Environmentally Friendly Ceramics Lab

AboutAbout the lab

Tailoring ceramic structures through liquid-phase synthesis.

In Associate Professor Inada's lab, researchers use liquid-phase synthesis, a method of making materials in solution, to study ceramic materials for environmental remediation, energy, and electronics.
The lab aims to control structures from the arrangement of atoms within crystals to the shape of particles, in order to improve adsorption and photodecomposition performance, steam corrosion resistance, and electrochemical properties.
By comprehensively examining crystal and surface structures, pore structures from the nano to the macro scale, and the coordination environment of elements, the lab builds an understanding of the relationship between structure and function from the synthesis side.
The lab's website is the Ishihara Lab website, where Associate Professor Inada is introduced as a faculty member.

ResearchResearch themes

The lab aims to control hierarchical structures, from the arrangement of atoms within crystals to the shape of particles, through liquid-phase synthesis based on solution chemistry. On that basis, it works to develop materials that improve ceramic functions, such as adsorption and photodecomposition properties, steam corrosion resistance, and electrochemical properties, and that contribute to a safe and secure society.

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Developing oxide particles from aqueous solutions↗

This research makes oxide particles through processes that use aqueous solutions. The lab applies a synthesis method that rapidly heats the solution with microwaves to produce particles such as zeolites and spherical mesoporous silica.

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