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Physical Chemistry Lab
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An electrochemistry lab that controls the flow of electrons, light, and ions at electrode surfaces.
AboutAbout the lab
New phenomena and functions, from the electrode surface.
The Physical Chemistry Lab studies chemical reactions that occur at electrode surfaces and interfaces.
Its goal is to build electrode reaction systems that generate renewable energy efficiently.
The lab designs new nanostructured electrodes and investigates them by combining electrode reaction measurements, highly sensitive spectroscopy, and the theory of electron transfer at surfaces.
By freely controlling the flow of electrons, light, and ions, the lab explores ways of using energy that are not limited by the intrinsic properties of materials.
Key terms
- Electrode
- Electrode: a conductor inserted into a solution or similar medium to pass electric current through it or draw current out of it
- Spectroscopy
- Spectroscopy: a measurement method that separates light by wavelength to examine which light a substance absorbs or emits
- Ion conduction
- Ion conduction: the phenomenon in which electric current flows because ions move through a material
NewsLab news
Students won the Lilac Best Poster Award and a Poster Award at the Lilac Seminar
Assistant Professor Itatani won the Nanoscale Horizons Award at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Nano Society
A student won a Student Presentation Award at the Spring Annual Meeting of the Chemical Society of Japan
A doctoral student won an Excellent Student Presentation Award at the 91st Annual Meeting of the Electrochemical Society of Japan
Lecturer Fukushima won the 20th Honda-Fujishima Prize
ResearchResearch themes
The lab works on developing electrode reaction systems that bear directly on the efficient generation of renewable energy. It aims to build systems that control the flow of electrons, light, and ions as desired, and to establish the fundamental science needed to use energy to its fullest extent.
*Illustrative imageControlling electron transfer reactions
The lab is developing water electrolysis technology that produces green hydrogen efficiently by controlling the structure of electrode surfaces. It designs catalytic electrodes that speed up only the key step in multistep electrode reactions, and improves their performance through reactivity evaluation, reaction kinetics analysis, and vibrational spectroscopy observations.
*Illustrative imageManipulating photoexcited states
The lab builds nanostructured electrodes that capture, collect, and transfer the energy of states in which matter has been excited by light. Using quantum optics theory, it designs regular nanoarrays of metals or dielectrics that keep electronic excited states long-lived, and explores the activity and selectivity of new reactions through microscopic optical observation and electrochemical measurements.
*Illustrative imageControlling ion conduction
The lab is advancing techniques to greatly reduce resistive losses in ion conductors, which are essential for storing and converting electrical energy. It creates fields in which the vibrational energy and orientation of the pathways that ions travel through are aligned by quantum mechanical interactions, and studies them through the preparation of organic-inorganic composite materials, electrochemical impedance measurements, NMR measurements, and vibrational spectroscopy.
MembersFaculty
The Physical Chemistry Lab consists of faculty members, postdoctoral researchers, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and secretaries.As of 2026
- ProfessorKei Murakoshi
- LecturerTomohiro Fukushima
- Assistant ProfessorMasaki Itatani
- ISP Assistant ProfessorRuifeng Zhou
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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: “Nanoscale Plasmonic Resonator Structures ( )” National Institute of Standards and Technology / Public domain (cropped)
- Controlling electron transfer reactions: “Wasserzersetzer (Firma LCEM)” Rhetos / CC0 (cropped)
- Manipulating photoexcited states: “Gold 8125c” George Lisensky / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Controlling ion conduction: “Raman measurement of ionic liquid droplet” Tavo Romann / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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