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Polymer Chemistry Lab (Spring Lab)
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A lab that makes polymers with optical and electronic functions through precisely controlled polymerization.
AboutAbout the lab
Controlling polymerization to design polymer functions.
The Polymer Chemistry Lab uses highly controlled living polymerization to study how to precisely control the properties of polymers for advanced technologies.
At its core is ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP), which uses cyclic alkenes with large ring strain as monomers.
Using mainly Grubbs catalysts, the lab synthesizes a variety of polymers and complex polymeric compounds with uniform molecular weights, and studies their applications.
The lab's website states that it accepts both Japanese students and international students.
Key terms
- Living polymerization
- A polymerization method that allows highly precise control over how polymer chains grow
- Ring-opening metathesis polymerization
- A polymerization that links cyclic alkenes with large ring strain together while opening their rings to form polymers. Abbreviated as ROMP
- Electro-optic
- The property or technology of converting between electrical signals and optical signals. The lab abbreviates it as EO
ResearchResearch themes
The lab uses living polymerization, especially ring-opening metathesis polymerization, to synthesize homopolymers, random copolymers, and block copolymers with uniform molecular weights. The lab's website presents three themes: electro-optic (EO) polymers, conjugated polymers, and carbon nanotube inks.
Development of electro-optic (EO) polymers
Electro-optic modulators are essential devices for high-speed optical communication and other applications. To reduce driving voltage and optical loss, the lab optimizes the structure of EO polymers through ring-opening metathesis polymerization.
Synthesis of new conjugated polymers
The lab synthesizes conjugated polymers that can be applied from solution onto paper or plastic at low temperatures, aiming to extend them to organic electronics materials such as organic light-emitting diodes and organic thin-film solar cells.
Carbon nanotube inks
To use thin films of carbon nanotubes, which conduct electricity well, transmit light, and are flexible, as electrodes, the lab works on making stable inks in which the nanotubes are well dispersed.
MembersFaculty
The Polymer Chemistry Lab's members consist of faculty members, master's students, and visiting researchers.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorAndrew Mark Spring
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