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PI Shin Mukai Professor

PI message

Various mass transfer and heat transfer processes are involved in material manufacturing. In order to maximize the productivity of the materials, such processes must be efficiently synchronized, but this is often not the case. If improvement of synchronization can be achieved in such cases, the production rate and productivity of the material can be drastically increased. At our laboratory, we intend to improve the productivity in material manufacturing through the enhancement of synchronization of mass transfer and heat transfer processes, for example, by modifying the method of starting material introduction and by using carefully designed structured catalysts.

Research

At our Laboratory of Material Design and Engineering, we aim to effectively develop new materials using techniques based on chemical engineering principles. We focus not only on the functions of the materials themselves, but also on the development of efficient processes to synthesize them and new applications to effectively use them. Currently, we mainly work on the development of porous materials to be used as catalyst supports and adsorbents. For example, we have developed a new process to synthesize porous materials having a unique hierarchical pore system by freezing its raw material unidirectionally. We have also developed various original processes to synthesize carbon nanotubes/nanofibers and unique porous materials.

Member

• Shin Mukai

  Professor

  Research Field

  Chemical Engineering, Chemical Reaction Engineering, Catalysis Science and Technology, Adsorption Science and Technology
• Yuta Nakasaka

  Associate Professor

  Research Field

  Chemical Engineering, Chemical Reaction Engineering, Catalytic Reaction Engineering, Adsorption
• Nobuhiro Iwasa

  Assistant Professor

  Research Field

  Chemical Engineering, Catalytic Chemistry, Chemical Reaction Engineering
• Shintaroh Nagaishi

  Assistant Professor

  Research Field

  Chemical Engineering, Chemical Reaction Engineering, Catalytic Chemistry, Adsorption

Main Research Achievements

• X. Su, Y. Nakasaka, R. Moriwaki, T. Yoshikawa, T. Masuda, Microporous Mesoporous Mater. 2021, 319, 111044
  DOI: 10.1016/j.micromeso.2021.111044
• S. Iwamura, S. Motohashi, S. R. Mukai, RSC Adv. 2020, 10(63), 38196-38204
  DOI: 10.1039/d0ra07590f
• K. Ushijima, S. Iwamura, S. R. Mukai, ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2020, 3(7), 6915-1921
  DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.0c00991
• K. Takahashi, S. Yoshida, K. Urkasame, S. Iwamura, I. Ogino, S. R. Mukai, Adsorption 2019, 25(6), 1241-1249
  DOI: 10.1007/s10450-018-00007-z
• Y. Nakasaka, T. Kanda, K. Shimizu, K. Kon, G. Shibata, T. Masuda, Catal. Today 2019, 332, 64-68
  DOI: 10.1016/j.cattod.2018.06.056
• K. Urkasame, S. Yoshida, T. Takanohashi, S. Iwamura, I. Ogino, S. R. Mukai, ACS Omega 2018, 3(10), 14274-14279
  DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b01880
• S. Iwamura, K. Fujita, R. Iwashiro, S. R. Mukai, Mater. Today Commun. 2018, 14, 15-21
  DOI: 10.1016/j.mtcomm.2017.12.002
• K. Sakai, S. Iwamura, S. R. Mukai, J. Electrochem. Soc. 2017, 164(13), A3075-A3080
  DOI: 10.1149/2.0791713jes
• T. Tsuchiya, T. Mori, S. Iwamura, I. Ogino, S. R. Mukai, Carbon 2014, 76, 240-249
  DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2014.04.074
• S. R. Mukai, Y. Rikima, R. Furukawa, I. Ogino, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2013, 52(44), 15281-15286 2013
  DOI: 10.1021/ie400526f

Contact

smukai(at)eng.hokudai.ac.jp