Research in the Uchida lab lies at the interface of biochemistry, inorganic chemistry, and materials chemistry. Biology provides much inspiration to develop advanced materials with properties beyond those currently available. Biomineralization is one example from which we can draw inspiration to develop inorganic-organic hybrid materials with unique chemical, physical and mechanical properties under mild synthetic conditions. Virus capsids are natural supramolecular architectures that can be exploited as versatile platforms to design functional materials. We are interested in developing new materials on the basis of biomimetic and bioinspired approaches. Read more in the Research section.

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