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Research Center for Thermal and Entropic Science
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A research center that explores the thermodynamic properties of materials and living systems, centered on calorimetry.
AboutAbout the lab
Understanding matter through heat and entropy.
The center combines molecular-level insights with an entropy perspective to build a view of matter that is aware of its hierarchical structure.
Based on its original calorimetric techniques, the center pursues joint research and collaborative frameworks with researchers, research institutions, and companies in Japan and abroad.
Starting as the Chemical Thermodynamics Laboratory in 1979, it was reorganized several times and took its current name in 2019.
The center's full-time faculty conduct research and education as a cooperating group of the Department of Chemistry and as a concurrent-appointment group in the undergraduate program.
Key terms
- Entropy
- A thermodynamic quantity expressing the degree of disorder of a state. It offers a viewpoint for considering how order arises.
- Heat capacity
- The amount of heat needed to raise a material's temperature. Measuring it gives clues about the internal energy states.
- Terahertz spectroscopy
- A method that uses terahertz waves to examine low-frequency vibrations of molecules and atoms in crystals.
NewsLab news
Announced a joint study that obtained the world's highest-efficiency phosphorescence from an organic molecule that is liquid at room temperature
Co-published a spectroscopic study of the motion of lithium ions encapsulated in C60
ResearchResearch themes
Cooperative phenomena arising from interactions in the microscopic world appear as the various functions of matter. Through calorimetry on a wide range of samples, the center takes on elucidating diverse physical phenomena in matter and living systems.
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MembersFaculty
The members of the center consist of faculty, concurrent faculty, project faculty, visiting professors and visiting associate professors, administrative staff, and students in the doctoral, master's, and undergraduate programs.As of 2026
- ProfessorMotohiro Nakano
- Associate ProfessorYuji Miyazaki
- Assistant ProfessorDaisuke Takajo
- Project ProfessorYuko Ichiyanagi
- Project Associate ProfessorEwa Juszynska-Galazka
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