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Solid-State Reaction Chemistry Lab
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The lab builds solids at the atomic level to bring out new functions.
AboutAbout the lab
Controlling nanostructures to create new materials
The Solid-State Reaction Chemistry Lab develops methods for creating materials by controlling nanostructures, and explores the functions of the materials it produces.
The materials it works with range widely from inorganic to organic, including layered transition metal chalcogenides, organic semiconductors, and carbon solids with nanostructures.
Using equipment the lab builds itself, it grows thin films and single crystals, and investigates their properties through electron spectroscopy and transport measurements.
Beyond experiments, it also uses computational chemistry to understand experimental results at the atomic level and to predict new properties.
Key terms
- Thin film
- A very thin film made on a substrate, less than one-thousandth of a millimeter thick
- Single crystal
- A crystal in which the atoms are aligned in the same direction throughout. It is used to study properties accurately
- Organic semiconductor
- A material made of carbon-based molecules whose electrical conduction can be controlled
NewsLab news
Paper by Prof. Shimada and colleagues published in Crystal Growth & Design
Paper by Prof. Shimada and colleagues published in Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
Paper by Project Professor Shimogaki and colleagues published in Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A
Paper by Project Professor Shimogaki and colleagues published in ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology
A master's student received the Otsuka Prize
ResearchResearch themes
The lab develops methods for creating materials by controlling nanostructures, and explores the functions of the new materials produced. Its targets are a wide range of solids, from inorganic nanomaterials to organic semiconductors and nanocarbons.
*Illustrative imageTransition Metal Chalcogenides
Layered transition metal chalcogenides can become metals, semiconductors, or superconductors depending on the atoms combined. The lab grows thin films with a CVD system it developed itself, and also works on producing single crystals.
*Illustrative imageOrganic Semiconductors
Organic semiconductors are solids made of molecules, which are nanoscale units, and the softness of organic matter shows in their properties. By precisely controlling crystal growth and combining electron spectroscopy with computational chemistry, the lab searches for the highest performance and new phenomena.
*Illustrative imageCarbon Solids with Nanostructures
Solid-state chemistry of carbon requires high energy and high temperatures, so much of the field remains unexplored. Using high-pressure equipment, plasma, and special reactions involving alkali metals, the lab produces carbon materials and metal carbides.
*Illustrative imageComputational Chemistry
Using the lab's own computers and supercomputers, the lab predicts the properties of solids and simulates reactions and crystal growth. It does not only use existing software but also writes its own code to develop new analysis methods.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Solid-State Reaction Chemistry Lab consist of faculty members and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2025
- ProfessorToshihiro Shimada
- Project ProfessorYukihiro Shimogaki
- Assistant ProfessorSeiya Yokokura
- Assistant ProfessorHiroki Waizumi
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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: “Crystals growing from melted sulfur” AlexmarPhoto / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Transition Metal Chalcogenides: “Freiberg, Terra mineralia, Molybdänit” Dguendel / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Organic Semiconductors: “SegStackEdgeOnHMTFCQ” Smokefoot / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Carbon Solids with Nanostructures: “Apollo synthetic diamond” Steve Jurvetson / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Computational Chemistry: “4-Nitrobenzoic-acid-elpot-3D-vdW” Andreas Klamt / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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