Chemical Science and Engineering Graduate Major

June 19, 2025

Sustainable polymer modification with light for next-generation materials

June 5, 2025

How to Create Aqueous 100 nm-Sized Materials with Polycavities

May 15, 2025

Self-assembly of a large metal-peptide capsid nanostructure through geometric control

March 27, 2025

Color-Changing Fluorescent Dyes Unlock New Frontiers in Cellular Thermosensing

January 30, 2025

New Insights on Radical Trapping in 12-Phosphatetraphene Uncovered!

October 10, 2024

A Breakthrough in Chiral Capsule Tools for Advanced Optical Technologies

October 8, 2024

Building Better Solar Cells: Assembly of 2D Molecular Structures with Triptycene Scaffold

September 18, 2024

Exploring Ternary Metal Sulfides as Electrocatalyst for Carbon Dioxide Reduction Reactions

August 30, 2024

Researchers Shed Light on How to Make Photopolymerization Much More Efficient

August 30, 2024

Assist. Prof. ORITA Yasuhiko and TAKEHARA Ryosuke received the 23rd Tokyo Tech Challenging Research Awards.

August 22, 2024

A Deep Dive into Polyimides for High-Frequency Wireless Telecommunications

August 5, 2024

Building Blocks for the Future: Enantioselective [2+2+1] Cycloaddition Reactions with Rhodium Catalysis

July 4, 2024

Transforming Inexpensive Quinolines into Complex Drug Candidates

July 3, 2024

Novel Catalysts for Improved Methanol Production Using Carbon Dioxide Dehydrogenation

June 20, 2024

Transition-Metal-Free Zeolite Catalyst for Direct Conversion of Methane to Methanol

May 31, 2024

A Novel Multifunctional Catalyst Turns Methane into Valuable Hydrocarbons

May 28, 2024

Alkyl-Aromatic Hybrid Micelles Formed from Emergent Umbrella-Shaped Molecules

May 8, 2024

Synthesizing π-Extended Carbohelicene-Based Circularly Polarized Luminescence Emitters

April 25, 2024

From Defects to Order: Spontaneously Emerging Crystal Arrangements in Perovskite Halides

March 18, 2024

Progress in Fluorescent Dyes to Better Visualize Lipid Membrane Order in Live Cells

March 12, 2024

Isomerism Can Control and Increase the Diversity of Structure of Covalent Organic Frameworks, Emerging Nanoporous Solids

December 19, 2023

The laboratory search website (MCT LabSearch) is launched.

October 6, 2023

Assoc. Prof. Takane Imaoka awarded the JSCC Award for Creative Research 2023

October 2, 2023

A New Design Strategy for Mechanoresponsive Materials with High Thermal Tolerance

September 4, 2023

A First for Ferrocene: Organometallic Capsule with Unusual Charge-Transfer Interactions

August 18, 2023

A Nanocapsulation Strategy for Facile Analysis and Processing of Insoluble Aromatic Polymers in Water

August 7, 2023

Steric Zipper Interactions in Artificial Crystalline Peptide β-Sheets

August 4, 2023

Assistant Professor NAGASHIMA Yuki received the 22nd Tokyo Tech Challenging Research Awards and also selected the Suematsu Challenging Research Award

July 25, 2023

Simultaneous Synthesis and Fixing of Covalent Organic Frameworks

July 20, 2023

New Design Rule for High-Entropy Superionic Solid-State Conductors

July 4, 2023

Towards Synthesis of Phenanthridine-Based Pharmaceutical Compounds

April 26, 2023

FY2022 STAR grant recipients selected

April 7, 2023

An Improved, Visible Light-Harvesting Catalyst to Speed Up Reactions

February 21, 2023

New Horizons for Organoboron and Organosilicon Chemistry with Triple Elementalization

January 24, 2023

Studying Polymer Gels Through the Lens of Mechanochemistry and Solvent Swelling

January 13, 2023

Enabling Nanoscale Thermoelectrics with a Novel Organometallic Molecular Junction

October 17, 2022

NPG Asia Materials Symposium 2022

October 3, 2022

Research Students (Privately Funded)

August 22, 2022

Associate Professor ISHIGE Ryohei, Assistant Professor KAMBE Tetsuya and Assistant Professor MATSUI Naoki received the 2022 Tokyo Tech Challenging Research Award.

August 5, 2022

Building Molecular Bridges: New Crystal Engineering Strategy to Design Ultrabright Fluorescent Solid Dyes

June 20, 2022

Real-time Imaging of Dynamic Atom-atom Interactions

June 6, 2022

Electrochemical Synthesis Now Possible Without Electric Power Source

March 11, 2022

Atom by Atom: Building Precise Smaller Nanoparticles with Templates

March 1, 2022

Inorganic Borophene Liquid Crystals: A Superior New Material for Optoelectronic Devices

February 8, 2022

Academic year 2020 Best Teacher Award recipients celebrated - Assoc. Prof. Gen-ichi Konishi recieved Best Teacher Award – Highest award for excellence -

January 17, 2022

Scientists Reduce All-solid-state Battery Resistance by Heating It

December 3, 2021

Visualizing Temperature Transport: An Unexpected Technique for Nanoscale Characterization

November 25, 2021

New Polymer Detection Method to Turn the (Pep)Tide in the Fight Against Water Pollution

November 2, 2021

Plant from Plastics: Bio-based Polymers Can Be Transformed into Fertilizers

October 27, 2021

Novel Peroxide-based Material Emits Fluorescence in Response to Stress

September 1, 2021

It's Elementary: Visualizing Molecular Motion of Substituted 9-Phosphaanthracene

August 19, 2021

Novel Molecular Imaging Technique Casts Complex Coordination Molecules in a New Light!

August 16, 2021

Less Is More: "Reduction" Allows for Cleaner and More Efficient Catalytic Reactions

July 27, 2021

ASUNARO Grant established, 5 researchers including Assist. Prof. Ryosuke TAKEHARA awarded in first call

July 2, 2021

Striking Gold: Synthesizing Green Gold Nanoparticles for Cancer Therapy with Biomolecules

June 10, 2021

Bipolar Order: A Straightforward Technique to Have More Control Over Organic Thin Films

June 2, 2021

Ice core data show why, despite lower sulfur emissions in U.S. and Western Europe, air pollution is dropping more slowly

June 1, 2021

Prof. Ken Nakajima receives The Society Award given by The Japan Society of Vacuum and Surface Science.

May 18, 2021

Touched by Light: Photoexcited Stannyl Anions Are Great for Producing Organotin Compounds

March 3, 2021

Dethroning Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen Production with Inexpensive Alternative Material

February 4, 2021

A Show of Force: Novel Polymer that Toughens Up and Changes Color Upon Mechanical Stress

January 28, 2021

Keeping a Clean Path: Doubling the Capacity of Solid-State Lithium Batteries

January 19, 2021

Mechanophores: Making Polymer Crystallization Processes Crystal Clear

December 23, 2020

Silver Linings: Adding Silver to the Nanoclusters Can Do Wonders for their Luminescence

November 30, 2020

Taking a Shine to Polymers: Fluorescent Molecule Betrays the Breakdown of Polymer Materials

November 25, 2020

Fostering creativity in researchers: How Automation Can Revolutionize Materials Research

November 13, 2020

Smaller than Ever—Exploring the Unusual Properties of Quantum-sized Materials

October 27, 2020

New study shows how complex metabolism may have self-assembled from simple precursors

October 9, 2020

Four teams receive first DLab Challenge research grant －Assoc. Prof. Keita Yamada was elected the grant recipients－

September 16, 2020

Going Small for Big Solutions: Sub-Nanoparticle Catalysts Made from Coinage Elements as Effective Catalysts

September 9, 2020

Welcome to Interdisciplinary Education Program on Material Research and Development Synergized by Data Science for Advanced Human Resource (Id-MatD2)

August 17, 2020

Scientists identify missing source of atmospheric carbonyl sulfide

July 30, 2020

Heat Smarter, Not Harder— How Microwaves Make Catalytic Reactions More Efficient

July 27, 2020

’Ironing’ out the differences: Understanding superconductivity in ultrathin FeSe

May 12, 2020

Novel tin "bubbles" spur advances in the development of integrated chips

April 2, 2020

Prof. Naohiro Yoshida named Clair C. Patterson Medalist and Geochemistry Fellow

February 27, 2020

Synthesizing a Superatom: Opening Doors to their Use as Substitutes for Elemental Atoms

February 10, 2020

The power of going small: Copper oxide subnanoparticle catalysts prove most superior

January 24, 2020

Mixing the unmixable —A novel approach for efficiently fusing different polymers

November 26, 2019

Small, fast, and highly energy-efficient memory device inspired by lithium-ion batteries

November 13, 2019

Nitrous oxide emissions set to rise in the western North Pacific Ocean

October 29, 2019

How perovskite in solar cells recrystallizes and why modified carbon nanotubes can help overcome the reproducibility problem by making use of this

October 16, 2019

Eco-friendly electrochemical catalysts using solar cells to harvest energy from the sun

September 17, 2019

2019 Tokyo Tech Challenging Research Award

September 12, 2019

Four Tokyo Tech researchers receive 2019 Suematsu Digital Technology Award

September 10, 2019

Discovery of periodic tables for molecules

August 30, 2019

Can't get thinner than this: synthesis of atomically flat boron sheets

June 24, 2019

A metal-free, sustainable approach to CO2 reduction

May 20, 2019

Associate Professor Ken Motokura receive FY2019 MEXT Commendation

February 18, 2019

Naohiro Yoshida attends AGU Honors Ceremony

November 29, 2018

Making it crystal clear: Crystallinity reduces resistance in all-solid-state batteries

November 8, 2018

Prof. Naohiro Yoshida awarded Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon

October 17, 2018

How a tetrahedral substance can be more symmetrical than a spherical atom

October 15, 2018

Breakthrough in blending metals: Precise control of multimetallic one-nanometer cluster formation achieved

October 12, 2018

Naohiro Yoshida elected an AGU Fellow

August 31, 2018

All wired up: New molecular wires for single-molecule electronic devices

August 15, 2018

Expanding the limits of Li-ion batteries: Electrodes for all-solid-state batteries

May 15, 2018

Non-toxic filamentous virus helps quickly dissipate heat generated by electronic devices

April 4, 2017

Isotopic makeup of atmospheric sulfate and nitrate

December 7, 2016

New aspect of atom mimicry for nanotechnology applications

September 27, 2016

Controllable light-emitting materials to advance light sensing and nano-medicine

July 11, 2016

Associate Professor Shinsuke Inagi receives 2016 MEXT Young Scientists' Prize

May 19, 2016

Fine tuning phosphorous heterocycle materials for organic electronics

April 1, 2016

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