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Precision Polymer Science Lab
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The lab creates precision polymers to explore the essential nature of polymers.
AboutAbout the lab
Taking a precise scientific look at polymers
The Precision Polymer Science Lab researches the creation of precision polymers with well-defined chemical structures, aiming to understand the essential nature of polymers (their polymeric nature).
Large molecules with a molecular weight of roughly 10,000 or more are called polymers, and the nucleic acids and proteins that make up our bodies are also polymers.
To find answers to questions such as why life chose polymers as its essential materials, the lab conducts research using precision polymers.
The lab also aims to use polymeric nature to create high-performance polymers comparable to biopolymers.
Key terms
- Polymer
- A large molecule with a molecular weight of roughly 10,000 or more. Nucleic acids and proteins are also polymers
- Precision polymer
- A polymer with a well-defined chemical structure. The lab needs it to understand polymeric nature in depth
- Multivalent effect
- An effect that appears when many functional residues act cooperatively
- Formose reaction
- A reaction that yields a complex mixture of sugars from formaldehyde
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The lab aims to explore, using precision polymers with well-defined chemical structures, why polymers play such an important role as the materials that make up living bodies. By working on three challenges, it advances the understanding of the essential nature of polymers (polymeric nature) and the creation of high-performance polymers that make use of it.
*Illustrative imageCreating precision polymers
The lab takes on the challenge of creating precision polymers with well-defined chemical structures. Currently, it synthesizes precision polymers with clearly defined side-chain sequences, as well as uniform polymers with a specified degree of polymerization and stereostructure.
*Illustrative imageUnderstanding polymeric nature
Using precision polymers, the lab seeks a deeper understanding of polymeric nature, the essence of polymers. It investigates the multivalent effect, in which many functional residues act cooperatively, and the interactions between precision polymers and water.
*Illustrative imageCreating high-performance polymers
The lab works on creating high-performance polymers comparable to biopolymers such as nucleic acids, enzymes, and antibodies, which carry out advanced functions in the body. As one example, it is attempting to selectively produce sugars through the formose reaction, using precision polymers as tiny reaction fields.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Precision Polymer Science Lab are faculty, technical assistants, a secretary, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and research students.As of 2026
- ProfessorAkihito Hashidzume
- Assistant ProfessorMasaki Nakahata
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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: “Plastic pellets for injection molding” Teemeah / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Creating precision polymers: “Bis(heptafluorocyclopentenyl) aryl ether monomers synthesis and polymerization” Babloosharma007 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Understanding polymeric nature: “Polymer chain SPT” SPT Paul Topham / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Creating high-performance polymers: “Double vac line front view” Polimerek / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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