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Kosei Ueno, Professor
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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
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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.
Keisuke Takahashi, Professor
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The Information Chemistry Lab researches the design of materials and catalysts using data science and artificial intelligence. Until now, materials and catalysts have been designed through researchers' trial and error. The lab collects experimental data, computational data, and data from published literature to build databases, and connects them to design through machine learning. AI forms hypotheses, and robots run experiments to test them. The lab aims to automate the laboratory in this way.
Takanori Suzuki, Professor
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The Organic Chemistry I Lab designs and synthesizes organic compounds that do not exist in nature. The lab deliberately designs molecules whose color and properties change in response to stimuli such as light, heat, and electric potential. It also tests the limits of bonds and structures experimentally, including setting a world record for the length of a carbon–carbon single bond. It continues research on responsive molecules that lead to molecular electronics and display functions.
Keiji Tanino, Project Professor
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The Organic Chemistry II Lab studies how to use chemistry to build organic compounds with complex structures. Organic synthesis is like assembling building blocks: reaching a target molecule takes many transformations carried out in sequence. Some drugs cannot become products because making them takes dozens of steps, so efficient reactions and shorter synthetic routes are in demand. The lab develops highly selective reactions that use metal complexes and works on the total synthesis of bioactive natural products.
Yohei Shimizu, Associate Professor
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The Organometallic Chemistry Lab studies groundbreaking chemical reactions that revolutionize synthetic organic chemistry, and the catalysts that make them possible. Pharmaceuticals and functional organic materials come out of synthetic organic chemistry. By combining organic chemistry, coordination chemistry, computer graphics, and quantum chemical calculations, the lab designs molecules with structures and functions that do not yet exist in the world. It also searches for catalysts in domains beyond single molecules, such as chemically modified solid surfaces and molecular assemblies.
Shinsuke Niwa, Professor
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The Biochemistry Lab studies how molecular motors work and how they create the shape and function of cells. Inside cells, molecular motor proteins such as kinesin and dynein carry proteins and membrane vesicles to where they are needed. Molecular motors use the energy obtained by hydrolyzing ATP to move along microtubules, which act as rails inside the cell. By combining biochemistry, single-molecule motility measurements, cell biology, and genetics, the lab aims to connect the movements of molecules to an understanding of how cells and whole organisms work.
Kazuhiro Abe, Professor
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The Molecular Life Chemistry Lab studies membrane proteins in the cell membrane, especially active transporters. In living cells, substances and information are unevenly distributed across the cell membrane, and this lies at the foundation of life. It is the membrane proteins in the cell membrane that create and maintain this uneven distribution. Because membrane proteins are involved in many biological processes, their mutations are linked to disease, and they are also targets for drugs.
Jun Harada, Associate Professor
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The Solid State Chemistry Lab studies the structure and function of crystals formed by arrangements of molecules. Based on detailed crystal structure information, the lab analyzes molecular motion, phase transitions, and interactions between molecules. From this, it aims to uncover how crystals exhibit their functions and to control them freely. The plastic/ferroelectric crystals developed by the lab are soft, and can be made into transparent films simply by pressing the powder.
Toru Murayama, Professor
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The Materials Transformation Lab (Murayama Lab) studies solid catalysts that combine metals and oxides. Bulk gold is chemically inert, but as nanoparticles 2–5 nm in diameter it shows rich catalytic activity. The lab is exploring ways to make precious metals such as gold, platinum, and silver work as clusters or even single atoms, which are smaller than nanoparticles. The lab also gives functions to the oxide supports on which the precious metals are placed, and creates new catalysts from the synergistic effect between the two.
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