Tsuji Laboratory
We are conducting both basic & applied research on materials nanotechnology focusing on self-organization process.
Numerous structures and shapes exist on the earth.
Living organisms as well as inorganic matters have beautiful morphologies.
Examples are wind ripples in desert hills, layer structures in the soil, and clouds in the sky.
Various morphologies can be seen both in these macroscopic objects by the naked eyes
and in microscopic objects by the microscopes.
On the other hand, one of the current concerns of the materials technology
is how to realize more advanced functions by simpler ways.
For this purpose, it is insufficient to rely solely on the properties of single molecules,
and it is essential to understand and utilize the variety of properties/functions of molecular assemblies.
But the molecular assemblies have dimensions of nanometer-scale,
and such tiny structures can hardly be realized on a large scale by conventional methods.
Thus much attention is being paid to the "self-organization" process,
in which the nano-scaled structures/morphologies are controlled by utilizing the natural phenomena.
We focus on the "bottom-up" nanotechnology based on this self-organization process,
and are trying to develop new routes for the structure control and the function design of materials.
