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Tomoaki Nishino, Associate Professor
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The Nishino Lab studies the properties and functions of single molecules, each one sandwiched between metal electrodes. A single molecule held between electrodes can show a wide range of properties. For example, a molecule that normally does not conduct electricity can begin to carry current. Taking advantage of these properties, the lab is working on elucidating energy conversion mechanisms, single-molecule devices, highly sensitive biosensors, and methods for observing single molecules. The lab's ultimate goal is to create a new field of chemistry based on single molecules.
Atsushi Minami, Professor
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The Minami Lab studies natural organic compounds (natural products) with complex structures that living organisms make using enzymes. The lab aims to develop original strategies for using enzymes to make "uncharted natural products" that no one has been able to synthesize so far. Its keywords are "make," "investigate," and "design": making molecules with enzymes, investigating how enzymes work, and designing enzymes with new functions. The lab also actively pursues collaborative, interdisciplinary research with professors at other universities.
Hiroyuki Kawaguchi, Professor
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The Kawaguchi Lab designs and synthesizes metal complexes, in which ligands surround a metal ion, and studies the relationship between their structures and their properties and reactivity. Using newly made metal complexes as sites for reactions, the lab is pioneering new reactions of small, unreactive molecules such as nitrogen, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide. Coordination chemistry draws on knowledge of both organic and inorganic chemistry, and takes on the challenge of bringing out properties and reactivity never seen before.
Shinji Toyota, Professor
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The Toyota Lab studies how to make new organic molecules with unusual structures and properties by combining aromatic rings such as benzene and anthracene. The structures and properties of the molecules it makes are clarified using spectroscopic and theoretical methods. Its targets include molecules with large internal spaces, such as ring- and cage-shaped molecules, as well as helical molecules and supramolecules, which are assemblies of molecules. With free-thinking ideas, the lab creates and studies interesting molecules and molecular assemblies that have not existed before.
Kondo Mio, Professor
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The Kondo Lab studies how to use the power of molecular "assembly" to create unprecedented metal complex catalyst materials. Many useful compounds that support daily life are made through catalytic chemistry. Its challenges are to greatly improve reaction efficiency, to create catalytic reactions based on new principles, and to understand reaction mechanisms in detail. Its targets are artificial photosynthesis reactions such as water oxidation and carbon dioxide reduction, and reactions that convert organic compounds into other substances.
Masaki Kawano, Professor
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The Kawano Lab studies solid materials formed by linking metal ions and organic molecules, such as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). These materials have tiny pores inside, and can adsorb gases or trap other molecules. Using original synthesized molecules, the lab builds MOFs capable of exchanging electrons and explores their properties and uses. It also studies the structures and reaction processes of molecules trapped in the pores, observing them "directly" by X-ray structural analysis.
Masatomo Yashima, Professor
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The Yashima Lab studies inorganic materials such as ceramics, focusing on the relationship between their structure and properties. Using diffraction experiments with X-rays and neutron beams, the lab investigates how atoms are arranged inside crystals. By combining electric furnaces of its own design with synchrotron radiation and neutron beams, the lab reveals what happens at the high temperatures where materials actually operate. Recently, building on the structure-property relationships it has uncovered, the lab has also been advancing the search for and development of new materials.
Kouji Taniguchi, Professor
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The Taniguchi Lab studies electronic properties that arise when light, charge, and spin are coupled, in chiral organic–inorganic hybrid semiconductors, magnetic materials, and other systems. Many properties of materials, such as conducting electricity, emitting light, and acting as a magnet, arise from the behavior of the electrons inside. The lab works in a “self-sufficient” style, handling everything from synthesizing materials to measuring their properties itself. In recent years, it has focused especially on chirality, the property of a material being right-handed or left-handed.
Ken Ohmori, Professor
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The Ohmori-Ando Lab studies the total synthesis of natural organic compounds, along with new reactions and synthetic logic that help with such syntheses. The ultimate goal is to be able to synthesize organic compounds at will, with complete freedom. The lab puts its ingenuity into the strategies for efficiently building rare compounds and unstable, hard-to-handle compounds. A distinctive feature of the lab is that many members come from other universities, and postdoctoral researchers and international students from abroad also join.
Nogami Kenji, Professor
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The Nogami-Terada Lab studies volcanic geochemistry at active volcanoes such as Kusatsu-Shirane, based on observations of volcanic gases and heat. The lab belongs to the Volcano and Earthquake Research Division of the Multi-Resilience Research Center, and is based at an office on the Ookayama Campus and at the Kusatsu-Shirane Volcano Observatory in Gunma Prefecture. The division combines observational research in geochemistry and geoelectromagnetism, and students also use it as a place for observational surveys and research training. The results are expected to improve the forecasting and prediction of volcanic eruptions and to help reduce volcanic disasters.
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