International Research Excellence
Principal Investigators
Jürgen Janek
Distinguished Professor
Justus Liebig University Giessen (Germany) 🔗
– Research Areas –
- ・Materials for energy/sensor technologies
- ・Electrode kinetics of solid electrolytes
- ・Electrochemical surface control
- ・Electrochemistry and plasmaphysics
- ・Bioanalytic using TOF-SIMS
– Lab Members –
- Kotaro Yoshida, Assistant Professor
Mauricio Terrones
Visiting Professor
The Pennsylvania State University (USA) 🔗
– Research Areas –
- ・Carbon nanomaterials (carbon nanotubes, graphene, and 2D materials)
- ・Synthesis and theory of nanomaterials
- ・Characterization and in-situ studies of nanomaterials
- ・Defect engineering in nanomaterials
- ・Nanomaterial-based devices and sensor applications
William F. DeGrado
Distinguished Professor
University of California San Francisco (USA) 🔗
– Research Areas –
- ・De novo protein design (a term he pioneered for artificial protein design)
- ・Membrane protein design
- ・Structure-based design of small-molecule therapeutics for human diseases
- ・Peptide–membrane interactions and development of host-defense peptide mimetics
- ・Development of chemical tools and probes to study protein structure, dynamics, and interactions
– Lab Members –
- Masaharu Somiya, Associate Professor