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Hirotsugu Takizawa, Professor
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The Takizawa Lab studies the synthesis of inorganic materials using extreme environments as reaction fields. It makes materials under conditions not used in everyday experiments, such as high temperature and high pressure, microwaves, and ultrasound. Under such conditions, high-density phases that do not form at ambient pressure appear, and phenomena unique to thermally nonequilibrium states can be observed. The lab continues to produce new materials, including conductive materials, magnetic materials, ion conductors, and wide-bandgap semiconductors.
Keisuke Asai, Professor
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The Asai Lab controls electronic excited states generated by light and radiation, and develops optical materials that serve as radiation sensors. The materials it develops are intended for use in medical settings, such as nuclear medicine diagnostics and quantum beam therapy for cancer. They are also intended for use in security, nondestructive testing, environmental monitoring, and as detectors for synchrotron radiation science and particle physics experiments. The lab works with a wide range of material systems, including inorganic single crystals, ceramics, glasses, organic materials, and organic-inorganic hybrid materials.
Rie Makiura, Professor
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The Makiura Lab studies how to assemble molecules like building blocks to create new nanomaterials. Its research areas are nanomaterials (nanosheets and nanocrystals), coordination chemistry, and interfaces and surfaces. Prof. Makiura previously led an independent lab at Osaka Prefecture University (now Osaka Metropolitan University), where she worked on creating functions in nanomaterials, including MOFs. In November 2025, Prof. Makiura joined the Department of Applied Chemistry as a Professor, and in March 2026 Assistant Professor Kimura joined the lab.
Shuichi Oi, Professor
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The Oi Lab studies organic synthesis reactions that use homogeneous transition-metal complex catalysts. It develops reactions that activate small molecules such as carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide and convert them into useful compounds. Aiming also at the precise synthesis of natural products and bioactive compounds, the lab creates new catalytic synthetic reactions that exploit the properties of metals. Even molecules that never react when simply mixed can be made to react through the action of organotransition-metal complexes.
Tomoyuki Akutagawa, Professor
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The Akutagawa Lab focuses on the design freedom of organic molecules and studies how to give molecular assemblies multiple functions. Using organic synthesis, coordination chemistry, and physical chemistry, the lab designs molecular materials from the viewpoints of electrical conductivity, magnetism, ferroelectricity, and ferroelasticity. The lab works on creating hybrid materials that remove the boundary between organic and inorganic materials. The lab also puts particular effort into creating functional nanofibers that conduct electricity or emit light.
Masaru Nakagawa, Professor
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The Nakagawa Lab studies the precise molecular-level design and control of interfaces between organic polymers and metals or inorganic substances. The lab creates new photofunctional materials and proposes light-based microfabrication methods, aiming to fabricate electronic and optical devices. Nanoimprint technology is the core of its microfabrication, allowing both fine pattern resolution and a large processable area to be achieved together over a wide range. The lab develops new materials and processes for photo-nanoimprint, which is attracting attention as a next-generation mass-production technology.
Hideki Kato, Professor
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The Kato Lab develops inorganic materials that drive chemical reactions, with the aim of contributing to carbon neutrality. Its main goal is to develop photocatalysts for artificial photosynthesis, which produces hydrogen from sunlight and water. The lab also develops solid catalysts that convert plant-derived biomass into useful chemicals. By investigating how solid-state properties such as crystal structure, crystal facets, and defects relate to function, the lab also works on synthesizing materials that have never existed before.
Daisuke Nagao, Professor
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The Nagao Lab studies methods of building new materials by assembling fine particles of uniform size. Until now, the development of functional materials has mainly been approached at the scale of atoms and molecules. In this lab, particles from several tens of nanometers to about 1 μm are treated as if they were atoms and molecules and arranged in two or three dimensions. The aim is to bring out, with this approach, functions that cannot be obtained by simply mixing atoms and molecules.
Naomi Kitakawa, Professor
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The Kitakawa Lab develops technologies for real-world use, centered on kinetic analysis that combines reaction and separation engineering with information science. Its main focus is biomass resources that current industries discard in large quantities. The lab designs processes that turn this biomass into functional materials for food, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals, as well as biofuels. It also handles everything needed for practical use, including equipment development, scale-up, and the building of control systems.
Izumi Kumakiri, Professor
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The Kumakiri Lab studies thin films with ultrafine pores that sort molecules by size. Building on making membranes and testing their performance, the lab explores integrated reaction–separation technologies that combine membranes with catalytic reactions and fermentation. Its work also extends to synthesizing membranes from biomass-derived materials, water treatment, CO2 separation and utilization, and bioethanol production. Working with overseas research institutions, the lab aims to create highly efficient processes that solve environmental and energy challenges.
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