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Atsunobu Masuno, Program-Specific Professor
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The Fundamental Glass Science Lab was established in April 2023 as an endowed laboratory funded by Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd. Using containerless processing, in which materials are levitated in mid-air, the lab synthesizes "new glasses" with compositions that were previously unthinkable. Through advanced glass structure analysis using quantum beam measurements, computational science, and information science, the lab clarifies at the atomic and electronic level how functions arise. By pursuing basic research on glass from multiple angles, the lab aims to establish new theoretical foundations for glass science and to train the next generation of glass researchers and engineers.
LANDENBERGER Kira B., Lecturer
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The Advanced Functional Polymers Lab studies how to build the structures of various polymers using a method called living cationic polymerization. Based on this, it aims to synthesize materials with functionality and stimuli responsiveness. Its main research themes are supramolecular polymer networks, intermolecular interactions, and thermoresponsive hydrogels. The lab also works on molecular association through halogen bonding and on actuator gels that change shape with temperature.
Kazunori Sugiyasu, Professor
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The Functional Polymer Synthesis Lab studies how to connect molecules to one another to create new types of polymers. Supramolecular polymers are polymers in which monomer molecules are linked by reversible intermolecular interactions such as hydrogen bonds. The lab has developed its own living supramolecular polymerization method for their precise synthesis and has created a variety of nanostructures. By synergistically merging three fields of chemistry (polymer chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, and colloid chemistry), the lab aims to open up new chemistry.
Makoto Ouchi, Professor
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The Polymer Synthesis Lab pioneers methods for precisely controlling polymer structure. Synthetic polymers in everyday life and biopolymers such as DNA and proteins are both polymers, yet they differ greatly in structural precision and in how their functions emerge. The lab therefore asks again what "polymer-ness" (the essence of being a polymer) is, and searches for the answer through precision polymers whose structures are tightly controlled. The lab also aims to develop new polymer materials based on structural control.
Kazuo Tanaka, Professor
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The Polymerization Chemistry Lab studies how to create new materials by making use of elements that have rarely been used in organic materials. The elements that make up the organic and polymer materials around us are limited to a small part of the periodic table, such as carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. Incorporating elements that have not been used is expected to bring electronic, optical, and catalytic functions and molecular recognition ability that reflect the characteristics of those elements. Based on the free thinking of each individual, the lab aims for each member to create original substances that make the most of the elements.
Yoshihiro Sasaki, Professor
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The Biofunctional Polymers Lab studies how to understand and design self-assembly, the process by which biopolymers gather on their own to form structures. From there, its research extends to biomembrane engineering, nanomedicine, and environmentally responsive materials. Working across polymer chemistry and life science, the lab aims to understand life phenomena and to apply that understanding to medicine and the environment.
Hideo Ohkita, Professor
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The Polymer Functions Lab studies the optical, electronic, and ionic properties of polymers and their functions. Using light as a tool, the lab directly observes the movement of energy and electrons on molecular time and length scales. Energy transfer and electron transfer proceed on timescales from 100 femtoseconds to microseconds, so the lab tracks them with ultrashort pulse lasers. To help solve energy problems, the lab is also developing polymer solar cells.
Yo Nakamura, Professor
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The Polymer Molecular Theory Lab experimentally determines the properties of polymer chains in solution from macroscopic properties such as viscosity, osmotic pressure, and scattered light intensity, and analyzes them based on polymer theory. The lab obtains molecular-level information on chain stiffness and thickness, local conformation, branching, intermolecular interactions, and dynamics, and aims to establish a framework for interpreting, at the molecular level, how solution properties change with the combination of polymer and solvent.
Tsuyoshi Koga, Professor
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The Fundamental Physical Chemistry Lab studies structure formation and dynamics in polymer systems using statistical mechanics theory, computational science (simulation), and data science (informatics). In many polymer materials, hierarchical higher-order structures form from the molecular level up to visible scales, and they greatly influence physical properties and functions. The lab aims to understand and control the molecular-level mechanisms by which higher-order structures form and the dynamics of those structures.
Mikihito Takenaka, Professor
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The Polymer Materials Science Lab (Takenaka Lab) studies how polymers create structures on their own (self-assembly) and how to control them. In addition to tires, organic glass, and electronic device materials, the lab studies recycled polymer materials and bio-based polymers. It examines the self-assembled structures that determine their performance from multiple angles, using synchrotron X-ray scattering, electron microscopy, and X-ray CT.
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