Laboratories and Professors

Professors	Specialities	Research Subjects
Takayuki Ikehara	Physical Properties of Polymers	Investigation of the nano- and macroscopic structures, physical properties, and dynamics in thin and grafted layers on solid surfaces and in multi-component polymeric systems.
Izumi Iwakura	Laser Chemistry, Real-Time Spectroscopy, Analysis of Reaction Mechanisms	Transition state spectroscopy and development of novel reaction as applications of coherent molecular vibrational reaction triggered by 5-fs laser pulse irradiation
Wataru Ueda	Catalytic Materials Chemistry	Creation of new complex metal oxides with high-dimensional crystal structure by applying new sythetic methodologies based on metal oxide units and their catalytic application to selective oxidation of light alkanes with molecular oxygen.
Sentaro Okamoto	Synthetic Organometallic Chemistry, Organic Synthesis, Drug Discovery, Organic Materials	Development of new synthetic mmethods by generating organometallic catalyst and reagents and their application to synthesis of biologivally active compounds and polymer chemistry
Akira Ono	Biofunctional Chemistry, Nucleic Acid Medicine, Chemistry of DNA metal complex	Using skills in nucleic acids chemistry, cyclodextrin chemistry and synthetic chemistry, we are developing new materials and technologies to contribute in life and material sciences.
Atsushi Kameyama	Polymer Chemistry, Materials Chemistry	Development of new functional polymeric materials with photoresponsibility and low dielectric property, Design and characterization of self-assembly of polymeric materials and peptides
Ren-Hua Jin	Polymer Chemistry, Nanomaterials, Hybrid Materials	Synhtesis of block, star, comb-polymers with amphiphilic, thermo-responsible, pH-responsible, chiral and catalytic feratures and their self-assembly towards polymeric micelles, vesicles, fibries, sheets; Syntheis and application of nanostructured silica, titiania and metals with chiral features; Chirality transfer systems from organics to inorganics and from inorganics to organics.
Yoshihiro Koide	Inorganic Chemistry, Photochemistry, Electrochemistry	Synthesis and structural analysis of aluminum and other group 13 oxides. Design and synthesis of functional materials for the development of novel photo catalytic reactions. Development of novel nanocarbon based solar energy conversion systems.
Teruki Motohashi	Solid State Chemistry, Inorganic Materials Chemistry, Crystal Structural Chemistry	Tailoring functional ceramics for environmental and energy-related applications
Masahiro Okada	Natural Products chemistry, Bioorganic Chemistry.	Bioactive natural products chemistry; discovery and identification, chemical synthesis, and biosynthesis and function.
Shiro Hikichi	Coordination Chemistry, Bioinorganic Chemistry, Catalytic Chemistry	Development of articicial enzymes based on coordination compounds and solid supports.
Futoshi Matsumoto	Electrochemistry, Material Chemistry, Surface Chemistry, Catalysis	Development of electrocatalysts for fuel cells and cathode materials for lithium ion battery.
Tsutomu Yokozawa	Synthetic Polymer Chemistry, Synthetic Organic Chemistry	Synthesis and reaction design of functional materials on organic chemistry
Norihide Nakada	Environmental Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Environmental forensics	Monitoring of micropollutants in the aquatic environment and evaluation of watersheds based on the monitoring data.