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Materials Science (Kenta Goto) Lab
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A lab that explores, from the perspective of materials science, the dynamic behavior of droplets and molecules that convert light into motive power.
AboutAbout the lab
Studying the boundary between molecules and matter.
Assistant Professor Kenta Goto specializes in the science of material properties, colloid science, and physical organic chemistry. He studies the boundary between the microscopic world, where molecules are in lively motion, and the macroscopic world, where matter functions as "things."
In recent years, the lab has been publishing results on multiple, multiphase emulsions that behave like living things, and on molecules that convert light energy directly into motive power.
At the School of Interdisciplinary Science and Innovation, Assistant Professor Goto serves as a specially participating faculty member and teaches the special lecture "Chemistry and Human Society A."
His home affiliation is the Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, and he also holds a concurrent faculty position in the Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science.
Key terms
- Emulsion
- A state in which one of two immiscible liquids is dispersed as fine droplets within the other.
- Liquid-liquid phase separation
- A phenomenon in which liquids separate into two or more phases. Inside cells, it forms compartments without membranes.
- Multiple droplets
- A nested structure in which droplets of one liquid phase sit inside a droplet of the outer liquid phase.
ResearchResearch themes
Centered on the science of material properties, colloid science, and physical organic chemistry, the lab studies the boundary between the microscopic world, where molecules are in lively motion, and the macroscopic world, where matter functions as "things." In recent years, it has focused on dynamic emulsions that behave like living things and on molecules that convert light energy directly into motive power.
*Illustrative imageDynamic Multiple Emulsions
Using liquid-liquid phase separation, in which a liquid separates into two phases, the lab creates multiple droplets, in which droplets sit inside larger droplets. It induces chemical reactions inside them and has shown that color changes are synchronized with the motion of the droplets.
*Illustrative imageMolecules That Convert Light into Motive Power
The lab studies molecules that convert light energy directly into motive power. Along with multiple, multiphase emulsions, this is one of its main research subjects in recent years.
MembersFaculty
- Assistant ProfessorKenta Goto
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Water droplets on grass at Central park Rajiv Chowk Delhi India during 2025 monsoon 04” Sumita Roy Dutta / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Dynamic Multiple Emulsions: “Polymer emulsion sample ready for dynamic light spectroscopy (DLS) analysis” Kushina Dahlia / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Molecules That Convert Light into Motive Power: “Overcrowded alkane molecular motor” Kutay B. Sezginel / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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