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Chemical Reaction Systems Engineering Lab (Katsutoshi Nagaoka)
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A chemical systems lab that uses the power of catalysts to efficiently convert substances such as ammonia.
AboutAbout the lab
Toward a society where materials circulate, powered by catalysts.
The Nagaoka-Sato Lab studies mechanisms that use catalysts to convert substances efficiently.
The lab creates new catalysts in which combinations of metals, or of metals and supports, are precisely controlled.
It works on reactions that can help solve energy and environmental problems, such as technologies that use ammonia to transport energy.
The lab also advances joint research with companies, aiming for the societal implementation of new chemical systems for a sustainable society.
Key terms
- Catalyst
- A substance that speeds up a chemical reaction or makes it easier to occur without being changed itself
- Catalyst support
- A base material that holds tiny particles of the catalytic metal on its surface
- Energy carrier
- A chemical substance into which renewable energy, for example, is converted so that it can be easily stored and transported. Ammonia is one candidate
NewsLab news
Paper on a catalyst for producing methane from CO2 and ammonia accepted by ChemCatChem
Internationally co-authored paper accepted by Molecular Catalysis
The research group received the Excellence Award for Outstanding Utilization Results from the Advanced Research Infrastructure for Materials and Nanotechnology (ARIM)
Research result selected as a Supplementary Cover of JACS Au
ResearchResearch themes
To help solve energy and environmental problems, the lab develops catalysts in which the interactions between metals, between metals and supports, and between metals and co-catalysts are precisely controlled. By creating new catalysts for a variety of material-cycle reactions, it aims at the societal implementation of chemical systems that contribute to a carbon-neutral, sustainable society.
*Illustrative imageAmmonia Catalysts for Carrying Energy
The lab focuses on "energy carrier" technology, which converts overseas renewable energy into chemicals that are easy to store and transport so that it can be used in Japan. It develops catalysts for efficiently producing and using ammonia, a promising candidate.
*Illustrative imageAlloy Nanoparticle Catalysts That Reduce Precious Metals
Precious metals are important elements as catalysts, but they are rare and expensive resources. Using two strategies, nanoparticle formation and alloying, the lab develops "reduced-precious-metal catalysts" that use smaller amounts and "precious-metal-free catalysts" that use none.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Nagaoka-Sato Lab consist of faculty members, secretaries, researchers, research assistants, and PhD, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorKatsutoshi Nagaoka
- Associate ProfessorKatsutoshi Sato
- Assistant ProfessorHiroshi Yamada
- Project Assistant ProfessorTakahiro Naito
- Project Assistant ProfessorYoshihide Nishida
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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 LABORATORY ROOMS 6 AND 7 CHEMICAL SHOCK TUBE - HIGH ENERGY FUELS LABORATORY HEFL ROOM 112 CATALYTIC PARTIAL OXIDATION REACTOR - NARA - 17497813” Donald Huebler / Public domain (cropped)
- Ammonia Catalysts for Carrying Energy: “Ammonia unit, chemical plant, Shell Haven West, 1960 - geograph.org.uk - 3747728” Robin Webster / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Alloy Nanoparticle Catalysts That Reduce Precious Metals: “Platinum nanoparticles” PieroSpeleo / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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