Graduate School of Science and Technology(Master's Program)>Department of Textile Science and Technology>Chemistry and Materials Division
Chemistry and Materials Division
Overview
Fiber Materials Engineering provides an education program for fostering the human resources who have high professional knowledge and skills for development of materials, manufacturing processes, and utilizing systems usable for solving resource, energy, and environment problems. Especially the viewpoint of chemical industry is supplied for material development, and the viewpoint of material engineering is supplied for process and system development. Thus, the human resources to be fostered will have a wide viewpoint and the capability for solving complicated problems.
Functional Polymer Science provides the advanced and comprehensive professional education program including the study of polymer synthesis, polymer properties, and functional assessment for acquiring the design capability of functional materials related to polymers. The subjects of this unit are coarsely classified into four types: Life Polymer Science, Polymer Functional Material Science, Synthetic Polymer Science, and Molecular Aggregate Function Science. You will acquire wide knowledge, from scientific foundations to leading-edge research trends, for each subject. Thus, the technology researchers with high-level professional knowledge and flexible thinking power will be fostered.
Applied Molecular Chemistry is characterized by wide and deep subjects ranging from fundamental quantum mechanics (of molecular chemistry) to practical dyeing chemistry. This unit intends to provide wide, well-balanced chemistry education curriculum, and to change the contents of subjects flexibly according to changes of the times. Thus, the human resources who can acquire leading-edge knowledge and can apply it to societies positively will be fostered.
Research of organic conductive fibers made of conductive polymers
Development and application of gelling agents
Research of chemiluminescence, which provides variety of colors by using various fluorescent agents
Main Research Theme
Fiber Materials Engineering Unit
- Development of rubber that is as soft as human skin, solution to water problems by using fibers, and thermal power generation using infrared antennas
- Configuration of artificial photosynthesis models using nano-laminated films, and development of photochemical reactors
- Invention of functional materials by using nano-structure control based on precision synthesis technology
- Development of synthesis of new nano-materials such as nano-sheets, and their application to power storage and generation technologies
- Development of biomass production and energy and material use technologies, and development of porous membrane separation technology
- Development of new materials of non-platinum catalysts for fuel cells, and performance improvement by optimizing the electrode structure
- Unraveling the electron transfer mechanism on organic and inorganic interfaces, and development of high-efficiency organic solar cells
- Development of interface areas in solutions, polymers, gels, colloids, and living objects by using spectroscopic method or scattering method
- Development of functional materials from regional biomass materials by using high-temperature and high-pressure water
- Design and manufacturing of microwave-using reactors, invention of materials, and calculation of solid-state electron status
- Efficiency improvement of substance conversion technology using catalysts for efficient use of biomass resources
- Invention of safe and secure polymer materials (gels, non-woven clothes, etc.), and their applications in biomedical and environmental fields
Functional Polymer Science Unit
- Research of organic semiconductors that are the main parts of organic EL and organic solar cells
- Development of chemically decomposable organic materials and functional organic materials
- Synthesis and functionality research of organic functional materials, especially, organic semiconductor liquid crystals for organic thin-film solar cells
- Molecule design, synthesis, and application of new low-molecular-weight gelling agents
- Fundamental and computation science research of biopolymers containing proteins and polysaccharide
- Development of L-amino-acid-type gelling agents, and their application for industrial purposes
- Invention of materials using polyrotaxane derivatives and cellulose chitin nano-whiskers
- Drug detection by bio censors using enzymes that catalyze drug metabolism and steroid hormone biosynthesis
- Development of electronic functional materials and functional fibers, and their application in soft energy devices
- Research of solid-state properties of fibers and polymers, and invention of functional fibers by solution spinning, etc.
- Development of cell culture substrates by using natural polymers
- Design of functional monomers that show new reactivities, and their application in precision polymer synthesis
Applied Molecular Chemistry Unit
- Development of nano-wires made of ultra-fine metal oxide, and their application as functional materials
- Research of structure, properties, and application of carbon materials
- Research of chemiluminescence based on organic chemistry, and research of function-added fluorescent compounds
- Development of new invention technology of functional polymer polymeric microparticles, especially, stimulation-responsive polymer gel microparticles
- Research of structure and properties of colloidal crystals as photonic crystals
- Development of new organic reactions, synthesis of biologically active substances, and isolation and synthesis of fish pheromone
- Theoretical research of electron status of conjugated molecules
- Research and development of energy storage materials, absorbing materials, luminescent materials, and other materials made of nano-carbons
- Research of phenomena in which low molecules such as gas, vapor, and solute move on polymer films
- Development research of new asymmetric organic catalysts and organic synthesis reaction
- Unraveling the physicochemical properties of surfaces in liquid, and research of the interaction between surfaces, and frictional force
- Generation and application of surface microstructure of polymer materials, etc.