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Hiroki Taniguchi, Professor
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The Response Properties Lab (Y Lab) studies the "responses" that appear when electric fields, magnetic fields, pressure, and the like are applied to materials. Responses such as polarization, magnetization, and strain offer clues to the inner workings of materials and can also become tools that enrich daily life. The lab synthesizes materials with distinctive structures, such as crystals, quasicrystals, and glasses, in house and measures their responses over wide ranges of temperature and frequency. The lab pursues two complementary lines of work: basic research in condensed matter physics and applied research aimed at innovation in science and technology.
Ryoji Noyori, Distinguished Professor
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The Noyori Special Lab devises molecular catalysts (catalysts made of molecules) and studies new chemical reactions and methods for synthesizing compounds. Prof. Noyori, a Special Professor, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001 for his research on asymmetric reduction reactions using catalysts with chiral ligands. The lab is now creating new catalytic processes and working to pioneer synthetic chemistry that forms the foundation of a sustainable society. Its goal is to generate ideas and foundational technologies that help solve problems in energy and resources, the environment, and healthcare.
Hiroshi Abe, Professor
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The Abe Lab studies how to design drug molecules and functional molecules, mainly based on nucleic acids. The lab synthesizes nucleic acid derivatives, which are chemically modified nucleic acids, and develops drug discovery technologies that use them. A distinctive feature is that everything from building molecules with organic chemistry to confirming how they work with molecular biology can be done in the same lab. The molecules it creates can also be used in basic life science research and chemical biology research.
Akiyoshi Hishikawa, Professor
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The Hishikawa Lab studies how light interacts with matter and pursues new chemistry using extreme light. In lasers strong enough to rival the electric fields inside atoms and molecules, matter behaves in ways fundamentally different from how it behaves under weak light. Using the properties of coherent light and advanced spectroscopic methods, the lab explores new phenomena in atoms, molecules, and solids. The lab aims to pioneer new pathways of chemical reactions and to control them with light.
Osami Shoji, Professor
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The Shoji Lab designs and synthesizes molecules that bind to proteins and nucleic acids from a chemical perspective, and studies how to reengineer the functions of biomolecules. The lab aims to draw out new functions, different from the original ones, from naturally occurring proteins. It works consistently from devising new methods through to stages where they can be used as drugs or biocatalysts. Its main pillars are biocatalysts using enzymes, artificial metalloproteins, and gene regulation by peptide nucleic acids (PNA).
Yuichiro Tsuchiya, Project Professor
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The Plant Chemical Genetics Lab studies life processes driven by small signaling molecules, using parasitic plants, which live by taking nutrients from other plants. Using small-molecule probes to manipulate and visualize the action of genes, the lab investigates how parasitic plants sense signaling molecules coming from host plants and change their form in response. The lab focuses mainly on the germination of seeds of Striga, a parasitic plant that causes serious damage to grain production in Africa, and also aims to develop control methods based on what it learns. The lab belongs to the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM).
Akira Yoshinari, Project Lecturer
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The Biomolecular Dynamics Group studies how plants, which cannot move from where they grow, live in accordance with their environment, by looking at the movement of molecules inside cells. Centered on live-cell imaging, which observes living cells, the group investigates how cell polarity arises and how transporters that carry nutrients move. The group belongs to the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM). Together with chemists at ITbM and the Frommer Group at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in Germany, the group also develops tools for visualizing biomolecules.
Hiroshi Shinokubo, Professor
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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
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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
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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.
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