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Ken Nakajima, Professor
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The Nakajima-Liang Lab investigates the structure and properties of polymers at the nanoscale and connects them to the properties seen at visible scales. The lab has developed methods that use the probe of an atomic force microscope to touch the sample surface directly and measure stiffness and adhesion strength at each location. It makes visible where and how polymer nanomaterials such as rubber and plastics deform and break. The lab values not taking what is written in textbooks at face value, and also pursues joint research with overseas research institutions and companies.
Koichiro Takao, Associate Professor
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The Takao Lab studies the coordination chemistry and solution chemistry of actinide elements, including uranium, and related elements. It aims at the proper treatment, disposal, and recycling of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste, the so-called "nuclear waste." The lab designs ligands that bind to metal ions and builds mechanisms that precipitate or extract only the target elements. It values not only technologies for cleaning up afterward, but also basic research of high academic value that opens up future prospects.
Mina Okochi, Professor
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The Okochi Lab develops and applies biosensing methods that analyze biological functions as systems, from the perspectives of chemistry and engineering. Responses in living organisms proceed through interactions between biomolecules that build up over many steps. The lab uses arrays of peptides to examine interactions with antibodies and other molecules, and uncovers the mechanisms at the molecular level. It aims to extend these technologies to the fields of health, medicine, food, and the environment.
Tetsuro Murahashi, Professor
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The Murahashi-Yamamoto Lab focuses on the d-block transition metal elements of the periodic table and advances the chemistry of transition metal complexes that makes use of their properties. Transition metal complexes are studied and used in a wide range of fields, including not only inorganic chemistry but also organic chemistry, catalytic chemistry, and materials chemistry. The lab elucidates fundamental properties such as bonding, three-dimensional structure, reactivity, and physical properties. On that basis, it aims to develop new fundamental functional metal complexes that could have broad ripple effects.
Saiko Aoki, Associate Professor
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The Aoki Lab studies tribology, which deals with friction, wear, and lubrication at the interfaces of solids rubbing against each other. Focusing on the reactions between lubricant additives and solid surfaces and on their relationship with surface modification, the lab aims to develop technologies that control friction from the perspective of saving resources and energy. On surfaces where solids slide against each other, such as bearings and gears, friction and wear affect machine lifetime and energy loss. Combining tribology with Kansei engineering, the lab also investigates the relationship between finger sliding friction and human tactile perception.
Shinsuke Mori, Associate Professor
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The Mori Lab studies new chemical processes that use plasma processes. The lab works on carbon dioxide reforming, ammonia synthesis, and nanomaterial synthesis, as well as their application to separation processes and energy devices. The lab also advances materials synthesis that uses an internal combustion engine as a high-temperature, high-pressure reactor. The lab also conducts research on modeling these processes.
Takeo Yamaguchi, Professor
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The Yamaguchi-Kuroki Lab designs and develops new functional materials and devices such as membranes, catalysts, and batteries, centered on energy materials and devices. The lab aims to solve global challenges expected to become severe by 2050, such as healthcare and water scarcity. The lab takes an approach called system design of material functions, which connects molecules, devices, society, and the planet in a single line of thinking. Beyond experiments, the lab combines informatics, simulation, and modeling to carry out rational design.
Shigekazu Ito, Associate Professor
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The Ito Lab designs and synthesizes functional organic molecules by taking advantage of the properties of heteroatoms such as fluorine, nitrogen, boron, phosphorus, silicon, and sulfur. So far, the lab has discovered low-voltage-driven organic semiconductors, fluorescent emitters, sensing materials, and homogeneous metal-complex catalysts. Built on a foundation of synthetic organic chemistry, the lab also incorporates spectroscopy that uses muons, elementary particles produced in accelerators. This approach identifies radical species and reactions that are hard to detect with conventional chemical methods, leading to the creation of new functional organic radicals.
Hidetoshi Sekiguchi, Professor
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The Sekiguchi Lab studies chemical processes that use special environments such as electrical discharge and ultrasound. Plasma generated by electrical discharge contains highly reactive electrons, ions, and radicals. With it, the lab can decompose harmful substances that are hard to break down, such as chlorofluorocarbons, and synthesize high-performance materials such as ceramic films. The lab analyzes the reactions and phenomena that occur in these special environments, with the aim of developing them into processes that can be put to practical use.
Shinsuke Inagi, Professor
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The Inagi Lab studies the area where organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, and electrochemistry overlap. At its center is organic electrosynthesis, a method of organic synthesis that starts from the exchange of electrons between an electrode and a molecule. Building on this method, the lab creates molecules and polymers with useful functions.
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