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
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
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