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- Discovery of Ti2InB2 for synthesizing layered TiB
Scientists at Tokyo Tech managed to use boron as the X element in a family of materials called MAX phases, for which only carbon and nitrogen could previously be used. A clever search strategy allo... - Deep microbes' key contribution to earth's carbon cycle
Hydrocarbons play key roles in atmospheric and biogeochemistry, the energy economy, and climate change. Most hydrocarbons form in anaerobic environments through high temperature or microbial decomp... - New system paves the way to construct energetically-independent artificial cells
A team led by associate professor Yutetsu Kuruma of the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Tokyo Institute of Technology has constructed simple artificial cells that can produce chemical energy... - Can a flowing liquid-like material maintain its structural order like crystals?
Scientists at Tokyo Tech discovered a chiral compound, which can spontaneously form a molecular assembly with an extremely large single domain structure beyond a size regime incapable of realizing ... - How crystalline structure can affect the performance of MnO2 catalysts
Scientists at Tokyo Tech have developed and analyzed a novel catalyst for the oxidation of 5-hydroxymethyl furfural, which is crucial for generating new raw materials that replace the classic non-r...
- Metallic nano-particles light up another path towards eco-friendly catalysts
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology produced subnano-sized metallic particles that are very effective as catalysts for the oxidation of hydrocarbons. These catalysts can be as much as 50 ti... - Nanotubes built from protein crystals: Breakthrough in biomolecular engineering
Researchers at Tokyo Tech have succeeded in constructing protein nanotubes from tiny scaffolds made by cross-linking of engineered protein crystals. The achievement could accelerate the development... - Increase starch accumulation in algae
Results from a collaborative study by Tokyo Tech and Tohoku University, Japan, raise prospects for large-scale production of algae-derived starch, a valuable bioresource for biofuels and other rene... - How a tetrahedral substance can be more symmetrical than a spherical atom
Scientists at Tokyo Tech have theoretically demonstrated that special tetrahedron nanostructures composed of certain metals have a higher degree of symmetry than the geometrical symmetry of spheric... - New molecular wires for single-molecule electronic devices
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology designed a new type of molecular wire doped with organometallic ruthenium to achieve unprecedentedly higher conductance than earlier molecular wires. The... - High Performance Nitride Semiconductor for environmentally friendly photovoltaics
A Tokyo Institute of Technology research team has shown copper nitride acts as an n-type semiconductor, with p-type conduction provided by fluorine doping, utilizing a unique nitriding technique ap... - A ruthenium-based catalyst with highly active, flat surfaces outperforms metal-based competitors
Scientists in Japan and India have developed a reusable, high-performance catalyst based on flat-shaped ruthenium nanoparticles (Ru-NP) for the production of valuable chemicals. Due to its demonstr... - Flexible terahertz imagers based on chemically "tunable" carbon nanotube materials
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are beginning to take the electronics world by storm, and now their use in terahertz (THz) technologies has taken a big step forward. Due to their excellent conductivity... - Reducing CO2 with common elements and sunlight
An international collaborative research group including Tokyo Institute of Technology, Universite PARIS DIDEROT and CNRS has discovered that CO2 is selectively reduced to CO when a photocatalyst co... - A micro-thermometer to record tiny temperature changes
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) and their collaborators in Swinburne University of Technology have developed a micrometer-wide thermometer that is sensitive to heat generat... - New semiconducting polymers with record-setting electron mobility for future devices
Scientists at Tokyo Tech have successfully developed n-type semiconducting copolymers with high electron mobilities. They investigated their properties and their effectiveness for thin-film transis... - Highly efficient ammonia synthesis catalyst developed
Researchers at Tokyo Tech have discovered that a catalyst of calcium amide with a small amount of added barium (Ba-Ca(NH2)2) with ruthenium nanoparticles immobilized onto it can synthesize ammonia ...
- One-nanometer trimetallic alloy particles created
A researcher group of Tokyo Institute of Technology succeeded in developing precisely controlled alloy nanoparticles "multimetallic nanoclusters (MNCs)" made of three metals: copper, platinum, and ... - Antiaromatic molecule displays record electrical conductance
Researchers demonstrate high electrical conductance for an antiaromatic nickel complex - an order of magnitude higher than for a similar aromatic complex. Since the conductance is also tunable by e... - Realizing molecular robots that work in vivo
A group of Associate Professor Ryuji Kawano of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Division of Biotechnology and Life Science, Institute of Engineering, and Associate Professor Masahiro... - Algal residue - an alternative carbon resource for pharmaceuticals and polyesters
Microalgae have received much attention in biomass production due to many strains having a high biomass productivity per unit time and per unit area. Algae produce high levels of oil as well as car... - Nanocages for gold particles: what is happening inside?
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology have used high-resolution crystallography to uncover the mechanism behind protein-assisted synthesis of gold nanoparticles, providing a platform for desi... - Biofuel produced by microalgae
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology have identified unique lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferases as being the central enzymes for triacylglycerol synthesis by oleaginous alga Nannochlorops... - Expectation of application from biomass resources to useful chemical products manufacturing
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology have developed a bifunctional cerium phosphate catalyst for the chemoselective acetalization of biomass-derived 5-hydroxymethylfurfural with alcohols. Th... - In cell molecular sieve from protein crystal
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology, RIKEN, and Kyoto Institute of Technology have applied rational crystal design to create protein crystals with extended porous network to accumulate exog...