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[Molecular Technology] Establishment of molecular technology towards the Creation of New Functions
※ Affiliations and titles are as of the end of the research activity.
Strategic Objective
Establishment of molecular technology, which is the free control of molecules to bring innovation to environmental and energy materials, electronic materials, and health and medical materials
Research Supervisor
Hisashi Yamamoto（Professor, Chubu University/Emeritus Professor, University of Chicago）
Overview
“Molecular Technology” is a series of technologies that enable us to qualitatively change existing science and technology through purposefully designing and synthesizing molecules and creating the physical, chemical, and biological functions of materials at a molecular level. The creation of new physical properties at the molecular level is the ultimate form of material synthesis in which the best and most suitable molecules selected from an infinite number are freely designed and synthesized by controlling molecular shape/structure, electronic state, aggregate/composite, and transport/migration with the collaborative use of precision synthesis techniques and theoretical and calculation sciences. With this, we can expect the creation of ultimate new intelligent materials that truly are competitive industrially.
In this research area, we shall set as our final goal the establishment of molecular technology that can lead to the creation of unique new intelligent materials, devices, and processes that are innovative as well as precise and unachievable with a mere extension of existing science and technology, which remains at a conventional molecular library, by deepening our exploration of various problems needing to be addressed down to a molecular level and by designing / synthesizing / manipulating / controlling / aggregating those molecules that have desirable functions.
To bring more universality into our research and development in this molecular technology, we shall consider those bottleneck application problems that have not been solved by knowledge of such individual disciples as chemistry, physics, and biology as common and shared ones, and make an effort to build a unique technology system by overcoming those problems through an interdisciplinary approach.
Based on the common base of “Molecular Technology,” those researchers, who have been actively engaging in their respective projects of wide-ranging application and in special fields with little contact with other fields, shall come together to review each other’s research and technology and bring in new perspectives. Ambitious and challenging research topics shall be pursued by those cross-sectional team members who are strongly aware of their mission of making a breakthrough in the development of new intelligent materials to meet wider social needs.
In this research area, we shall set as our final goal the establishment of molecular technology that can lead to the creation of unique new intelligent materials, devices, and processes that are innovative as well as precise and unachievable with a mere extension of existing science and technology, which remains at a conventional molecular library, by deepening our exploration of various problems needing to be addressed down to a molecular level and by designing / synthesizing / manipulating / controlling / aggregating those molecules that have desirable functions.
To bring more universality into our research and development in this molecular technology, we shall consider those bottleneck application problems that have not been solved by knowledge of such individual disciples as chemistry, physics, and biology as common and shared ones, and make an effort to build a unique technology system by overcoming those problems through an interdisciplinary approach.
Based on the common base of “Molecular Technology,” those researchers, who have been actively engaging in their respective projects of wide-ranging application and in special fields with little contact with other fields, shall come together to review each other’s research and technology and bring in new perspectives. Ambitious and challenging research topics shall be pursued by those cross-sectional team members who are strongly aware of their mission of making a breakthrough in the development of new intelligent materials to meet wider social needs.
Research Area Advisors
| Takuzo Aida |
| Katsuhiko Iseki |
| Naohiko Isobe |
| Inagaki Satoshi |
| Hisao Urata |
| Jiro Kasahara |
| Takashi Kato |
| Sawamoto Mitsuo |
| Masaki Sudo |
| Mikiko Sodeoka |
| Takahide Nish |
| Hirohito Hirata |
| Terunori Fujita |
| Kohei Maeda |
| Shinji Murai |
| Yoshitomi Morizawa |
Year Started: 2012
Research Director
Nagahiro Saito (Professor, Institute of Innovation for Future Society, Nagoya University)
- Takahiro Ishizaki (Faculty of Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology)
- Nakamura Jun (Professor, The University of Electro-Communications)
- Hiroharu Yui (Tokyo University of Science)
- Tomohiko Inomata (Nagoya Institute of Technology)
Research Director
Hiroaki Suga (Professor, The University of Tokyo)
Research Director
Masahiro Yamashita (Professor, Tohoku University)
- Yasutaka Kitagawa (Osaka University)
- Tadahiro Komeda (Professor, Tohoku University)
- Masashi Shiraishi (Professor, Osaka University)
Research Director
Takanori Yokota (Professor, Tokyo Medical and Dental University)
- Satoshi Obika (Professor, Osaka University)
- Kouhei Tsumoto (Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo)
- Masahiro Murakami (Professor, Osaka Ohtani University)
- Takeshi Wada (Professor, Tokyo University of Science)
Year Started: 2013
Research Director
Osamu Ishitani (Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
- Ken Onda
- Kazuhide Koike
- Koichi Nozaki (Professor, University of Toyama)
Research Director
Takashi Ooi (Professor, Nagoya University)
- Satoshi Maeda (Professor, Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry, Hokkaido University)
Research Director
Takumi Konno (Professor, Osaka University)
- Mitsutaka Okumura (Professor, Osaka University)
- Yasuhiro Nakazawa (Professor, Osaka University)
Research Director
Shinsuke Sando (Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo)
- Kazuhiro Ichikawa (Professor, Kyushu University)
Research Director
Masataka Nagaoka (Professor, Nagoya University)
Research Director
Itaru Hamachi (Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University)
- Michisuke Yuzaki (Professor, School of Medicine, Keio University)
Year Started: 2014
Research Director
Michinori Suginome (Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University)
Research Director
Takayoshi Suzuki (Professor, Osaka University)
- Yoshinobu Arai (Nihon Rikagaku Industry co.,ltd.)
- Shusaku Uchida (Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University)
- Yuko Okamoto (Specially Appointed Professor, International Affairs, Nagoya University)
- Toshiyuki Sakai (Professor, Graduate School for Medical Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine)
Research Director
Yoshiaki Nakao (Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University)
- Shigeyoshi Sakaki (Program-Specific Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Kyoto University)
- Makoto Yamashita (Professor, Nagoya University)
- Katsunori Suzuki (Chuo University)
Research Director
Eiichi Nakamura (The University of Tokyo)
- Shinji Aramaki
- Haru-Aki Yanagisawa (The University of Tokyo)
- Seiji Yamazoe (Professor, Graduate School of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University)
- Hirohisa Matsuda
