Academic Staff and Fellows

OKUBO Takashi: Professor Doctor of Science; Department/Energy and Materials　 Graduate school/Science

A variety of functional materials are used in electronic products such as televisions, computers, and cell phones, and recently, electronic products using organic materials such as organic EL televisions are becoming more familiar. In our laboratory, we are focusing on metal complexes, and are developing new metal complexes that can be applied to electronic devices, such as thin-film solar cells, field-effect transistors (FETs), and organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). We are also developing new metal complexes in order to apply them to electronic devices. We are also conducting research to improve the efficiency of organic thin-film solar cells.

Development of high-efficiency organic thin-film solar cells using new functional materials

Research Area	Coordination Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Organic Opto-Electronic Devices
Teaching (Undergraduate Course)	Synthetic Seminar 1, Synthetic Seminar 2, Chemistry Laboratory I, Chemistry Laboratory IV, Seminar for Bachelor Thesis, Individual Study for Bachelor Thesis, Introduction to Energy and Materials, Introduction to Chemistry for Energy and Materials, Experiments in Chemistry for Energy and Materials
Teaching (Graduate Course)	Opto-Electronic Functional Chemistry, Opto-Electronic Device, Ph.D.Study in Opto-Electronic Functional Chemistry, Ph.D. Exercises in Functional Molecular Chemistry
Research Interests	Synthesis of New Coordination Polymers Development of Ferroelectric Coordination Polymers Studies on Carrier-Transport Properties of Coordination Polymers Development of Thin-Film Solar Cells with Coordination Polymers Development of Thin-Film Solar Cells with Non-Fullerene Acceptors
Selected Publications	(1) Organic Thin-film Solar Cells Using Benzotrithiophene Derivatives Bearing Acceptor Units as Non-fullerene Acceptors, Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2021, 4620-4629. (2) Measuring the competition between bimolecular charge recombination and charge transport in organic solar cells under operating conditions, Energy Environ. Sci., 2018, 11, 3019-3032. (3) Crystal Structure and Band-Gap Engineering of a Semiconducting Coordination Polymer Consisting of Copper(I) Bromide and a Bridging Acceptor Ligand, Inorg. Chem., 2018, 57, 2373-2376.
Research and Achievements	03_okubo_takashi.pdf
Affiliated Academic Societies	Chemical Society of Japan, Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry, The Japan Society of Applied Physics, American Chemical Society, The Royal Society of Chemistry
Education (Undergraduate Course)	Tokyo Metropolitan University
Education (Master's/Doctral Course)	Tokyo Metropolitan University
Title of Thesis, Institute, Date	Studies on Synthesis, Structure and Functionalities of Novel Metal-Assembled Complexes, Tokyo Metropolitan　University, 1999.3.
Biography	1996-1999 Research Fellow (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, JSPS) 1999 Special Research Associate (Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, RIKEN) 2000-2006 Research Associate (Japan Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, JAIST) 2004-2005 Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research Abroad (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, JSPS) 2007-2010 Assistant Professor (Faculty of Science and Engineering, Kindai University) 2011-2017 Associate Professor (Faculty of Science and Engineering, Kindai University) 2016 Visiting Researcher (University of California, Santa Barbara) 2018- Professor (Faculty of Science and Engineering, Kindai University)

Opto-Electronic Functional Chemistry Laboratory

E-mail	okubo_t（at）emat.kindai.ac.jp Note that this e-mail address has replaced the "@" with "(at)" to prevent spam. When e-mailing, replace the "(at)" with "@".
Laboratory URL	https://www.emat.kindai.ac.jp/laboratory/okubo/index.html