Shigeru Amemiya

 

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry

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412-624-1217, 5259(fax)

amemiya@pitt.edu

http://www.chem.pitt.edu/people/faculty.asp?FacID=1

 

 

Shigeru Amemiya’s group has been studying molecular and charge transport at nanostructures using a nanometer-sized chemical sensor. A major goal is to understand electron transfer between molecules and an individual one-dimensional nanostructure, i.e., a wire, rod, band, and tube with 1–100 nm width and micrometer to centimeter length. The new nanomaterials are useful for molecular electronics, sensors, catalysis, and energy storage and conversion. Also, the group studies molecular transport between the cell nucleus and cytoplasm, which is mediated exclusively through the protein nanopores called the nuclear pore complex. Understanding of the nucleocytoplasmic molecular transport at single pore level is essential for future pharmaceutical regulation of gene expression.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

       

Images of nanoband and nuclear pore complex (from the top)