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Inoe Lab
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A chemistry education lab that develops chemistry experiment materials for use in schools.
AboutAbout the lab
Developing chemistry experiment materials for use in schools
The Inoe Lab (called the "Inoe-Suzuki Lab" on the lab's website) is a lab oriented toward chemistry education that researches and develops chemistry experiment materials for use in school classrooms.
Centered on themes in organic chemistry, the lab develops experiment materials from a scientific perspective, including new reaction reagents and catalysts, and methods for separating and detecting trace products.
The lab's goal is "safe, low-waste experiment materials in harmony with the global environment."
Graduate students belong to the Department of Science Education in the Graduate School of Science, and after graduating, many choose careers involving science outreach, including becoming junior high and high school teachers.
Key terms
- Methylene blue
- A dye that turns blue when dissolved in water. When reduced it becomes colorless, and its reaction of returning to blue with light and other means is used in teaching materials
- Luminol reaction
- A chemiluminescence reaction in which oxidizing luminol produces a bluish-white glow. In aqueous solution, the emission disappears within a few seconds
- Mixed acid
- A mixture of concentrated nitric acid and concentrated sulfuric acid. It is used for the nitration of benzene in textbooks, and is a toxic, highly hazardous strong acid
ResearchResearch themes
This lab develops chemistry experiment materials for use in school classrooms, centered on organic chemistry and approached from a scientific perspective. It also works on new reaction reagents and catalysts, and on methods for separating and detecting trace products.
*Illustrative imageChemiluminescence material using the luminol reaction
In aqueous solution, the light emitted by the luminol reaction disappears within a few seconds. The lab studies the luminol reaction in DMSO solvent from a scientific perspective, aiming to develop a chemiluminescence experiment material that lets students learn through inquiry.
*Illustrative imageSafe nitration of benzene
The nitration with mixed acid found in textbooks is a highly hazardous method. The lab examines reaction conditions using mixed acid–silica gel, aiming to develop an experiment that can be performed safely in schools, along with a material that allows the products of toluene nitration to be distinguished.
*Illustrative imageExperiment material on konjac gelation
The lab has developed an experiment material for learning how konjac gels. By measuring the strength of konjac made with different pH values and types of cations, students can examine the gelation mechanism quantitatively.
*Illustrative imagePhotoresponse of methylene blue analogs
Methylene blue becomes colorless when reduced with ascorbic acid and returns to blue when exposed to blue-violet light. The lab is investigating whether the same decolorization and color development occur with methylene green, a similar compound.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Inoe-Suzuki Lab consist of faculty, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorMasayuki Inoe
- LecturerTakahiro Suzuki
- Assistant ProfessorYuto Nakajima
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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: “Chemistry Lab Silver Oaks Intl School Hyderabad” Kchava / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Chemiluminescence material using the luminol reaction: “Luminol - (1)” everyone's idle from berlin, germany / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Safe nitration of benzene: “Fume hood MB” Miha Bukleski / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Experiment material on konjac gelation: “Gel in containers” Nikudumo / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Photoresponse of methylene blue analogs: “Trypan blue dye powder” PeaceSeekers / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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