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Yasuhide Inokuma, Professor
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The Reactive Organic Chemistry Lab synthesizes organic molecules that no one has ever made before and studies their structures and functions. The lab is divided into the Structural Organic Chemistry Team and the Electrolysis Team, and covers everything from molecular design and synthesis to reactions driven by electricity. From molecules it calls “carbonyl strings,” the lab has produced dyes and small-ring porphyrins. The lab also pursues research that brings machine learning into organic chemistry, and takes part in research applying polyketones to batteries and cancer medicine.
Hajime Ito, Professor
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The Organoelement Chemistry Lab combines organic compounds with elements such as silicon, boron, and phosphorus, as well as transition metals, to develop new synthetic reactions, functional materials, and catalysts. The lab has developed methods for synthesizing organoboron and organosilicon compounds using copper(I) catalysts, and also designs catalysts using quantum chemical calculations. It also works on mechanochemical synthesis, in which reactions proceed in a ball mill without solvents, and on molecular crystals whose emission color changes in response to stimuli. The lab also conducts many joint research projects with companies and universities in Japan and abroad.
Takeshi Ohkuma, Project Professor
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The Synthetic Organic Chemistry Lab works on developing reactions that allow the synthesis of any organic compound at will. Its goal is to create methods for supplying pharmaceuticals, functional materials, and more efficiently, inexpensively, and cleanly. Its particular focus is asymmetric synthesis, molecular catalysts, catalytic activity, and stereoselectivity, and it selectively makes either right-handed or left-handed molecules. Some of the catalysts it has developed are sold as reagents, and joint research with companies has led to practical applications.
Ryuji Kikuchi, Professor
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The Chemical Systems Engineering Lab studies both energy and materials systems (the forest) and the materials that support them (the trees). It develops processes that use renewable energy to make fuels and chemicals from CO2 and nitrogen, as well as the catalysts that work in them. The lab is working on the direct production of ammonia and methanol by electrolysis, and on converting CO2 into useful substances by reacting it with hydrogen. Aiming to realize a zero-carbon society, the lab welcomes undergraduate students doing graduation research and graduate students at any time.
Shin Mukai, Professor
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The Materials Chemical Engineering Lab aims to develop materials efficiently using chemical engineering methods. A distinctive feature is that it looks beyond the functions of the materials themselves to efficient manufacturing processes and new applications. The current focus is developing porous materials for use as catalysts and adsorbents, including an original process that synthesizes materials by freezing the raw material. The lab also researches producing carbon nanotubes and carbon nanofibers by its own methods.
Isao Ogino, Associate Professor
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The Catalytic Reaction Engineering Lab studies catalytic materials from both micro and macro scales, with chemical engineering as its core. Using methods that selectively and directly heat materials very quickly, the lab aims to create reaction fields of desirable nanopores inside catalysts through very short treatments. Building on reaction engineering, transport phenomena, and thermodynamics, the lab also incorporates elements of catalytic chemistry, surface chemistry, and materials synthesis chemistry. It keeps in mind data-driven research and innovation in production technology through the development of green processes.
Yasushi Ogasawara, Professor
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The Applied Biological Chemistry Lab conducts wide-ranging research from basic to applied, aiming to make useful products using microorganisms. It discovers new enzyme catalysts and biosynthetic pathways in microorganisms and clarifies how they work at the level of genes, enzymes, and reactions. It also works on producing useful natural products by fermentation, using biosynthetic engineering that combines the enzymes it has found. Focusing on the fact that metabolic pathways differ between beneficial and harmful microorganisms, the lab also searches for antibacterial agents that act only on pathogens.
Kenichiro Matsumoto, Professor
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The Biosynthetic Chemistry Lab studies how to synthesize useful substances using the functions of living organisms. The lab also works to clarify the mechanisms of synthesis and degradation at the molecular level. Its central material is polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA), a polymer that can be made from biomass and has excellent biodegradability. To make PHAs with structures not found in nature, the lab also modifies the polymerizing enzymes themselves.
Manabu Tokeshi, Professor
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The Microsystem Chemistry Lab develops bioanalytical and medical diagnostic technologies based on new measurement techniques. Carrying out chemistry experiments on a very small scale requires less sample and fewer reagents, and makes possible experiments that are difficult in a flask. The lab works on diagnosis from a single drop of blood, on-site testing in the field, and analysis that combines paper devices with smartphones. Its devices are also used to make the lipid nanoparticles used in vaccines and to analyze the three-dimensional structures of proteins, which underpin drug discovery.
Shin-ichiro Sato, Associate Professor
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The Molecular Assembly Chemistry Lab studies the special functions that appear when molecules are combined. Molecular assemblies designed and optimized with computational chemistry are actually built through polymer synthesis. The lab aims to develop new materials with molecular recognition, optical functions, electrical conductivity, and biocompatibility. A distinctive feature is that a synthetic chemistry group and a computational chemistry group work together on the research.
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