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Functional Molecules and Materials

Functional Molecules and Materials

Outline of Chair

To make research and education concerning design and synthesis of high-performance materials along with estimation and origin of functionalities of those materials.

The Functional Molecules and Materials chair carries out research and education on the design and synthesis of high performance materials, on functional analysis of those materials, and on the clarification of expression mechanisms for those functions. It consists of the following four research and education fields.
Functional Surface Design: The chair carries out research and education on the design and characterization of organic and inorganic material surfaces demonstrating catalytic activity, and on the application of microbeam analysis to material surfaces.
Inorganic Materials Engineering: The chair carries out research and development on the creation, evaluation and application of functional inorganic single crystals and inorganic layer-structured compounds, and on the design and evaluation of sintering behavior, microstructure development and mechanical properties of advanced ceramic materials and functional solid surfaces using computer simulation.
Functional Materials Engineering: The chair carries out research and education on photochemistry, photocatalysis, photochromism, photoinduced syntheses of functional materials, on the analysis of membrane transport phenomena, the design of functional polymer membranes, on molecular elucidation of solvent characteristics of supercritical fluids and their application for processing and design of functional organic materials.

Research Fields

Fields of research carried out by the Functional Molecules and Materials chair are explained above in Outline of Chair, but a few of the technologies developed under this chair are listed below.

Development of machinable ceramics, development of carbon nanotubes and apatite composite biomaterials based on biomimetics, resource recovery through detoxification, dechlorination and functional enhancement of waste vinyl chloride resin, development of photocatalytic reaction mechanisms for organochlorine compounds on titanium oxide surfaces, formation of new nanocrystals and their application to devices, fixation and combination of ribosome to different materials, and development of microporous metal-pillared mica nanocomposites

Teaching and Research Faculty

Hiroyuki Suga 　　Professor 　　Transformation of Organic Molecules

Development of Stereoselective Synthetic Organic Reactions

Yukihisa Okumura 　　Professor 　　Transformation of Organic Molecules

Supramolecular assemblies in molecular transformation

Yasunori Toda 　　Assistant Professor 　　Transformation of Organic Molecules

Catalysis development in organic syntheses

Toshio Sakai 　　Associate Professor 　　Functional Surface Design

Fabrication and applications of smart colloidal materials based on interface chemistry

Naoyuki Shinohara 　　Associate Professor 　　Functional Surface Design

Separation and purification of inorganic and organic mixtures

Tomohiko Okada 　　Associate Professor 　　Functional Surface Design

Hierarchical Design of Solid Catalysts with High Reaction Selectivity and Activity

Hajime Wagata 　　Assistant Professor 　　Inorganic Materials Engineering

Fabrication of Inorganic Crystals by Environmentally-Friendly Processes, and Characterization and Applications of the Crystals

Takaomi Suzuki 　　Associate Professor 　　Inorganic Materials Engineering

Design and Analysis of Functional Solid Surface Using Computer Simulation

Seiichi Taruta 　　Professor 　　Inorganic Materials Engineering

Influence of raw materials and processing on sintering behavior,microstructure development and mechanical properties of advanced ceramic materials

Katsuya Teshima 　　Professor 　　Inorganic Materials Engineering

Material Surfaces Designed by Functional Crystal Layers with Highly Ordered Atoms and Molecules

Tomohiro Yamaguchi 　　Associate Professor 　　Inorganic Materials Engineering

Synthesis, Properties and Application of Advanced Inorganic Layer-structured Compounds

Nobuyuki Zettsu 　　Associate Professor 　　Inorganic Materials Engineering

Advanced functional materials for energy conversion

Atsushi Tanaka 　　Professor 　　Inorganic Materials Engineering

Ionic transport properties in inorganic materials with crystal defects, interstitial atoms, and hetero-junction

Fumitaka Hayashi 　　Assistant Professor 　　Inorganic Materials Engineering

Resource Recovery and Environmental Purification Using Inorganic Ion-Exchangeable Crystals

Ryotaro Kiyono 　　Associate Professor 　　Functional Materials Engineering

Analysis of Membrane Transport Phenomena and Design of Functional Polymer Membranes

Nobuaki Tanaka 　　Associate Professor 　　Functional Materials Engineering

Photochemistry and photoinduced syntheses of functional materials

Hirohisa Uchida 　　Associate Professor 　　Functional Materials Engineering

Molecular Elucidation of Solvent Characteristics of Supercritical Fluids and Their Applications for Functional Organic Materials Processing and Design