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Surface and Interface Functional Chemistry Lab
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A lab that explores the interfaces between solids and liquids where energy is converted and stored.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring how interfaces transform energy.
The Surface and Interface Functional Chemistry Lab conducts research focused on the functions of interfaces that convert and store energy.
The electric double layer that forms at the interface between a solid and a liquid is the site where electron transfer in batteries and the conversion of substances by catalysis take place.
The lab develops and applies methods to observe the local structures and electronic states of this layer at the atomic and molecular scale.
On the lab's website, it is presented under the name “Fukui Lab.”
Key terms
- Electric double layer
- A layer that forms at the interface between a solid and a liquid. It is the site where electron transfer in batteries and the conversion of substances by catalysis take place.
- Electronic state
- The state of the electrons in an atom or molecule. In this research, it is an object of observation along with local structure.
- Catalysis
- The action of making a chemical reaction proceed more easily without itself being changed. In this research, it is given as an example of the conversion of substances.
NewsLab news
A master's student won the Outstanding Student Presentation Award at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Electrochemical Society of Japan
A master's student won the Excellent Poster Award at the 14th Symposium on Ionic Liquids
Professor Fukui won the Education Award of the Catalysis Society of Japan
ResearchResearch themes
The lab focuses on the functions of interfaces that convert and store energy, and aims to describe the origin of those functions in the language of molecular-level physical chemistry. For the electric double layer that forms at solid–liquid interfaces, it develops and applies methods to observe local structures and electronic states at the atomic and molecular scale.
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MembersFaculty
The members of the Surface and Interface Functional Chemistry Lab are faculty, administrative assistants, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorKenichi Fukui
- Associate ProfessorAkihito Imanishi
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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: “Electrode 2 (PSF)” Pearson Scott Foresman / Public domain (cropped)
- Developing and Applying Methods to Observe Interfaces: “Electric double-layer capacitor (2 models) -2 NT” Tosaka / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
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