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Masayuki Aikawa, Professor
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The Fundamental Medical Physics Lab systematically measures how readily the nuclear reactions occur that produce radioisotopes (RIs) used in radiation therapy and nuclear medicine examinations. RIs decay over time, and when they do, they emit alpha, beta, and gamma radiation. This property is used in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. To produce the required amount of RI each time, the reaction cross section, which indicates how much RI is produced in a nuclear reaction, is essential basic data. The research is carried out as international collaboration with researchers at institutions such as RIKEN and the Institute for Nuclear Research in Hungary.
Kei Murakoshi, Professor
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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