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Tsuyoshi Yanagida, Professor
Materials & Nanotech2 student voices
The Yanagida Lab creates nanoscale structures from atoms and molecules and studies the new properties that emerge in them. Using "self-assembly," the mechanism by which atoms and molecules spontaneously organize themselves, the lab arranges atoms at targeted positions. The lab focuses in particular on nanowires: thin, wire-shaped crystals made of metal oxides. The lab pursues both the establishment of fundamental principles of nanomaterials chemistry and the development of new devices, driving science and applications together.
Ken-ichi Uchida, Professor
Quantum & Condensed Matter1 student voices
The Uchida-Nakanishi Lab studies "spin caloritronics," a field that combines spintronics with the study of heat. Using magnetic materials and nanomaterials, the lab explores new principles and functions for converting heat and controlling the flow of heat. The lab conducts research together with the Spin Energy Group at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), and students can use NIMS research facilities. The lab aims to connect its results to thermal management technologies and contribute to a sustainable society.
Yousoo Kim, Project Professor
Quantum & Condensed Matter1 student voices
The Kim Lab studies how molecules attached to solid surfaces react and how they exchange light and energy. Using a scanning tunneling microscope that can resolve individual atoms, the lab observes molecules one at a time. With single-molecule spectroscopy methods it has developed in-house, it measures the changes in state that accompany reactions and the absorption and emission of light. This understanding is important for developing solid catalysts that drive reactions efficiently and molecular devices that emit light or convert light into electricity. The lab conducts research together with the Surface and Interface Science Laboratory at RIKEN.
Kazuya Yamaguchi, Professor
Chemistry & Catalysis1 student voices
The Yamaguchi Lab conducts research on precisely designing and developing catalysts, which make chemical reactions proceed efficiently, at the molecular level. Solving problems of the environment, resources, and energy requires catalysts that raise the efficiency of manufacturing and energy conversion. The lab clarifies how the catalysts it creates work, and opens up new chemical reactions for environmentally friendly manufacturing. The lab also works on developing materials for next-generation rechargeable batteries.
Yoshiaki Nishibayashi, Professor
Chemistry & Catalysis1 student voices
The Nishibayashi Lab uses catalyst technology to research how to create new energy resources. In particular, it develops catalysts for "nitrogen fixation," which produces ammonia from atmospheric nitrogen. Ammonia is expected to be a new energy resource that emits only water and nitrogen when used. This is an experimental chemistry lab where students "make molecules" by hand, and it provides instruction in experiments from scratch.
Takashi Uemura, Professor
Materials & Nanotech1 student voices
The Uemura Lab designs materials with nanosized spaces built from molecules, and studies the chemistry that makes use of those spaces. Its flagship materials are metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), which are formed by combining metal ions and organic molecules and contain many small, regularly arranged pores. Inside these tiny pores, the lab is pioneering new methods to synthesize, align, and distinguish polymers. The lab aims to build a new kind of chemistry in which the information held by a space is read out in fine detail and transferred to matter.
Takamasa Tsukamoto, Lecturer
Materials & Nanotech0 student voices
The Tsukamoto Lab studies the synthesis and properties of extremely small chemical substances known as "quantum-sized materials." Quantum-sized materials are about the size of a cluster of a few to a few dozen atoms, and they have the potential to become the materials of the future. On the other hand, a major challenge is that it is difficult to synthesize and design them as intended. From both experimental and theoretical sides, the lab independently develops new synthesis techniques and design theories.
Kosuke Suzuki, Professor
Chemistry & Catalysis0 student voices
The Suzuki-Yamashita Lab studies the design and functions of "molecular inorganic materials," such as polyoxometalates and metal clusters. The properties of the materials around us are determined by how atoms and molecules are arranged and by the interactions between them. By controlling the combinations and arrangements of elements at the atomic level, the lab is pioneering "molecular ionics," which controls the movement and reactions of electrons, ions, and molecules at the molecular scale. Spanning many fields, including inorganic chemistry, catalytic chemistry, and electrochemistry, the lab aims to develop materials science that contributes to solving resource and energy problems.
Yusuke Sunada, Professor
Chemistry & Catalysis0 student voices
The Sunada Lab studies the synthesis of metal clusters, which are assemblies of metal atoms, and of metal complexes. Nano-sized metal compounds show special properties that depend on their size, and are attracting attention as next-generation functional compounds. Using a template synthesis method that the lab developed itself, the lab builds clusters with a precisely controlled number, arrangement, and size of metal atoms, and explores their functions, including catalysis. The lab also aims to develop processes that use metals such as iron as catalysts, without relying on precious metals, to help solve problems of resources, the environment, and energy.
Makoto Fujita, Professor
Chemistry & Catalysis0 student voices
The Fujita Lab studies “self-assembly,” in which molecules come together on their own to form structures. In living organisms, complex molecular assemblies form spontaneously through weak bonding forces, as in the DNA double helix. Learning from this mechanism, the lab uses bonds between metals and organic molecules (coordination bonds) to assemble large molecules such as cages and tubes. In the spaces inside the resulting molecules, the lab stabilizes molecules that are normally unstable and carries out special reactions.
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