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Yasushi Sekine, Professor
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The Sekine Lab studies new catalytic processes that could lead the next generation in the fields of the environment and energy. Its guiding idea is "unconventional": original catalyst systems and processes that no one else is pursuing. The lab develops catalysts that exploit the redox capability of solid-state ionics, precisely controlled supported metal catalysts, and low-temperature catalytic processes that use electric fields and plasma. From these, it works on hydrogen production, direct synthesis of high-value compounds, and catalyst systems for environmental purification.
Atsushi Shimojima, Professor
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The Shimojima Lab researches the creation of new materials, mainly using inorganic oxides. With applications in the environment, energy, and medicine in mind, its work is based on solution processes that are low in environmental impact and energy-saving. The lab aims to establish synthetic chemistry that hierarchically controls structure across a wide range of scales, from the atomic and molecular level to the macroscopic level. Besides new nanoporous materials, it focuses on developing smart materials, such as materials that change in response to stimuli and self-healing materials.
Yoshiyuki Sugahara, Professor
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The Sugahara Lab researches how to make "organic-inorganic hybrid" materials that combine the properties of organic and inorganic materials. In addition to inorganic synthetic chemistry, the lab combines synthetic techniques from organic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, and polymer chemistry, without being bound by disciplinary boundaries. Because material properties change greatly depending on the size of the organic and inorganic components and the state of the interface between them, the lab regards techniques for controlling these as key. The resulting materials are carefully characterized with diffraction and spectroscopic methods, and the findings are fed back into synthesis to design even better materials.
Daisuke Umeno, Professor
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The Umeno Lab views proteins as "molecular nanomachines" and researches how to remodel them using the mechanisms of evolution. The lab focuses on the greatest property of proteins: their capacity to evolve. By designing evolution as a chemical engineering process, it has become possible to improve protein functions in desired directions and to create entirely new functions from scratch. The lab aims to make this evolutionary molecular engineering faster and more widely applicable, and to develop it into a technology for freely processing proteins.
Junichiro Yamaguchi, Professor
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The Yamaguchi Lab is a synthetic organic chemistry lab that builds molecules, the smallest units of function. Its research rests on three pillars: "linking molecules," "breaking molecules," and "creating innovative molecules." The lab draws on methods from organometallic chemistry, total synthesis, photochemistry, structural organic chemistry, electrochemistry, medicinal chemistry, plant physiology, and chemical biology, without being confined by disciplinary boundaries. Building on catalysts it has discovered independently, the lab aims to develop reactions that enable molecules to be constructed at will.
Miharu Eguchi, Associate Professor
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The Eguchi Lab studies how molecules behave on nanoscale surfaces and uses that knowledge to create new materials. When people make things by hand, they use forces such as gravity, elasticity, and friction. In chemical manufacturing, however, chemical bonding forces, intermolecular forces, and field forces must be considered at the same time. By carefully balancing these forces to control the charge distribution of the entire reaction system, the lab aims for precise manufacturing. The lab's guiding words are “Curiosity has no purpose. Curiosity creates things.”
Nobuko Hanada, Associate Professor
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The Hanada Lab develops materials and processes to make hydrogen energy practically usable. Hydrogen is a secondary energy source from which electricity and heat can be efficiently extracted in fuel cells and other devices, and which can be transported in large quantities and stored for long periods. However, because hydrogen is a gas at room temperature, it is stored compactly by converting it into a liquid chemical compound or by incorporating it into solids as hydrogen atoms. Based on materials science, the lab controls matter at the nanoscale, and based on chemical engineering, it proposes large-scale synthesis methods and processes for using hydrogen.
Shin Kobori, Lecturer
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The Kobori Lab studies biomedical chemical engineering, an interdisciplinary field between engineering and medicine. The core of its research is elucidating transport phenomena, centered on mass balance. In particular, the lab analyzes how blood, oxygen, and dialysate flow in artificial lungs and artificial kidneys used in clinical practice. Besides optimizing existing devices, the lab also aims to propose high-performance artificial organs with entirely new shapes.
Toru Asahi, Professor
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The Asahi Lab studies a wide range of subjects, from the chirality and optical properties of matter to biomolecules, insects, and materials design. The lab has three divisions, Biology, Physical Properties Science, and Materials Informatics, and each division carries out its research through groups. The lab's approach is to combine physical chemistry, biology, and data science methods. The lab also accepts doctoral and master's students from other schools and universities.
Inoue Inoue, Professor
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The Inoue Lab studies how neurons support the functions of the brain. Using cultured neurons, brain slices, and direct observation of animal brains, the lab captures the movement of molecules inside cells with electrophysiology and imaging techniques. The lab precisely measures intracellular signaling confined to neuronal dendrites, aiming to clarify the molecular basis that underlies synaptic plasticity. Not only neurons but also the function of glial cells is one of the central themes of research.
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