GRADUATE SCHOOL
DIVISION OF CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLGOY


This division is dedicated to the extended studies and researches on various fields, including materials science and biotlogical science as well as applied chemistry, that are based on the chemistry. It consists of the followig four departments, each of which has its own speciality in education and research in addition to the fundamental common curriculum shared in this division.
Department of Biotechnology
This department has a scientifically interesting research field, including marine biotechnology, bioelectronics, cellular and protein engineering. The research aim is mainly to analyze the biofunction in molecular level for the engineering application.
Department of Applied Chemistry
In the graduate study, individual students are encouraged to acquire advanced knowledge and technique of their interested subjects, while conducting their own research in the field of chemical science and thechnology. The department offers through its branches a variety of research subjects, which range from the basic to the advanced areas of applied chemistry. They include, for example, manipulation of atoms and molecules for production of new materials and substances, understandings = of life processes by mimicking tiny part of them, and techniques to solve environmental and energetical problems.=20
Department of Material Systems Engineering
This department is concerned to the variety of organic materials under the concept that the material consists of a system composed of molecules. Its curriculum spans from microscopic molecular structure to macroscopic material functions in a systematic subject. The research of this department includes various topics of developing new materials that have electrical, optical, separation, and other intelligent functions.
Department of Chemical Engineering
This department is to educate students as specialists of chemical engineering in the fields of molecular chemical engineering, separation process engineering, functional catalyst engineering, chemical process engineering, energy chemical engineering and environmental chemical engineering. Chemical engineers graduated from this department have the skills and expertise to make major contributions to the solution of various problems which are the production of new materials, design of new process and chemical equipment, conservation of energy and resources, threats to the environment.