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Naito Lab
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A lab that tackles medical and environmental challenges through polymer design.
AboutAbout the lab
Innovating biofunctional materials engineering with polymers.
The Naito Lab aims to develop drug delivery systems (nanomedicine) that support medicine, and new materials that help solve the plastic waste problem, through the design and synthesis of polymer materials.
The lab develops polymers centered on polyamino acids, polymer materials that are gentle on living organisms and the natural world.
Its work ranges from polymers used for diagnosing and treating disease to materials that degrade in the marine environment.
Key terms
- Polyamino acid
- A polymer made from amino acids. The lab places it at the center of its development as a material that is gentle on living organisms and nature.
- Drug delivery system
- A mechanism or material for delivering a drug to its target site. The lab develops them using polymers.
- Probe
- A substance used as a marker for diagnosis or visualization. The lab makes them from polymers, aiming at diagnosing breakdowns of blood vessels and tissues, among other uses.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab develops polymer materials that are gentle on living organisms and nature, centered on polyamino acids. It works on polymers for medical use and on plastics that help reduce environmental impact.
*Illustrative imagePolymer-based nanomedicine
The lab creates polymer probes that can diagnose breakdowns of blood vessels and tissues, aiming at early diagnosis of disease. It also develops drug delivery systems targeting skeletal muscle disease, brain tumors, and the heart, as well as probes that visualize energy activity inside cells.
*Illustrative imagePlastics with lower environmental impact
The lab works on plastics made from amino acids, polymer materials that degrade in the marine environment, and new degradable plastics. The goal is to reduce the burden on the environment.
*Illustrative imagePolymer materials with controllable viscoelasticity
As a joint research project, the lab is developing polymer materials whose transient networks can be freely tuned. This is pursued as the development of slime whose viscoelasticity can be freely controlled.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Naito Lab are faculty members and master's and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- LecturerMitsuru Naito
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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: “Cup Lid made of biodegradable plastic-top PNr°1108” D-Kuru / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Polymer-based nanomedicine: “Gold Nanoparticles' aggregation” Nadiia Honcharenko / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Plastics with lower environmental impact: “BiodegradablePlasticUtensils2” Scott Bauer / Public domain (cropped)
- Polymer materials with controllable viscoelasticity: “Gel balls” Renato Lombardero / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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