Deep-Sea Nanoscience Research Group

Our group actively work with other researchers both within JAMSTEC and elsewhere, incorporating physics and chemistry perspectives to apply an interdisciplinary approach to elucidating the structure and function of deep-sea and marine organisms as well as the physico-chemical processes in extreme deep-sea conditions. It also conducts R&D on engineering applications of such processes.

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What´s New
  • Shigeru Deguchi gave an opening lecture at the Kyoto Winter School 2024 "Towards Holistic Understanding of Life" (Institute for Advanced Study, Kyoto University, Kyoto)

  • Shigeru Deguchi gave an invited lecture at The 9th Asian Conference on Colloid and Interface Science (ACCIS 2023) (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

  • Shigeru Deguchi gave an invited lecture at MRM2023/IUMRS-ICA2023 (Kyoto International Conference Center, Kyoto)

FY2023
FY2022
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FY2020
FY2019
FY2018
  • Employment Opportunities: Frontier Research Group, Project Technical Support Staff. More details.

FY2017
FY2016
  • Employment Opportunities: JAMSTEC, Postdoctoral Fellow Positions. More details.

  • Employment Opportunities: Research and Development (R&D) Center for Marine Biosciences, Postdoctral Researcher. More details.

  • Employment Opportunities: Research and Development (R&D) Center for Marine Biosciences, Postdoctral Researcher. More details.

  • Employment Opportunities: Research and Development (R&D) Center for Marine Biosciences, Scientist or Technical Scientist. More details.

FY2015
  • Employment Opportunities: JAMSTEC Postdoctoral Fellow Programme. More details.

  • Updated seminar information. More details.

FY2014

ABOUT RESEARCH

biomimetics

Biomimetics

Biomimetics, the development of technology that mimics nature, is said to hold promise of innovation on the same scale as the Industrial Revolution, and is expected to become a huge market worth 30 trillion yen by 2025. We conduct research on applying the unique structures and functions of deep-sea and marine organisms to the development of functional materials, stractural design, sensors, robotics, and other areas.

soft materials

Soft Materials

Extreme deep-sea invironments, and particularly the high-temperature and high-pressure environments of hydrothermal vents, can give rise to phenomena such as the mixing of oil and water, which would be unimaginble in nomal circumstances. We leverage the unique physico-chemical properites of these extreme environments to develop new processes for the creation soft materials including nanoemulsions and polymers.

nanobiotechnology

Nanobiotechnology

Active research is now being conducted in the field of nanobiotechnology --the development of technologies that combine elements of biotechnology and nanotechnology-- but this R&D is limited largely to medical applications such as drug delivery and regenerative medicine. We seek to discover new uses for deep-sea and marine bioresources by developing and applying ultra-sensitive sensing and other nanobiotechnologies to the research of those resources.

ACHIEVEMENT

  • FY2023
  • FY2022
  • FY2021
  • FY2020
  • FY2019
  • FY2018
  • FY2017
  • FY2016
  • FY2015
  • FY2014

Awards

  1. Naoya Sagawa, Nanoparticulation of gum ghatti / Best Poster Award、Okinawa Colloids 2019

Publications

  1. Noriyuki Isobe, Mikiko Tsudome, Ryosuke Kusumi, Masahisa Wada, Katsuyuki Uematsu, Satoshi Okada, and Shigeru Deguchi, Moldable crystalline α-chitin hydrogel with toughness and transparency toward ocular applications, ACS Appl. Polym. Mater. (2020)
  2. Moe Kasahara, Shin-ichi Akimoto, Takahiko Hariyama, Yasuharu Takaku, Shin-ichi Yusa, Shun Okada, Ken Nakajima, Tomoyasu Hirai, Hiroyuki Mayama, Satoshi Okada, Shigeru Deguchi, Yoshinobu Nakamura, and Syuji Fujii, Liquid Marbles in Nature: Craft of Aphids for Survival, Langmuir 35 (18), 6169-6178 (2019)
  3. Satoshi Okada, Chong Chen, Tomo-o Watsuji, Manabu Nishizawa, Yohey Suzuki, Yuji Sano, Dass Bissessur, Shigeru Deguchi, and Ken Takai, The making of natural iron sulfide nanoparticles in a hot vent snail, PNAS 116 (41), 20376-20381 (2019)

Invited Lectures

  1. Shigeru Deguchi (2020/01/29) "Supramolecular Processes under Conditions Mimicking Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents", COST Action Chemobrionics Prague Meeting 2020, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Czech Republic
  2. Shigeru Deguchi (2019/09/24-27) "Deep-Sea Inspired Process for Continuous Production of Nano-Emulsion", 8th Asian Conference on Colloid & Interface Science (ACCIS 2019), Kathmandu, Nepal
  3. Shigeru Deguchi (2019/08/08-10) "Microbial Degradation of Biomass in Deep Sea", International Symposium of Renewable and Sustainable Materials 2019, Taipei, Taiwan
  4. Yu Nagai-Kanasaki, Naoya Sagwa, Shigeru Deguchi (2019/06/24-28) "Bottom-up Formation of Oil-in-Water Nanoemulsions from Homogeneous Solutions of Oil in Supercritical Water", 8th Conference on Bubble & Drop, Sofia, Bulgaria

Publications

  1. Yohi Kawamura and Remi Tsubaki, Phase reduction approach to elastohydrodynamic synchronization of beating flagella, Phys. Rev. E, 97, 022212 (2018)
  2. Suzuki, R., Onodera, T., Deguchi, S., Kasai, H., Oikawa, H., Nanocrystallization effect on luminescence properties of polymer-metal complex with different kinds of ligands, J. Taiwan Inst. Chem. Engr., 92, 129-133 (2018)
  3. Isobe, N., Kimura, S., Wada, M., Deguchi, S., Poroelasticity of cellulose hydrogel, J. Taiwan Inst. Chem. Engr., 92, 118-122 (2018)
  4. Isobe, N., Kasuga, T., Nogi, M., Clear transparent cellulose nanopaper prepared from a concentrated dispersion by high-humidity drying, RSC Adv., 8, 1833-1837 (2018)
  5. Ono, Y., Furihata, K., Isobe, N., Saito, T., Isogai, A., Solution-state structures of the cellulose model pullulan in lithium chloride/N,N-dimethylacetamide, Int. J. Biol. Macromol., 107, 2598-2603 (2018)
  6. Nicol, T.W.J., Isobe, N., Clark, J.H., Shimizu, S., Statistical thermodynamics unveils the dissolution mechanism of cellobiose, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 19, 23106-23112 (2017)
  7. Kinoshita, K., Takano, Y., Ohkouchi, N., & Deguchi, S., Free-Radical Polymerization of Acrylic Acid under Extreme Reaction Conditions Mimicking Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents, ACS Omega, 2 (6), pp 2765-2769 (2017)
  8. Voigt, D., Takanashi, T., Tsuchihara, K., Yazaki, K., Kuroda, K., Tsubaki, R., Hosoda, N., Strongest grip on the rod: tarsal morphology and attachment of Japanese pine sawyer beetles. Zoological Lett. 3, 16 (2017)
  9. Watsuji, T., Tsubaki, R., Chen, C., Nagai, Y., Nakagawa, S., Yamamoto, M., Nishiura, D., Toyofuku, T., Takai, K., Cultivation mutualism between a deep-sea vent galatheid crab and chemosynthetic epibionts. Deep Sea Res. Part I Oceanogr. Res. Pap., 127, 13-20 (2017)
  10. Kato, M., Yamamori, L., Goto, R., Tsubaki, R., Ohsuga, K., A new large tellinid species of the genus Pharaonella (Mollusca: Bivalvia) from the Ryukyu Archipelago, ZooKeys 705, 1-13 (2017)

Invited Lectures

  1. Shigeru Deguchi, (2017/10/10-13) "Nano-Innovation from Deep-Sea Extremobisphere", International Conference on Functional Nanomaterials & Nanotechnology (ICFNN-2017), Kathmandu, Nepal
  2. Satoshi Okada, Shigeru Deguchi, (2017/08/08-11) "Continuous Supercritical Water Process for Bottom-up Production of Oil-in-Water Nano-emulsions", 7th Asian Conference on Colloid & Interface Science (ACCIS 2017), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  3. Remi Tsubaki, Satoshi Okada, Shigeru Deguchi, (2017/06/28-07/01) "Unlocking the Potential of Life below the Waves", 10th International Symposium on Nature-Inspired Technology, Cebu, Philippines

Awards

  1. Satoshi Okada, Kinetic Analysis of Individual Events of C60 Dimerization by Atomic Resolution Electron Microscopy / ChemNanoMat Poster Award, AsiaNANO 2016

Publications

  1. Kubota, T., Kobayashi, T., Nunoura, T., Maruyama, F., & Deguchi, S., Enantioselective Utilization of D-Amino Acids by Deep-Sea Microorganisms, Front. Microbiol. (2016)

Book Chapters

  1. Shigeru Deguchi, Comparative In Situ Microscopic Observation of Cellulose and Chitin in Hydrothermal Condtions. in Extreme Biomimetics, Hermann Ehrlich ED. Springer International Publishing AG, 2017, pp119-133.

Invited Lectures

  1. Remi Tsubaki (2017/03/17) "Sponge as a Potential Model of Biomimetics: New perspective", International Symposium on Engineering Neo-biomimetics VII, AIST Tokyo Waterfront, Tokyo
  2. Shigeru Deguchi, Mikiko Tsudome (2016/12/13-16) "Enzymatic Micro-Engraving on Hydrogel Surfaces", The 11th SPSJ International Polymer Conference (IPC2016), Fukuoka International Congress Center, Fukuoka
  3. Shigeru Deguchi (2016/11/13-18) "Self-Assembly under Conditions Mimicking Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents", 2016 AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA
  4. Shigeru Deguchi (2016/06/05-11) "Bottom-up Formation of Nanoemulsions under Conditions Mimicking Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents", 21st International Symposium on Surfactants in Solution (SIS2016), Jinan, China
  5. Shigeru Deguchi (2016/05/09-13) "Bottom-Up Formation of Nanoemulsions from Hydrothermal Homogeneous Solutions of Oil in Water", EMN Meeting on Droplets 2016, San Sebastian, Spain

Publications

  1. Kubota, T., Shimamura, S., Kobayashi, T., Nunoura, T. & Deguchi, S. Distribution of eukaryotic serine racemases in the bacterial domain and characterization of a representative protein in Roseobacter litoralis Och 149. Microbiology, 162, 53-61 (2016)
  2. Kobayashi, T., Uchimura, K., Kubota, T., Nunoura, T. & Deguchi, S. Biochemical and genetic characterization of β-1, 3 glucanase from a deep subseafloor Laceyella putida. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 100 (1), 203-214 (2016)
  3. Deguchi, S., Tsujii, K. & Horikoshi, K. In situ microscopic observation of chitin and fungal cells with chitinous cell walls in hydrothermal conditions. Sci. Rep. 5, 11907 (2015).
  4. Kurata, A., Matsumoto, M., Kobayashi, T., Deguchi, S. & Kishimoto, N. Hyaluronate lyase of a deep-sea Bacillus niacini. Mar. Biotechnol. 17 (3), 277-284 (2015)

Invited Lecture

  1. Shigeru Deguchi (2016/03/29) "Fullerene Nanoparticles for Physicochemical Studies of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents", RIKEN Seminar, Wako, Saitama
  2. Shigeru Deguchi (2016/03/08-11) "Nanocellulose for Ultra-Sensitive Assay of Cellulase Activity", EMN Meeting on Cellulose, Taipei, Taiwan
  3. Shigeru Deguchi (2016/01/25) "Pressure-Dependent Structural Change of 2D Colloidal Array in Supercritical Ethanol", 3rd International Mini-Symposium on Surface Forces, Tohoku University, Sendai
  4. Remi Tsubaki (2016/01/13-15) "Water transportation system inspired by sponges", 9th International Symposium on Nature-Inspired Technology (ISNIT 2016), Daejeon, Korea
  5. Keigo Kinoshita, Shigeru Deguchi (2015/11/24) "MAGIQ: Novel Bottom-up Process for Making Nanoemulsions", 6th Asian Conference on Colloid and Interface Science (ACCIS 2015 Japan), Arakas Sasebo, Sasebo
  6. Shigeru Deguchi (2015/10/30) "Soft Materials under Extreme Conditions Mimicking Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents", 4th Nagoya Biomimetics International Symposium (NaBIS), Winc-aichi, Aichi
  7. Shigeru Deguchi (2015/09/23-26) "Self-Assembly in the Extreme Environments Deep below the Waves", Hierarchial Dynamics in Soft Materials and Biological Matter, Kyoto University, Kyoto
  8. Shigeru Deguchi(2015/08/02-07)"Ultra-Sensitive Assay of Cellulose Hydrolysis by Using Nanofibrous Substrates Combined with 3D Profilometry", Gordon Research Conference on Cellulosomes, Cellulases & Other Carbohydrate Modifying Enzymes, NH, USA
  9. Keigo Kinoshita, Shigeru Deguchi (2015/07/21-24) "Bottom-up Process for Making Nanoemulsifications by Using Supercritical Water", 2015 International Conference on Colloids and Interface Science, Taiwan Tec, Taiwan

Awards

  1. Keigo Kinoshita、Nanoemulsion Formation via Bottom-up Approach Using Supercritical Water/Best Poster Award, NIMS CONFERENCE 2014

Publications

  1. Tsubaki, R., & Kato, M. A novel filtering mutualism between a sponge host and its endosymbiotic bivalves. PLoS ONE 9 (10), e108885 (2014)
  2. Tsubaki, R., Hosoda, N., Katajima, H., & Takanashi, T. Substrate-borne vibrations induce behavioral responses of a leaf-dwelling cerambycid Paraglenea fortunei. Zool. Sci. 31 (12), 789-794 (2014)
  3. Mukai, S., Koyama, T., Tsuji, K., Deguchi, S. Anomalous Long-Range Repulsion between silica surfaces induced by density inhomogeneities in supercritical ethanol. Soft Matter 10 (35), 6645-6650 (2014)
  4. Foong, C. P., Lau, N-S., Deguchi, S., Toyofuku, T., Taylor, T. D., Sudesh, K. & Matsui, M. Whole genome amplification approach reveals novel polyhydroxyalkanoate synthases (PhaCs) from Japan Trench and Nankai Trough seawater. BMC Microbiol. 14, 318 (2014)

Book Chapters

  1. Deguchi, S., Kinoshita, K., Kubota, T., Aqua extrema and vita incognita deep below the waves. in Aqua incognita: Why ice floats on water and Galileo 400 years on, Lo Nostro, P., Ninham, B. W. Ed. Connor Court: Ballarat, 2014; pp 240-255.
  2. Deguchi, S., Mukai, S., Optical reactors for microscopic visualization of chemical processes in sub- and supercritical water. in Near-critical and supercritical water and their applications for biorefineries, Fang, Z., Xu, C. Ed. Springer Science+Business Media: Dordrecht, 2014; pp 133?156.

Invited Lecture

  1. Shigeru Deguchi(2014/10/26-29)"White nanobiotechnology for deep-sea bioprospecting", AsiaNano 2014, Jeju, Korea
  2. Remi Tsubaki & Shigeru Deguchi(2014/10/16)"Biomimetic initiative from deep-sea organisms in JAMSTEC", French-German-Japan Workshop on Mariage d'histoire naturelle et nanotechnology "Biomimetics meets Museum", Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, France
  3. Shigeru Deguchi(2014/06/22-26)"MAGIQ process: Bottom-up formation of nano-sized oil droplets in water", 20th International Symposium on Surfactants in Solution (SIS 2014), Coimbra, Portugal
  4. Shigeru Deguchi(2014/05/22)"White nanobiotechnology for elucidating functional diversity of extremophiles in the deep sea", Department Seminar at the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal