LAB LOGLab reviews by studentsOpen the app
A page on LabLog, a review site (not the lab's official page)
27 labs · 5 student voices
Other departments in School of Science ›Faculties at Hokkaido University ›
Kazuki Nagashima, Professor
3 student voices
The Interaction Functional Materials Lab (Nagashima Lab) studies electronic materials and devices that actively interact with the outside world. The chemical information carried by molecules in our surroundings is thought to be far richer than physical information such as heat, force, light, and sound. Conventional electronic materials have been sealed off from the external environment to prevent degradation, but collecting chemical information requires contact with the outside. The lab designs, at the atomic and molecular level, materials and devices that combine robustness with the ability to distinguish molecules.
Aiichiro Nagaki, Professor
1 student voices
The Organic Reaction Theory Lab is pioneering the field of "high-speed organic chemistry," which accelerates synthetic chemistry. For over 100 years, organic synthesis has relied on batch reactors, typified by the flask. This lab uses flow microreactors, in which solutions flow through micrometer-scale channels, as its reactors. It establishes reactions and synthetic methodologies that are difficult in flask chemistry, and uses them to create new functional molecules.
Tamiki Komatsuzaki, Professor
1 student voices
The Data Mathematical Science Lab studies the fundamental principles of “state changes,” such as chemical reactions and structural transitions of biomolecules, using mathematical methods. Grounded in real experimental data, the lab aims to create data-driven mathematical science that does not presuppose a model. By analyzing single-molecule observation data and microscope images and checking them against natural phenomena, the lab builds up the mechanisms of the hierarchy of living systems. Together with researchers at other universities, the lab also develops methods for analyzing Raman microscope images and collective cell motion.
Kei Murakoshi, Professor
0 student voices
The Physical Chemistry Lab studies chemical reactions that occur at electrode surfaces and interfaces. Its goal is to build electrode reaction systems that generate renewable energy efficiently. The lab designs new nanostructured electrodes and investigates them by combining electrode reaction measurements, highly sensitive spectroscopy, and the theory of electron transfer at surfaces. By freely controlling the flow of electrons, light, and ions, the lab explores ways of using energy that are not limited by the intrinsic properties of materials.
Tetsuya Taketsugu, Professor
0 student voices
The Quantum Chemistry Lab calculates electronic states on computers to study the mechanisms and dynamics of chemical reactions. Computational chemistry is expected to play a role not only in reproducing and interpreting experimental data but also as a "predictive chemical theory." The lab develops its own programs for computational methods that trace reaction pathways, electronic structure theory, and informatics. It also works with experimental labs to elucidate the mechanisms of light-driven reactions and to propose new catalysts.
Satoshi Maeda, Professor
0 student voices
The Theoretical Chemistry Lab studies methods that automatically predict the pathways of chemical reactions on a computer, based on quantum chemical calculations. Using the automated reaction path search method developed in the lab, it works to understand the mechanisms of complex reactions and to predict unknown reactions. Through WPI-ICReDD and ERATO projects, the lab collaborates closely with experimental groups and also searches for catalysts and materials using data science. The main experimental equipment is the computer, and students can choose their research topics according to their interests.
Koichiro Ishimori, Professor
0 student voices
The Structural Chemistry Lab studies how proteins work inside living organisms, based on their structures. The lab investigates how the body keeps essential metals such as iron, copper, and zinc at constant levels, and how electrons are passed along when cells produce energy. The lab combines biochemical methods for producing and purifying proteins with physical chemistry methods such as NMR and spectroscopic instruments. The lab aims for research that leads to structure-based drug discovery, new therapies, and the design of artificial proteins.
Kazuki Sada, Project Professor
0 student voices
The Materials Chemistry Lab studies how to create materials with new functions from systems in which multiple compounds are mixed. Rather than working with a single pure compound, the lab focuses on the functions, structures, and reactions that arise precisely because compounds are mixed. By controlling how compounds assemble and separate, the lab builds different structures and lets them exchange matter and energy. The lab designs stimuli-responsive materials, such as polymers that absorb large amounts of oil and polymers whose solubility changes with temperature.
Kosei Ueno, Professor
0 student voices
The Analytical Chemistry Lab studies how light and matter interact in tiny spaces on the scale of nanometers. The lab fabricates metals and layered semiconductors with a precision of a few nanometers to create nanostructures that trap light. It observes what happens there using time-resolved spectroscopy with femtosecond lasers. From the interaction of light and matter, the lab aims to create new chemical measurement methods and chemical reactions controlled by light.
Masaki Matsui, Professor
0 student voices
The Inorganic Chemistry Lab studies "solid-state ionics materials," in which ions move through a solid. In a rechargeable battery, electricity flows as ions move through such materials, so discovering a new material can lead to proposing a new battery. The lab searches for materials that use sodium or magnesium as the charge carrier, and also develops methods to synthesize them at lower temperatures. Using its knowledge of materials and the techniques needed for evaluation and analysis, the lab aims to clarify the challenges that materials pose for next-generation rechargeable batteries and to propose new materials that solve them.
Student voices are for students only. Sign up free with your university email to read student voices for each lab.
Sign up freeLabLog is a lab review app for students only. Student members at each university interview students in labs and publish what they say. Student voices can only be read by students who sign up with a university email address. Operated by bestiee Inc.
Learn more about LabLog ↗Search engines and AI may reference the lab list and basic info on this page and the description of LabLog. Student voices are for student members only. Automated collection by programs (scraping, or input to or training of AI) is prohibited under Article 8 of the Terms of Service. If you need data for research or analysis, please contact us.
LAB LOG