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Takeshi Abe, Professor
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The Industrial Electrochemistry Lab studies mechanisms for converting energy with high efficiency from an electrochemical perspective. Its goal is to improve clean, efficient fuel cells and batteries that store and release electricity. In particular, the lab focuses on the interface, where conversion reactions take place, and seeks guidelines for increasing reaction rates and reversibility there. Its basic research covers a wide range, from electrolytes for lithium-ion batteries to next-generation batteries and fuel cells.
Yasuhiro Ohki, Professor
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The Transition Metal Complex Chemistry Lab studies "clusters," compounds in which many metal atoms work together. Clusters behave differently from both complexes of one or two atoms and larger nanoparticles. The lab develops synthetic methods that assemble clusters exactly as intended at the atomic level, and aims to apply them to difficult reactions such as the reduction of carbon dioxide and nitrogen. The goal is to lead to efficient energy storage and new ways of producing substances.
Shu Seki, Professor
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The Physical Chemistry of Materials Lab (Seki Lab) is developing the time-resolved microwave conductivity (TRMC) method, which uses microwaves to measure the charge mobility of semiconductor materials quickly, in a non-contact, non-destructive way. The lab is extending this method to measurements at semiconductor-insulator interfaces and under high pressure, and also works on designing organic semiconductor materials with a focus on molecular shape and on creating nanowires using ion beams.
Tomonori Tamura, Associate Professor
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The Bioorganic Chemistry Lab studies how to trigger organic chemical reactions inside cells and inside the bodies of living organisms. It is a chemical biology lab that combines organic chemistry, molecular recognition chemistry, analytical chemistry, biochemistry, and molecular biology. The lab develops molecular probes for studying biomolecules such as proteins and lipids. Using these tools, it takes on the challenges of understanding how the brain works and developing new cancer therapies.
Nobuaki Takahashi, Professor
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The Molecular Biochemistry Lab studies the "invisible stress" that living organisms experience and the mechanisms by which they respond to it. Fluctuations in oxygen, reactive oxygen species, and pH can trigger aging and disease, but they also act as forces that direct development and evolution. The lab develops technologies to make stress visible, and investigates how it is sensed and responded to, how cancer arises, and how mammals evolved. Combining chemistry and biology, it also tackles the mystery of the origin of life across disciplinary boundaries.
Koji Fujita, Professor
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The Functional Materials Design Lab designs and synthesizes metal oxides to pioneer inorganic materials with new functions. Oxides are widely used in everyday life as dielectrics, magnetic materials, electrical conductors, and optically functional materials. Solid-state reactions at high temperature yield only thermodynamically stable substances, but combining synthesis techniques that use the gas or liquid phase makes it possible to reach substances that have never existed before. By adding a nanoscience perspective to diverse synthesis methods, the lab aims to create metastable and nonequilibrium materials, as well as functions based on entirely new mechanisms.
Kiyotaka Miura, Professor
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The Inorganic Structural Chemistry Lab uses the interaction between femtosecond pulsed lasers and matter to modify the interior of glass and diamond and add new functions. At the focus of a laser, extreme environments arise, such as strong electric fields and steep temperature gradients, and the lab investigates from the fundamentals what happens there. The lab also works on a new forming process for single-crystal materials using direct electric current heating, and on clarifying the mechanisms behind the thermal properties of glass materials. In addition to synthesis, processing, electron microscopy, and optical characterization, the lab uses first-principles calculations and molecular dynamics calculations together, leading to the development of processing methods and improved material functions.
Katsuhisa Tanaka, Professor
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The Applied Solid State Chemistry Lab studies how electrons behave in inorganic solids such as metal oxides and nitrides, and what physical properties emerge as a result. Its main targets are oxides of strongly correlated electron systems, in which charge, spin, and orbital degrees of freedom are coupled, and metals and nitrides in which quasiparticles of delocalized electron systems play a role. Metal oxides are basically ionic, with covalent character added, and transition elements can take several oxidation states, which gives rise to a wide variety of physical properties. The lab aims to clarify the phenomena that appear there and to develop new functional materials.
Hirohisa Ohmiya, Professor
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The Organic Reaction Chemistry Lab develops new synthetic technologies for directly assembling complex organic molecules. Organic synthesis requires many steps and a wide variety of reagents, which raises issues of cost, development time, and the environmental burden of waste. Even when molecular structures are complex, the lab searches for ways to assemble them in one go using sustainable reagents and energy sources. By making synthetic processes more efficient, the lab aims to accelerate the discovery and development of new drugs and contribute to better medical care.
Yoshiaki Nakao, Professor
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The Natural Product Organic Chemistry Lab develops reactions that directly convert ordinary bonds in organic molecules into new bonds. Much of current organic synthesis requires molecules to be functionalized beforehand, so reaching the target compound takes many steps and generates many by-products. Many reactions also depend on rare chemicals and elements, so the lab also explores reactions that make use of naturally abundant resources such as silicon and biomass. Catalysts are the key. Centered on transition metal complex catalysts and combining Lewis acid catalysts, organocatalysts, enzyme catalysts, and solid catalysts, the lab aims at transformations that become possible only through their cooperation.
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