Creation of Functional Materials Laboratory (Advanced Polymer Materials Field)
Tomoyasu HIRAI,
Associate Professor
Affiliation: Department of Applied Chemistry, Osaka Institute of Technology
Address: 5-16-1 Omiya Asahi-ku Osaka, 535-8585, Japan
Education
| 2001-2005 | Department of Applied Chemistry, Gunma University |
| 2005-2007 | Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology(Master of Engineering received.) |
| 2007-2010 | Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 2010 | Ph.D., Tokyo Institute of Technology |
Professional Carrier
| 2010-2013 | Research Assistant Prof., Kyushu University (Prof. K. Tanaka) |
| 2013 Apr. -2017 Oct. | Assistant Prof., Kyushu University (Prof. A. Takahara) |
| 2017 Oct. -2018 Mar. | Research Associate Prof., Kyushu University (Prof. A. Takahara) |
| 2018 Apr.- | Associate Prof., Osaka Institute of Technology |
Research Fields
Polymer Synthesis, Self-Assembly,Development of functional materials on the basis of precise synthesis
Representative Publications
- Sato, M.; Kato, T.; Shimamoto, H.; Kamitani, K.; Ohta, N.; Hirai, T.*; Takahara, A., Design of High-Density Helical Polymer Brush on Silica Nanoparticles for the Size Recognition of Fullerene Molecules. ACS Macro Lett. 2018, 7, 148-152.
- Kato, T.; Sato, M.; Shimamoto, H.; Uno, K.; Yokomachi, K.; Konishi, Y.; Kamitani, K.; Nishibori, M.; Ohta, N.; Ishige, R.; White, K. L.; Otozawa, N.; Hirai, T.*; Takahara, A., Preparation of High-Density Polymer Brush with Multi-helical Structure. Langmuir 2018, 34, 3283-3288.
- Hirai, T.; Kobayashi, M.; Takahara, A., Control of the primary and secondary structure of polymer brushes by surface-initiated living/controlled polymerization. Polym. Chem. 2017, 8, 5456-5468.