Synthetic Polymer Chemistry with New Strategies
Our interest is to develop a synthetic way for polymeric materials, which is not accessible by the conventional polymerization method. We especially focus on the effect of counteranion in the coordination polymerization catalysts. Our team is a part of Polymer Chemistry Laboratory in Hiroshima University.
News
2025-03-23 Dr. Ajala recieved PhD degree, with an honor of student award at the department of advanced science and engineering (1st place in PhD students). From April, he will start his carrier as a postdoctoral fellow at Osaka University, Organometallic Chemistry Laboratory.
2025-03-01 An account article on our achievements regarding counteranion-oriented coordination polymerization catalysts was published in the Journal of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan. doi
2024-11-09 Prof. Tanaka recieved Award for Encouragement of Research from Chugoku-Shikoku branch of the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan (SSOCJ). The special lecture was held at Okayama University.
2024-09-25 A textbook has been revised. We revisited the precise microstructure determination of poly(beta-pinene), one of the most famous bio-based polymers, and proposed a newly assigned structure. A research paper by Oluwaseyi Ajala was published in Macromolecules (doi).
2024-08-02 A research paper by Yusuke Bando on the development of a new EPM-based recyclable material was published in Macromolecules (doi).
2024-07-16 We participated in the joint research about neutron reflectivity study of deuterated polyethylene led by Prof. Miyazaki and Prof. Takenaka at Kyoto University. A research paper was published in Langmuir (doi).
2024-05-27 An official interview of Prof. Tanakahas been published from Hiroshima University..
2024-01-15 Oluwaseyi published a paper on the copolymerization of ethylene and functionalized 1,1-disubstituted olefins in the special issue of Polymers ("Catalytic Olefin Polymerization and Polyolefin Materials", doi).
2023-11-08 Our new paper about the coordination-insertion polymerization of polyisoprene-derived macromonomer was accepted for publication in Polymer Journal (doi) as a part of special issue "“Polymer Degradation for a Sustainable Future".
2023-10-13 Dr. Tanaka held lectures at the Japan-Korea joint session at the 72th SPSJ symposium and Young Researchers Association of ERATO NOZAKI Resin-Degradation Catalyst Project.
2023-10-01 Jia Yu from Xi'an University of Technology joined as a PhD course student.
2023-06-01 Subrata Dolui, from Banerjee lab. at IIT Bhilai, joined as a postdoctoral fellow.
2023-05-05 Our review article summarizing various counteranions in the coordination polymerization, including MAO, boranes, and solid surface, was published in Prog. Polym. Sci. DOI
2023-03-24 Dr. Tanaka gave a special lecture for young scholar at the 103rd CSJ annual meeting.
2023-03-23 Mari Nishizono recieved an excellent student award at the graduation ceremony of applied chemistry program (2nd place in the master's thesis).
2023-02-08 A joint work with Prof. Ooyama about the origin of AIE properties of alpha-diimine metal complexes was published in Dalton Trans. (doi).
2022-12-14 Our new paper about the synthesis of end-functionalized polydienes was accepted for publication in Molecules (doi).
2022-09-27 Our new paper about the relationship between the microstructure of polyethylene and the oxidation state of MAO in Ni-diimine catalyzed polymerization was published in Organometallics (doi).
2022-10-10 Our new project (Development of Recyclable Commodity Rubber Materials with the Degradation Initiating from Crosslinking Points) will be granted from JST-PRESTO (sustainable materials area) until March 2026.
2022-09-07 Dr. Tanaka co-organized a special session "Frontiers of synthetic polymer chemistry based on the pursuit of elementary reactions" at 71st Symposium on Macromolecules, SPSJ, with Dr. Kambayashi at Osaka University.
2022-03-01 Our new project granted from New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) launched. The project aims to develop recyclable commodity synthetic rubber materials using our precise polymerization technology.
2021-12-21 Dr. Tanaka gave an invited lecture about new boron-based Brønsted acid at Asian Polyolefin Workshop (APO 2021).
2021-11-08 A textbook about organometallic catalytic reactions (有機合成のための新触媒反応101) has been published. Dr. Tanaka has contributed 8 pages with Prof. Shiono about the polymerization of olefins and dienes.
2021-10-01 Oluwaseyi joined our group as a PhD student.
2021-07-09 Dr. Tanaka won the Young Scientist Lecture Award from the Kansai branch, SPSJ at 67th Kobe Polymer Research Symposium.
2021-06-14 Our new paper about the removal of mononuclear aluminum alkyls from MMAO was published in Polymer Journal (doi) as a contribution paper to the special issue "Polymer Journal Rising Stars -2021-".
2021-04-01 Dr. Tanaka has been promoted to Associate Professor.
2021-01-29 Our new paper about the crosslinking of functionalized isotactic polypropylene was published in Macromolecules (doi).
2021-01-05 Our new paper about fluoroarylborane cocatalyst was published in ACS Catalysis (doi).
2021-01-01 Website Opened.
Contact Address
Ryo Tanaka, Ph. D.
Department of Advanced Science and Engineering
Hiroshima University
Office: A4-812
1-4-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-hiroshima
739-8527 Japan
Phone: +81(82)4247729
rytanaka "at" hiroshima-u.ac.jp