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Kojiro Uetani, Associate Professor
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The Uetani Lab carries out basic and applied research that opens up new characteristics of cellulose. To help overcome social challenges such as environmental problems and the severe situation surrounding petrochemical resources, the lab aims to conduct engineering research that "creates value" with future user experience in mind. Motivated by the question of what new value cellulose can offer, and by the goal of enhancing its brand value from a scientific perspective, the lab takes on new challenges every day.
Tatsushi Imahori, Associate Professor
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The Imahori Lab develops molecular machines (molecular catalysts) that control chemical reactions by changing the reaction environment in response to external stimuli. Stimuli such as light, heat, concentration, and ions dynamically change the reaction space and switch the catalyst's function. The lab aims to realize environmentally friendly chemical transformations that reduce waste and make effective use of resources. It is also extending this work to organic synthesis in a variety of fields, such as pharmaceuticals and materials.
Yoshiro Imura, Associate Professor
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The Imura Lab studies how to create materials with new functions, mainly in optical and catalytic properties, by controlling the shape of nanomaterials. When gold is made into nano-sized particles, it appears red, blue, or green owing to the behavior of its electrons. Spherical nanoparticles appear red, while those shaped like konpeito (a spiky Japanese sugar candy) appear blue. Gold nanoparticles show high catalytic activity as catalysts for oxidation reactions, and this activity improves greatly when they are made in the konpeito shape.
Mineo Hashizume, Professor
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The Hashizume Lab studies the development of hybrid materials that combine organic and inorganic substances, as well as functional molecules. Bone, for example, is also a hybrid in which collagen (organic) and apatite (inorganic) are composited at the nanoscale. The lab seeks to understand the principles of biomineralization, the process by which living organisms form inorganic crystals, and uses them as an environmentally friendly way to fabricate hybrid materials. The lab also incorporates wet processes such as the sol-gel method, and takes on the challenge of hybridizing combinations of materials that were previously impossible.
Shinsuke Kunimura, Associate Professor
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The Kunimura Lab studies X-ray analysis methods that use X-rays to investigate the elemental composition, crystal structure, and electronic state of materials. Its main theme is the development of highly sensitive analytical methods using weak X-rays. The goal is to lead to low-power, handheld analytical instruments that make it possible to perform on site analyses that would otherwise require large analytical equipment. The lab also applies analytical methods using weak X-rays to environmental samples, food, and industrial materials.
Atsushi Shiyono, Professor
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The Shiyono Lab studies, from the standpoint of chemical engineering, the principles and technologies for making “things” at factory scale. Half of the research involves chemical reactions, and the other half deals with methods of preparing emulsions and how two fluids flow in microchannels. There are two main research themes: developing processes that combine mass transfer and reaction operations, and fluid engineering studies of the equipment used in those operations.
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Professor
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The Sugimoto Lab takes chemical reactions inside living organisms as a model and studies how to make organic molecules that perform special functions. The molecules it makes include raw materials that form the basis of products useful in everyday life, and catalysts for the chemical reactions used to produce them. Researchers carry out their work through repeated trial and error: they design the molecules themselves, make them with their own hands, and improve them over and over. Research themes include reproducing the action of enzymes with artificial molecules, synthesizing polymers with controlled structures, and synthesizing polymers using carbon dioxide.
Morio Nagata, Professor
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The Nagata Lab studies, from a chemical perspective, technologies for using photochemical energy that are inspired by photosynthesis. It works on solar cells that use sunlight, and on hydrogen generation through artificial photosynthesis. Besides sunlight, it also studies ways to use other renewable energy sources, such as biomass and geothermal energy, through chemistry. The goal is to lead to new energy conversion technologies.
Yumi Tanaka, Associate Professor
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The Tanaka Lab develops power generation and energy storage devices, such as fuel cells, secondary batteries, capacitors, and vibration energy harvesters, based on inorganic materials. As concern about energy problems spreads, the adoption of clean, highly efficient power generation systems and highly reliable energy storage systems is desired. By making use of the strengths of inorganic materials, which offer a wide variety of elements and processing methods, the lab aims to bring next-generation devices into the world. The lab values both a logical approach to pursuing the truth and an approach of creating things with bold ideas.
Yukishige Kondo, Professor
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The Kondo Lab studies the "shape" of the assemblies formed when surfactants, the main ingredient of detergents, come together. The lab aims to clarify which factors determine these shapes and to control them with external stimuli such as light. The lab puts great effort into analyzing the structure of foams made by surfactants, and also works on developing functional foams. Another part of the research is synthesizing new types of surfactants by organic synthesis and investigating the properties of their solutions.
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