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LE Khoa V., Associate Professor
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The LE Lab studies materials centered on liquid crystals and polymer gels, from the perspective of the chemistry of functional properties. Its listed research fields are liquid crystals, polymers, electro-optic materials, and nonlinear optics. Its research topics include the underwater adhesion of liquid crystal gels and the capture of microplastics using that adhesion.
Yumiko Naka, Associate Professor
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The Naka Lab studies functional materials based on polymer chemistry, liquid crystals, and photochemistry. The lab carries out the whole process, from molecular design and synthesis of small molecules and polymers to evaluation of their physical properties. Recently, the lab has been aiming to create photoresponsive materials, liquid-crystalline materials, and water- and oil-repellent materials, while also exploring materials that could lead to next-generation materials. Students considering which lab to be assigned to are encouraged to visit the lab.
Daisuke Nakane, Lecturer
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The Nakane Lab's research topic is small-molecule activation using metal complexes. Its field is inorganic chemistry, with coordination chemistry and bioinorganic chemistry as research keywords. Since 2021, the lab has also been working on the self-assembly of metal complexes through hydrogen bonding.
Unregistered Unregistered, Professor
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The Unregistered Lab studies organic compounds that respond to light. The lab makes liquid crystals, polymers, hydrogen-bonded supramolecules, amphiphilic compounds, and more, and measures the properties of the resulting compounds. By investigating the relationship between these properties and the molecular structure and the way molecules assemble, the lab works to discover new phenomena. Assigned students gain experience in everything from organic synthesis and compound identification to optical measurements using lasers.
Akiharu Satake, Professor
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The Satake Lab uses organic synthetic chemistry to design and synthesize molecules whose structures enable self-assembly, and creates supramolecular materials from them. The lab precisely controls self-assembly, the phenomenon in which molecules spontaneously form ordered structures, through molecular shape and weak interactions such as metal coordination, van der Waals forces, and the hydrophobic effect. The lab aims to develop photo- and electro-functional materials for artificial photosynthesis and CO₂ reduction reactions, as well as new functional materials that arise from the aggregated structures of molecules. The lab also supports Type A graduation research for working-adult students, carried out at night and on weekends.
Unregistered Unregistered, Lecturer
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The Unregistered Lab researches how to create new functions using "porous metal complexes," which assemble themselves from metal ions and organic molecules. Focusing on the size of complexes, nano-interfaces, and the arrangement of atoms and molecules, the lab builds hierarchical structures by assembling them like building blocks. Mainly using porous coordination polymers (MOFs), the lab finds that making them into thin films and shrinking them to the nanometer scale can bring out properties not seen at the conventional large scale (bulk). By using the regular pores of MOFs as templates to control the arrangement of atoms and molecules, the lab expects electronic structures and novel properties that differ from those of the bulk.
Tsutomu Kimura, Associate Professor
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The Kimura Lab is an organic chemistry lab that works on developing reactions that make use of the unique reactivity of magnesium carbenoids. Organic compounds are used in daily life as pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, fragrances, dyes, and chemical products, and organic reactions are essential for making them. The lab aims to develop reactions that can synthesize organic compounds efficiently and with high selectivity. The lab investigates the mechanisms of reactions using computational chemistry.
Takashiro Akitsu, Professor
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The Akitsu Lab studies the synthesis of metal complexes, organic-inorganic hybrid materials, metalloproteins, and related compounds, as well as their structure-property relationships. The lab designs and synthesizes metal complexes built from metal ions and organic ligands, and investigates them using X-ray crystallography, measurements of physical properties, theoretical calculations, and other methods. The lab also applies this work to solid-state physical properties, organic-inorganic hybrid nanomaterials, and bioinorganic chemistry.
Kenichi Aoki, Professor
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The Aoki Lab studies functional polymer materials, with organic and polymer materials, molecular assembly, and light as its keywords. Recently, the lab has focused on the large-scale synthesis and functionalization of dendrimers, which are spherical polymers, and on creating functional materials through the self-assembly of organic compounds. The professor teaches required lecture courses in physical chemistry, as well as elective courses and graduate courses on polymer materials. On the lab's website, the lab is introduced under the name "Aoki Lab."
Yoshiyuki Takahashi, Lecturer
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The Takahashi Lab studies the electrical properties of polymers. Its research history lists the ferroelectricity of polymers as research carried out since 1985. Its research topics include the ferroelectricity of ultrathin films of VDF copolymers and the polarization reversal mechanism of VDF/TrFE copolymers.
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