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Functional Biomaterials Lab
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A lab that creates new materials from the bounty of forests and the sea.
AboutAbout the lab
Biomass: nature's ultimate material.
The Functional Biomaterials Lab scientifically elucidates the structure and function of biomass produced by living organisms, and conducts research on using it wisely by integrating organic chemistry, polymer science, materials science, and processing technology.
The lab aims to fully draw out the potential of biomass, which has distinctive properties and functions that synthetic polymers cannot reproduce.
Key terms
- Nanocellulose
- Fibers extracted from wood, about one ten-thousandth the width of a human hair and as strong as steel
- Nanochitin
- Nano-sized chitin fibers extracted from crab shells and other sources
- Biomass
- Resources derived from living organisms, such as wood and crab shells
ResearchResearch themes
The lab elucidates the structure and function of biomass and puts it to use by integrating organic chemistry, polymer science, materials science, and processing technology.
*Illustrative imageCars from the bounty of the forest
The lab combines nanocellulose extracted from wood with plastics to make them light and strong, and applies the composites to automotive parts. In a project involving 22 universities and companies, a next-generation car equipped with nanocellulose components was completed.
*Illustrative imageCosmetics from the bounty of the sea
Through interdisciplinary collaborative research, the lab has clarified the diverse functions of nanochitin extracted from waste resources such as crab shells. Based on effects such as wound healing and hair growth, cosmetics and other products have been put into practical use.
*Illustrative imageManufacturing that makes use of the structure of trees
The lab elucidates and controls the secrets of the precise tissue structure of wood, which transports water and supports the trunk, and develops new processing technologies that harness nature's mechanisms, such as extrusion, rolling, and water-hammer impregnation.
*Illustrative imageLearning from nature's design principles
Learning from the hierarchical structures formed by the self-assembly of polymers, as in wood and crab shells, the lab integrates interface science, supramolecular science, and organic chemistry to pursue sustainable manufacturing.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorShinsuke Ifuku
- Associate ProfessorMasaaki Akamatsu
- Project ProfessorFumiaki Nakatsubo
- Project ProfessorArimitsu Usuki
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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: “Cellulose nanofiber network” Qspheroid4 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Cars from the bounty of the forest: “Engineered Wood Fiber” The Fibar Group LLC / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Cosmetics from the bounty of the sea: “Painted ghost crab (Ocypode gaudichaudii) Osa” Charles J. Sharp / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Manufacturing that makes use of the structure of trees: “집성목원목195643” Pk0001 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Learning from nature's design principles: “Correa David biomimetic 4D printing” R4d3dp / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Living Sphere Timber Structure Science Lab): “Mjøstårnet1” Peter Fiskerstrand / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Circular Materials Creation Lab): “Particleboard” en:User:Rotor DB / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Habitat Environmental Symbiosis Lab): “Termite damage on a block of wood 01” Pratishkhedekar / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Material Biology Lab): “Xylem rays” Adree.stem / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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