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The Applied Electrochemistry Lab builds on electrochemistry to freely control surfaces and interfaces and develop new materials. The lab also focuses on developing semiconductor nanoparticles that emit fluorescence. It uses light to visualize the flow of electrons, and carries out research to understand the properties of nanomaterials. Toward the development of next-generation batteries, the lab also conducts fundamental research, such as binder-free electrodes and the creation of nano-interfaces with solid electrolytes.
Masato Ohashi, Professor
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The Organometallic Chemistry Lab studies the synthesis and applications of transition metal complexes. The lab designs ligands, the organic compounds that support metals, based on the intrinsic properties of elements, aiming to synthesize transition metal complexes with desired functions. Using transition metal complexes as key active species, the lab also works on developing new methods for synthesizing useful fluorine-containing organic compounds. Its research themes also include creating boron catalysts that contain boron, a metalloid, and developing technologies that make use of crude hydrogen.
Ken-ichi Nakayama, Professor
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The Organic Electronic Materials Chemistry Lab (Nakayama Lab) focuses on the optical and electronic functions of organic molecules, and aims to develop new materials and apply them to optical and electronic devices. Its subject is organic electronics devices, which pass electricity through organic molecules and use them as semiconductors, such as organic EL, organic transistors, and organic solar cells. The lab combines perspectives from different fields: organic chemistry that designs the properties of a "single molecule," the physical chemistry of thin films, and semiconductor engineering that discusses device performance. On the lab's website, it is introduced under the name "Nakayama Lab."
Takashi Hayashi, Professor
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The Structural Organic Chemistry Lab works broadly with organic compounds, metal complexes, proteins, and microorganisms, developing new functional molecules and functional materials. Its foundations are organic synthetic chemistry and coordination chemistry, together with bioengineering and biotechnology. It carries out diverse interdisciplinary research, from the organic synthesis of porphyrinoid compounds to artificial biocatalysts, nanobiomaterials, and hydrogels. It aims to open up a new field of bioinorganic chemistry.
Mamoru Tobisu, Professor
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The Functional Organic Chemistry Lab studies the development of new reactions, aiming to discover chemical reactions and molecules that have never existed before. Rather than improving the yield of existing reactions, it is committed to taking on the unknown: reactions of a pattern no one has seen before. Its main tool is transition metal complex catalysts, and it designs the structures of the catalysts, ligands, and starting-material molecules based on hypotheses. On the lab's website, it is introduced under the name “Tobisu Lab.”
Norimitsu Tohnai, Professor
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The Functional Supramolecular Chemistry Lab studies the assembly of molecules in crystals and other solids from the perspectives of supramolecular chemistry, crystal engineering, organic chemistry, and materials science. Using the tendency of molecules to gather spontaneously (self-assembly and self-organization) and their ability to recognize partners when they gather, it seeks to control the arrangement of molecules within crystals. Chemistry that uses these two properties was once likened to “building-block chemistry.” Today it is known as “supramolecular chemistry” and is applied to the development of new functional materials and devices. On the lab's website, it is introduced under the name “Tohnai Lab.”
Hidehiro Sakurai, Professor
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Building on synthetic organic chemistry, the lab studies how new functions can be drawn out of the shape, arrangement, motion, and interfaces of molecules and nanostructures. The lab aims not only to make molecules but also to clarify, through synthesis, structural analysis, and property evaluation, how molecules assemble and how they respond to their surroundings to show function. Using sumanene, a bowl-shaped π-conjugated molecule, the lab explores new functions that arise from structures and molecular arrangements that planar molecules do not have.
Tadashi Mori, Professor
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Building on organic chemistry and photochemistry, the Mori Lab works to develop new molecular functions and reactions. Focusing on chirality in the excited state, the lab works on controlling asymmetric photoreactions and clarifying optical properties such as circularly polarized luminescence. As a lab of the Environmental Safety Research Center, it also studies the identification of isomers by mass spectrometry using GC-MS, as well as open-shell diradicaloids and computational chemistry evaluation of aromaticity. The lab is a cooperating laboratory of the Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Osaka, and accepts fourth-year undergraduate students from the Applied Chemistry Course of the Department of Applied Science.
Michiya Matsusaki, Professor
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The lab aims to build three-dimensional tissue models that are useful for drug discovery and regenerative medicine. Through molecular design with practical application in view, it creates new, highly functional materials. Using polymer materials that mimic the role of the extracellular matrix, which lies between cells in living tissue, the lab controls the microenvironment at the cell surface. The lab also has a joint research chair with TOPPAN Holdings Inc.
Hideki Sugimoto, Associate Professor
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The Biofunctional Chemistry Lab studies how metalloenzymes with transition metals at their active sites work, with the aim of developing new oxidation catalysts. The lab builds model complexes that artificially mimic enzyme active sites, and investigates their structures and reactivity using methods such as spectroscopy and electrochemistry. It also works with actual proteins (enzymes), using genetic engineering techniques to create artificial metalloenzymes. The lab's website is published under the name "Ito Lab."
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