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- [Hyper Nano-space Design] Hyper-nano-space design toward Innovative Functionality
※ Affiliations and titles are as of the end of the research activity.
Creation of new functional materials by means of technology for controlling spaces and gaps in advanced materials in order to realize selective material storage, transport, chemical separation, and conversion, etc.
This research area aims to create novel, epoch-making materials that address societal needs in areas such as the environment, energy, medicine, and health. To achieve this, we aim to establish a hyper-nano-space design technology that comprises high-level design and control of spaces and gaps within materials and achieves an innovative functionality that transcends the functionality obtained with conventional porous materials.
Research themes promoted in this research area are expected to be pioneering and original, and to probe how hyper-nano-space design and control can lead to novel innovative functions. Some expected functional properties are energy conversion, chemical conversion, chemicals transfer and separation, molecular recognition, medical use, structural materials, electronic devices, etc.
In addition, this research area aims to promote challenging approaches that contemplate future processing and industrialization. The approaches must be based on a wide viewpoint and must combine chemical synthesis with cutting-edge measuring techniques and calculations in order to clear the functional properties of the hyper-nano-spaces.
This research area will promote challenging and enthusiastic research aiming to lead the world toward new frontiers in materials research and development.
・Takahisa Arima
University of Tokyo, Professor
・Hiroshi Kageyama
Professor, Kyoto University
・Katsumi Kaneko
Professor, Shinshu University
・Susumu Kitagawa
Director/Professor, Kyoto University
・Motoko Kotani
Professor / Director, Tohoku University
・Tohru Setoyama
Executive Officer, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation/
General Manager, Yokohama R&D Center Setoyama Laboratory
・Tomonari Dotera
Professor, Kinki University
・Tomohiro Nakayama
Director, JST/CRDS
・Ayumi Hirano-Iwata
Principal Investigator/Professor, Tohoku University
・ Atsushi Fukuoka
Hokkaido University, Professor
・Makoto Fujita
Professor, Tokyo University
・Hirokatsu Miyata
Senior Scientist, Canon Inc.
・Eiji Yashima
Nagoya University, Professor
Research Director:
Hitoshi Asakawa(Associate Professor, College of Science and Engineering, Kanazawa University)
Creation of novel electronic materials by nano-space engineering under extreme conditions
Research Director:
Shintaro Ishiwata(Associate professor, School of engineering, The University of Tokyo)
Research Director:
Takahiro Ichikawa(Tenure-Track Associate Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)
Construction of Innovative Light Conversion Materials by Porous Organic Crystals
Research Director:
Toshikazu Ono(Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University)
Development of aerobic oxidation catalysis based on porous covalent organic frameworks
Research Director:
Kazuhide Kamiya(Assistant Professor, Research Center for Solar Energy Chemistry, Osaka University)
Creation of regular arrangements of nano-spaces in photosynthetic proteins
Research Director:
Yoshitaka Saga(Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Kindai University)
The virtual surface – the use of internal structure to alter external material properties
Research Director:
Easan Sivaniah(Professor, Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University)
Research Director:
Tomoko Shimizu(Senior Researcher, Advanced Key Technologies Division, National Institute for Materials Science)
Controlled structures of colloidal crystals and their applications as novel optical materials
Research Director:
Akiko Toyotama(assistant professor, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya City University)
Research Director:
Masayuki Nihei(Associate Professor, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba)
Research Director:
Hajime Hirao(Associate Professor, Department of Biology and Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong)
Research Director:
Ryotaro Matsuda(Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University)
Creation of Molecular Screw with Chiral Host and Guest and Its Application
Research Director:
Teppei Yamada(Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University)
Research Director:
Takane Imaoka(Associate Professor, Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Production of the unprecedented state of the existing metal ions by utilizing the zeolite field
Research Director:
Akira Oda(Guest Researcher, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama university)
Research Director:
Shoichi Kubo(Senior Researcher, Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science)
Creation of innovative function by hybridization of metal nanoparticles and metal-organic frameworks
Research Director:
Hirokazu Kobayashi(Cooperative Associate Professor, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University)
Controlled Polymer Synthesis using Topochemistry inside Nano Space
Research Director:
Kei Saito(Senior Lecturer, School of Chemistry, Monash University)
Research Director:
Ryota Sakamoto(Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo)
Application of the inner space of giant protein complex to crystallization tool
Research Director:
Yoshikazu Tanaka(Professor, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University)
Synthesis and Mathematical Analysis of Self-assembled Polyhedra
Research Director:
Daishi Fujita(Associate Professor, Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University)
Manipulating the topological properties of materials via auxiliary space dimensions
Research Director:
Nobuhisa Fujita(Assistant Professor, Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University)
Research Director:
Ryosuke Miyake(Assistant professor, Faculity of Core Research, Natural Science Devision, Ochanomizu University)
Artificial hyper-nanospace for mechanism elucidation of cancer metastasis
Research Director:
Takao Yasui(Associate Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University)
Research Director:
Takahiro Yamada(Associate Professor, Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University)
Multi-stable device device applications using stimuli-responsive topological defect networks
Research Director:
Hiroyuki Yoshida(Assistant Professor, Division of Electrical, Elecronic and Information Engineering, Osaka University)
Molecular Implantation and Supramolecular Electronics
Research Director:
Shunichiro Watanabe(Associate Professor, Department of Advanced Materials Science, School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo)