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Akira Terasaki, Professor
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The Quantum Chemistry Lab focuses on clusters, extremely tiny particles with a precisely defined number of atoms, and aims to open a new phase of nanomaterials science. The lab explores the physical and chemical phenomena involving clusters from the perspective and with the research methods of physical chemistry. Its research methods include ways of generating clusters using mass spectrometry, methods for tracking chemical reactions, and spectroscopic methods using lasers and synchrotron radiation. In education, the lab centers on the concepts of quantum chemistry and aims to help students develop the ability to understand the makeup of matter and its properties from a microscopic perspective.
Masahiko Annaka, Professor
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The Physical Chemistry of Dispersed Systems Lab studies gels, a type of material found in the body, in order to get closer to the principles of biological function. The lens of the eye and articular cartilage are also gels, and biological functions arise when such biological gels change their properties in response to changes in the environment inside the body. Taking living organisms as a model, the lab also takes on the challenge of using gels to artificially design and build materials and systems that substitute for or mimic biological functions.
Kotaro Hiramatsu, Professor
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The Photophysical Chemistry Lab studies new ways to examine cells and biological tissues using the interaction between light and molecules, in particular a phenomenon called nonlinear Raman scattering. The lab is developing new imaging methods for cells and biological tissues based on "molecular fingerprints." Medical applications such as pathological diagnosis and disease diagnosis are one of the lab's research targets. The lab also works on developing methods that combine optical measurement with information processing.
Tohru Oishi, Professor
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The Bioorganic Chemistry Lab studies the principles by which compounds isolated from animals, plants, and microorganisms that show strong biological activity exert that activity. Some of these compounds act on biological membranes or specific proteins, and are used as antibiotics and anticancer drugs. Based on the principles behind the activity, the lab works on the molecular design, chemical synthesis, and activity evaluation of new drugs. The lab's keywords are natural products chemistry, synthetic organic chemistry, and chemical biology.
Ayami Matsushima, Professor
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The Structural and Functional Biochemistry Lab studies the relationship between molecules that transmit information in the body and the receptor proteins they bind to. The main subjects are nuclear receptors, which regulate gene activity inside the cell nucleus, and receptors for neuropeptides involved in pain and analgesia. The lab investigates at the molecular level how chemical substances in the environment bind to receptors and how peptides activate receptors. On the lab's website, it is also introduced under the name "Matsushima Lab."
Yuichiro Hori, Professor
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The Dynamic Life Chemistry Lab develops chemical biology techniques that visualize proteins using synthetic fluorescent molecules. Inside cells, countless biomolecules change location and work where they are needed, regulating the physiological functions of the cell. Using its original protein labeling technology, the lab aims to clarify how proteins move inside living cells and how they regulate biological phenomena. The lab also aims to elucidate biological phenomena regulated by nucleic acids, glycans, and extracellular vesicles, and to freely control the functions of biomolecules.
Haruyuki Nakano, Professor
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The Theoretical Chemistry Lab conducts research that theoretically elucidates the structures, properties, and changes of molecules and molecular assemblies using quantum chemistry (computational chemistry). Based on first principles such as the Schrödinger equation, the lab aims to investigate through calculation without relying on empirical input. Its topics include reactions in solution, molecules containing heavy atoms, biomolecules, and algorithm development for calculations using quantum computers. The lab's website introduces it as a lab of the Department of Chemistry in the School of Sciences, the Department of Chemistry in the Graduate School of Sciences, and the Chemistry Division of the Faculty of Sciences.
Makoto Tokunaga, Professor
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The Catalytic Organic Chemistry Lab studies a wide range of fields in organic chemistry and catalytic chemistry, centered on the development of catalysts and catalytic reactions. It works on everything from homogeneous catalysts such as metal complex catalysts to solid catalysts, and is a somewhat unusual lab in studying both at the same time. Some of the reactions it handles are for organic synthesis and fine chemical synthesis, but many target the synthesis of commodity chemicals and petrochemicals. The lab's website states that being weak in organic chemistry as an undergraduate is not much of a problem.
Ryo Akiyama, Associate Professor
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The Quantum Biochemistry Lab studies chemical and biological phenomena such as molecular motors, protein association, and electron transfer reactions, based on the methodology of physics. Biopolymers such as proteins play the leading role in chemical reactions in living organisms, but their function depends on a supporting player: a suitable solvent. The lab aims to uncover, from a theoretical standpoint, the fascinating side stories that solvents create.
Osamu Sato, Professor
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The Photofunctional Materials Chemistry Lab aims to develop molecular devices, creating new materials with distinctive optical, magnetic, and electronic functions and studying their properties. Its work centers on developing metal complexes and molecular crystals whose properties change substantially in response to stimuli such as light or an electric field. A representative research subject is photomagnetic materials, whose magnetism changes when they are irradiated with light. The lab is a research group of the Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, and is introduced as a lab of the Faculty of Sciences' Department of Chemistry and the Graduate School of Sciences' Department of Chemistry.
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