Nagoya University / Nano-Bio Measurement Laboratory
Building new tools
to reveal what has
never been seen.
About
We develop new technologies to reveal what has never been understood before. Because almost everything we do has never been tried by anyone, we refine our ideas day by day as we push our research forward. With the instruments we have built, we have captured time-lapse images of living cells such as those below (hippocampal growth cones, cargo transport, and synapse formation). We are developing techniques to visualize phenomena that could not be seen before, and pursuing research that can become the foundation of new fields.
News
2026.10.1Zhiyuan He joined the lab as a research student.
2026.8A study on high-speed analysis of oxygen evolution kinetics on SrTiO3 photocatalyst sheets, led by Ms. Kembishi and Prof. Onishi, was published in Journal of Catalysis.
2026.6.30Takahashi gave an invited talk at 2D TMDs 2026 (Nanoscale Electrochemical Imaging of Two-Dimensional Materials by High-Resolution SECCM).
2026.5.28A study on endomembrane trafficking collapse in cancer cells triggered by FTY720, led by Dr. Kofuji, was published in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications.
2026.5.27A study on facet-dependent photoelectrochemical oxidation on BiVO4 photoanodes, led by Honda, was published in ACS Energy Letters.
2026.4.20A study on Raman-integrated SECCM, led by Dr. Kumatani (Tohoku University), was published in Applied Physics Letters.
Research
Cell BiologyOur own nanopipette-based probe microscopes record living cell surfaces at the nanoscale.
MaterialsScanning electrochemical cell microscopy (SECCM) maps the reactivity of catalysts and battery materials.
TechniquesSICM, SECM, SECCM and more: we build both the instruments and the software ourselves.Lab Life

Join us
Lab visits are welcome at any time. Students, postdocs and industry partners: please feel free to contact us.
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