The program has established an academic center-of-excellence in mesochemical research. We believe that mesochemistry will serve as a fundamental cornerstone underpinning significant advances in material science in the next generation. External evaluation is an essential component in the formation of this program.
Five Research Fields and Their Synergistic Collaboration
Synergistic collaboration among five research fields is able to promote our material researches in all chemical fields,
which makes our center to be an excellent international research core. Mesochemistry is strongly developed for
the establishment of novel and universal methodologies for preparing practical materials from mesostructured ones.
| Fields | Research Theme |
| Precision Synthesis | Mesostructured materials are designed and prepared by finely tuned synthetic methods by considering the dimension, hierarchy, time, and space over a wide academic areas including organic synthetic chemistry, polymer chemistry, and solid state chemistry. |
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| Hierarchical Control | One of the essential points of mesochemistry is the creation of hierarchical structures by the integration of nanoscale structural and functional units. The control of mesostructure is realized by the use of nanobuilding units as templates, and highly ordered mesostructures are created in the bulk. |
| Interfaces and Surfaces | Highly controlled nano- and meso-structured materials and the preparative methods of interfacial nano/meso structures are designed by utilizing molecular arrangements, self-integration, and atomic rearrangement in solid-liquid interfaces. |
| Biofunction | Biological mesostructures, formed by materials design on the basis of nanostructure-activity relationships, are created and characterized for the utilization of biological materials regarded as mesostructured materials. The biological functions are also analyzed by the structure-activity correlation at a meso-level. |
| Theory and Advanced Characterization | Interactions at nano- and meso-scales are clarified from the viewpoints of molecular structures and configurations as well as their dynamics. The basic principles of mesochemistry and their practical applications with high-level capacities of characterizations are studied. |