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Takeo Yamaguchi, Professor
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The Yamaguchi-Kuroki Lab designs and develops new functional materials and devices such as membranes, catalysts, and batteries, centered on energy materials and devices. The lab aims to solve global challenges expected to become severe by 2050, such as healthcare and water scarcity. The lab takes an approach called system design of material functions, which connects molecules, devices, society, and the planet in a single line of thinking. Beyond experiments, the lab combines informatics, simulation, and modeling to carry out rational design.
Shigekazu Ito, Associate Professor
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The Ito Lab designs and synthesizes functional organic molecules by taking advantage of the properties of heteroatoms such as fluorine, nitrogen, boron, phosphorus, silicon, and sulfur. So far, the lab has discovered low-voltage-driven organic semiconductors, fluorescent emitters, sensing materials, and homogeneous metal-complex catalysts. Built on a foundation of synthetic organic chemistry, the lab also incorporates spectroscopy that uses muons, elementary particles produced in accelerators. This approach identifies radical species and reactions that are hard to detect with conventional chemical methods, leading to the creation of new functional organic radicals.
Hidetoshi Sekiguchi, Professor
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The Sekiguchi Lab studies chemical processes that use special environments such as electrical discharge and ultrasound. Plasma generated by electrical discharge contains highly reactive electrons, ions, and radicals. With it, the lab can decompose harmful substances that are hard to break down, such as chlorofluorocarbons, and synthesize high-performance materials such as ceramic films. The lab analyzes the reactions and phenomena that occur in these special environments, with the aim of developing them into processes that can be put to practical use.
Shinsuke Inagi, Professor
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The Inagi Lab studies the area where organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, and electrochemistry overlap. At its center is organic electrosynthesis, a method of organic synthesis that starts from the exchange of electrons between an electrode and a molecule. Building on this method, the lab creates molecules and polymers with useful functions.
Takayoshi Katase, Professor
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The Katase Lab studies functional materials for heat, electrons, and light that will support next-generation energy and electronics. Through original materials design, the lab creates new materials and aims to achieve breakthroughs in the performance of thermoelectric devices, optical sensors, thin-film transistors, and superconducting devices. Grounded in solid-state chemistry and materials science, the lab covers the whole process in an integrated way, from designing crystal and electronic structures to synthesizing materials and applying them to devices. Aiming to 'contribute to solving social issues with new materials,' the lab pursues themes such as energy saving and waste heat utilization.
Takuya Hoshina, Professor
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The Hoshina Lab studies the properties of materials related to phonons, the regular vibrations of atoms and ions in crystals. The lab develops research that changes the structure of materials at the nanometer scale to greatly enhance phonon-related properties, and builds the academic framework that underlies it. Targeting dielectrics, ferroelectrics, piezoelectrics, and ionic conductors, the lab covers everything from materials synthesis to computational science and measurement. It develops electroceramic materials and devices for the environment, energy, and medicine.
Akifumi Matsuda, Associate Professor
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The Matsuda Lab studies how to create functional materials for electronics and energy at the nano and atomic scales. Using methods far from equilibrium, such as laser-based processes and self-assembly, it synthesizes thin films and nanomaterials at low temperatures. Focusing on “creating materials and properties, observing and analyzing them, and thinking about the underlying principles,” the lab brings forth materials and processes never seen before. Students and researchers from a wide range of fields, including materials, chemistry, physics, and electrical and electronic engineering, work together in the lab.
Satoshi Kaneko, Associate Professor
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The Kaneko Lab focuses on the single molecule, the smallest unit from which matter is built, with the aim of developing new nanomaterials. Using single-molecule junctions, in which one molecule is bridged between two electrodes, the lab examines electron flow and clarifies what happens at the interface between a metal and a molecule. The lab develops its own measurement and analysis methods to identify, at the single-molecule level, where and how molecules are adsorbed. Applications are expected in highly sensitive chemical sensors and in novel electronic devices that exploit molecular properties.
Saeko Yanaka, Associate Professor
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The Yanaka Lab studies the functions of biopolymers such as nucleic acids, proteins, glycans, and lipids. Deciphering the operating principles of functions hidden within biomolecules advances the understanding of life and disease. Combining experimental and theoretical approaches, the lab works both to elucidate functions and to create new ones. Biomolecules, and versions with modified functions, can be put to use in medicine and industry.
Azusa Ooi, Associate Professor
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The Ooi Lab studies corrosion, the process by which metallic materials dissolve and degrade in the environments where they are used. Metals excel in strength and electrical conductivity, but dissolution reactions at their surfaces gradually erode these properties. The lab covers materials from steel to non-ferrous materials, and from nanosized catalysts to large structures such as bridges, regardless of the environment of use. Elucidating the mechanisms of dissolution leads to effective use of limited resources and to the protection of the global environment.
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