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私たちの研究グループでは,有機合成反応やDFT計算などを駆使して学術的に面白い機能性分子をつくる研究と,応用につながるマテリアルサイエンスの研究を進めています。 現在,環境発電技術の一つである「熱発電」には特に焦点を当てており,この技術の発展に役立つ新材料の合成研究を行っています。

大阪工業大学プレスリリース (2020.7.9)
熱電発電に必要な高性能n型熱電フィルムを開発_有機系材料を用い大気下でも安定、水分散液の塗布

若手研究が世界を変える!(河合塾)
化学で次々、ものづくり。世界トップレベルの発電材料も

大阪工業大学トピックス (2022.6.3)
村田理尚准教授が近畿化学協会第22回「環境技術賞」を受賞しました

大阪工業大学トピックス (2022.7.6)
高校生対象 »「夢ナビライブ2022 in Summer」
動画配信 »「排熱エネルギーを電気に変える技術とは?」

大阪工業大学プレスリリース (2022.11.1)
n型有機半導体で世界最高の電気伝導率を達成 大気下で安定な塗布膜、熱電変換デバイスへ応用 高性能な新物質を開発

関西9私大~環境・エネルギー、ライフサイエンス~ JST新技術説明会(2023.3.9)
動画配信 »「熱電発電に必要な高性能n型熱電フィルム」

CREST・さきがけ複合領域 [微小エネルギー] 微小エネルギーを利用した革新的な環境発電技術の創出
動画配信 »【環境発電】Energy Harvesting エネルギーをみんなに SDGs Goal 7

Materials Chemistry for the Conversion of Energy

This laboratory currently focuses on projects that include the design and synthesis of functional π-conjugated organic molecules, metal complexes, and polymers for energy harvesting and/or conversion applications. The development of such materials is of substantial importance on account of their potential utility in flexible devices, e.g. thermoelectric generators or thin-film photovoltaic cells. Furthermore, research pursued in this laboratory is concerned with two- and three-dimensional electron-deficient π-systems, in order to develop n-type semiconducting and low-band-gap materials, as well as intercalation compounds and compounds with solid-state luminescence.

Electron-Deficient Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons

Although a variety of polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), describing graphene segments containing fully unsaturated hexagonal rings, exhibit a predominantly electron-rich character, fullerenes with unsaturated hexagonal and pentagonal rings are electron-deficient and can thus be employed as n-type semiconducting materials. The pyracylene skeleton, a key segment of fullerenes, is particularly interesting due to its antiaromatic character and high electron affinity that arises from the 12 π-electron environment. We have recently reported efficient synthetic pathways to PAHs that contain a pyracylene moiety, which are based on twofold oxidative C-H coupling reactions of diaryltetracene derivatives. The thus obtained PAHs exhibit not only an electron-deficient character due to a strong contribution of antiaromatic character, but also unique reactivity, which furnished compounds with a curved or planar π-surface and distinct emission behavior in the solid state.

π-Extended Metal-Bis(dithiolene) Complexes toward Application in Thermoelecric Devices

π-Conjugation can also be extended by coordination to metals. Recently, one-dimensional (1D) polymers and two-dimensional (2D) nanosheets of π-conjugated metal-bis(dithiolene) units have received substantial attention, due to their unique properties that include high conductivity and magnetism, as well as their potential use in organic thermoelectric materials. Whereas the relationship between the solid-state structure and the electronic properties of monometallic bis(dithiolene) complexes with identical π-conjugated units has been studied in detail, structurally well-defined multimetallic complexes remain largely unexplored, predominantly on account of the difficulties associated with their synthesis. We have recently established an efficient and versatile method for the synthesis of 2D trimetallic gold-bis(dithiolene) complexes with a starburst structure. Further studies on π-extended metal-bis(dithiolene) complexes and their polymers for applications in thermoelectric materials are currently in progress in our group.