Laboratories and Faculty
Explore the research laboratories of the Department of Applied Physics and Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering..
Hiroshi TAKIYAMA
Research and development of industrial crystallization technology for producing crystalline particles such as pharmaceuticals, foods, battery materials and functional materials.
Hiroko KATORI
Research on phase transition phenomena in magnetic materials, such as geometrically frustrated systems, in which the spin, charge and lattice degrees of freedom are intertwined complexly. Search for novel physical properties and functions in these systems.
Hiroki MINODA
Development of transmission electron microscopy and its applications to biological specimens and functional materials in their actual environment.
Eika W. QIAN
Research on production of clean energy and materials from fossil fuels, and biomass. Development of catalysts for high utilization of petroleum to produce clean fuel oil and valuable chemicals. Development of processes and catalysts to produce bio-ethanol and bio-diesel, and bio-materials using catalyst and enzyme from biomass.
Atsushi AKISAWA
Developing heat-driven refrigeration from waste heat and solar devices. Energy efficiency evaluation of regional distributed systems.
Akihiko TERADA
Development of bioreactor systems and materials for water/wastewater treatment by controlling complex microbial community in natural environments and control/prevention of biofilms for environmental/medical applications.
Atsushi HATAKEYAMA
Experimental studies in atomic, molecular and optical physics on the basis of laser spectroscopy, laser spin polarization, and laser cooling. The physics of atom-surface interactions and its applications to precision measurement and quantum manipulation.
Wuled LENGGORO
At the intersection of chemical processing and bio-systems, to address the issues on "green processing" (energy-use or resources), agriculture and health-care fields. Including aerosol technology and powder synthesis for "engineered" or "unwanted" materials systems.
Yuichiro NAGATSU
We perform fundamental study of chemically reacting liquid flow and its applied study for environmental and energy fields. Recently, our efforts have been devoted mainly to flow control by chemical reaction and its application to novel method of enhanced oil recovery.
Chihiro FUSHIMI
Development of a novel high-efficiency gasifier. Development of thermal/biomass power plants that can mitigate fluctuation of power demand and supply. Process development of biochemical production. Efficient utilization of bioenergy by integrating other renewable energy.
Hiromasa SHIMIZU
Research on integration of dissimilar materials including semiconductors, magnetic materials, macromolecules, biomaterials, highly efficient optical modulations, and highly sensitive sensors, for application to interdisciplinary activities.
Makoto SAKURAI
Research on the creation and design of the following new reaction field and reaction process. Development of high functional structured catalyst for application to the micro chemical process. Application of fine bubble process to the environmental field. Development of unsteady operation for high efficiency chemical process. Design of new high efficiency energy conversion process by thermochemical cycles.
Hideaki TOKUYAMA
Development of functional polymers and gels and process for metal separation, organic compound separation, drug delivery system, etc. Preparation of micro- or nanoparticles and porous materials.
Hidenori OHASHI
Functional membrane development and systematic device design in energy and life-science fields based on the molecular transport understanding. (from lithium ion battery, protein refolding, to chemical grafting)
Godai MIYAJI
Experimental study on nonlinear optical interaction process between light and mater with intense femtosecond laser pulses and its application to material nano-processing technique.
Toshihiko KAJI
Organic electronics and optics. Experimental research on organic electronic devices, such as solar cells, and on nanostructure/crystallinity control of organic thin films.
Susumu INASAWA
Reaction and drying are commonly-used processes in industrial production. Our main concern is formation kinetics of “solids” in these processes because large production rate generally degrades the quality of products. How to increase production rate of functional materials in an efficient way? That is our target.
Takashi IKEGAMI
Modeling and simulating energy systems to address large-scale renewable energy integration and technological deployment strategies.
Shohei RIYA
Development of recycling system for agricultural waste or sewage sludge. Waste treatment using anaerobic digestion, and residue processing into soil amendment. Study on nutrient or greenhouse gas dynamics in the soil amended with waste-derived material.
Satria Zulkarnaen BISRI
Designing the electronic structures and assemblies of pseudo-atomic zero-dimensional materials (QDs, quantum dots) with precision, and conducting comprehensive research that spans environmentally sustainable synthesis and fundamental properties. The scope extends to applications in energy generation, harvesting, storage, and ultra-low-power optical devices, contributing to the SDGs and a decarbonized society.
Masayuki ISHIZUKA
Research on linguistic diversity and universality, with particular focus on Basque, from the perspectives of cognitive linguistics and linguistic typology. Comparative studies of grammatical, morphological and semantic phenomena, including focus constructions, non-finite verbs and motion expressions, based on fieldwork with native speakers and descriptive grammars. Theoretical studies on fundamental concepts for cross-linguistic comparison, such as parts of speech and syntactic heads.
Minori ABE
Theoretical and computational studies of heavy-element chemistry using relativistic quantum chemistry. Development of computational methods and programs, and their applications to uranium, actinides and other heavy-element systems. Interdisciplinary studies of isotope fractionation in geochemistry and fundamental physical phenomena such as symmetry breaking.
Yuya HARAGUCHI
Exploration of metastable materials by combining first-principles calculations and machine learning with low-temperature and nonequilibrium synthesis. Creation of novel materials that cannot be obtained under equilibrium conditions, and systematic search for new functional properties, including quantum magnetism, superconductivity and strongly correlated electron phenomena.