Team Leader: Masato KAKIHANA (Tohoku University)
Project: "Design and Synthesis of Inorganic Clusters for Controlled Formation of Fusion Materials”
Masato KAKIHANA (Team Leader/Principal Investigator)
Professor, Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University
Research area: Synthesis of Inorganic Materials, Environmentally Benign Green Process, Coordination Chemistry in Aqueous Solutions
Makoto KOBAYASHI (Co-Investigator; Renkei-Kenkyusha)
Assistant Professor, Institute of Multidisciplinary Research and Advanced Materials, Tohoku University
Research area: Synthesis and Morphology Control of Inorganic Materials, Coordination Chemistry in Aqueous Solutions
Project: “Design and Synthesis of Control Molecules for Creative Development and Exploration of Functions of Fusion Materials”
Takashi KATO (Project Leader/Principal Investigator)
Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
Research area: Self-assembled Functional Materials including Supramolecular Liquid Crystals, Stimuli- and Environment-responsive Self-organized Materials, Nanostructured Ion- and Electron-Active Materials, Liquid-crystalline Physical Gels, Functional Polymers, and Biomineralization-Inspired Organic/Inorganic Hybrids.
Tatsuya NISHIMURA (Co-Investigator; Renkei-Kenkyusha)
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
Research area: Functional Polymers, Organic/Inorganic Hybrids, Biomineralization
Takeshi SAKAMOTO (Co-Investigator; Renkei-Kenkyusha)
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
Research area: Inorganic/Organic Hybrid, Self-Organization, Functional Polymers, Biomineralization
Project:“Computer Simulation on Creative Development of Fusion Materials through Molecular Control”
Hiroki NADA (Principal Investigator)
Senior Researcher,Environmental Management Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Research area: Crystal Growth, Computational Physics
Gen SAZAKI (Co-Investigator; Renkei-Kenkyusha)
Professor,Phase Transition Dynamics Group, Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University
Research area: Crystal Growth, Advanced Optical Microscopy, Snow and Ice Crystals, Protein Crystals
Project: “Fine Design and Synthesis of Fusion Materials Based on Functionalized Peptides”
Ayae SUGAWARA NARUTAKI (Principal Investigator)
Associate Professor,Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University
Research area: Polymer Materials Chemistry, Biopolymers, Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials, Self-Assembly
Project: “Construction of Liquid-Crystalline Phases with a Dynamic Hierarchical Structure and Creation of Their Metal Hybrid Materials”
Atsushi YOSHIZAWA (Principal Investigator)
Professor, Department of Frontier Materials Chemistry, Hirosaki University
Research area: Organic Materials Chemistry, Liquid-Crystalline Materials, Chemical Biology
Project: “Multi-layer Nanoclustering Design on the Platform of DNA Compaction Structure”
Mitsuo UMETSU (Principal Investigator)
Associate Professor, Department of Biomolecular Engineering, Tohoku University
Research area: Biotechnology, Protein Engineering, Molecular Recognition, Hybrid Self-assembly
Project: “Development of the Functional Nano-Materials Based on the Biomineralization Mechanisms”
Tomohisa OGAWA (Principal Investigator)
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University
Research area: Biomineralization, Biopolymers, Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials, Protein
Project: “Novel Inorganic Nanosheets and Their Biomimetic Assemblies for Functional Nanoarchitectures”
Minoru OSADA (Principal Investigator)
MANA Scientist / Senior Researcher, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
Research area: Materials Physics, Two-dimensional Nanomaterials, Optical Physics
Project: “Magnetic Alignment of Hierarchically Self-Assembled Clustered Complexes (until June 27, 2013)”
Sota SATO (Principal Investigator)
Associate Professor (ERATO),Advanced Institute for Materials Research (WPI-AIMR), Tohoku University
Research area: Organic Chemistry, Coordination Chemistry, NMR Spectroscopy
Project: “Construction of Porous Networks by Assembly of Organosilica Hybrid Clusters”
Atsushi SHIMOJIMA (Principal Investigator)
Associate Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University
Research area: Inorganic Synthetic Chemistry, Inorganic–Organic Hybrid Materials, Nanporous Materials
Project: “Construction of Fusion Materials Using Self-Assembling Peptide Nanofibers”
Hisakazu MIHARA (Principal Investigator)
Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Research area: Peptide, Biopolymers, Nanofiber, Self-Assembly
Project: “Construction of Organic Molecule-Inorganic Molecule Fused Supramolecular Hydrogel”
Masamichi YAMANAKA (Principal Investigator)
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Shizuoka University
Research area: Supramolecular Chemistry, Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Project: “Design of Stimulus-responsive Structurally Colored Balloons and Synthesis of Vesicle-like Structure of Gold Nanorods on the Microcapsules”
Kenji HIGASHIGUCHI (Principal Investigator)
Assistant Professor,Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
Research area: Organic Photochemistry, Organic Radicals, Structural Colors
Project: “Synthesis of P-Stereogenic Polymers: Control of the Higher-ordered Structures Leading to Optically Active Fusion Materials”
Yasuhiro MORISAKI (Principal Investigator)
Lecturer, Department of Polymer Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
Research area: Synthetic polymer chemistry, Synthetic organic chemistry, Organometallic chemistry
Project: “Construction of Fusion Materials Composed of Metallosupramolecular Building Units”
Takumi KONNO (Principal Investigator)
Professor, Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University
Research area: Coordination Chemistry, Metal Complexes, Metallosuplarmolecules
Project: “Elucidation of Mechanism for Silicon Biomineralization towards Development of New Routes to Synthesis of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials”
Katsuhiko SHIMIZU (Principal Investigator)
Associate Professor, Organization for Regional Industrial Academic Cooperation, Tottori University
Research area: Biopolymers, Organic-Inorganic Composite, Marine Organisms, Genetic Engineering
Project: “Design and Synthesis of Caged Peptide for Spatiotemporal Control of Biomineralization”
Akira SHIGENAGA (Principal Investigator)
Assistant Professor, Institute of Health Biosciences and Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokushima
Research area: Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Peptide Chemistry, Chemistry of Caged Compound
Project: “Creation of Dress-upped Viral Fusion Materials ”
Kazunori MATSUURA (Principal Investigator)
Professor, Graduate School of Engineering , Tottori University
Research area: Biopolymers, Self-organized Materials, Synthetic Virology