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Ohkoshi Shin-Ichi, Professor
Materials & Nanotech3 student voices
The Ohkoshi Lab researches the creation of new materials that respond to light and electromagnetic waves, as well as new materials that solve environmental and energy problems. Using chemical synthesis methods, the lab works on a wide range of materials, from metal complexes such as Prussian blue to metal oxides and alloys. From common elements such as iron and titanium, the lab has created epsilon iron oxide, which has a large coercivity, and lambda-type titanium oxide, which switches between a metal and a semiconductor under light. The lab has also proposed a new concept, heat-storage ceramics, which can store thermal energy for a long time.
Keisuke Goda, Professor
Chemistry & Catalysis2 student voices
The Goda Lab practices "serendipity engineering," which aims to generate lucky, chance discoveries in a planned way. It integrates biochemistry, photon science, nanotechnology, microfluidics, robotics, and information science. Using this integration, the lab creates new biotechnologies, aiming to discover unknown biological phenomena and to apply them in industry and medicine. Built on a foundation of physics and chemistry, the lab's research combines theory, experiments, and computation.
Nobuhiro Yanai, Professor
Chemistry & Catalysis1 student voices
The Yanai Lab uses the power of "molecules" and "light" to realize new materials and functions that bring innovation to energy, the environment, medicine, and quantum information science. Built on three pillars, photon upconversion (changing the wavelength of light), nuclear hyperpolarization (boosting the sensitivity of NMR and MRI), and molecular quantum sensing, the lab pursues research that integrates different fields. Students gain the skills to synthesize new molecules and to evaluate their optical and spin properties. Through domestic and international collaborations, they can also take part in ultrafast spectroscopy, computational science, and biology using cells. Students from other universities are welcome to join, and the lab accepts lab visits online as well as in person.
Teppei Yamada, Professor
Chemistry & Catalysis1 student voices
The Yamada Lab builds on both synthetic chemistry and physical chemistry, aiming to create research concepts and functions that are entirely its own. For example, it has brought ideas from physical chemistry, such as interactions between molecules and phase transitions, into thermocells, which extract electricity from heat. The lab also synthesizes ionic plastic crystals, coordination polymers that selectively take up ions, and flexible silicon-based molecules. The lab started in 2020 and is looking for graduate students who will enjoy the moment a new theme takes shape from scratch.
Takeaki Ozawa, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The Ozawa Lab develops analytical methods and measurement technologies for living organisms, and uses them to explore the mysteries of life in cells, fish, mice, and other systems. The lab improves proteins that absorb or emit light (fluorescent and luminescent proteins) and pursues its research under the motto "Opto-Bioanalysis," bioanalysis using light. Its research rests on three pillars: "observing" how molecules function in living systems, "searching" for molecules that could become drug candidates, and "manipulating" how molecules function with light. Students are welcome not only from chemistry but also from those who have studied physics or biology.
Taro Hitosugi, Professor
Materials & Nanotech1 student voices
The Hitosugi Lab aims to clarify the properties that emerge when atoms assemble into a solid, and to create new materials and functions. The lab fabricates thin films and interfaces with controlled atomic arrangements, and investigates their structures and electronic states using state-of-the-art measurements such as scanning tunneling microscopy, electron microscopy, and photoelectron spectroscopy. Its targets extend beyond metal oxides to materials containing organic molecules, and the lab also focuses on applications in the energy field, such as all-solid-state batteries. In a digital laboratory that combines data science and robotics, the lab also conducts research that automates the entire process from materials synthesis to evaluation.
Robert E. CAMPBELL, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The Campbell Lab uses fluorescent proteins as a starting point to build research tools for observing chemical changes inside living cells and tissues. Its raw materials are brightly colored fluorescent proteins found in marine organisms such as jellyfish and corals. Using directed evolution, a method that mimics the process of evolution in the lab, the lab creates sensors whose fluorescence changes in response to specific changes. The resulting tools are distributed to researchers in cell biology and neuroscience, and are used to address a wide range of questions, from how cells work to the causes of psychiatric disorders.
Hiroki Oguri, Professor
Chemistry & Catalysis1 student voices
The Oguri Lab studies the structures, biosynthetic mechanisms, and roles in nature of natural products made by living organisms, and designs and synthesizes new molecules with novel functions. Using synthetic organic chemistry, the lab proposes approaches that rationally modify and expand biosynthetic pathways. The lab systematically diversifies the molecular scaffolds themselves, assembling whole families of compounds that carry many functional groups. The lab works on creating candidate molecules effective against infectious diseases and cancer, and on supramolecular research that makes use of natural product scaffolds.
Shu Kobayashi, Project Professor / Professor Emeritus
Chemistry & Catalysis1 student voices
The Kobayashi Lab studies chemical transformation and material transformation methods that place a small burden on the environment. The lab has worked on reactions that use water as the solvent and on immobilized catalysts that can be recovered and reused repeatedly. It is also advancing the precise synthesis of pharmaceuticals and other compounds through flow synthesis, in which solutions are passed continuously through the reaction setup. Building on organic synthetic chemistry, the lab conducts education and research across the fields of science, engineering, pharmaceutical sciences, and agriculture.
Tatsuya Tsukuda, Professor
Chemistry & Catalysis1 student voices
The Tsukuda Lab studies the chemistry of metal clusters, which form when metals are divided into particles of 2 nm or smaller. Adding or removing even a single atom in a metal cluster can greatly change its stability and physical properties, and clusters show properties that could not be predicted from bulk metals. While clarifying how these properties arise, the lab creates new groups of nanomaterials, including catalysts. The lab's work ranges from the precise synthesis of clusters protected by organic ligands to tracking the reactions of clusters isolated in vacuum.
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