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Hibara Lab
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The lab develops new analytical methods using tiny water droplets and microscale channels.
AboutAbout the lab
Building analytical instruments and methods from original perspectives
The Hibara-Fukuhara Lab is an analytical chemistry lab made up of the Hibara Group and the Fukuhara Group.
The Hibara Group explores analysis that uses extremely small structures and devices, as well as the principles of analysis based on physical chemistry and interfacial chemistry.
The lab values original perspectives and develops its own instruments and methods.
The Fukuhara Group works on analytical methods that use supramolecular mechanisms to amplify signals and measure target substances.
Key terms
- aerosol
- Very small liquid or solid particles floating in the air. Mist and smoke are familiar examples.
- microfluidics
- A technology that flows liquid through channels as narrow as a human hair, carrying out reactions and analysis with very small volumes.
- immunoassay
- A method that measures the amount of a specific substance by exploiting the property of antibodies that bind only to that substance.
NewsLab news
A student won a presentation award at the Chromatography Science Conference
Specially Appointed Professor Fukuhara won the Japanese Photochemistry Association Award
Professor Hibara won the Judging Committee Award at the Symposium on Polymer Analysis
Press release on results of joint research between the Fukuhara Group and Osaka University
Associate Professor Fukuhara won the Teshima Memorial Research Award (Young Researcher Award)
ResearchResearch themes
The Hibara Group explores analytical chemistry using nano- and microscale structures and devices, and the principles of analysis based on physical chemistry and interfacial chemistry. The Fukuhara Group has proposed an analytical method called supramolecular allosteric amplification sensing and is advancing research on it.
*Illustrative imageSpectroscopy and interfacial chemistry of aerosol droplets
The lab develops instruments that trap tiny water droplets in air using electric forces and perform various spectroscopic measurements. It has also developed an original method that optically measures liquid-surface oscillations to determine surface tension.
*Illustrative imageMicrodroplet analysis
The lab studies analysis that uses small water droplets in oil, in devices with narrow channels etched into a substrate. It has developed a method to selectively concentrate the contents of droplets, aiming at integrated bioanalysis.
*Illustrative imageFluorescence polarization immunoassay
The lab proposes a method that uses a liquid crystal element, an image sensor, and microfluidics to measure many samples simultaneously. In collaborative research, it developed a portable instrument and rapidly analyzed mycotoxin added to wheat-based food.
*Illustrative imagePaper-based analytical devices
The lab develops simple paper-based analytical devices using organic nanocrystals. It has demonstrated a device that changes color in response to iron ions in water, and a method for measuring multiple metal ions simultaneously.
MembersFaculty
The Hibara-Fukuhara Lab consists of faculty members, secretaries, doctoral and master's students, research students, and undergraduate students.As of 2025
- ProfessorAkihide HibaraPublications ↗
- Program-Specific ProfessorManabu Fukuhara
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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: “Lab on a Chip ( )” National Institute of Standards and Technology / Public domain (cropped)
- Spectroscopy and interfacial chemistry of aerosol droplets: “October 19, 2012- Acoustic Levitation for Medicine ( )” ENERGY.GOV / Public domain (cropped)
- Microdroplet analysis: “Particle seperation in nL droplets” Mgerlt / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Fluorescence polarization immunoassay: “Rhodamine 6G fluorescence” Staszek93 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Paper-based analytical devices: “Universal Indicator strip showing acidity” Rupal Dugar / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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