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Functional Fiber Technology

Functional Fiber Technology

To make research and education concerning development of new fiber materials,functions,and textile formation process,including technologically applications.

Outline of Chair

This chair carries out scientific and physical research on the development of new fiber materials, and functionalization and formation of fibers, and researches and educates on the technological application of the developed fibers.

Fiber is the generic term for long thin strands of material, including natural fibers, synthetic fibers and aggregates of the two, but it is also refers to a broad range of high performance materials including proteins, DNA and other biological materials, polysaccharides and other biopolymers, gels which are an aggregation of microscopic fibers, and even the optical fibers and electrical wires used for information and energy transmission.

Being long and thin, fibers are making significant contributions to society through a level of functional sophistication that other materials cannot offer, including their lightweight and highly efficient information and energy transfer characteristics, their functions like trapping, sorting, heat-retention, impact and sound absorption enabled by their large surface area and easily controllable density, and high strength enabled by their anisotropic molecular orientation properties.
This chair utilizes the characteristic functionality of long thin molecules, or molecular aggregates, that all these materials share, and seeks to develop fundamental technologies for designing and controlling product functions that aid society.

Research Fields

This chair is composed of four areas of education and research from the molecular level to the macrofiber aggregate level. Education and research is carried out in these research fields to enhance the functions of fibers and to utilize the result in product development.

The chair has already developed enhanced fiber functionality in nanofibers, high-strength fibers, odor-eliminating fibers, gelling oil solidifiers, new natural fibers and fiber aggregates, new fiber manufacturing methods and staining methods, and advanced airbags using fiber aggregates.

Teaching and Research Faculty

Hirokazu Kimura 　　Professor 　　Textile Design and Functional Technology

Studies on Designing and Processing of fiber asseblies

Limin BAO 　　Associate Professor 　　Textile Design and Functional Technology

Analysis of dynamic and shocking mechanical characteristic for fiber and fiber assembly

Kaoru Wakatsuki 　　Associate Professor 　　Textile Design and Functional Technology

Studies on Designing and Processing of Fiber Assemblies

Kunihiro Hamada 　　Professor 　　Textile Design and Functional Technology

Studies on Chemical Properties of Dyes,Finishing Agents, and Auxiliaries and their Applications to Dyeing and Functional Finishing of Fibers and Polymers

Yutaka Ohkoshi 　　Professor 　　Textile Formation Process

Studies on Chemical Properties of Dyes,Finishing Agents, and Auxiliaries and their Applications to Dyeing and Functional Finishing of Fibers and Polymers

KyoungHou Kim 　　Associate Professor 　　Textile Formation Process

Analysis for Formation Process of Fiber Structure and Development Mechanism of Physical Property

Toshihisa Tanaka 　　Associate Professor 　　Textile Formation Process

Analysis for Formation Process of Fiber Structure and Development Mechanism of Physical Property

Akio Sakaguchi 　　Assistant Professor 　　Textile Formation Process

Development of Textile Production Method Based on Silk Engineering

Hideaki Morikawa 　　Professor 　　Textile Formation Process

Fundamental Studies on the Behavioral System in Silkworm and Application of Computer Technology to the Silk Production Process

Kenji Hanabusa 　　Professor 　　Functional Polymer Chemistry

Studies on Functions of Living Creatures from the View Point of Supramolecular Chemistry and their Technical Applications

Masahiro Suzuki 　　Professor 　　Functional Polymer Chemistry

Molecular Design of Soft Matter Consisting of Polymers and Supramolecules and Their Applications to Functional Materials

Yoshihiro Itoh 　　Professor 　　Functional Polymer Chemistry

Functional Chemistry of Polymers and Molecular Assemblies

Tsutomu Ishiwatari 　　Professor 　　Functional Polymer Chemistry

Various Molecular Assemblies and Functional Polymers and Their Application in Nanoparticle Preparation

Yuichi Hirata 　　Associate Professor 　　Functional Polymer Chemistry

Studies on transport phenomena of low molecules through polymer materials and their applications to functional separation membranes and barrier membranes