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Catalytic Chemistry Lab
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A lab that creates environmentally friendly catalysts through nanoscale design and structural analysis.
AboutAbout the lab
Designing at the nanoscale to make catalysts that work.
The Catalytic Chemistry Lab studies catalysts, which are essential to processes that transform materials.
The lab approaches this from several angles: creating new catalysts, investigating their structures, and developing new reaction systems.
Its core is design at the nanoscale and the accompanying structural analysis at the nanoscale.
The lab studies high-performance catalysts oriented toward green chemistry, which aims at manufacturing with a small environmental burden.
Key terms
- Catalyst
- A substance that is not itself changed but speeds up a chemical reaction or selects which products are formed
- XAFS
- A method that irradiates a material with X-rays to examine the structure around its atoms at the atomic level
- Green chemistry
- An approach to chemistry that aims at manufacturing with a small environmental burden by reducing hazardous substances and waste
NewsLab news
A master's student won a Student Encouragement Award at the 29th XAFS Conference
A master's student won a Student Encouragement Award at the Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan, Kanto Branch Chiba Conference 2026
A student's research results were published in Hyomen to Shinku (Vacuum and Surface Science)
A student's research results were published as a paper in Chemistry Letters
A master's student won a Best Presentation Award at the International Conference on Nanospace Materials 2025
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies catalysts, which are essential to processes that transform materials, from multiple angles: creating new ones, investigating them, and using them in new reactions. Centered on nanoscale design and structural analysis, it aims at high-performance catalysts oriented toward green chemistry.
*Illustrative imageNew solid catalysts based on inorganic crystals
The lab precisely designs metal species that act as catalysts on the surfaces of inorganic crystals, creating new heterogeneous catalysts. It uses the resulting catalysts for difficult oxidation reactions, such as synthesizing epoxides from olefins and carbonyl compounds from alcohols using molecular oxygen, the ultimate oxidant. Applying this technology, the lab also aims to develop catalysts for a conversion process that makes biofuel from cellulose in harmony with nature.
*Illustrative imageNanostructure design and structural analysis of early transition metal catalysts
The lab designs early transition metals, which are attracting attention as substitutes for precious metals, at the nanoscale on support surfaces and uses them as catalysts. It forms them into nanoclusters to bring out unusual functions, or converts them into carbide and nitride catalysts by incorporating carbon or nitrogen. Using a technique called XAFS, the lab resolves structures at the atomic level, even revealing structural changes during reactions, and uses the findings to guide the design of the next catalyst. It also designs photocatalysts that make use of nanospaces and applies them to the photooxidation of hydrocarbons.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Catalytic Chemistry Lab consist of faculty and students in the doctoral program, master's program, and fourth year of the undergraduate program.As of 2026
- ProfessorNobuyuki Ichikuni
- Associate ProfessorTakayoshi Hara
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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: “CataylstExampleSulfuricAcidPlant” PennyBrowns23651 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- New solid catalysts based on inorganic crystals: “Zeolite-ZSM-5-vdW” Thomas Splettstoesser (www.scistyle.com) / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Nanostructure design and structural analysis of early transition metal catalysts: “Gold and silver nanoparticles in labelled Petri dishes” Drkirstyross / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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