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Polymerization Chemistry Lab
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A lab that creates new materials by making use of elements that have rarely been used until now.
AboutAbout the lab
Mastering the elements to create new materials.
The Polymerization Chemistry Lab studies how to create new materials by making use of elements that have rarely been used in organic materials.
The elements that make up the organic and polymer materials around us are limited to a small part of the periodic table, such as carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen.
Incorporating elements that have not been used is expected to bring electronic, optical, and catalytic functions and molecular recognition ability that reflect the characteristics of those elements.
Based on the free thinking of each individual, the lab aims for each member to create original substances that make the most of the elements.
Key terms
- Concentration quenching
- A phenomenon in which a dye stops glowing when its molecules are packed closely together
- Hybrid materials
- Materials in which an organic component such as a polymer and an inorganic component such as glass are mixed at the molecular level
- Hypervalent
- A state in which an atom has more bonds than the octet rule taught in high school chemistry allows
NewsLab news
A paper on controlling the triplet excited states of boron complexes that contain no heavy elements was featured in Advances in Engineering
A doctoral student received the Umazume Research Encouragement Award (FY2026, Reiwa 8) from the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
Doctoral and master's students received the Excellent On-Demand Presentation Award at the 75th SPSJ Annual Meeting
Professor Kazuo Tanaka received the RSC Long-standing Editorial Service Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
ResearchResearch themes
The lab incorporates elements that have not been used before into organic and polymer materials, which have so far relied on only a small part of the periodic table, and creates materials with functions unique to those elements. The lab also focuses on the fact that elements in the excited state show properties different from those predicted by the periodic table, and seeks to uncover the characteristics of elements in new ways.
*Illustrative imageNew materials made by mastering the elements
Ordinary organic light-emitting dyes stop glowing in films because of concentration quenching. The lab found that certain element complexes glow strongly in the solid state. The lab has also obtained hybrid materials in which polymers and glass are mixed at the molecular level.
*Illustrative imageSearching for a new periodic table of the elements
Elements in the excited state have properties that differ greatly from those predicted by the periodic table. Placing them in a hypervalent state, which goes beyond the octet rule, yields one unexpected property after another.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Polymerization Chemistry Lab are faculty, researchers, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.
- ProfessorKazuo Tanaka
- Associate ProfessorMasayuki Gon
- Assistant ProfessorShunichiro Ito
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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: “Organic LED (OLED) YAMAGATA in Kajo Central” Thirteen-fri / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- New materials made by mastering the elements: “Phosphorescent tellurophenes” Hyehwang Kim / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Searching for a new periodic table of the elements: “The Elements Sampled light” Pablo Carlos Budassi / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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