Laboratory List
G30 Chemistry Program at Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology is managed by the cooperation of the following 3 departments:
・ Molecular & Macromolecular Chemistry・ Materials Chemistry
・ Biomolecular Engineering＊Note: Graduate students under G30 Chem-Eng Program will be nominally enrolled in “Materials Chemistry”. However, undergraduate G30 Chem-Eng students can belong to all research groups in the following three
departments: the Department of Molecular and Macromolecular Chemistry, the Department of Materials Chemistry, and the Department of Biomolecular Engineering.

Chemistry
Graduate SchoDepartment

Research GroupResearch Area

Job title Name

EmailResearch Interests

Hiroshi Shinokubo

hshino[at]chembio.nagoya-u.ac.jp

・Synthesis of Novel Porphyrin Analogues
・Synthesis of New Functional π-Systems

Professor

Takashi Ooi

tooi[at]chembio.nagoya-u.ac.jp

・Design of Molecular Catalysts for Development of Selective Organic
Transformations and Mechanistic Elucidation
・Development of Small Organic Molecules for Understanding andControlling Biological Systems

Catalysis in Organic
Synthesis

Professor

Kazuaki Ishihara

ishihara[at]cc.nagoya-u.ac.jp

・Design of tailor-made conformationally flexible chiral supramolecularcatalysts beyond enzymes
・Redox catalysis: Design of environmentally benign halogen or ironcatalysts

Organic Chemistry ofMacromolecules

Professor

Masami Kamigaito

kamigait[at]chembio.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Molecular Structures
Professorand Structural Dynamics

Ji-Young Shinｊyshin[at]chembio.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Applied Physical
Chemistry

Catalyst Design

Professor

Atsushi Satsuma

satsuma[at]chembio.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Materials Chemistry

Applied Physical
Chemistry

Material Design
Chemistry

Professor

Tsukasa Torimoto

torimoto[at]chembio.nagoya-u.ac.jp

EngineeringMaterials Chemistry

Solid StateChemistry

Structural andFunctional Chemistry

Professor

Ryotaro Matsuda

ryotaro.matsuda[at]chembio.nagoyau.ac.jp

・Nanospace Design of Metal Organic Frameworks
・Development of Energy Related Materials Based on Molecular Adsorption

Engineering

Materials Chemistry

Solid State
Chemistry

Functional Materials
Chemistry

Professor

Chikara Ohtsuki

ohtsuki[at]chembio.nagoya-u.ac.jp

・Development of Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Nanomaterials for Biomaterials
Application
・Computational chemistry for the analysis and development of novel
functional materials.

Engineering

Molecular andMacromolecular Chemistry

Molecular Chemistry Organic Materials

Professor

Engineering

Molecular andMacromolecular Chemistry

Molecular Chemistry Organic Reactions

Engineering

Molecular andMacromolecular Chemistry

Molecular ChemistryEngineering

Molecular andMacromolecular Chemistry

MacromolecularChemistryEngineering

Molecular andMacromolecular ChemistryEngineering

Materials ChemistryEngineering

・Living Cationic Polymerization via Reversible Addition-Fragmentation
Chain Transfer Mechanism
・Controlled Radical Polymerization of Pinocarvone Derived from NaturallyOccurring α-Pinene
・Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Organic Compounds and MetalOrganic Complexes.
・Exploration of Novel Functional Molecules Created with Polypyrrolyl
Oligomers
・Development of solid catalysts for clean automotive exhaust, methane
selective oxidation, and hydrogen storage-Reaction mechanism of solid
catalysts studied by in-situ spectroscopies and theoretical calculations
・Development of Novel Metal Alloy Nanoparticles for Next Generation FuelCells
・Preparation of Multinary Semiconductor Quantum Dots for Exploring
Novel Photoluminesence Materials

Chemistry
Graduate SchoDepartment

Research GroupResearch Area

Job title Name

EmailEngineering

Materials Chemistry

Solid State
Chemistry

Porous Materials
Chemistry

Professor

Kazuki Nakanishi

dknakanishi[at]imass.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Engineering

Materials Chemistry

Solid StateChemistry

Functional Materials
Engineering

Professor

Minoru Osada

mosada[at]imass.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Engineering

Biomolecular Engineering

Chemical Biotechnology Professor

Hiroshi Murakami

murah[at]chembio.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Supramolecular
Biochemistry

Professor

Hiroyuki Asanuma

asanuma[at]chembio.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Chemical Genetics

Professor

Shigeki Kiyonaka

kiyonaka[at]chembio.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Biochemical Engineering Professor

Hiroyuki Honda

honda[at]chembio.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Environmental
Biotechnology

Katsutoshi Horikhori[at]chembio.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Engineering

Biomolecular Engineering

Engineering

Biomolecular Engineering

Engineering

Biomolecular EngineeringEngineering

Biomolecular Engineering

BiomolecularChemistry
BiomolecularChemistry
Biosystem
Engineering
Biosystem
Engineering
Biosystem
Engineering

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Professor

Research Interests
・Liquid-phase synthesis of hierarchically porous materials and theirapplication to analytical science・Low-density solids with organic-organic hybrid compositions for superthermal insulation
・Exploration of novel functional materials based on 2D oxide nanosheets
・Controlled assembly of 2D oxide nanosheets and their applications toelectronic materials
・In Vitro Selection of Functional Biomolecules
・Chemical Protein Synthesis
・Design of acyclic artificial nucleic acid (XNA) for biotechnology
・Functional reinstallation of DNA with base-surrogates・Chemical Biology for neurotransmitter receptors
・Development of new chemical genetics tools
・Screening of novel functional peptides using peptide array
・Cells/tissues/organs on chips using BioMEMS
・Molecular mechanism of bacterial adhesion to solid surfaces
・Application of adhesive bacterionanofibers for microbial immobilization