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Energy Nanomaterials Science Lab
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A lab that takes on environmental and energy challenges with fullerenes and nanospace materials.
AboutAbout the lab
Reconciling the environment and energy through the power of materials
Building on physics, chemistry, and engineering, the Onoe Lab studies materials that help solve environmental and energy problems.
The lab works with molecular functional materials such as fullerenes and metal complexes, and with nanospace materials such as metal-organic frameworks.
The lab works on environmental applications such as carbon dioxide fixation, treatment of high-level radioactive liquid waste, and recycling of rare metals, as well as energy harvesting with organic solar cells and organic thermoelectric devices.
The lab pursues both fundamental and applied research, through both experiments and theory.
Key terms
- Fullerene
- A molecule in which carbon atoms are joined in a spherical shape like a soccer ball. C60, with 60 carbon atoms, is the best-known example
- Nanospace materials
- Materials that contain many tiny internal gaps, small enough for molecules and ions to enter
- High-level radioactive liquid waste
- Highly radioactive liquid waste produced when spent fuel from nuclear power generation is reprocessed
- Thermoelectric materials
- Materials that can generate electricity from a temperature difference, or create a temperature difference with electricity
NewsLab news
A fullerene–molybdenum oxide composite achieved the highest performance in the world among organic thermoelectric materials
A master's student received a Presentation Encouragement Award at the Chubu Branch research meeting of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan
A master's student received a Presentation Encouragement Award at the Chubu Branch academic meeting of the Japan Society of Vacuum and Surface Science
Research results on organic thermoelectric materials were published in Carbon
A master's student received a Presentation Encouragement Award at the 56th research meeting of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan
ResearchResearch themes
Reducing carbon dioxide and sustaining energy-consuming economic activity are in a trade-off relationship. To break this trade-off, the lab studies the application of nanospace materials and functional organic and inorganic materials to the environment and energy, through both experiments and theory.
*Illustrative imageRecovering rare metals with Prussian blue
Together with a group at Tokyo Institute of Technology, the lab found that nanoparticles of Prussian blue, known as a pigment, take up ruthenium, rhodium, and palladium ions very well. Applications to the treatment of high-level radioactive liquid waste and the recycling of rare metals are expected. The lab is also studying the selective recovery of cesium ions with Prussian blue thin films.
*Illustrative imageOrganic thermoelectric materials that generate power from body heat
Together with researchers inside and outside the university, the lab created a new composite material combining fullerene molecules and molybdenum trioxide nanoclusters, and found that it shows the highest performance in the world among organic thermoelectric materials. It is expected to extract electricity from body heat and be used to power wearable sensors.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Onoe Lab consist of faculty and students in the master's and undergraduate programs.As of 2026
- ProfessorJun Onoe
- Associate ProfessorMasato Nakaya
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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: “Metal-Organic Framework ( )” National Institute of Standards and Technology / Public domain (cropped)
- Recovering rare metals with Prussian blue: “Pigment Berliner Blau” Saalebaer / CC0 (cropped)
- Organic thermoelectric materials that generate power from body heat: “Thermoelectric Seebeck power module” Gerardtv / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Energy Functional Materials Engineering Lab): “Thin film growth defect” Evavilova / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Energy Nanomaterials Creation Lab): “View of equipment in Vacuum Laboratory, Sample Operations Area, LRL bldg 37 (S68-25204)” NASA Johnson Space Center / Public domain (cropped)
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