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Majima Yutaka, Professor
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The Majima-Izawa Lab studies how to shape nanomaterials down to the smallest possible scale and bring out their functions. The lab fabricates materials by combining state-of-the-art electron beam lithography with its own original electroless gold plating technique. It develops nanopore sequencers that read DNA, single-molecule transistors, nanoscale gas sensors, and memory. The lab is also advancing research on upconversion, which changes the wavelength of light, as well as organic EL (OLEDs) and organic solar cells.
Hideki Hosoda, Professor
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The Hosoda-Tahara Lab studies new materials that are kind to people and the environment and useful to society by controlling atomic arrangements. Its main focus is shape memory and superelastic materials, which return to their original shape after large deformation simply by being heated or having the force removed. The lab has been a pioneer worldwide in researching titanium-based medical alloys that are safe for the body and gold-based alloys that are easily visible in X-ray images. Its work ranges from basic studies of the properties of new materials to applications in medicine and energy.
Michikazu Hara, Professor
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The Hara-Ishikawa Lab specializes in materials, surfaces, chemistry, and catalysis, and conducts research targeting energy, the environment, and carbon dioxide reduction. To obtain energy and chemical resources for modern society, it is essential to reduce energy consumption, carbon dioxide emissions, and costs. To cut these as far as possible, the lab uses new scientific principles and technologies to create catalysts based on new concepts from inorganic and metallic materials. The lab has reported an iron catalyst that synthesizes ammonia at low temperatures and a catalyst that produces useful chemicals from biomass, among others.
Shinji Muraishi, Professor
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The Kumai-Muraishi Lab conducts research with the goal of creating strong and gentle materials for social infrastructure. Centered on aluminum alloys, a representative social infrastructure material, the lab explores the relationships among manufacturing process, microstructure, and mechanical properties. The lab aims to solve problems facing practical materials and to find seeds for new basic research among them. Regardless of material type, the lab takes on new themes and is also advancing collaboration with other fields.
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.
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