New Energy Science
While energy is indispensable for the survival of the human race, fossil energy resources such as oil and coal are facing the greatest crisis of depletion. In response, the development of new and sustainable energy resources and effective use of energy have become essential. Given such conditions, fields such as electric energy, dynamic energy, heat energy, chemical energy and fusion energy are merged in this major and students will conduct education and research on the development and effective use of energy from various aspects. The students will also be engaged in educational research on the search for fundamental patterns of the existence of substances, space-time and energy; analysis of molecular energy such as laser spectrometry and radio spectrometry using high-sensitive and high-precision methods; condensed molecular materials chemistry such as high-functional catalytic chemistry, high polymer chemistry, coordination chemistry, dynamics of material exchange and energy harmony, hydrogen isotope science including tritium; basic science and material development of fusion; dynamics in terrestrial evolution and formation of subterranean resources, etc. from broad perspectives ranging from elementary particles to the universe.
■Electric energy system
Conduct educational research on advanced high-power electronics, linear motors and actuators, high-density plasma, generation of ion beams, thin-film and material technologies using plasma and the observation and projection of lightning discharges, centering on high-efficiency conversion of electric energy and mechanical energy as well as high voltage and high-current technologies.
［Faculty］
- Masaaki Sakui (Advanced power electronics engineering, professor)
- Hiroaki Ito (Advanced plasma and charged particle engineering, professor)
- Takahisa Ohji (Advanced electromagnetic engineering, associate professor)
- Kenji Amei (Advanced power conversion engineering, lecturer)
■Thermofluid system
As basic and applied study of properties of heat and fluid, as well as the conversion of such energy, conduct educational research on heat generation, accumulation, transfer, conversion and their use technologies, fluid transfer, diffusion and phase changes, the microstructure of turbulence and the combined phenomena of heat and fluid from the perspectives of effective use of energy.
［Faculty］
- Atsumu Tezaki (Advanced heat energy engineering, professor)
- Kiyoshi Kawaguchi (Advanced applied thermofluid engineering, professor)
- Yoshio Hirasawa (Advanced applied thermal conduction, professor)
- Takeshi Seta (Advanced numerical analysis of thermal fluid flow, associate professor)
- Daisuke Watanabe (Advanced applied fluid engineering, lecturer)
■Transfer phenomenon system
Understand the theories of momentum, heat and material transfer and their similarities, grasp the phenomena by experiments and conduct educational research based on the theory of transfer phenomena, aiming to develop energy-saving technologies, simplification of processes and minimum-emission technologies for unit operation of heat energy and diffuse systems in industrial processes.
［Faculty］
- Masamichi Yoshida (Theory of transport phenomena, associate professor)
■Energy material basic science
Conduct wide-ranging educational research about what is a basic material, what kind of forces are working between the materials, how the Universe has been formed and developed and what mathematical expressions are appropriate for ultimate theories of material, time and space.
［Faculty］
- Takeshi Kurimoto (Advanced fundamental substance energy, professor)
- Shinya Kanemura (Advanced particle cosmology, associate professor)
■Molecular energy basic science
Unveil molecular spectra and precise molecular structures that are important for physical chemistry, astronomy and environmental science by using the methods of laser and microwave spectroscopy. Techniques of trapping and cooling of atoms and molecules are investigated and are applied to precise measurements and tests of fundamental physics.
［Faculty］
- Fusakazu Matsushima (Advanced laser spectroscopy, professor)
- Yoshiki Moriwaki (Advanced quantum electronics, professor)
- Kaori Kobayashi (Advanced molecular spectroscopy, associate professor)
- Katsunari Enomoto (Advanced molecular spectroscopy, associate professor)
■Basic chemistry of light energy conversion
Education and research on photofunctionals for conversion of light to chemical and electric energy using transition-metal complexes containing heavy metal ions by elucidating their geometrical changes and reaction dynamics in photoexcited states and constructing theoretical models for the photofunctional mechanism.
［Faculty］
- Koichi Nozaki (Advanced photophysical chemistry, professor)
- Munetaka Iwamura (Advanced transition-metal photochemistry, lecturer)
■Catalytic physical chemistry
Education and research on functional solids, especially, on the development of new catalysts for resolve the energy and environmental problems. We conduct basic researches, theoretically and experimentally, to acquire more understanding about these catalysts and catalytic reactions.
［Faculty］
- Tsutomu Osawa (Advanced catalytic chemistry, associate professor)
■Energy environment science
Toward the establishment of the academic basis for a hydrogen energy system that replaces fossil fuel, conduct education and research on safe and effective use technologies of hydrogen isotope functions and resource-recycling technologies for various types of materials in a new academic field that covers nuclear fusion engineering, hydrogen energy science and material engineering.
［Faculty］
- Masao Matsuyama (Advanced radiation metrology, professor)
- Takayuki Abe (Advanced hydrogen energy materials, professor)
- Yuji Hatano (Advanced fusion materials, professor)
- Yasuhiko taker (Study of fusion and radiation safety, visiting professor)
- Yukio Nakamura (Fusion and plasma science and engineering, visiting professor)
- Yuji Torikai (Advanced radioisotope chemistry, associate professor)
- Masanori Hara (Advanced hydrogen isotope chemistry, associate professor)
- Akira Taguchi (Advanced catalytic transformation, lecturer)
- Satoshi Akamaru (Advanced inorganic functional materials, assistant professor)
■Geosphere material system science
We conduct education and research for unveiling the mechanisms of the material cycle and chemical reactions that control the distribution of underground resources and changes in the global environment during 4.6 billion years of Earth history. In particular, we explore the material cycle, chemical reaction, heat history, and environmental changes in the surface from the birth of the Earth up to the present on the basis of accurate age dating, using solid substances that record the Earth history such as minerals, rocks, and sedimentary strata.
［Faculty］
- Masaaki Shimizu (Advanced resource science, professor)
- Shigeru Otoh (Advanced historical geology, professor)
- Kenji Kashiwagi (Advanced stratigraphy, associate professor)
- Yasuo Ishizaki (Advanced volcanology, associate professor)
