For sustainable development of human life, materials separation is significant in many sorts of application in industries, environmental protection, and materials recycling. Membrane process, as one key technology for materials separation, is currently attracting great attention. It is also highly expected to contribute to water and atmospheric environments and the realization of an up-coming sustainable society by recycling water, air and energy. Our research group is conducting sorts of research focusing on membrane science and engineering, specifically the development and evaluation of novel functional membranes such as highly porous membranes, biomimetic membrane formed via self-assembly technology and facilitated transport membrane, and clarification of the function occurrence mechanism.
This corner provides an overview on our membrane research in progress. Not only the brief description but also the graphic of research positioning are inside the page. Please click and read the details of what we are doing now.
Facilities
Our group is now managing sorts of advanced machines for membrane research and development. You can click the link below and be directed to the membrane center page for some details.Page of facilities on membrane center site
In order to efficiently deliver our research results to public, we are very active at publishing our research on many membrane related academic journals and magazines. The corner includes all of our major publications since 2005. Kindly take a look on what we have achieved from these publications.
Projects in Progress
As one of the largest membrane research groups in Japan, we are participating in many large scale research projects. Many of them are government funded. Some of them are sponsored by our company partners. We are listing up some projects in progress and will open in this corner soon.
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(日本語) 受賞情報更新 Students in our lab got award in The 90th conference of the Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan . See the detail in the page “Student Awards” .
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Event information updated Ms. Miyake, Coordinator for International Activities, left Kobe university.
She contributed greatly to the management of our laboratory and membrane engineering subcommittee .
Kindly refer to Here for details.
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(日本語) 受賞情報更新 Students in our lab got award in The 90th conference of the Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan . See the detail in the page “Student Awards” .
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(日本語) 受賞情報更新 Students in our lab got award in The 90th conference of the Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan . See the detail in the page “Student Awards” .
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(日本語) 受賞情報更新 Students in our lab got award in The Society of Separation Process Engineering Annual Meeting 2024 . See the detail in the page “Student Awards” .
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(日本語) 受賞情報更新 Students in our lab got award in SCEJ 55th Autumn Meeting , International conference. See the detail in the page “Student Awards” .
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(日本語) 受賞情報更新 Students in our lab got award in The 46th Conference of The Membrane Society of Japan . See the detail in the page “Student Awards” .
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Event information updated Prof. Gongping Liu in Nanjing University of Science and Technology come to Kobe University and have a special lecture online.Nanjing University and our laboratory are conducting international joint research as a bilateral exchange project of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
Kindly refer to Here for details.
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(日本語) 受賞情報更新 A student in our lab got award in The 12th International Conference on Separation Science and Technology (ICSST23). See the detail in the page “Student Awards” .
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(日本語) 受賞情報更新 A student in our lab got award in Joint convention of The 45th Conference of The Membrane Society of Japan and The Membrane Symposium 2023 See the detail in the page “Student Awards” .
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(日本語) 受賞情報更新 Prof. Kazuo Kumagai got 2023JSPC excellence award in the Japan Process Chemistry Society 2023 Summer Symposium. See the detail in the page
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(日本語) 受賞情報更新 Miku Iwamoto got an award in the 16th International Conference on Inorganic Membranes . See the detail in the page
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(日本語) 受賞情報更新 Zhan Li got an award in the 13th Conference of the Aseanian Membrane Society. See the detail in the page
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Award information Our lab’s paper got Editor’s choice of Journal of Membrane Science. Kindly refer to here
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Award information Dr. Ralph Rolly Gonzales awarded Best Student Young Researcher Award The 3rd Prize in Desalination Editors Award
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Publication Info Updated Our new paper has been accepted in “Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects” and “Membranes”. Kindly refer to Publications for details.
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Publication Info Updated Our new paper has been accepted in “Journal of Colloid and Interface Science” and “Journal of Materials Chemistry A”. Kindly refer to Publications for details.
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Publication Info Updated Our new paper has been accepted in “Journal of Membrane Science”, “Chemical Engineering Journal”, and “Separation and Purification Technology”. Kindly refer to Publications for details.
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Publication Info Updated Our new papers have been accepted in “Chemical Papers”, “ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces”, and “Separation and Purification Technology”. Kindly refer to Publications for details.
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Publication Info Updated Our new papers have been accepted in “Journal of Applied Polymer Science” and “IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science”. Kindly refer to Publications for details.
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Pubilication Info Updated Our new paper has been accepted in “Journal of Membrane Science” and “Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers”. Kindly refer to Publications for details.
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Student Awards Updated Kunimatsu-san (M2) won “Kobe University Technology Promotion Club (KTC) Chairman Award”. Kindly refer to the Awards page for details.
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Student Awards Updated Seimei-san (M2) and Sunami-san (M1) won “Poster Award” on Membrane Symposium 2019. Kindly refer to the Awards page for details.
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Student Awards Updated Matsuoka-san (D2), Kunimatsu-san (M2), and Hirosue-san (M2) won “Encouragement Award of Separation Process Division” on APCChE2019. Kindly refer to the Awards page for details.
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Events Info Updated Muroga-san (B2) has made his research presentation, and he studied as an internship student in our lab for 2 months. Kindly refer here for details.
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Student Awards Yang-san (D3) and Liu-san (D3) won “Best Student Poster Presentation Award” and “Best Student Oral Presentation Award” on AMS12, respectively. Kindly refer to the Awards page for details.
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Events Info Updated We made presentations in the12th conference of the Aseanian Membrane Society (AMS12). Kindly refer here for details.
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Events Info Updated The delegation of Osaka prefectural Tsukinoki senior high school members visited our lab. Kindly refer here for details.
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Events Info Updated Prof. Matsuyama visited University of Arkansas and signed academic agreement. Kindly refer to Events for details.
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Publication Info Updated Our new papers have been accepted in “Journal of Colloid and Interface Science” and “European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences”. Kindly refer to Publications for details.
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2019/4/13 Our new paper has been accepted in “Journal of Membrane Science”. Kindly refer to Publications for details.
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2019/4/9 Our new paper has been accepted in “RSC Advances”. Kindly refer to Publications for details.
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2019/4/1 Our new paper has been accepted in “Separation and Purification Technology” and “Journal of Membrane Science” . Kindly refer to Publications for details.
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2019/3/29 Our new paper has been accepted in “Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research”. Kindly refer to Publications for details.
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2019/3/26 Our new papers have been accepted in “Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research”. Kindly refer to Publications for details.
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2019/3/11 Our new paper has been accepted in “Separation and Purification Technology” and “Mechanisms and Catalysis”. Kindly refer to Publications for details.
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2019/3/2 Awaji-san, Maruo-san (B4) won Excellence Award in SCEJ student presentation 2019. Please refer to the Awards page for details.
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2019/3/1 Our new paper has been accepted in ” Journal of Colloid & Interface Science”. Kindly refer to Publications for details.
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2019/2/20 Our new paper has been accepted in “Journal of applied polymer science”. Kindly refer to Publications for details.
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