京都工芸繊維大学 応用化学課程

Polymeric Materials Design Course

Welcome

The Applied Chemistry program’s Polymeric Materials Design course offers opportunities for study and research that invite students to refine their understanding of the essence of polymeric materials, which are gigantic molecules comprised of molecules linked by covalent bonds. Polymeric materials are distinguished by the fact that they can be processed into any of three states: a one-dimensional fiber (textile) state, a two-dimensional membrane or film, or a three-dimensional bulk state. Students learn about the structures that serve as the basis for polymers’ flexibility along with the performance, functionality, and physical properties that emerge as a result through the course’s educational and research offerings.

Education

In recent years, universities have been called upon to offer students an education that meets the needs of the current era. However, scholarship, which provides the basis of education, has a universal and unchanging element even as it evolves with the times. The study of polymers has undergone significant development during the last century. Students in the Polymeric Materials Design course explore the breadth and depth of this field through specialized courses that start during the second semester of their second year, developing fundamental skills that will play a useful role in the society of the future during their four years of undergraduate study. For more information, please see “Curriculum Characteristics” and “Curriculum.”
The course also works to offer cross-disciplinary study in collaboration with the other three courses (Materials Chemistry Design, Molecular Chemistry Design, and Functional Materials Design).

Research

The course offers the following research opportunities exploring the theme of the diversity of polymeric materials:

  1. Research into the photoelectronic functionality of organic and polymeric materials and its application in photoelectronic devices
  2. Analysis of deteriorative reactions of polymeric materials using the spin-trap method and development of materials for visualizing radiation
  3. Photochemistry of supermolecular systems and time-resolved laser spectroscopy
  4. Use of computational science to visualize soft matter structural formation processes and high-order structures that result
  5. Research into the analysis of polymeric structures using three-dimensional images from X-ray CT
  6. Nanometer- to micrometer-level analysis of new structures in fine-particle dispersion systems using ultrasonic analysis
  7. Research into the development of the field of new hybrid nano-materials through the combination of nano-materials science with polymeric materials science to create substances such as nano-particles, nano-fillers, and nano-fibers
  8. Research into the physical chemistry and rheology of polymeric mesh soft materials
  9. Development of nano-fiber manufacturing methods using laser electro-spinning
  10. Development of technologies such as high-sensitivity DSC and their application to physical research
  11. Elucidation of the polymer crystal melt memory effect and glass transformation mechanisms
  12. Precision molecular design of high-function nano-structural materials
  13. Creation of organic/inorganic hybrid gas separation membranes
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