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Inagi Lab
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The lab uses the power of electricity to freely create organic molecules and polymers.
AboutAbout the lab
Opening up the boundaries among organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, and electrochemistry.
The Inagi Lab studies the area where organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, and electrochemistry overlap.
At its center is organic electrosynthesis, a method of organic synthesis that starts from the exchange of electrons between an electrode and a molecule.
Building on this method, the lab creates molecules and polymers with useful functions.
Key terms
- Redox
- A collective term for oxidation and reduction reactions, in which electrons are exchanged between substances.
- Conductive polymer
- A polymer that conducts electricity. On an electrode, it becomes charged through electron exchange.
- Bipolar electrode
- A conductor whose two ends act as electrodes through the surrounding electric field alone, without any wiring.
NewsLab news
A student received a Poster Presentation Award at the Kanagawa Regional Lecture Meeting of the Kanto Branch of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan
A student received the BCSJ Award and an Excellent Poster Award at the Symposium on Organic Electron Transfer Chemistry
A student received the Young Researcher Award at Nagoya Fluorine Days 2026
The lab announced results on precisely controlling the physical properties of conductive polymers to improve the performance of organic devices
A graduate received a Student Presentation Award at the 106th Annual Meeting of the Chemical Society of Japan (Spring)
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies the redox (oxidation-reduction) chemistry of organic compounds and polymer materials. Building on organic electrosynthesis, which is triggered by electron transfer at an electrode, it works on creating useful functional molecules and polymers.
*Illustrative imagePolymer electrolysis reactions
A conductive polymer immobilized on an electrode reaches a relatively stable charged state through electron exchange (doping). The lab treats this state as a reaction intermediate and is developing it into a new polymer reaction method in which subsequent chemical reactions transform the polymer.
*Illustrative imageBipolar electrochemistry and polymers
Using bipolar electrodes, which are attracting attention as wireless electrodes, the lab develops new ways to make functional materials. It has succeeded in doping conductive polymer films with a gradient and in drawing patterns with this technique.
*Illustrative imageRedox-active molecules and polymers
The lab designs and synthesizes organic compounds and polymers that show unusual redox responses. It found that electron-deficient carborane compounds can be used as electrocatalysts, and it is also developing fluorine-containing polymers.
MembersFaculty
The Inagi Lab consists of faculty members, technical support staff, and students in the doctoral, master's, and undergraduate programs.As of 2026
- ProfessorShinsuke InagiPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorKosuke SatoPublications ↗
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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: “Portrait of Polycyanoborani” Tavo Romann / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Polymer electrolysis reactions: “Polyaniline-LEB-based-on-tetramer-xtal-3D-sf” Ben Mills / Public domain (cropped)
- Bipolar electrochemistry and polymers: “Bipolar electrochemistry scheme2” Gabag1 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Redox-active molecules and polymers: “O-carborane-3D-balls-B” Benjah-bmm27 / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (中薗研究室): “B-cyclodextrin” Materialscientist / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (伊藤研究室): “Diamond by Peter Smyth” Peter Smyth / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (林研究室): “A Problem with Polymer Theory” OLCF / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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一二三研究室): “Ferrocene sublimation- Final product” Kate7234 / CC0 (cropped)
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