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Ken Kojio, Professor
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The Complex Molecular Systems Lab conducts research based on polymer chemistry, aiming to create high-performance, highly functional soft matter with controlled nanostructures. The lab studies a wide variety of polymer materials, including crystalline polymers, amorphous polymers, elastomers, and composite systems with fillers. It also studies the structure and properties of network polymers, as well as the adhesion mechanisms and failure behavior of polymer adhesives. The lab's own website presents it under the name "Complex Molecular Systems Lab".
Miho Yamauchi, Professor
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The Inorganic Materials Chemistry Lab (Yamauchi Lab) researches the creation of new functional substances and materials by making use of the characteristics of various elements. To build energy-saving, resource-saving, sustainable chemical processes, the lab is developing nanoscale materials. The properties it focuses on are catalysis that converts energy and substances, hydrogen storage, and the diffusion of ions and atoms.
Masato Ito, Associate Professor
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This research group applies the changes in water molecule activity and the unusual ion conduction that arise from molecular crowding effects inside cells to the development of energy devices. In secondary batteries in particular, it focuses on rate capability, durability, and safety, which have tended to be put aside until now. From a biomimetic perspective, it reconsiders material selection, molecular assembly, and interface control, and works to bring fundamental solutions. The group believes that improving energy storage technology is necessary to make renewable energy a main power source, and that developing next-generation secondary batteries will become increasingly important.
Yasushi Okumura, Associate Professor
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The Nano-Organization Lab (Kikuchi-Okumura Lab) studies how to give functional molecules such as liquid crystals and polymers distinctive ordered and organized structures, creating new "soft matter." The lab investigates the structures and physical properties of these materials, aiming to apply them to materials with advanced functions in electronics and photonics. A distinctive feature is that synthetic chemistry (making things) and physical property evaluation (understanding their essence) can be carried out at the same time within a single lab. From the standpoint of physical properties, the lab aims to train people who can carry out the molecular design and creation of new substances with advanced functions.
HO Johnny Chung Yin, Professor
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The Nano-Fusion Materials Lab studies how to create nanostructures with new functions, based on inorganic materials science. The lab designs metal oxides from the atomic and molecular level and fabricates them as nanostructured materials. It aims to explore the physical properties and functions hidden in a single-crystal nanostructure and to develop them into devices. The lab belongs to the Division of Fusion Materials at the Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, and its cooperating department is the Department of Interdisciplinary Engineering Sciences in the Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences.
Ken Yamashita, Associate Professor
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The Hetero-Fusion Materials Lab studies the creation and functional development of light-emitting materials and organic semiconductor materials at the boundary of organic chemistry, materials chemistry, and photochemistry. As light-emitting molecules, the lab focuses on luminescent radicals, whose ground state and excited state are both doublets, and on dendrimers. The lab works consistently from molecular design and synthesis through evaluation of optical properties to device applications. On the lab's website, it is introduced under the name "Yamashita Lab."
Mitsuhiro Murayama, Professor (Cross-appointment)
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The Nanomaterials Characterization Lab develops and uses advanced transmission electron microscopes to study the nanoscale world of materials. Its core work is in situ observation: applying heat, light, or external force to substances and materials and watching changes in their microstructure and properties in real time. The lab combines this with data science and computational science to establish an advanced analysis method called operando electron microscopy. Its experiments cover materials ranging from metals, polymers, and ceramics to semiconductors, minerals, and meteorites, and experiments and technology development support each other.
Hikaru Saito, Associate Professor
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The Nanostructure Optics Lab (Saito Lab) uses electron microscopes to study the states of light and electrons inside nanostructures. It focuses on techniques such as electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) and cathodoluminescence (CL), and also incorporates information-science methods such as machine learning. The lab also works on confining light in nanoscale spaces and on writing nanoscale light sources with electron beams. It started in 2025 as a relatively new lab within the Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering.
Shiyoshi Yokoyama, Professor
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Building on research in materials science and optics, the Nanostructure Characterization Lab studies optical devices useful for optical information and communication technology. To improve the performance of optical modulation and integrated optical circuits that use electro-optic materials, the lab develops ferroelectric crystals and polymers. Graduate students belong to the Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Materials Science Course I (Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering major), and come from a wide range of undergraduate programs in chemistry, physics, electrical, and mechanical fields. On the lab's website, it is introduced under the name "Shiyoshi Yokoyama Lab."
Katsuhiko Fujita, Associate Professor
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The Functional Organic Materials Chemistry Lab studies organic electronics, including organic solar cells, organic EL, organic transistors, and organic memory, with a focus on materials development, device physics, and device fabrication processes. By developing methods for making organic ultrathin films and analyzing their structures, the lab works toward applying them in devices. In collaboration with other researchers, the lab is also working on applying organic EL to photodynamic therapy using implantable devices. The lab's website presents it under the name "Functional Organic Materials Chemistry Lab."
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