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Kambe Laboratory

About us

Our laboratory is dedicated to developing new methodologies for precision inorganic synthesis, grounded in inorganic chemistry and situated at the interdisciplinary boundaries of nanomaterials science and soft matter physics. By exerting advanced control over atomic arrangements and structural units, we aim to create unprecedented structures and properties that cannot be achieved through conventional materials design principles.
To date, we have discovered new classes of materials that redefine conventional views of matter, including superatoms, in which multiple atoms are highly integrated to behave as a single large atom, and inorganic liquid crystals that combine high thermal stability with ordered structures.
Our goal is to reexamine the fundamental principles underlying the constitution of matter through the power of synthetic chemistry and to create functional materials based on new conceptual frameworks. Through precision inorganic synthesis, we strive to deepen the foundations of materials science

News

  • 2026-04-01
    News
    Launching Kambe laboratory
  • 2026-04-01
    News
    Mr. Kawaguchi received the Chemistry Letters Young Researcher Award at the Japan-Korea International Symposium for Materials Science in Wakayama 2026.
  • 2026-01-01
    News
    Professor Tetsuya Kambe has joined Institute of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba.
Archive
  • 2026-04-01
    News
    Launching Kambe laboratory
  • 2026-04-01
    News
    Mr. Kawaguchi received the Chemistry Letters Young Researcher Award at the Japan-Korea International Symposium for Materials Science in Wakayama 2026.
  • 2026-01-01
    News
    Professor Tetsuya Kambe has joined Institute of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba.
Archive

Publication

Design, synthesis and photocatalytic activities of functionalized Re(I) bipyridine tricarbonyl complexes toward CO2 reduction and carboxylation
Phurinat Lorwongkamol, Yutaka Saga, Tetsuya Kambe, Mio Kondo, Shigeyuki Masaoka
Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 113344, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2026.113344

Capacitance enhancement by ion-laminated borophene-like layered materials
Tetsuya Kambe, Masahiro Katakura, Hinayo Taya, Hirona Nakamura, Takuya Yamashita, Masataka Yoshida, Akiyoshi Kuzume, Kaori Akagami, Ryota Imai, Jumpei Kawaguchi, Shigeyuki Masaoka, Shoichi Kubo, Hiroaki Iino, Atsushi Shishido, Kimihisa Yamamoto
Nature Communications 2025
https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55307-6

Liquid crystalline 2D borophene oxide for inorganic optical devices
Tetsuya Kambe, Shotaro Imaoka, Misa Shimizu, Reina Hosono, Dongwan Yan, Hinayo Taya, Masahiro Katakura, Hirona Nakamura, Shoichi Kubo, Atsushi Shishido, Kimihisa Yamamoto
Nature Communications, 13(1), 2022
https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28625-w

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Join us!

To those interested in joining our laboratory

Launching in April 2026.
We welcome passionate students to help build our new laboratory together!
If you have questions about graduate school or wish to visit our lab, please feel free to contact us.