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Masahiko Matsukata, Professor
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The Matsukata Lab starts from problems of energy, resources, and the environment, and studies catalytic chemistry, membrane separation engineering, and energy chemistry. At the center of its work is zeolite, a material packed with pores smaller than a nanometer. By designing the size and properties of these pores, the lab creates catalysts that drive only the desired reactions, and membranes that separate mixtures by molecular size. The lab also takes on challenges for a carbon-free society, such as the separation, capture, and effective utilization of carbon dioxide.
Toshiyuki Momma, Professor
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Based on the principles of electrochemistry, the Momma Lab develops materials for next-generation energy storage devices and designs batteries. It also aims to establish a technique for diagnosing battery degradation using AC impedance spectroscopy. Another pillar of the lab is the development of biosensing devices that can help assess health conditions. A distinctive feature of the lab is that it handles everything from material design to device structure, fabrication methods, and evaluation methods.
Masaru Noda, Professor
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The Noda Lab studies how nanomaterials form and searches for new methods to produce them at large scale. Even common elements such as carbon and silicon can deliver excellent performance when their structures are finely controlled at the nanoscale. However, to support society, small nanomaterials must be produced in large quantities. The lab also develops technologies for using renewable energy and countering global warming, and evaluates their effects.
Kenichi Oyaizu, Professor
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The Oyaizu Lab starts from molecular design to synthesize new polymers and investigates the relationship between their structures and their electrical and optical properties. Polymers densely packed with redox molecules that exchange electrons can separate, transport, and store charge. Using these polymers, the lab is pioneering organic electronics unique to polymers, such as organic batteries, capacitors, and solar cells. A distinctive feature is that it treats everything from clarifying the principles behind how functions arise to applying them in devices as one continuous challenge.
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.”
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