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Structural Inorganic Chemistry Lab
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A lab that creates new inorganic materials with a view that spans everything from synthesis to structure.
AboutAbout the lab
Understanding synthesis, structure, and properties as one connected whole.
The Structural Inorganic Chemistry Lab conducts research that creates inorganic materials not yet known and clarifies their structures and properties.
By combining various elements of the periodic table, the lab searches for new compounds containing anions such as nitride, sulfide, and chloride.
Using synchrotron X-ray diffraction and in situ observation, the lab follows exactly what happens during heating and during reactions.
The lab also incorporates computational science and machine learning, aiming to find the intended materials efficiently.
Key terms
- Anion
- Anion: an atom or molecule carrying a negative electric charge
- Synchrotron radiation
- Synchrotron radiation: extremely bright light (including X-rays) emitted when electrons traveling at nearly the speed of light are bent. It is used to investigate the structure of materials
- In situ observation
- In situ observation: measurement that observes a sample during heating or reaction without removing it, following the changes as they happen
NewsLab news
Results of a joint study on all-solid-state battery materials were published in Nature Communications
A master's student received the Lilac Poster Award at the Lilac Seminar
A preprint was released of a joint study on passing on experimental know-how to AI
A student received the Hokusho Award
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to clarify the connection between synthesis, structure, and properties, and to efficiently create innovative functional inorganic materials. By combining diverse elements of the periodic table, it searches for compounds with structures never seen before.
*Illustrative imageCreating new compounds
As a starting point for materials with new functions, the lab synthesizes compounds that are not yet known. Moving away from synthesis that relies on experience and intuition, it combines computational science and in situ observation to build rational synthesis routes.
*Illustrative imageSeeing structures with advanced analysis
The function of a material is determined by how the atoms inside it are arranged. Using synchrotron X-ray diffraction, neutron diffraction, and electron diffraction, the lab examines in detail both newly formed materials and unstable phases that appear partway through a reaction.
*Illustrative imageToward materials with new functions
Based on the knowledge gained from synthesis and structural analysis, the lab creates materials with new functions. It puts particular effort into discovering unexpected properties, such as a phenomenon in which the phase changes just by grinding by hand, and into clarifying the mechanisms behind them.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Structural Inorganic Chemistry Lab are faculty members, students at the doctoral, master's, and undergraduate levels, postdoctoral researchers, academic researchers, and administrative assistants.As of 2026
- ProfessorAkira Miura
- Associate ProfessorYuji Masubuchi
- Assistant ProfessorYuki Sasahara
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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: “Cobaltate cristallographic structure” Julien Bobroff (user:Jubobroff) LPS, Orsay, France / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Creating new compounds: “Cr Periodic Table of Elements” Robertokamalov / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Seeing structures with advanced analysis: “Aerial view of Synchrotron SOLEIL” Communication Synchrotron SOLEIL / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Toward materials with new functions: “Lithium-ion coin cell batteries in laboratory testing fixture” Chingo K / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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