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Ogura Lab
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The lab makes materials with nanoscale pores, such as zeolites, and uses them as catalysts.
AboutAbout the lab
Making and using nanospace materials
The Ogura Lab studies the synthesis of porous materials, including zeolites, and ways of using them that take advantage of their characteristics.
Its goal is materials that are truly usable and can help solve environmental, resource, and energy problems.
The lab works on catalysts that clean automobile exhaust and on materials that adsorb and collect substances present at low concentrations.
The lab is located in the Institute of Industrial Science, and it recruits and accepts graduate students.
Key terms
- Zeolite
- A crystal in which pores about the size of molecules are arranged regularly. It is used as a catalyst and an adsorbent.
- Porous materials
- Materials with many small pores inside. Substances can be adsorbed or made to react inside the pores.
- Hydrothermal synthesis
- A method of growing crystals in water at high temperature and high pressure.
NewsLab news
A doctoral student received the Poster Presentation Award at the 46th Summer School of the Young Researchers' Group of the Catalysis Society of Japan
A master's student received the 2025 AICE Award
A doctoral student received the Best Paper Award at CHEMCON 2025
A master's student received an award at the young researchers' study meeting on next-generation natural gas utilization
A master's student received the Student Poster Presentation Award at the 135th Meeting on Catalysis
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies materials with regularly ordered nanosized spaces from two sides: making them and using them. It synthesizes new porous materials such as zeolites and uses them as catalysts and adsorbents.
*Illustrative imagePorous materials combining large and small pores
The lab synthesizes composite porous materials that have pores of different sizes (micropores and mesopores) together. It works on connecting surfaces and interfaces with different stabilities.
*Illustrative imageNew porous materials assembled like LEGO
The lab stacks zeolite building units like LEGO bricks to create, bottom-up, new porous materials that cannot be obtained by ordinary hydrothermal synthesis.
*Illustrative imageZeolite synthesis from mesoporous silica
The lab makes zeolites that cannot be crystallized by direct hydrothermal synthesis by going through amorphous mesoporous silica. It also aims to synthesize zeolites that have nitrogen or phosphorus in their framework.
*Illustrative imageBasic porous catalysts
The lab investigates how new porous basic materials work as catalysts. It explores products and reaction pathways that differ from those of acid catalysts.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Ogura Lab consist of faculty, secretaries, project researchers, cooperating faculty, technical specialists, and doctoral and master's students.As of 2026
- ProfessorMasaru OguraPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorShunsaku YasumuraPublications ↗
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Report an errorAbout the images
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: “Framework structure of the FAU-type zeolite” Nao1958 / CC0 (cropped)
- Porous materials combining large and small pores: “Zeolite structure as an assembly of tetrahedra” François-Xavier Coudert / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- New porous materials assembled like LEGO: “Hypothetical-Zeolite” Louistheran / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Zeolite synthesis from mesoporous silica: “Zeolite-greenland hg” Hannes Grobe / CC BY-SA 2.5 (cropped)
- Basic porous catalysts: “Hydrotalcite-200667” Robert M. Lavinsky / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Takanabe-Obata-Kishimoto Lab): “Heterrogenous catalysis across scales” Edvin Fako / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Sugiyama-Badr Lab): “Aminwäsche” Philip1307 / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Oshima-Akizuki Lab): “Supercritical Fluids Reactor” RHanush / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Tonokura Lab): “ISS-51 Moon, Earth's limb and the thin blue atmosphere” NASA / Public domain (cropped)
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