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Shigeo Morishima, Professor
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The Morishima Lab's research goal is to contribute to a safe and secure society, an enriched quality of life, and Japan's traditional culture through advanced technology. Using physics and mathematics as tools, the lab works on digital signal processing, computer vision, computer graphics, and human-computer interaction. The lab places importance on not stopping at demonstrating technical capability, but on giving it concrete form as visible content and practically useful systems. A distinguishing feature of this lab is that its ultimate target is directed toward human happiness and rich sensibility and culture.
Kohei Imura, Professor
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The Imura Lab is a photophysical chemistry lab that studies how matter of nanometer size behaves toward light. Spectroscopy, which measures the absorption, reflection, and scattering of light, can be applied widely, but because of the diffraction of light, the finest detail it can resolve is limited to about the wavelength of light. Using a microscope based on a new principle called near-field optics, the lab observes samples at nanoscale resolution that exceeds this diffraction limit. The lab visualizes the plasmons that appear in noble metal nanoparticles such as gold, aiming to connect this work to the use of light energy and to sensor applications.
Junji Seino, Associate Professor
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The Seino Lab researches cheminformatics, analyzing big data in chemistry with artificial intelligence (AI) techniques. The compounds that arise from combinations of elements are almost infinite in number, and the compounds registered in databases exceed 100 million. Chemistry has so far relied heavily on the experience and intuition of experimenters, and it was not always possible to arrive at a compound with a targeted property. By linking experimental chemistry, computational chemistry, and informatics, the lab aims to build a framework for materials development that does not depend on chance discoveries.
Aditya Wibawa Sakti, Associate Professor
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The Sakti Lab uses theoretical and computational methods to clarify, from the underlying mechanisms, how chemistry works in the world. The lab simulates molecules and materials by combining a program it has developed, called CMMDE, with various computational methods. Its current focuses are ion batteries, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts, drug discovery, cosmetics, and condensed-phase materials. The lab is interested in how to design batteries, catalysts, drugs, and more that lead to a more sustainable and safer world.
Tadashi Yamaguchi, Professor
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The Yamaguchi Lab synthesizes metal complexes made of metal ions and ligands and investigates their functions. Coordination chemistry deals with a wide variety of metallic and nonmetallic elements, so it is called the "chemistry of all elements," and because it spans everything from fundamental science to applications, it is also called the "crossroads of chemistry." The properties of a metal complex can be tuned by changing the central metal ion or the ligands, and when many complexes are assembled together, functions appear that a single unit cannot produce. For example, in the case of luminescent materials, understanding the mechanism of light emission shows how to achieve even higher performance.
Kana Yamamoto, Associate Professor
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The Yamamoto Lab develops synthetic methods with a small environmental burden and uses them to synthesize bioactive compounds. The lab tackles a range of challenges in precision organic synthesis, such as building methodologies that make synthesis more efficient and developing synthetic routes. Its goals are synthetic methods that change how syntheses are designed, and environmentally friendly catalysts that, like enzymes, have high selectivity and reactivity. The lab also synthesizes bioactive compounds using the catalysts it has developed, and synthesizes analogs with a view to applications in drug discovery.
Takanori Shibata, Professor
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The Shibata Lab develops new chemical reactions using organometallic complexes, which are made of a metal and organic compounds. With the help of metals, especially transition metals, it is possible to create reagents and catalysts with reactivity and selectivity that cannot be reached without a metal. By swapping the ligands attached to the metal, the reactivity of these reagents and catalysts can also be finely controlled. The lab aims to develop new carbon–carbon bond-forming reactions that serve as a foundation of organic synthesis, especially asymmetric reactions that generate new chirality.
Takaki Koide, Professor
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The Koide Lab studies collagen, a protein in the body, using chemical methods. Focusing on the triple helix that is characteristic of collagen, the lab investigates at the molecular and cellular levels how it is made, how it takes shape, and how it functions. The lab also aims to offer new chemistry-based methods and tools for targets that are hard to study with biological methods alone. Its distinguishing feature is research driven by free and flexible thinking that removes the barriers between chemistry and biology, and between basic and applied research.
Yoichi Nakao, Professor
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The Nakao Lab studies biological phenomena using natural compounds produced by marine organisms. Marine invertebrates such as sponges, sea squirts, and bryozoans have yielded many compounds with strong biological activity and unique, diverse structures. The lab searches for compounds that induce ES cells and iPS cells to differentiate into cardiac muscle and blood vessels. It also finds compounds that suppress drug-resistant pathogenic bacteria and pathogenic protozoa, with the aim of leading to drug development.
Takayuki Homma, Professor
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The Homma-Fukunaga Lab uses electrochemistry, surface chemistry, and computational chemistry to investigate reactions that occur at interfaces where solids and liquids meet. It works on nanoscale microfabrication processes, techniques for observing and controlling interfacial reactions, and computational techniques for understanding reaction mechanisms. From this work, it aims to create new functional materials and devices and to establish design guidelines starting from the atomic and molecular level. It is also developing materials and processes related to energy, such as fuel cells, electroreduction, and the safe use of hydrogen.
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