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Nanobio Engineering Lab
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The lab creates new materials through microscopy that can see individual atoms and through research on water.
AboutAbout the lab
Approaching materials and life with eyes that can see atoms
The Nanobio Engineering Lab pioneers methods for measuring and controlling atoms and molecules at the nanoscale.
Using an electron microscope that can see individual atoms, the lab observes graphene and single atoms and creates new materials.
The other pillar is research on water: the lab investigates what structures water takes inside and outside cells and how it is involved in biological activity.
The lab aims to apply this nanobiotechnology to life sciences, energy, the environment, information and communications, and more.
Key terms
- Nanobiotechnology
- A field that applies techniques for measuring and manipulating atoms and molecules at the nanoscale to life sciences and other areas
- Graphene
- A sheet-like material in which carbon atoms are arranged in a single layer in a honeycomb pattern
- Single atom
- A single, isolated atom. Metal atoms tend to cluster together, so extracting them one at a time is difficult
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to create new materials by pioneering new methods for measuring and controlling atoms and molecules at the nanoscale. It pursues two pillars, high-resolution imaging that can identify individual atoms and research on water, which is essential to life, in a way that relates them to each other and makes them complementary.
*Illustrative imageNanographene on Graphene
By observing deposits on the surface of graphene with a scanning transmission electron microscope, the lab showed that they stack up while keeping a layered structure. The lab has also succeeded in observing in situ, at atomic resolution, a second layer of nanographene growing on top of single-layer graphene.
*Illustrative imageSingle-Atom Sputtering
Metal atoms tend to cluster together, and extracting them one at a time has been considered difficult. By applying plasma sputtering, which is used to make thin films, the lab has succeeded in dispersing single platinum atoms on freestanding graphene.
*Illustrative imageCells and Water
Water is the most familiar substance, yet it has some of the most unusual properties on Earth. To clarify the role of water in biological activity, the lab investigates how the activity of cells is affected by the structuring of water.
*Illustrative imageCell Preservation
With well-used refrigeration and freezing techniques, cells can be kept alive for a long time. The lab pursues this research in the belief that clarifying the mechanism of cell preservation might make it possible to control biological activity.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Nanobio Engineering Lab consist of faculty, doctoral students, master's students, and undergraduates.As of 2024
- Associate ProfessorTsutomu Uchida
- Assistant ProfessorKenji Yamazaki
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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: “Graphene-epitaxial” Nathan Guisinger, EMMD Group, Argonne National Laboratory / Public domain (cropped)
- Nanographene on Graphene: “Carbon nanoribbon povray” Arnero / Public domain (cropped)
- Single-Atom Sputtering: “Atomic resolution Au100” Erwinrossen / Public domain (cropped)
- Cells and Water: “Indian Muntjac fibroblast cells ( )” ZEISS Microscopy / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Cell Preservation: “Fluessiger Stickstoff” Robin Müller / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Condensed Matter Physics Engineering Lab): “CdTe quantum dots” Ruslan.Ka / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Multiscale Functional Integration Lab): “Scanning transmission electron microscopy la07sr03mno” Magnunor / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Mathematical Physics Engineering Lab): “Meissner effect p1390048” Mai-Linh Doan / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Semiconductor Quantum Engineering Lab): “Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) 2" wafer” La2O3 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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