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Inorganic Materials Chemistry Lab
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An inorganic chemistry lab that designs glasses and liquids from metals and molecules.
AboutAbout the lab
Linking metals and molecules to create new glasses.
The Horike Lab uses inorganic chemistry, mainly coordination chemistry and solid-state chemistry, to synthesize new substances and materials.
By connecting countless metals and molecules, the lab designs glasses and liquids, and creates functional materials that exploit the molecular motion, phase transitions, and nanospaces these systems exhibit.
Key terms
- Coordination chemistry
- The chemistry of compounds (complexes) in which metal ions and molecules are bound together
- Phase transition
- A phenomenon in which a material's structure or properties change dramatically with changes in temperature or other conditions
- MOF
- A highly porous crystal in which metal ions and organic molecules are connected in a regular arrangement
- Aerogel
- An extremely light solid made up mostly of empty space
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies the phase transitions and materials chemistry of structures assembled from metals and molecules.
*Illustrative imageUnderstanding Phase Transitions and Amorphous Materials
The lab seeks to understand and control phase transitions in crystals made of metal ions and molecules, and is pioneering hybrid glasses assembled from metals and molecules as a new class of glass alongside oxide glasses, organic polymer glasses, and metallic glasses.
*Illustrative imageCarbon Dioxide Conversion Using Structured Materials
The lab develops technology that concentrates and converts trace amounts of CO2 through cycles of building and decomposing MOFs and COFs, as well as technology that uses hybrid glasses as catalysts to convert CO2 into carbon monoxide and formic acid.
*Illustrative imageFlexible Porous Organic–Inorganic Hybrids
The lab has developed a method to make aerogels, which are transparent, low-density porous materials, from precursors bearing organic substituents, and is advancing the design and application of materials with mechanical flexibility and extremely low thermal conductivity.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Horike Lab consist of faculty, research staff and postdoctoral researchers, doctoral and master's students, undergraduates, and support staff.As of 2026
- ProfessorSatoshi Horike
- Program-Specific Associate ProfessorHiromitsu Uehara
- Program-Specific LecturerHiroyasu Tabe
- Assistant ProfessorKazuyoshi Kanamori
- Assistant ProfessorKentaro Kadota
- Program-Specific Assistant ProfessorYudai Iwai
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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: “General structure of Metal-organic frameworks” Russo V, Hmoudah M, Broccoli F, Iesce MR, Jung O-S and Di Serio M (2020) / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Understanding Phase Transitions and Amorphous Materials: “Kiln melting glass at high temperatures 08” Warmglow / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Carbon Dioxide Conversion Using Structured Materials: “Carbon dioxide 3D ball” Jynto (talk) / CC0 (cropped)
- Flexible Porous Organic–Inorganic Hybrids: “Flexibility of the MIL-53 metal-organic framework” J. Hou, C. W. Ashling, S. M. Collins, A. Krajnc, C. Zhou, L. Longley, D. N. Johnstone, P. A. Chater, S. Li, M.-V. Coulet, P. L. Llewellyn, F.-X. Coudert, D. A. Keen, P. A. Midgley, G. Mali, V. Chen, T. D. Bennett / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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