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YANAI Nobuhiro

YANAI Nobuhiro
Professor
Department of Chemistry (UG), Department of Chemistry (GR), Graduate School of Science
E-mail yanai@chem.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
TEL +81-3-5841-8061
Room 1401, Chemistry Main Bldg. 4th floor
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Research Field

Functional chemistry, coordination chemistry, photochemistry, spin chemistry

Research Subject

Photon upconversion, nuclear hyperpolarization, quantum sensing

Current Research

We are interested in creating new functional chemistry of photo-excited state. We are particularly interested in triplet-triplet annihilation-based photon upconversion (TTA-UC) for many applications ranging from renewable energy production to photodynamic therapy and optogenetics. We are also actively working on dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) towards the room-temperature hyperpolarization of biomolecules for advanced NMR/MRI technologies. We are further developing our research into quantum sensing using molecular qubits, which is where we believe chemistry can play an important role in the ongoing second quantum revolution.

Keywords

Metal-organic frameworks, dye materials, photoenergy conversion, optogenetics, magnetic resonance, MRI, qubits