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Hirohiko Hojo, Professor
Materials & Nanotech0 student voices
The Hojo Lab conducts research under the banner of "molecular assembly engineering," which deals with states in which large numbers of molecules are gathered together. Even the same molecule can show very different properties depending on how the molecules are arranged relative to one another. Water and ice are one example. The lab investigates the relationship between molecular arrangement and material properties, considers the arrangements in which molecular functions are fully exploited, and aims to connect this to the development of new materials. To arrange molecules as intended, the lab uses the ideas and strategies of supramolecular chemistry.
Yoshiho Ikeuchi, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences0 student voices
The Ikeuchi Lab recreates outside the body the processes by which tissues such as the brain form, and studies how the brain develops as well as related diseases. The lab investigates how neurons and the brain each build their own characteristic shapes. The lab aims to generate neural tissue (organoids) from human iPS cells, connect the pieces together, and make them function as neural circuits. The lab's members are diverse, and the lab has a strongly international character.
Kazuaki Kudo, Professor
Chemistry & Catalysis0 student voices
The Kudo Lab studies making things based on synthetic organic chemistry. Research proceeds by considering what to make, what to make it from, how to make it, and what to use the finished product for. The lab regards peptides, molecules made of linked amino acids, as organic molecules with functions such as catalysis, and develops them. Many of the peptides developed are robust enough to work even in water.
Kotaro Tsuboyama, Lecturer
Bio & Life Sciences0 student voices
The Tsuboyama Lab aims to design proteins artificially and rationally, and works to uncover the principles governing protein properties and functions. Proteins are molecules made of chains of amino acids, and because the number of possible sequence combinations is astronomically large, they exhibit a wide variety of functions. For this reason, it is difficult to rationally design new proteins without a thorough understanding of the features that underlie their properties and functions. To address this, the lab combines large-scale analysis methods with machine learning, including deep learning.
Takuro Sato, Associate Professor
Quantum & Condensed Matter0 student voices
Under the keyword "geometry in matter," Sato Lab studies new states formed by electrons and spins in solids, and the functions that arise from them. Building on the fundamentals of solid-state physics, and also drawing on perspectives from organic chemistry and device engineering, the lab aims to control geometric properties and discover intriguing physical phenomena. The professor and students work together on the question "What is truly new physics?" as they carry out their research.
Yukako Fujishiro, Associate Professor
Quantum & Condensed Matter0 student voices
The Fujishiro Lab uses extreme environments such as ultra-high pressure to create quantum materials that no one has ever seen, and studies their properties. If the interactions between electrons can be controlled to a large degree, a material may transform into an entirely different quantum phase. The lab pursues its research on the idea that phenomena leading to next-generation low-power technologies may be hidden in unstable states that natural materials rarely adopt.
Shun Okumura, Project Associate Professor
Quantum & Condensed Matter0 student voices
The Okumura Lab theoretically studies a wide range of physical phenomena in strongly correlated electron systems, where degrees of freedom such as charge, spin, and orbital are intertwined. The lab builds models of phenomena inside materials and uncovers their properties through analytical and numerical calculations. The lab also actively pursues collaborations with experimental groups, aiming to realize in experiments the phenomena it proposes in theory.
Motohiko Ezawa, Lecturer
Quantum & Condensed Matter0 student voices
The Ezawa Lab theoretically studies the properties of materials in which topology and quantum mechanics play a role. Its subjects include atomic-layer materials such as silicene, graphene, and skyrmions in magnetic materials. Following the principle of "from the fundamentals of physics to the proposal of devices," the lab has also proposed devices such as a topological quantum transistor that is switched by an electric field.
Yuto Moritake, Associate Professor
Materials & Nanotech0 student voices
The Moritake Lab studies nanophotonics, in which artificial structures as small as the wavelength of light are fabricated to control light freely. Using structures known as metasurfaces and photonic crystals, the lab explores new optical physics and new optical functions. Lab members carry out every step themselves, from physics and optics theory and numerical simulation to device fabrication by microfabrication and optical measurements. Each member has a separate research theme and can pursue it at their own discretion.
Maiko Kofu, Professor
Quantum & Condensed Matter0 student voices
The Kofu Lab directs neutrons at materials to study the motion of atoms, molecules, and spins inside them. Neutrons are well suited to observing light elements such as hydrogen, as well as spins, and provide information that X-rays cannot. Experiments are carried out mainly at the JRR-3 research reactor and the J-PARC accelerator facility in Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture, and sometimes at facilities overseas. Graduate students usually work at the Kashiwa Campus, where they carry out measurements such as X-ray diffraction and heat capacity, and analyze the data.
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