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Hidetoshi Matsumoto, Professor
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The Matsumoto Lab studies energy and environmental materials that take advantage of the characteristics of nanomaterials and organic materials. One-dimensional nanomaterials such as nanofibers and nanotubes form interconnected networks. These networks act as pathways for electrons, ions, and water molecules, and are expected to be applied to batteries, fuel cells, and separation membranes. The lab makes materials using diverse methods, from molecular synthesis to self-assembly, microfabrication, and compositing, and clarifies how their functions arise.
Martin Vacha, Professor
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Vacha Lab studies the nanoscale world of organic and polymeric materials through single-molecule observation and spectroscopy. By observing the light emitted by individual molecules, the lab can see heterogeneity within a material and learn about its structure, dynamics, and photochemistry. Single-molecule spectroscopy is also the foundation of the super-resolution microscopy techniques recognized with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. With applications in optoelectronic devices and energy conversion devices in mind, the lab investigates the fundamental properties of materials.
Keigo Kamata, Professor
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Kamata Lab creates new nanocatalyst materials and develops environmentally friendly catalytic processes. Using its own inorganic synthesis methods, the lab takes on the science of solid catalysts centered on crystalline metal oxides. The goal is to shift chemical processes that have relied on petroleum toward producing chemicals from diverse carbon resources such as natural gas and biomass. Through catalytic technologies that operate with low energy and greatly reduce CO2 emissions, the lab aims to contribute to a sustainable society.
Sachiko Matsushita, Associate Professor
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Matsushita Lab studies the semiconductor-sensitized thermal cell (STC), which converts heat into electricity. Japan discards two-thirds of its imported primary energy as waste heat. The lab aims for a power generation mechanism that works even under roofs and inside walls, produces no radioactive waste, and is unaffected by the weather. To help solve energy problems and create jobs, the lab approaches the work from both academic and industrial angles.
Hiroko Yokota, Professor
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The Yokota Lab investigates new properties that appear at “boundaries” within materials, with the aim of creating advanced information materials. In the IoT society, there is demand for memory that can store ever-growing amounts of information and for capacitors that operate stably even at high temperatures and high frequencies. Built on two pillars, “making things” and “seeing things,” the lab fabricates thin films and conducts observation with ultrashort-pulse lasers. Using “high electric fields” and “antiferroelectrics” as clues, the lab works on synthesizing new materials and evaluating their dielectric and dielectric breakdown properties.
Shintaro Yasui, Associate Professor
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The Yasui Lab studies ceramic materials that control electricity and new solid-state secondary batteries. Ferroelectrics and piezoelectrics are materials widely used in electronic devices such as memory, capacitors, and sensors. The lab makes high-quality thin films to search for materials never seen before, and is also working to replace lead-containing materials with lead-free ones. For batteries, the lab develops new solid oxide-based electrolytes that can be handled in air, aiming for safe all-solid-state batteries.
Tomonari Inamura, Professor
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The Inamura Lab studies metallic materials such as shape memory alloys, magnesium alloys, and steels. The lab reexamines the microstructures visible under a microscope, and how they deform, from the perspective of the geometry of shape. Moving between theory and experiment, the lab explores the principles by which microstructures form and their mechanical mechanisms. Based on these findings, the lab aims to build guidelines for materials design leading to actuators, medical technologies, lightweight structural materials, and high-strength steels.
Yoshimitsu Sagara, Associate Professor
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The Sagara Lab studies organic materials whose luminescence changes when force is applied. The lab makes materials whose fluorescence color and intensity change in response to mechanical stimuli such as rubbing, stretching, and grinding. The lab covers the whole process, from multistep organic synthesis and polymer synthesis to evaluating the functions of the resulting materials and applying them in living systems. The lab also focuses on developing 'supramolecular mechanophores,' which make small forces visible at the single-molecule level.
Toshio Kamiya, Professor
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The Kamiya Lab studies new functional electronic materials and the devices made from them. A single lab handles everything from materials exploration by computational science to synthesis in experiments and demonstration of thin-film devices. IGZO, which came out of this approach, has improved the performance of displays around the world. By running theory and experiment together, the lab aims to create optical, electronic, and energy materials for the next era.
Hideki Abe, Program-Specific Professor
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The Abe Lab studies the design of polymer materials aimed at reducing environmental impact. The lab aims to create new, high-value-added plastic materials that are possible precisely because they are derived from biomass. The lab works on techniques for making full use of biopolyesters as materials, and on techniques for synthesizing new biomass-derived polymers. Prof. Abe, a Specially Appointed Professor, serves as Team Director of the Bioplastics Research Team at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science.
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