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Toshiyuki Yokoi, Professor
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The Yokoi Lab studies materials with nanoscale spaces, such as zeolites and mesoporous materials. Its goal is to freely control the structure of these spaces and give them function, creating "nanospace catalysts." The lab develops catalysts, and the processes that use them, that can convert the diverse carbon resources on Earth into useful chemicals. This contributes to using resources without waste and making chemical production processes greener.
Akira Ohtomo, Professor
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Ohtomo Lab conducts research in crystal engineering, thin-film electronic materials, and solid-state physics, based on solid-state chemistry. The lab synthesizes new thin-film materials centered on metal oxides, investigates how crystals grow, and searches for new functions. The lab aims at innovative devices useful for the next-generation information society and for technologies that generate or save energy. To that end, the lab's goal is to build a new science of "device chemistry."
Takanori Fukushima, Professor
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The Fukushima-Shoji Lab is pioneering an interdisciplinary field that bridges organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, coordination chemistry, and inorganic chemistry. The lab studies how to make molecules with a variety of properties and arrange them exactly as intended. The main players are π-electron molecules that absorb light, emit light, conduct electricity, or act as magnets. When molecules line up in order, small changes in each one are thought to spread to the whole assembly, giving rise to large-scale functions.
Ken Tanaka, Professor
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The Tanaka Lab conducts research in synthetic organic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, structural organic chemistry, organic photochemistry, and physical and theoretical organic chemistry. Its focus is the development of new reactions driven by external stimuli such as transition metal catalysts and light. The lab starts by rationally selecting and designing the ligands and reagents that make the reactions possible. Using theoretical calculations as well as experiments, the lab creates molecules that could not be made before.
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.
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