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Hiroshi Jinnai, Professor
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The Jinnai Lab studies nanoscale structures inside polymer materials by observing them with electron microscopy. Polymers are lightweight, soft, and easy to process, and are widely used in industry. Their properties are linked to the fine molecular- and nanoscale structures that form inside them, but the relationship between the two is still not well understood. The lab develops state-of-the-art transmission electron microscopy techniques itself, working on 3D observation of self-assembled structures and observation of single polymer chains.
Hideyuki Aoki, Professor
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The Aoki Lab studies phenomena that occur in industrial settings, building on fluid flow and heat transfer in chemical engineering. Its subjects are wide-ranging, including coke used in ironmaking, automotive painting, and reaction tubes in chemical plants. By elucidating phenomena through both experiments and numerical analysis, the lab works to improve equipment safety and efficiency, save energy, and reduce costs. For each theme, graduate and undergraduate students form a team and learn step by step, from literature review and experiments to numerical analysis.
Hitoshi Shiku, Professor
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The Shuku Lab studies new measurement systems based on electrochemistry. It has worked on techniques for arranging different types of biomolecules side by side and on multiplexed bioanalysis that examines many items at once. By miniaturizing probes and electrochemical devices, it explores in depth what happens at electrode surfaces. Its goal is large-scale screening across a wide range of fields, from medicine and biotechnology to materials science, the environment, and energy.
Yutaka Tamaru, Professor
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The Tamaru Lab uses biotechnology to convert renewable biomass produced by plants and seaweed into substances that are useful to people. Carbohydrates stored through photosynthesis are broken down, saccharified, and fermented by microorganisms, then chemically converted into key platform compounds. The lab also aims to feed cultured microorganisms to fish as a protein source in place of fishmeal, and to extract antibodies from the fish that can be used for treatment. The lab's goal is to create new biotechnologies and bio-based products for a sustainable society.
Nobuhiko Iki, Professor
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The Iki Lab designs metal complexes, which combine metals and ligands, and studies how to bring out their functions. Complexes can absorb light, emit light, convert light into heat, and distinguish between molecules, and the lab aims to apply these properties to medical diagnosis and treatment. The lab also pursues research in analytical chemistry, developing separation and preconcentration methods and detection and quantification methods, because measuring substances is essential for understanding the environment. The lab is founded on the belief that a method that goes beyond the limits of existing analytical methods opens up a new world to see.
Maiko Nishibori, Professor
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The Nishibori Lab uses synchrotron radiation measurements and computational science to investigate the processes by which material structures form. Materials that are key to energy devices form hierarchical structures across a wide range of scales, from atoms to particles, and these structures determine their properties and functions. The lab therefore combines spectroscopy and scattering measurements to uncover hierarchical structures across both time and space. Based on the mechanisms it uncovers, the lab aims to create materials with new functions.
Yuji Matsumoto, Professor
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The lab studies solid and liquid thin films by combining vacuum technology and chemistry. Thin films are materials less than 1 μm thick, and at the extreme only a few atoms thick, and they support today's electronics industry. The materials the lab handles range widely, from inorganic electronic, magnetic, and superconducting materials to organic semiconductors, liquid crystals, and ionic liquids. The lab develops processes for making thin films and techniques for diagnosing them, aiming to apply them to semiconductor processes, solar cells, and secondary batteries.
Keiichi Tomishige, Professor
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The lab studies solid catalysts that convert biomass, natural gas, and carbon dioxide into useful substances. A catalyst is a substance that lowers the activation energy of a chemical reaction so that the reaction proceeds faster. Much of the raw material for gasoline and PET bottles is currently made from petroleum, but petroleum will eventually run out. The lab actually prepares many catalysts, and uses the results of activity tests and structural analysis to design new ones.
Masaya Mitsuishi, Professor
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The Mitsuishi Lab studies how to control the structure of polymer materials at the nanometer scale by using surfaces and interfaces. Because this is a bottom-up approach that builds structures from small components, the lab can combine a wide variety of nanomaterials, both organic and inorganic. The lab's work covers polymer synthesis, nano-assembly, structural characterization by microscopy and light scattering, and measurement of electrical properties and spectra. After joining the lab, students first build a foundation through group reading and practice experiments, and then work on research themes that match their own interests.
Fabio Pichierri, Professor
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The Pichierri Lab applies computational quantum chemistry to the study of organic chemical reactions and the design of functional molecules. When two molecules react, chemical bonds break and new bonds form in the product. The lab analyzes this basic mechanism in detail using quantum mechanics. Studies of molecular structure and of weak interactions such as hydrogen bonds are also important aspects of this field. In molecular design, the lab works on molecular machines, multi-metal redox systems, and artificial receptors, and also makes 3D-printed molecular models to discuss computational results.
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