Welcome to the Materials Chemistry Laboratory!
We are actively developing innovative mixtures composed of ten or more compounds, with the goal of achieving functions, structures, and reactions that are unattainable by individual components alone. This approach harnesses the power of emergence to unlock new possibilities.
Student Recruitment
The Materials Chemistry Laboratory is accepting applications for both Master's and Doctoral courses. We also welcome applications from other universities and research institutions. We also offer lab tours at any time, so please feel free to contact us.
Admissions information.
News
- 2025/04/01
- Associate Prof. Atsushi MIURA and Associate Prof. Atsushi KOBAYASHI will run their own independent laboratories.
- 2025/02/01
- Assist. Prof. Keitaro MATSUOKA and Prof. Kazuki SADA contributed to the article "Design of LCST-type phase separation by desolvation control" on the February 2025 issue of 『会誌「高分子」2025年2月号』.
- 2025/01/23
- Mr. Koki TAKASU (M1) won the Best Poster Award at the 59th Hokkaido Section Research and Presentation Meeting in 2024.
- 2024/09/25
- Mr. Koki TAKASU (M1) has been selected for the Hokkaido University Smart Materials Science Program "Ambitious Program for Smart Materials Science (SMatS)".
Recent Publications
- 2025/03/29
- The paper on the research that tracked the photoionization process of OCS molecules using ab initio molecular dynamics has been published: "Dynamics of Doubly Ionized OCS Molecules and Hidden Reaction Pathways".
- 2025/03/26
- The paper on the reaction mechanism analysis of the Beckmann rearrangement using the naturally developed Natural Reaction Orbital (NRO) has been published: "Unraveling Reaction Path Bifurcation: Insights into Electron Movement via Natural Reaction Orbitals".
- 2025/02/22
- The paper on temperature-responsive polymers in mixed solvent systems of alcohol and non-polar solvents has been published: "Phenolic Resins with Semi-Rigid Polymer Backbones Exhibiting LCST-Type Phase Separations in the Mixtures of Alcohols and Non-Polar Solvents".
- 2024/12/09
- The paper on speeding up chemical reaction analysis theory using the dimensionality reduction technique has been published: "Acceleration of Reaction Space Projector Analysis Using Combinatorial Optimization: Application to Organic Chemical Reactions".
- 2024/05/10
- We were asked by Nippon Kogyo Publishing to contribute an article to the monthly magazine "Plastics" entitled: "柔らかく溶解性の高いN -置換型ナイロンの特徴". This is something that our laboratory has been working on energetically in recent years.
- 2024/05/07
- The paper on temperature-responsive polymers in mixed organic solvents has been published: "Thermal Cleavage of Hydrogen Bonds-Induced LCST-type Phase Separation of PHEMA and Related Poly(hydroxyalkyl (meth)acrylate)s in Mixed Organic Solvents".