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Bioplastic Research Team

Main Research Fields :
Chemistry
Related Research Fields :
Engineering / Polymer chemistry / Green/Environmental chemistry
Keywords :
Bioplastics / Polymer synthesis / Biomass resources / Polymer/Textile materials
Project :
Leading-edge Polymers
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Creating new high quality plastic materials made from biomass

Team Leader

Hideki Abe Ph.D.

Hideki Abe

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1993
Junior Research Scientist, Polymer Chemistry Laboratory, RIKEN
1996
Ph.D., Tokyo Institute of Technology
1996
Research Scientist, Polymer Chemistry Laboratory, RIKEN
2002
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Innovative and Engineered Materials, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2005
Senior Research Scientist, Polymer Chemistry Laboratory, RIKEN
2006
Senior Research Scientist, Chemical Analysis Team, Advanced Development and Supporting Center, RIKEN
2010
Team Leader, Bioplastic Research Team, RIKEN Biomass Engineering Program
2012
Visiting Professor, Department of Innovative and Engineered Materials, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology (-current)
2013
Team Leader, Bioplastic Research Team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (-current)

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RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
Bioplastic Research Team

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WakoAccess
2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198 Japan
#520 5F Main Research Building,

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Outline

Bioplastic Research Team
Our team aims to provide high-performance and specific functional bioplastic materials as environmentally conscious polymeric materials. Particularly, by paying attention to biopolyesters produced by microorganisms, we have developed the advanced technology that enables us to bring out their potential and use them as practical plastic materials. We also employ various biomass substances to create novel polymeric materials, followed with biopolyesters. We achieved to construct a methodology of molecular design for bioplastics to predict their properties and functions, and new technology for efficient and precise bioplastic synthesis.

Subjects

  1. Design of biopolyesters for advanced materials
  2. Synthesis and molecular design of novel biomass-polymers
  3. New advanced methods for biomass-polymer synthesis
To provide high-performance and specific functional bioplastic materials