Green Technology

The industrial activity of the previous century has made us materially wealthy. However, it has become apparent that the mass consumption of resources and energy has had an adverse influence on the global environment. In this century (the twenty-first century), environmentally friendly technologies for making high-function substances (items) with the smallest possible burden on the natural environment are considered important in order to protect the global environment.
For the global environment and human society to coexist in harmony, it is important to work on environmental problems from the perspective of chemistry-based green technologies. Students learn the chemistry of environmental catalysts, environmental materials, and the like in order to earnestly take on the creation of goods in the future, considering the environment, energy, and function important.

environmentally friendly technology, green technology, green chemistry, sustainable chemistry, environmental issue, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs17)

Instructors in the Department of Materials Chemistry will deliver the following lectures on green technology in a relay style.
Each lecture has a specific topic and regards green technology from a multifaceted perspective. Reports and short tests are set to promote learning about green technology.
1. Thinking about environmental problems
2. The chemistry of clay
3. The environment and the science of adsorption
4. The environment and carbon super space
5. Nanotechnology and plating technology
6. The chemistry of batteries
7. Ecocar technology and materials
8. Discussing common glass and special glass
9. The environment and lighting
10. Environmental technologies using catalysts
11. A hydrogen-based society (1)
12. A hydrogen-based society (2)
13. Photocatalysts (1)
14. Photocatalysts (2)
15. Solar cellss; class questionnaire (conducted in the last 15 minutes)
* Some parts may be reordered with advance notice.

Syllabus (Japanese site only)