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(Kyosei 14) Resource Reaction Engineering Lab
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A lab that designs the structure of carbon materials from the arrangement of their atoms.
AboutAbout the lab
Designing carbon to solve society's challenges.
The Resource Reaction Engineering Lab researches how to design and build the structures of carbon materials.
Carbon materials have complex structures, which makes it difficult to determine accurately what is located where.
By assembling them from raw materials with known structures, the lab makes carbon materials with uniformly positioned edges and nitrogen atoms.
The resulting materials are intended for applications such as CO2 capture from the air, catalysts, and electrode materials.
Key terms
- Edge
- The outer rim of carbon atoms arranged in a sheet. The material's properties change depending on how the atoms are arranged along the edge.
- Dehydrogenation
- A reaction that removes hydrogen atoms from a compound. It is used to turn a raw material into carbon while keeping its skeleton.
- Photoelectron spectroscopy
- A method that shines light on a material and examines the electrons that are emitted, in order to learn which atoms are present and how they are bonded.
NewsLab news
Associate Professor Yasuhiro Yamada received the ESPEC Environmental Research Encouragement Award
A paper clarifying the origin of defect-derived peaks appearing in the spectra of carbon materials was published in Journal of Materials Science
A paper was published on "Viciazites," a carbon material that can capture CO2 at 60°C or below
A student received a Poster Award at the 22nd Graphene Oxide Nanosheet Symposium
A master's student received a Poster Award at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Carbon Society of Japan
ResearchResearch themes
The lab's research policy is to design "carbon" to solve future societal challenges, from the global environment to medicine. It works on catalysts for environmental and pharmaceutical use, materials that capture CO2 from the air, next-generation carbon fibers with reduced CO2 emissions, and electrode materials for clean energy.
*Illustrative imageStructural Control of Carbon Materials
Carbon materials have complex structures. Using raw materials with known structures and dehydrogenating them so that the original skeleton remains after carbonization, the lab produces carbon materials with uniform edge shapes and uniform incorporation of nitrogen, oxygen, and five-membered rings.
*Illustrative imageHigh-Precision Structural Analysis of Carbon Materials
The structures of carbon materials are difficult to analyze and have not been accurately determined. The lab interprets results measured by photoelectron spectroscopy, infrared and Raman spectroscopy, and transmission electron microscopy together with computational calculations to investigate the structures of defects and functional groups.
*Illustrative imageApplied Research on Carbon Materials
Carbon materials with uniform structures may show excellent properties in applications such as electrodes, catalysts, and adsorbents. The lab is advancing the application of nanocarbon materials to catalytic reactions.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Resource Reaction Engineering Lab consist of faculty, postdoctoral researchers, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and administrative assistants.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorYasuhiro Yamada
- Project ProfessorSatoshi Sato
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- Top image: “Graphite-233436” Robert M. Lavinsky / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Structural Control of Carbon Materials: “Four Allotropes of Carbon” School Science Shed / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- High-Precision Structural Analysis of Carbon Materials: “Transmission electron microscope (1)” Gannu03 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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