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Yoshitaka Aoki, Professor
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The Aoki Lab aims to synthesize energy carriers from water and air. To this end, the lab develops inorganic materials that generate interstitial hydrogen with fluctuating charge, along with electrochemical devices that use these materials. Through this work, the lab aims to contribute to decarbonization on a global scale.
Yumiko Nakajima, Professor
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Nakajima Lab designs catalysts based on metal complexes and develops new reactions. Catalysts are a fundamental technology for making things, and developing a new catalytic reaction can sometimes lead directly to the development of a new material. The lab works on catalysts based on inexpensive base metals such as iron and cobalt, and on catalysts for the precise synthesis of compounds containing silicon and phosphorus. Through collaboration with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and companies, the lab also works toward the practical application of the catalysts it develops.
Toshiro Takao, Associate Professor
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The Takao Lab studies organometallic chemistry, working with compounds in which a metal and carbon are directly bonded. The lab synthesizes "clusters," in which several metal atoms are assembled together, and investigates how their reactions work. In particular, polyhydride clusters bearing hydride ligands have been found to resist breakdown of their metal framework while maintaining high reactivity. A major challenge in this field is converting stable, hard-to-use substances such as nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and alkanes into useful substances.
Hideyuki Otsuka, Professor
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The Otsuka Lab studies the design of functional polymers and the development of new materials using polymer reactions based on new ideas and concepts. "Polymer reactions," in which a polymer is used as the starting material and its bonds are rearranged, form a field whose academic development has lagged behind research on synthetic methods. By building dynamic covalent bonds that break and re-form into the polymer backbone, the lab makes it possible to change the shape and properties of polymers after polymerization. This has produced self-healing materials that repair damage on their own, and materials whose color or fluorescence changes when force is applied.
Matsumoto Hideyuki, Professor
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The Matsumoto Lab is a process systems engineering lab that handles everything from molecular-level reactions to plant design. It places top priority on a deep understanding of the fundamental principles of chemical engineering, such as thermodynamics, molecular informatics, transport phenomena, and reaction engineering. It applies that foundation within a triple bottom line framework that contributes to three things: People, Planet, and Profit. The lab works on building sustainable green chemical processes, including nitrogen and carbon cycles, safe and reliable operation, and continuous-flow synthesis.
Kotaro Satoh, Professor
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The Satoh Lab studies polymer synthesis, focusing on the development of new, unprecedented polymerization systems. Polymerization is a reaction that links small molecules together to make a polymer. In particular, the lab develops "precision polymerization," which produces polymers with well-controlled structures, using new approaches in organic reaction chemistry. It aims to extend these methods to plant-derived monomers and create highly functional, environmentally friendly polymer materials.
Toshiyuki Yokoi, Professor
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The Yokoi Lab studies materials with nanoscale spaces, such as zeolites and mesoporous materials. Its goal is to freely control the structure of these spaces and give them function, creating "nanospace catalysts." The lab develops catalysts, and the processes that use them, that can convert the diverse carbon resources on Earth into useful chemicals. This contributes to using resources without waste and making chemical production processes greener.
Akira Ohtomo, Professor
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Ohtomo Lab conducts research in crystal engineering, thin-film electronic materials, and solid-state physics, based on solid-state chemistry. The lab synthesizes new thin-film materials centered on metal oxides, investigates how crystals grow, and searches for new functions. The lab aims at innovative devices useful for the next-generation information society and for technologies that generate or save energy. To that end, the lab's goal is to build a new science of "device chemistry."
Takanori Fukushima, Professor
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The Fukushima-Shoji Lab is pioneering an interdisciplinary field that bridges organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, coordination chemistry, and inorganic chemistry. The lab studies how to make molecules with a variety of properties and arrange them exactly as intended. The main players are π-electron molecules that absorb light, emit light, conduct electricity, or act as magnets. When molecules line up in order, small changes in each one are thought to spread to the whole assembly, giving rise to large-scale functions.
Ken Tanaka, Professor
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The Tanaka Lab conducts research in synthetic organic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, structural organic chemistry, organic photochemistry, and physical and theoretical organic chemistry. Its focus is the development of new reactions driven by external stimuli such as transition metal catalysts and light. The lab starts by rationally selecting and designing the ligands and reagents that make the reactions possible. Using theoretical calculations as well as experiments, the lab creates molecules that could not be made before.
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