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Hitoshi Kasai, Professor
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The Kasai Lab studies organic nanomaterials for efficiently delivering drug components to affected areas. Using its original fabrication method, the reprecipitation method, the lab makes extremely small nanoparticles from organic molecules. The lab creates new nanomedicines targeting cancer and eye diseases, carrying out everything from compound synthesis to experiments using cells and animals. The lab also works on producing high-value-added compounds from biomass.
Eijiro Miyako, Professor
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The Miyako Lab engineers the functions of microorganisms and functional biomaterials to tackle intractable diseases such as cancer. The lab focuses on nanomaterials that respond to physical energy such as light and magnetic fields, and on bacteria that gather and function in the tumor environment. Spanning materials science, nanotechnology, microbiology, and biomedical engineering, the lab pursues research that links basic research to clinical application. In April 2026, the lab moved to Tohoku University and now works at the Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials.
Masaki Ota, Associate Professor
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The Solvent Element Technology Lab studies environmentally friendly solvents, focusing on supercritical and subcritical fluids of carbon dioxide and water. The lab regards these two substances as the most thermodynamically stable, abundant in everyday life, and capable of addressing global environmental problems at their root. The lab actually measures fundamental physical properties at high temperatures and pressures, while also advancing estimation from theory. It aims to return practical technologies using environmental solvents to society.
Masaru Watanabe, Professor
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The Watanabe Lab studies processes that use environmentally benign solvents such as water, carbon dioxide, and ionic liquids. Through the effective use and recycling of waste, the lab carries out fundamental chemical engineering research aimed at realizing a circular society. The work is divided into groups by theme, including separation of useful components from natural products, effective use of CO2, and use of biomass and urban mines. The lab is housed in the Research Center of Supercritical Fluid Technology, affiliated with the Graduate School of Engineering.
Toshiaki Yoshioka, Professor
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The Yoshioka Lab studies recycling processes that return plastics and biomass to usable resources. The lab develops methods to convert plastics into chemical feedstocks by pyrolysis, and to recirculate halogens from plastics containing chlorine and bromine. It also works on technologies for environmental remediation, research on the mechanisms by which polymers degrade, and analytical and evaluation methods that support the development of recycling processes. In collaboration with many universities and companies in Japan and abroad, the lab aims to build new recycling and carbon-circulation systems.
Yasuhiro Fukushima, Professor
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The Fukushima Lab studies how chemical technologies should be combined to achieve a circular society. Its subject is not a single factory but "chemical systems" that link multiple plants, consumers, and primary industries such as agriculture and forestry. Using process simulation and mathematical models, the lab evaluates the effects of technologies in terms of both cost and environmental impact. The lab aims to visualize how resources are used in each region and to propose improvement measures suited to that region as a system.
Itaru Homma, Professor
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The Homma Lab conducts research that uses nanotechnology to pioneer renewable energy technologies. The core of its research is the development of processes with low environmental impact and of nanomaterials with useful functions. Building on this, the lab aims to create energy devices, from carbon dioxide conversion to next-generation secondary batteries, capacitors, and fuel cells. It is based at the Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials and was established in April 2010.
Shu Yin, Professor
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The Yin Lab develops materials by making transition metal oxides through liquid-phase processes while controlling their shape. Using environmentally friendly soft chemical processes, it precisely controls crystal phase, particle size, and shape. By drawing out functions that respond to light and chemical substances, the lab aims to contribute to harmony with the environment and efficient use of energy. It is based at the Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials.
Kiyoshi Kanie, Professor
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The Kanie Lab develops methods for precisely controlling the size and shape of inorganic nanoparticles. Nanoparticles are materials used in a wide range of industries, such as catalysts and electronic devices. The lab also studies the surface properties of the particles and combines them with organic materials to create organic-inorganic hybrid materials. Based on precision synthesis spanning organic, inorganic, and bio materials, the lab works on developing the materials of the future.
Takahiro Miki, Professor
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The Miki-Saito Lab studies the smelting processes of metals, the most familiar materials in everyday life, with the aim of solving the various problems that arise in those processes. The steel process requires an enormous amount of energy, most of which is used in the blast furnace process that produces molten iron from iron ore. The lab researches ways to produce metals with less energy. The faculty introductions list keywords such as high-purity refining of metals, resource recycling, and the physical properties of high-temperature melts.
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