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Faculty Information Details
All data is as of November 24, 2025.
- Inoue Katsuya
- Professor
| Affiliation | Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering |
|---|---|
| Discipline | Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry |
| Academic Degrees |
The University of Tokyo D.Sc. The University of Tokyo M. Sc. |
| Research Fields |
Chemistry; Applied chemistry; Functional solid state chemistry |
| Research Keywords | Molecule-based Magnets |
| Comments | Chirality is commonly found in nature from particle physics to molecular chemistry. It is characterized by a reflection asymmetry that we are most familiar with in terms of our left hand being the mirror opposite of our right hand. When this kind of handedness appears in the structure of atoms or molecules in a solid, it affects the way that the magnetic moments of unpaired electrons organize themselves through the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interactions. In a symmetric structure, these interactions cancel out, but in a chiral lattice they do not. The DM interactions stabilize a screwlike helical arrangement of the magnetic moments. The result is a helical magnetic arrangement with a winding period of several tens or hundreds of nanometers, which is much longer than the lattice constant. Therefore, even though the chiral properties depend on the symmetry of the lattice, they can be understood and manipulated at the mesoscopic level, independently of the structural details. |
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[Bachelor Degree Program] School of Science : Chemistry : Chemistry [Master's Program] Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering : Division of Advanced Science and Engineering : Chemistry Program [Doctoral Program] Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering : Division of Advanced Science and Engineering : Chemistry Program |
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