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Ryo Yoshida, Professor
Materials & Nanotech3 student voices
The Yoshida Lab studies materials that use polymer gels to artificially recreate the functions of living things. The lab believes that cells and gels have very similar physicochemical properties, and that gels can be used to create materials with cell-like functions such as motion and mass transport. Centered on "self-oscillating gels" that beat on their own like a heart, the lab approaches the question "What is life?" from the perspective of materials science.
Kobayashi Hajime, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences3 student voices
The Kobayashi Lab researches technologies for the environment, energy, and decarbonization. The lab works on technology that uses microbes and electricity to produce useful substances, such as fuels, from CO2. Through Social Cooperation Programs with companies, the lab also researches oil and natural gas development, technology for storing CO2 underground, and countermeasures for subsurface environmental contamination.
Kei Okada, Professor
Robotics & Control3 student voices
The Information Systems Engineering Lab (JSK) researches the functions and systems essential for intelligent robots that work in human society and living environments. From the perspectives of artificial intelligence, cognitive neuroscience, and biological systems, the lab works on humanoids (human-shaped robots) and other robots. The lab's research covers many differently shaped robots, such as musculoskeletal humanoids that imitate the human body and robots that fly while changing shape. The lab brings together people who learn alongside senior students and want to take on new challenges that have never been attempted before.
Yusuke Hirabayashi, Associate Professor
Bio & Life Sciences3 student voices
The Neuronal Cell Biology Lab studies why animals are able to have sophisticated mechanisms for homeostasis and learning. Molecular reactions occur constantly in the body, but much is still unknown about where, when, and how they take place. The lab's central themes are the formation and functional regulation of neural circuits, and interorganelle interactions in mammalian cells. The lab uses genetic manipulation and analysis of cells and tissues with fluorescence and electron microscopy.
Seiichi Ohta, Associate Professor
Medicine & Healthcare2 student voices
The Ohta Lab studies new diagnostic technologies that use nanoparticles. Depending on their size and shape, nanoparticles behave differently from ordinary-sized materials. By combining techniques for precisely controlling particle size, shape, and surface with the systems-oriented approach of chemical engineering, the lab aims to bring out that potential. The lab is developing methods to detect, with high sensitivity, simultaneously, and easily, the changes that occur in the body with disease.
Toru Wakihara, Professor
Materials & Nanotech2 student voices
The Wakihara Lab studies materials with tiny, nanometer-sized pores, with a focus on zeolites. Zeolites are used in catalysts for petroleum-related processes and in catalysts that treat automobile exhaust, and their use is also expected to expand to adsorbents and separation membranes. The lab is distinctive in combining methods for building materials from the atomic and molecular level with the development of manufacturing processes designed from a larger-scale perspective. As a new lab, it welcomes visits from interested students.
Yamada Atsuo, Professor
Materials & Nanotech2 student voices
The Yamada-Kitada Lab studies materials for secondary batteries, which store and release electricity. The lab's research targets solid electrode materials and liquid electrolyte materials. The lab handles the whole process in one continuous flow, from synthesizing new materials to elucidating reaction mechanisms and verifying how they perform as batteries. Experimental and computational researchers work on equal footing in the lab, exchanging insights daily as they advance their research.
Toshio Mogi, Professor
Fluids & Heat2 student voices
The Mogi Lab studies disasters caused by combustion, such as fires and explosions. Drawing on combustion science and chemical fluid dynamics, the lab takes on a wide range of work, from clarifying how these phenomena occur to developing disaster prevention technologies and ways of thinking about safety. Few universities study fires and explosions through experiments, and this lab also conducts outdoor gas explosion experiments, among other work. The lab accepts individual visits from students who are considering joining for their undergraduate thesis research or graduate studies.
Kazuhiro Takanabe, Professor
Chemistry & Catalysis2 student voices
The Takanabe-Obata-Kishimoto Lab studies catalysts that convert energy efficiently, as well as the mechanisms of their reactions. Its targets are reactions essential to a decarbonized society, such as hydrogen production, CO2 conversion, and ammonia synthesis. The lab works across catalytic reactions driven by heat, electricity, light, and microwaves, searching for the principles common to energy conversion. It treats everything as one connected whole, from understanding at the atomic level to the design of reactors and electrochemical cells (vessels in which reactions are driven by electricity).
Yasuyuki Sakai, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences2 student voices
The Sakai-Nishikawa Lab studies how to reassemble cells from organs and tissues into three-dimensional structures outside the body. The lab aims to use the tissues it creates for regenerative medicine and for evaluating the effects of drugs and chemicals without using animals. Inside the body, blood vessels carry oxygen and nutrients, but it is a difficult challenge to supply substances throughout densely packed cells outside the body. The lab tackles this challenge with chemical system engineering methods that quantitatively treat mass flow, diffusion, and reaction.
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