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Materials Chemical Engineering Lab
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A lab that creates porous materials by thinking first about how to make them.
AboutAbout the lab
Designing materials and how to make them, together
The Materials Chemical Engineering Lab aims to develop materials efficiently using chemical engineering methods.
A distinctive feature is that it looks beyond the functions of the materials themselves to efficient manufacturing processes and new applications.
The current focus is developing porous materials for use as catalysts and adsorbents, including an original process that synthesizes materials by freezing the raw material.
The lab also researches producing carbon nanotubes and carbon nanofibers by its own methods.
Key terms
- Porous material
- A material with many fine pores inside. It has a large surface area and is used for adsorption and catalysis.
- Adsorbent
- A material that removes components contained in a gas or liquid by making them stick to its surface.
- Chemical vapor deposition (CVD)
- A method of reacting source gases at high temperature to grow solid films or fibers.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab designs materials and their manufacturing processes together, using chemical engineering methods. The main themes are porous materials for use as catalysts and adsorbents, and ways to produce carbon materials efficiently.
*Illustrative imageEfficient production of fibrous carbon
Fibrous carbon is usually made by chemical vapor deposition, but high manufacturing cost is a problem. Using the LPI method, in which a liquid feedstock is introduced in pulses into a high-temperature reactor, the lab works on controlling structure and enhancing function.
*Illustrative imageIce-templated micro-honeycombs
Micro-honeycomb structures made using ice crystals as templates combine short diffusion distances with low pressure drop. They have a large specific surface area and fast heat and mass transfer, so the lab is studying their use in adsorbents and catalysts.
*Illustrative imageCarbon–inorganic nanocomposites
Inorganic substances such as Si and TiO2 become useful materials when combined with carbon at the nanoscale. The lab is developing processes to make such composites by advancing CVD, a method that is relatively low-cost and highly productive.
*Illustrative imageAir electrodes for lithium–air batteries
Lithium–air batteries are next-next-generation secondary batteries that draw energy from lithium metal and oxygen in the air. Using original carbon materials and technology to control their structure, the lab is developing new air electrodes.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Materials Chemical Engineering Lab are faculty and students at the doctoral, master's, and undergraduate levels.As of 2026
- ProfessorShin Mukai
- Associate ProfessorYuta Nakasaka
- Assistant ProfessorNobuhiro Iwasa
- Assistant ProfessorShintaroh Nagaishi
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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: “Activated-charcoal-i” Mubychemcom / CC0 (cropped)
- Efficient production of fibrous carbon: “Carbon fiber bundle” Acheolg / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Ice-templated micro-honeycombs: “AEDC team members mark completion of 16S honeycomb (8205386)” U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Keith Thornburgh / Public domain (cropped)
- Carbon–inorganic nanocomposites: “Titanium dioxide powder dispersing in water” Pixelmaniac pictures / CC0 (cropped)
- Air electrodes for lithium–air batteries: “Limetal” Dnn87 / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Electromagnetic and Applied Processing Lab): “Allegheny Ludlum foundry ladle” Alfred T. Palmer / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Catalytic Reaction Engineering Lab): “Nano-Legos” Snemani2023 / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Materials Surface Chemistry Lab): “The bottom of closed titanium dioxide nanotubes with a brain structure surface” Robert Kamalov / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Interfacial Electrochemistry Lab): “The army of titanium dioxide nanotubes” Robert Kamalov, Irina Dorosheva, Alexander Vokhmintsev, Ilya Weinstein / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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