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Mafumi Hishida, Associate Professor
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The Hishida Lab studies, from a physical chemistry perspective, the mechanisms by which surfactants, lipids, polymers, and proteins form various aggregate structures in water. These self-assembled structures are closely tied to the physical properties and functions of materials, and the lab pays particular attention to how water is involved. A distinctive feature is the use of a wide range of methods, including structural analysis with X-rays and neutrons, calorimetry, various types of spectroscopy, microscopy, and surface tension measurement. On its website, the lab is described as one that spans fields such as physical chemistry, colloid science, solution chemistry, soft matter physics, and biophysics.
Kohei Endo, Associate Professor
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The Endo Lab uses synthetic organic chemistry to make molecules and investigates their reactions, catalysis, and physical properties. As its research direction, the lab aims to create new standards of value. The lab works on polynuclear metal complex catalysts, properties that arise when molecules assemble, the design of molecular orbitals, and the development of reactions using light.
Seiichi Furumi, Professor
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The Furumi Lab studies sustainable new materials that can freely control color (light). Focusing on the interaction between light and matter, the research creates new photonic devices from soft matter such as colloids and liquid crystals. The lab also works on synthesizing cadmium-free semiconductor nanocrystals and creating self-healing materials from biomass such as cellulose. Research proceeds as a continuous flow from basic to applied studies.
Hidenori Otsuka, Professor
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The Otsuka Lab aims to elucidate the phenomena that occur at the interface between nanomaterials and living bodies, and to create substances that can manipulate biological functions. Based on colloid and interface chemistry, the lab studies biofunctional materials. It builds material interfaces with a "molecular interface" function that detects and amplifies biological signals, aiming at applications in high-sensitivity diagnostics and tissue engineering. It also synthesizes metal and semiconductor particles and molecular assemblies of uniform size and shape, aiming at applications in detecting and imaging intractable diseases and in cosmetic ingredients.
Yuichi Yamaguchi, Lecturer
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At the Kudo Lab, Lecturer Yuichi Yamaguchi works in the fields of photocatalysts, artificial photosynthesis, water splitting, and carbon dioxide reduction. The research topic is the development of photocatalysts for artificial photosynthesis. Lecturer Yamaguchi previously studied photocatalysts for environmental purification and has worked on photocatalysts for water splitting since 2019.
Tsuneomi Kawasaki, Professor
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The Kawasaki Lab studies asymmetric synthesis and chiral chemistry, building on organic synthetic chemistry. The lab focuses on the Strecker reaction, thought to be the mechanism by which amino acids formed on the primitive Earth, and investigates the origin of chirality (the difference between the left- and right-handed forms of a molecule). In their graduation research, students can acquire analytical skills such as nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and single-crystal X-ray structure analysis, in addition to organic synthesis techniques. Lab visits are accepted at any time.
Takanori Matsuda, Professor
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The Matsuda Lab studies the development of new reactions using catalysts and new methods for making organic compounds. Its research spans organometallic chemistry, catalysis, and organic synthesis, with particular interest in synthesizing molecules with physically, structurally, and biologically interesting properties. The lab develops methods that use transition metals as catalysts to handle unreactive bonds.
Isamu Shiina, Professor
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The Shiina Lab develops total synthesis methods that produce natural organic molecules and bioactive compounds, such as antibacterial and anticancer agents, with the desired three-dimensional structure. Bioactive compounds such as pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and fragrances have multiple asymmetric carbons, and in most cases only one stereoisomer is effective. The lab also develops new reagents for dehydration condensation reactions that form esters and amides, and MNBA is one of them. Prof. Shiina also serves as Director of the Drug Discovery Research and Development Center, Research Institute for Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science.
Junpei Yuasa, Professor
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The Yuasa Lab researches cutting-edge photofunctional materials. Drawing on physical chemistry, organic chemistry, coordination chemistry, and supramolecular chemistry, the lab develops a variety of photofunctional materials. Photofunctional materials are already widely used, for example in preventing banknote counterfeiting with security inks, and are expected to be applied to quantum computers and encrypted communication in the future. From the fourth year of the undergraduate program, each student is given their own research theme.
Tsukasa Katayama, Associate Professor
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The Katayama Lab makes oxide thin films using vacuum deposition techniques and studies how to uncover their functions. Oxide thin films have properties such as piezoelectricity, sensing functions, and transparent conductivity, and are used in smartphones, in-vehicle devices, medical devices, and more. Not bound by existing approaches to materials design, the lab creates materials from new perspectives, aiming to contribute to next-generation electronics. The lab was launched at Tokyo University of Science in April 2026. In addition to synthesizing and evaluating thin films, students also investigate and give presentations on electronic devices.
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