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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.
Masaki Kubo, Professor
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The Kubo Lab studies the phenomena that occur during materials manufacturing processes and the technologies to control them. Using materials made in the laboratory in society requires industrial-scale manufacturing, but enlarging the equipment can cause phenomena different from those seen in the lab. High temperatures and highly reactive substances make observation and measurement difficult, so the lab also uses computer simulation. Through optical observation and measurement together with numerical simulation, the lab aims to understand transport phenomena inside equipment and apply that understanding to the design and optimization of manufacturing processes.
Hirotomo Nishihara, Professor
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The Nishihara Lab studies carbon-based materials whose structures have been difficult both to control and to visualize. Using organic synthesis and chemical vapor deposition, the lab creates new materials by building them up from the atomic and molecular level. With advanced analytical techniques, the lab understands and controls chemical properties such as reactivity, corrosion resistance, and catalytic function from a molecular perspective. The materials the lab creates are being developed for applications in supercapacitors, secondary batteries, fuel cells, heat pumps, adsorbents, and healthcare, in collaboration with research institutions and companies in Japan and abroad.
Takaaki Tomai, Professor
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The Tomai Lab studies how to create materials and processes using supercritical fluids as reaction solvents. The solvent properties of a supercritical fluid change greatly with only a slight change in temperature and pressure. Taking advantage of this, the lab works on biomass conversion, chemical recycling, organic synthesis, and the synthesis of nanoparticles and catalysts. The lab also studies substance conversion by electrochemistry, aiming to create new scientific principles for a sustainable society.
Seiji Takahashi, Professor
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The Takahashi Lab studies the metabolic mechanisms of living organisms and the manufacturing that applies them. The lab has continued its research with "enzymes, metabolism, and their applications" as a consistent set of keywords. It searches for enzymes in plants and microorganisms that carry out reactions not yet understood, and investigates how they work based on their three-dimensional structures. Based on the knowledge gained, the lab aims to design new strategies for metabolic engineering.
Tetsutaro Hattori, Professor
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The Hattori Lab studies molecular and ion recognition, material functions, and organic synthesis reactions. It creates organic crystalline materials that precisely distinguish and capture molecules and ions of very similar size and properties. It also develops boron-based functional materials aimed at organic EL, organic scintillators, boron neutron capture therapy, and organic solid electrolytes. In addition, it works on developing substitution reactions of aromatic compounds and alkenes based on new principles.
Nobuyuki Uozumi, Professor
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The Uozumi Lab studies, at the molecular and genetic levels, phenomena that occur in biological membranes. Biological membranes are regions of the cell that distinguish and select substances, and that produce and convert energy for the organism. The lab aims to understand the mechanisms of the ability to adapt to the environment, and of proliferation, growth, and differentiation. It will connect the knowledge gained to bioengineering and biotechnology that take the global environment into account.
Mitsuo Umetsu, Professor
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The Umetsu Lab studies how to put proteins to use, drawing on the diversity of their structures and functions. Proteins are made up of clusters called domains, and in many cases a domain is the smallest unit that carries out a function. The lab treats the accumulated data on domains as a collection of parts and combines them like building blocks to design high-performance proteins specialized for a given purpose. Based on this approach, the lab works on designing proteins useful in medicine, the environment, and nanotechnology.
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