life so far. Start with good will and sincerity from myself to yield good things for family, others and finally the entire world.
I am a final-year master student in the Materials Science Department at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, highly respected university in Japan, with. I am also a Junior Research Fellow at the National Institute for Material Science (NIMS), Japan. Before that I received my Sarjana Sains (Bachelor of Science) degree from Chemistry Department at the Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Indonesia, the 1st
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