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Takashi Ishizone, Professor
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The Ishizone Lab studies the design and synthesis of new polymers, with polymer synthesis as its theme. Some polymers dissolve in water, some mix well with oil, some are hard, and some are soft. The lab considers the relationship between the properties polymers show and their molecular structures. What structure of polymer should be synthesized to bring out an interesting property or function? Members advance their research by constantly asking themselves this question. Because reactions that are sensitive to water and air are carried out in sealed glass vessels, the experiments require glassblowing skills.
Gen-Ichi Konishi, Associate Professor
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The Konishi Lab pursues the science of light and studies organic π-electron molecules and functional polymers with unique photofunctions. Launched as a lab for the synthesis of condensation polymers, it has broadened its research by adding experience in photochemistry and physiology to the structure and properties of polymers. From photochemistry, organic synthesis, and polymer synthesis to photofunctional materials, life science, and quantum chemistry and information science, the lab offers themes that match each student's interests and individuality. The lab values students' free thinking and inspiration, and also carries out many joint research projects with researchers in other fields.
Atsushi Shishido, Professor
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The Shishido-Kubo Lab focuses on the specific interaction between light and molecular alignment, and studies how to create highly functional, high-performance polymer materials. The lab develops new ways of aligning molecules with light, while also exploring soft mechanics, the mechanics of soft materials. Applications are wide-ranging, from photonic materials such as holograms, 3D video, and displays to medical and electronic materials. The lab conducts broad research on both fundamentals and applications, from molecular design and synthesis to property evaluation and device fabrication and evaluation.
Keita Yamada, Associate Professor
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The Yamada Lab studies how to read the origin and reaction history of organic molecules from small variations in their stable isotope composition. The ratios of stable isotopes of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and other elements that make up organic molecules change slightly when the molecules undergo physical changes or chemical reactions. The lab develops methods to precisely measure and analyze these variations, and applies them to organic molecules in the atmosphere and oceans, in foods and beverages, and in living organisms and cells. Supervision of undergraduate thesis students and graduate students is carried out jointly with the Toyoda Lab in the same Department of Chemical Science and Engineering.
Masatoshi Tokita, Professor
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The Tokita Lab controls the structure of soft matter such as polymers and liquid crystals, and studies their properties and functions. The lab aims to link microscopic phenomena and properties at the molecular level to the emergence of visible, macroscopic functions and properties. The molecules it works with are varied, ranging from liquid crystalline polymers and block copolymers to liquid crystal dimers and low-molecular-weight liquid crystals. The lab values the real thrill of designing and synthesizing the molecules one works with, then measuring their structures and properties to understand them.
Takeshi Serizawa, Professor
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The Serizawa Lab uncovers the hidden functions and properties of biologically derived polymers such as peptides, proteins, and polysaccharides, and studies how to apply them as engineering materials. Based on polymer chemistry, organic chemistry, and physical chemistry, the lab makes full use of the latest biotechnology. Drawing on novel and original ideas, the lab takes on the challenge of opening up new academic fields in polymer science. It aims to contribute to the fields of medicine, the environment, energy, and manufacturing.
Shiro Yoshikawa, Associate Professor
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The Yoshikawa Lab studies the modeling of transport phenomena that occur inside chemical equipment. Its targets are membrane separation, which separates substances using membranes, and mixing operations, which blend the contents of equipment together. The lab captures the flow inside equipment and builds equations that describe its behavior.
Yukitaka Kato, Professor
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The Kato Lab researches how to build a society that coexists with the global environment, from the perspective of energy. As global warming caused by carbon dioxide and the depletion of resources become more serious, the lab works on energy storage and conversion and on turning carbon dioxide into a resource. The lab advocates an Active Carbon Recycling Energy System, which captures carbon dioxide and uses it repeatedly. Members' undergraduate backgrounds vary, including chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, and physics, and each draws on their own experience to advance the research.
Yusuke Shimoyama, Professor
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The Shimoyama Lab studies chemical processes that use carbon dioxide in a supercritical state. It takes advantage of three properties of supercritical CO2: its ability to dissolve substances well, to spread well, and to penetrate into narrow gaps. The lab produces pharmaceutical crystals, lipid nanoparticles, and materials that capture carbon dioxide from the air. It designs processes by combining computational prediction of phase equilibria with control of flow inside narrow channels.
Manabu Ihara, Professor
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The Ihara-Manzhos Lab studies the chemistry and engineering of energy conversion. Targeting electrochemical devices such as fuel cells, water electrolysis cells, and carbon-air secondary batteries, the lab covers everything from developing new materials and elucidating the mechanisms of reactions at electrodes to fabricating and evaluating devices. It develops data science methods and integrates them into an intelligent energy system called Ene-Swallow. Since 2021, a faculty member specializing in quantum chemical calculations and machine learning has joined, and the lab advances its research through both computation and experiment.
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