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Polymer Materials Design Lab
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A lab that creates new soft matter through precision polymerization.
AboutAbout the lab
Precisely polymerizing polymers to create new surfaces
The Polymer Materials Design Lab (Tsujii Lab) aims to create new soft matter through basic and applied research on precision polymerization methods for polymers, in particular living radical polymerization.
The lab designs polymers whose primary structure is precisely controlled, analyzes in detail the higher-order structures that those polymers form, and links this to functionalization, carrying out synthesis, property evaluation, and functionalization as one continuous process.
Key terms
- Living radical polymerization
- A polymerization method in which polymer chains grow while their length and chain ends are controlled
- Soft matter
- Soft substances such as polymers and gels
ResearchResearch themes
The lab designs polymers whose primary structure is controlled by precision polymerization methods, and links analysis of their higher-order structures to functionalization.
*Illustrative imageConcentrated polymer brushes
By using living radical polymerization for polymerization from material surfaces, the lab precisely controlled brush structures and achieved, for the first time in the world, high-density 'concentrated brushes'. It also established methods for applying them to a variety of material surfaces.
*Illustrative imageNew properties and applications of concentrated brushes
The lab discovered that the chains of concentrated brushes orient until they are nearly fully extended, and found new properties such as high resistance to compression, exceptional frictional properties, and biocompatibility. It aims to apply them to separation technologies and biointerfaces.
MembersFaculty
- Program-Specific ProfessorYoshinobu Tsujii
- Assistant ProfessorKoichiro Ishida
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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: “Brush Polymer Classifications Graphic” Nighthawk626 / CC0 (cropped)
- Concentrated polymer brushes: “BlockCopolymerBrush” Shin72000 / CC0 (cropped)
- New properties and applications of concentrated brushes: “Reversible-pH” Shin72000 / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Controlled Polymer Synthesis Lab): “CNT CPP” Duckhemist / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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