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Green Catalysis and Chemical Conversion Lab
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The lab studies catalysts that turn carbon dioxide and waste plastic into resources.
AboutAbout the lab
Turning carbon dioxide and plastic into resources
The Green Catalysis and Chemical Conversion Lab (Tamura Lab) develops innovative catalyst materials that efficiently convert energy resources such as carbon dioxide and biomass, aiming for carbon neutrality and a carbon-recycling society.
The lab studies solid catalyst processes useful for the chemical fixation of carbon dioxide and for the chemical recycling of waste plastic.
Key terms
- Solid catalyst
- A substance that stays solid while promoting a reaction
- Chemical recycling
- Recycling that chemically breaks down waste back into raw materials or chemicals
- Reduction reaction
- A chemical reaction that gives hydrogen or electrons to a substance
NewsLab news
Paper published in ChemCatChem
Paper from joint research with Osaka Metropolitan University published in Applied Catalysis A: General
Paper from joint research with Chiba University and the University of Tokyo published in Journal of CO2 Utilization
ResearchResearch themes
The lab develops catalyst materials that efficiently convert energy resources such as carbon dioxide and biomass.
*Illustrative imageSolid Catalysts That Convert Carbon Dioxide
Focusing on the non-reductive conversion of carbon dioxide, the lab develops highly efficient solid catalyst processes that turn carbon dioxide into useful chemicals.
*Illustrative imageSolid Catalysts That Convert Plastic
Aiming at the chemical recycling of plastics, the lab develops solid catalyst processes that turn waste plastic into useful chemicals such as lubricating oil.
*Illustrative imageCatalysts for Difficult Reduction Reactions
The lab develops solid catalysts that show high activity and selectivity under mild conditions in reduction reactions, which are key to biomass conversion and industrial chemistry.
*Illustrative imagePrecisely Controlled Active Sites
The lab creates precisely controlled active sites on metal oxide surfaces, and develops catalysts such as hybrid catalysts whose solid surfaces are modified with organic compounds, and catalysts with isolated metal sites.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorMasazumi Tamura
- Associate ProfessorTakashi Nakajima
- Program-Specific Associate ProfessorYusuke Kita
- Assistant ProfessorFeilong Xing
- Program-Specific Assistant ProfessorPengru Chen
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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: “Catalyst for hydrogenation ( )” Максим Фомич / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Solid Catalysts That Convert Carbon Dioxide: “Carbon dioxide 3D spacefill” Jynto (talk) / CC0 (cropped)
- Solid Catalysts That Convert Plastic: “Piles of plastic waste in Thilafushi, 2012 (2)” Dying Regime / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Catalysts for Difficult Reduction Reactions: “Hydrogenation of an aldehyde to form a primary alcohol” Chemistry5992 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Precisely Controlled Active Sites: “Benzene-hydrogenation-overview” Benjah-bmm27 / Public domain (cropped)
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