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Kanai Lab
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A lab that creates new materials by making use of how colloidal particles are arranged.
AboutAbout the lab
Creating new materials from the arrangement of colloidal particles
Kanai Lab studies materials that make use of structures in which colloidal particles are arranged in an orderly way.
Using microfluidic devices, the lab developed a method for continuously producing spherical particles made of aggregated particles in a short time, and has investigated their application as UV-shielding agents.
The lab also works to clarify the relationship between particle arrangement and spectral properties, in colloids that form ordered structures with the particles kept apart and in composite materials where that arrangement is fixed with a polymer.
Prof. Kanai's areas of expertise are optical materials, colloid chemistry, and microfluidics.
The lab is currently aiming to directly capture low-concentration CO2 from the atmosphere and continuously synthesize hexagonal plate-shaped calcite crystals, in order to make artificial marble plates with strength and structural color that mimic the microstructure of abalone shells.
Key terms
- Microfluidic device
- A device the lab used to produce droplets of uniform size and continuously synthesize particles
- UV-shielding agent
- A material that blocks ultraviolet light. The lab studied a method of blocking it through reflection and scattering by the arrangement of colloidal particles, rather than through absorption
ResearchResearch themes
This lab focuses on the relationship between how colloidal particles are arranged and spectral properties, and works on new materials. So far, it has used microfluidic devices to study materials that block ultraviolet light by reflection and scattering.
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- ProfessorToshimitsu Kanai
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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: “Colloid” KarlGaff / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Materials that block UV light through particle arrangement: “Absorbce UV záření nanočásticemi ZnO” ZuzanaBrabcova / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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