Welcome

We are recruiting international students. There are several courses including master, PhD, and integrated courses of master’s and PhD with full scholarships. Please contact tomo♠mac.titech.ac.jp.

林研究室は東京科学大学 人間医療科学技術コース(材料系 C群)に属します。

大学院入学に関しての質問はメール(tomo”at”mac.titech.ac.jp)にて林まで連絡頂ければと思います。(“at”を@に変えてください)Zoomを用いた研究室説明も出来ますので、お気軽に連絡をください。

林研究室のメンバーは全国・海外の大学、高専出身者で構成されております(教員・スタッフも含め全員が東工大以外の出身です)。現在、全員外部生です。入学に関する情報、大学院入試対策など、是非研究室にいらして、教員・学生にお問い合わせください。

Exploring biointerfaces with our original analytical techniques

Our research targets are
1. Development of new experimental approaches to investigate various surfaces & interfaces
2. Understanding of molecular processes at biointerfaces
(interfaces between artificial surfaces and cells (or biomolecules). Starting from the elucidation of fundamental interfacial phenomena, we propose their applications in industrial fields.

We are a team of people from various fields and nationalities with various scientific backgrounds and pursue the state-of-the-art research in this interdisciplinary field.

We always welcome foreign students from abroad.

If you have interests in working with us as a master or PhD student, please contact Tomohiro Hayashi (tomo[@]mac.titech.ac.jp) (please remove [])

Department of Materials Science and Engineering
School of Materials and Chemical Technology

also TH belongs to

Course of Human Centered Science and Biomedical Engineering 
Institute of Science Tokyo

Recent News

[paper accepted] Gap-controlled ATR-IR

A paper on our recent invention, a new interface-sensitive vibrational spectroscopy, has been accepted in ACS Analytical Chemistry.

Maeda, S.; Chikami, S.; Song, S.; Balois-Oguchi, M.; Katase, A.; Latag, G.; Tanaka, T.; Hayashi, T. Gap-controlled infrared absorption spectroscopy: a unique interface-sensitive spectroscopy based on the combination of linear spectroscopy and multivariate curve resolution. Analytical Chemistry 2025. DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5c02765.

 

 

Press releases of DNA nanopores

DNAナノポアと脂質二重膜の相互作用を 水晶振動子マイクロバランス法で可視化 | Science Tokyo
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New tool reveals how DNA nanostructures interact with cell membranes | Science Tokyo
In a step towards engineering artificial cell membranes, researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo) used quartz crystal microbalance with energy dissipation monitoring (QCM-D) to study how DNA nanopores interact with lipid bilayers. Unlike conventional optical methods, QCM-D tracks changes in mass and viscosity in real time, offering unique mechanical insights into DNA–lipid interactions. This approach paves the way for designing DNA-based membrane technologies that modify the functionality of cell lipid membranes.

[paper accepted] Hydration structure of PNIPAAM

The following paper has been accepted for Chemistry letters.
Harimoto, Haruki, Shunta Chikami, Shoichi Maeda, Glenn Latag, Art Ang, and Tomohiro Hayashi. “Analysis of Hydration States of Thermo-Responsive Poly(N-Isopropylacrylamide) by the Combination of Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy and Multivariate Curve Resolution.” Chemistry Letters (2025).

[paper accepted] SAMs of Mercaptopyrazine

The following paper has been accepted.
“Formation and Surface Structures of Long-Range Ordered Self-Assembled Monolayers of 2-Mercaptopyrazine on Au(111)”. D. Seo, J. W. Han, H. Kim, Y. O. Kim, H. S. Sung, R. Kaizu, G. V. Latag, T. Hayashi, N.-S. Lee, J. Noh. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2025.