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Kei Goto, Professor
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The Goto-Ono Lab designs reaction spaces with nano-sized cavities from organic molecules and uses them to control synthesis and reactions. Using bowl-shaped and capsule-shaped molecules, the lab stabilizes unstable reaction intermediates that could not be synthesized before, making them available as compounds that can be isolated and handled. In this way, the lab elucidates the mechanisms of reactions that were once black boxes. In particular, its main targets are compounds containing main-group elements (heteroelements) from the lower part of the periodic table.
Kazuhiko Maeda, Professor
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The Maeda Lab studies photocatalysts that convert the energy of sunlight into chemical energy, in other words artificial photosynthesis. The lab makes semiconductor photocatalysts that split water into hydrogen and oxygen, and photocatalysts that combine metal complexes with semiconductors to fix carbon dioxide. Building on photochemistry, catalytic chemistry, materials chemistry, and electrochemistry, the lab aims to convert sunlight into chemical energy efficiently.
Hidehiro Uekusa, Professor
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The Uekusa Lab studies structural chemistry centered on crystal structures, working with organic crystals such as active pharmaceutical ingredients. By making use of the regular arrangement of molecules in a crystal, it should be possible to control chemical reactions and change the properties of crystals. In organic crystals, molecules are held together by relatively weak forces, so the structure has a "softness" that changes with surrounding conditions and stimuli. The lab's research is based on X-ray crystal structure analysis, combined with thermal analysis, spectroscopy, and theoretical calculation.
Makiko K. Haba, Associate Professor
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The Haba Lab precisely analyzes the chemical composition and isotope ratios of meteorites to study how the solar system formed and evolved. Meteorites are a "recording medium of the universe" that conveys information from the time the solar system had just formed. Centered on dating and combining mineral observation with chemical analysis, the lab investigates when the parent bodies of meteorites formed and how they have changed. The lab aims to depict the history of the solar system along the flow of time.
Yoko Kebukawa, Associate Professor
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The Kebukawa Lab studies where organic matter in space originates and how it has changed. It combines analysis of meteorite and asteroid samples with experiments that simulate space environments. It focuses in particular on how the organic matter that served as raw material for life was formed.
Yuichiro Ueno, Professor
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The Ueno Lab studies how biospheres arose and evolved on Earth and other planets. Using geochemical methods, including analysis of stable isotopologues, the lab has deciphered the changing history of Earth's biosphere from records preserved in sedimentary strata. Because the history from the origin of life to the acquisition of genomes is preserved neither in rock strata nor in genes, the lab is also reproducing Hadean environments in the laboratory. The lab also conducts fieldwork in ancient strata and in present-day hot springs that resemble ancient environments.
Shuichi Murakami, Program-Specific Professor
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Murakami Lab studies, from a theoretical standpoint, phenomena in which quantum mechanical effects appear as properties of a material as a whole. The central topic is the physics of the flow of electron spin (spin current), which is also attracting attention for its applications in spintronics. The spin Hall effect, in which a spin current arises perpendicular to an applied electric field, was confirmed in experiments after the lab's theoretical prediction. By exploring principles shared by seemingly quite different things, such as electrons and light, the lab aims to predict new phenomena.
Ryo Hanai, Associate Professor
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The Hanai Lab theoretically studies phenomena that appear in "nonequilibrium" many-body systems driven from the outside. In nonequilibrium systems, the principle of free-energy minimization that holds for matter in thermal equilibrium does not hold in general. In particular, the lab focuses on "nonreciprocal" interactions that break the law of action and reaction, and explores physics common to systems ranging from ecosystems to electrons in solids. The lab deals with a wide range of subjects, from artificial quantum systems such as ultracold atomic gases to active matter and living systems.
Motohide Kokubun, Program-Specific Associate Professor
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The Kokubun Lab is the lab of Prof. Kokubun, who is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), JAXA, and also a Specially Appointed Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at Institute of Science Tokyo. The lab's research takes place at JAXA's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture. The lab has long been involved in developing X-ray and gamma-ray observation instruments that capture high-energy phenomena in the universe, and recently it has been working on experiments that use lasers and balloons to test general relativity with high precision.
Nobuhiro Honda, Professor
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The Honda Lab studies the structure of three-dimensional complex manifolds known as twistor spaces. Twistor spaces are somewhat unusual complex manifolds that arise from differential geometry on four-dimensional manifolds. Building on classical methods based on linear systems, the lab investigates their detailed structure. For students aiming at the doctoral program, the lab hopes that they will find their own research topics as far as possible, based on what they learn in the lab seminar.
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