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Kota Suzuki, Associate Professor
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The Kanno-Suzuki-Matsui Lab studies materials for batteries and fuel cells at the interface of solid-state chemistry and electrochemistry. The lab synthesizes new inorganic solids, examines their structures and properties, and develops them into electrochemical devices. It focuses in particular on developing solid electrolytes, in which ions move quickly through the solid, and also works on all-solid-state batteries, in which every component of the battery is solid. In addition to a wide range of synthesis techniques, the lab uses machine learning and simulation to search for new materials.
Soyoung Park, Associate Professor
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The Park Lab studies how nucleic acid chemistry relates to the origin of life, molecular recognition, and the regulation of immunity. Combining organic chemistry, chemical biology, and immunology, the lab designs and synthesizes molecules with functions based on nucleic acids. Using these molecules, the lab aims to visualize and control the molecular workings behind the processes of life. The lab is also interested in nucleic acid catalysts that serve as models of primitive enzymes, and in nucleic acids with unusual structures such as Z-DNA.
Mikihiro Hayashi, Associate Professor
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The Hayashi Lab studies new properties and functions of polymer materials through molecular design based on covalent bond exchange. By making original polymers, measuring them, and analyzing them, the lab aims to open a path to their real-world use. This is a newly launched lab, and it is recruiting members who will build the lab together from now on.
Kimihisa Yamamoto, Professor
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The Yamamoto-Imaoka Lab studies precise inorganic synthetic chemistry that handles metal atoms one at a time. Using dendrimers, which are branched polymers, as templates, the lab assembles metal atoms with a specified number and composition. The sub-nanoparticles smaller than 1 nm made this way are highly reactive and show excellent properties as fuel cell electrocatalysts and photocatalysts. Using electron microscopes that can image atoms directly, the lab is opening up the sub-nano world, which had been the limit of materials science.
Kohei Yoshimatsu, Associate Professor
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Yoshimatsu Lab fabricates thin films of transition metal oxides and studies their electronic properties. Founded in August 2023, the lab makes full use of thin-film technology to create new electronic and energy devices. Titanium oxides, the lab's main material, exhibit every electronic phase from superconducting to insulating, and are rich in phase transitions in which properties switch with light or temperature. The lab also carries out measurements at synchrotron radiation facilities and density functional theory calculations on its own, handling the work from synthesis to characterization in one continuous process.
Masayoshi Tanaka, Associate Professor
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Tanaka Lab studies the life phenomena of microorganisms and animal cells at the molecular level and works to put them to practical use. The lab believes that if the reactions living organisms have refined over a long time can be understood and used as chemistry, technologies that support our daily lives can be created. Currently, the lab is especially focused on technology for finding proteins that deform cell membranes during processes such as cell division, and on analyzing their functions. The lab also aims to develop environmentally friendly ways to make functional nanoparticles, using peptides that mimic how bones and teeth form.
Michito Yoshizawa, Professor
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The Yoshizawa-Sawada Lab, based on supramolecular chemistry, aims to develop "handy nano-tools" that can be used in water. In living organisms, small spaces formed by proteins carry out highly selective molecular recognition and molecular transformation in water under mild conditions. The lab aims to build artificial nanospaces that rival these, opening new directions in synthetic chemistry, materials chemistry, and analytical chemistry. Recently, the lab has also begun studying "peptide spaces" that combine rigid synthetic parts with soft biological parts.
Masaaki Hirayama, Professor
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The Hirayama Lab studies solid-state ionics materials used in lithium-ion batteries, all-solid-state batteries, and more. Building on inorganic solid-state chemistry and electrochemistry, the lab advances the synthesis and functional exploration of solids in which ions move freely (ionic conductors). The lab develops new materials and analyzes phenomena from two sides: searching for new substances, and controlling space from the atomic scale to the micrometer scale. The lab aims to contribute to the realization of all-solid-state batteries, next-generation rechargeable batteries in which reactions proceed at solid-solid interfaces.
Ryuhei Nakamura, Professor
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The Nakamura Lab tackles the origin of life, one of the greatest mysteries in natural science. Drawing on a wide range of knowledge, including electrochemistry, catalytic chemistry, microbiology, and geochemistry, it pursues research with a long-term perspective. Its focus is the question of how geochemistry becomes biochemistry, and it explores the principles shared by the mineral world and the living world. At the Earth-Life Science Institute, where the lab is located, English is the common language, and the members are about half Japanese and half international.
Kazuko Nakazono, Associate Professor
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The Nakazono Lab studies functional molecules based on supramolecular chemistry and polymer materials with supramolecular structures. Supramolecules are molecules or assemblies of molecules that respond to their environment, with structures and properties that change depending on the balance of forces acting between the molecules. Combining them with various polymer materials is expected to give functions and physical properties that conventional polymers do not have. Through synthesis and construction, the lab aims to create not only new materials and processes but also new concepts and fields.
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