LAB LOGLab reviews by studentsOpen the app
A page on LabLog, a review site (not the lab's official page)
24 labs · 5 student voices
Other departments in School of Engineering ›Faculties at Nagoya University ›
Kazuaki Ishihara, Professor
1 student voices
The Ishihara Lab studies catalysts that freely control organic reactions so that desired substances can be selectively and efficiently synthesized. Using acids and bases as clues, the lab classifies acid–base combined catalysts, which draw out the full potential of catalytic function, by type, and uses this as a guide to develop new catalysts. Its conditions are a low environmental burden and energy savings. It aims to realize 'perfect reactions' that produce the target substance with high yield and selectivity from any starting material.
Yukikazu Takeoka, Associate Professor
1 student voices
The Takeoka Lab studies new materials made from soft matter such as polymers, colloids, liquid crystals, and gels. These substances are used in a wide range of applications, including car parts, liquid crystal displays, and materials for regenerative medicine. By combining them with organic, inorganic, and biological materials, the lab aims to create "smart composite materials" that are both flexible and complex.
Yoko Sakata, Professor
1 student voices
The Sakata Lab uses the properties of metal ions to create new molecular assemblies (supramolecules). Focusing on metal coordination bonds formed between metal ions and organic molecules, the lab builds things through self-assembly, the force by which atoms and molecules naturally come together. With this approach, complex ring- and cage-shaped structures that are difficult to make by ordinary synthesis can be made easily. It is a new lab, established in April 2024.
Katsutoshi Hori, Professor
1 student voices
The Hori Lab studies bacteria, which are single-celled microorganisms. With two major themes, interfacial microbial engineering and wastewater treatment and environmental remediation, the lab handles research from basic science through to practical application. It investigates the structure and function of the microbial cell surface and its interactions with material surfaces, and aims to create new technologies based on these findings. It also continues research on wastewater treatment and environmental remediation using microorganisms, aiming to turn it into technology that is used in society.
Yoshihiko Yamamoto, Professor
1 student voices
The Molecular Design Chemistry Lab studies, based on synthetic organic chemistry, the design of new molecules that could lead to drugs and efficient ways to make them. Using metal-containing catalysts and light energy, the lab develops reactions that assemble, in a single step, the ring-shaped skeletons found in natural products and bioactive compounds from chain-like molecules. The lab combines experiments with computational chemistry to investigate how these reactions proceed. Starting from curiosity, as in "Can we make this interesting structure?", the lab values free thinking.
Hiroshi Shinokubo, Professor
0 student voices
The Shinokubo Lab uses organic synthesis methods to create π-electron organic molecules with shapes and properties never seen before. No matter how good a molecular design is, the molecule cannot be obtained if it cannot be synthesized. For this reason, the lab places great importance on actually making molecules through a wide range of reactions. The lab determines the structures of the molecules it makes and investigates their properties and functions in response to light and electricity. It also aims at applications in electronic materials and medicine.
Takashi Ooi, Professor
0 student voices
The Ooi Lab designs and synthesizes new molecules and draws out their function as catalysts that drive chemical reactions. In particular, the lab focuses on onium salts, in which positively and negatively charged parts form a pair, and has created metal-free organocatalysts. It develops catalysts that finely control ionic and radical reactions, which are fundamental to chemical transformations, with the aim of leading to ideal chemical manufacturing. As a member of the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM), the lab also works on research at the boundary between chemistry and biology.
Atsushi Noro, Lecturer
0 student voices
The Noro Lab studies next-generation polymer materials. Polymers made by joining components with different properties spontaneously arrange themselves when they assemble, forming regular structures on the scale of nanometers (microphase-separated structures). Using this property, the lab studies methods for controlling, at the molecular level, the properties and functions of new polymer electrolyte membranes, structural adhesives, and rubber and elastomer materials. Through research, the lab develops research skills that can be applied in the real world, and it is also working to have its results used in society.
Masami Kamigaito, Professor
0 student voices
The Kamigaito Lab develops new polymerization reactions that can be controlled, and uses them to create polymers with precisely controlled structures. A polymer is a large molecule made of many small molecules (monomers) linked together. Natural polymers such as proteins have precisely determined length, three-dimensional shape, and even the order in which monomers are linked, but synthetic polymers cannot yet be controlled to that degree. The lab is also working on new bio-based polymers made from plant-derived monomers.
Tomoyuki Ikai, Professor
0 student voices
The Ikai Lab studies polymers with special molecular structures never seen before. Of particular interest are “ladder polymers,” which are shaped like a ladder. In ordinary polymers, monomers are linked by a single bond, whereas in ladder polymers they are linked by two or more bonds. Taking advantage of the ladder shape, the lab carefully designs the molecular backbone and three-dimensional shape to develop ladder polymers with properties and new functions that ordinary polymers cannot achieve.
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