Study on the low dimensional water confined by carbon nanotubes or graphene

• Water in nanospaces of nanocarbon materials

Ionic conduction, ionic transport, and gas occlusion in water clusters inside low-dimensional molecular nanopores

• Methane hydrate
• Nanofluidics

Environmnetl purification and the toughning of glass using inorganic materilas such as clay minerals and analogues

• Clay mineral
• Photocatalyst
• Glass-ceramics
• Water purification

Self-assembly of surfactants and the adsorption occurring at air/liquid, liquid/liquid, and solid/liquid interfaces

• Interface chemistry
• Surfactant
• Adsorption

Study on the hydration at interfaces between biomedical implant materials and biological tissues

• Colloidal and interfacial chemistry
• Biocompatible polymers
• Biomaterials

Synthesis of functional polymers and fabrication of the nano-assembly of the polymers toward designing catalysts and NanoMedicines

• Polymer metal complex
• Poly(oxazoline)
• Nucleic acids
• Redox reaction

Research and development of advanced control and functional surfaces for wetting, sliding, and adhesion based on biomimetics

• Biomimetics
• Wetting
• Soft tribology
• Adhesion

Research on material development using photo-induced hydrophilicity on the surface of photocatalyst and water purification by photocatalyst technology

• Photocatalyst
• Photoinduced hydrophilicity
• Water purification

Evaluation of the properties of water in nano-scaled regions and development of nanomaterials through use of the water

• Interfacial chemistry
• Surfactants
• Nano-tribology

Molecular recognition by using inner environments of molecular assemblies, formed at the air/water interfaces

• Interface
• Molecular assembly
• Molecular recognition

Development of spectroscopic and imaging techniques for heterogeneous systems such as surfaces, interfaces, and nanospaces

• Laser spectroscopy
• Microscopic imaging

Electro-, magneto-, and photoexcited absorption spectra, Live cell absorbance spectral imaging, Light-induced force, Plasmon

• Optical properties of condensed matter
• Nonlinear spectroscopy
• Photothermal spectroscopy
• Green algal cell

Interface-specific water structure by interface-selective vibrational spectroscopy

• Nonlinear spectroscopy

In situ observation of additive’s effects on hydration structure at solid-liquid interface by high-resolution atomic force microscopy

• Crystal growth
• Hydration structure
• Additive’s effect
Crystal growth, Hydration structure, Additive’s effect

Microscopic interfacial flow, Measurement and control of nanoparticles, and Development of advanced flow measurement techniques

• Nanoparticles
• Micro/Nanofluidics
• MEMS sensor
• Flow measurement

Biofuel cells and biosensors for smart life and smart community

• Bioanalytical chemistry
• Electrochemistry
• Biosensor
• Biofuel cell

Three-phase interface dynamics through experiments with droplets, bubbles, and particles

• Droplets
• Interface tension
• Interfacial flows

Optical measurement and control of multi-scale flow phenomena

• 3D flow measurement
• Thermofluid control

Development for diagnosis and treatment of diseases by crossing computational fluid dynamics and machine learning with medical information and cell histology

• Biomedical engineering
• Medical systems
• Blood flow analysis
• Machine learning

In situ measurements on behavior of molecular adsorption and chemical reactions on frictional surfaces and evaluation of mechanical properties on the surfaces

• Tribology
• Surface properties
• Metal 3D printing

Understanding of flow ranging from microscales to macro-scales based on the research of “dynamic wetting”

• Wetting
• Surface tension
• Heat and matter transport

Experimental and observational research on the health effects of aerosol properties (e.g., surface area and charging properties), based on atmospheric chemistry and physics

• Atmospheric chemistry
• Atmospheric physics
• Aerosol engineering

Investigation of the effect on the climate by observing aerosols in the urban and mountain atmospheres.

• Climate effects of atmospheric aerosols
• Urban atmosphere
• Mountain atmosphere

Dynamic behavior of lubricant molecules at the friction interface and the active control of the friction coefficient

• Tribology
• Friction control
• Surface Science
• Electrochemistry

Theoretical and computational calculations of microscopic structure and physical properties on surfaces of various materials

• Microscopic structure and physical properties of water on surfaces

Development of numerical simulators and visualization applications to predict physical properties of materials and to understand mechanism of phenomena in materials

• Computational material physics
• Numerical simulator
• Visualization application

Analysis of the structure and properties of interfacial water by combining molecular simulation and data science methods

• Molecular simulation
• Data science
• Machine learning
• Interfacial water

Modeling and simulation of biomolecular systems

• Molecular dynamics
• Brownian dynamics
• Coarse-grained modeling

Simple views on the self-organization phenomena and dissipative structures in nature and engineering process

• Dissipative structures
• Self-organization
• Non-equilibrium soft matter

Numerical simulation of icing phenomena that super-cooled droplets impact to a wall and form an ice layer

• Icing
• Super-cooled water droplet
• Phase change
• Freezing

Various fluid-flow phenomena including water by CFD simulation using supercomputers

• Heat Transfer
• CFD
• Turbulence

Analysis of wetting and interfaces by molecular

• Wetting
• Olecular simulation
• Fluid mechanics