Dr. Tetsu Ouchi, PhD
Assistant Professor
Email: tetsuouchi@lsu.edu
CV: Dr. Tetsu Ouchi CV
Website:
Location: 3314H Patrick F. Taylor
Hall, Louisiana State
University, Baton Rouge,
LA 70803
Research Interests
- Advanced materials – adaptive/responsive materials
- Polymer (mechano) chemistry
- Soft matter mechanics
Research Projects
- Mechanically adaptive systems
- Toughening Elastomeric materials through molecular energy dissipation
- Mechano-responsive material systems leveraging high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU)
Tetsu Ouchi
Assistant Professor
Ouchi Group Website
Education
Ph.D., Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst (2019)
M.S., Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst (2014)
M.S., Engineering, Keio University, Japan (2012)
B.S., Engineering, Keio University, Japan (2010)
Courses Taught
CHE 2172 Chemical Thermodymanics
CHE 9000 Dissertation Research
Areas
Advanced materials – adaptive/responsive materials, Polymer (mechano) chemistry, and
Soft matter mechanics
Research
The Ouchi lab develops novel responsive materials systems whose response propagates
across, or couples with, multi-length scale phenomena. It centers on the interfaces
of materials science, polymer/mechanochemistry, and soft matter mechanics. Material
systems in nature represent the ultimate examples of smart materials and possess versatile
responsive/autonomous functions through their sophisticated yet complicated structures.
They (i) take advantage of their structural inhomogeneity, (ii) transduce their local
responses as chemical/electrical signals, and (iii) organically adapt to their environments
through cooperative interactions in which multi-scale and multidisciplinary phenomena
are involved. However, because of these complexities in their systems, there are still
large gaps between artificial material systems and natural objects. Our group has
interdisciplinary experiences across Polymer Science, Mechanical Engineering, and
Chemistry. This combination of experiences enables us to explore the questions of
atomic-to-macroscopic coupling in material systems at various length scales that are
central to our research program. With technologies in these fields, we are interested
in reverse-engineering these essences from natural objects and will provide advanced
materials platforms that address technical challenges currently faced in the areas
of healthcare, environmental sustainability, and manufacturing.
Awards & Honors
Materials Chemistry Horizon Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2024
LSU Alumni Association Rising Faculty Research Award, 2018
National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2017
Dow Excellence-in-Teaching Award, 2017
BASF Sustainability Lab Recipient, 51Âþ», 2016
Most Downloaded Paper, ACS Photonics, 2015
Selected Publications
Plasmonic films can easily be better: rules and recipes
KM McPeak, SV Jayanti, SJP Kress, S Meyer, S Iotti, A Rossinelli, ...
ACS photonics 2 (3), 326-333
Complex chiral colloids and surfaces via high-index off-cut silicon
KM McPeak, CD van Engers, M Blome, JH Park, S Burger, MA Gosalvez, ...
Nano letters 14 (5), 2934-2940
In situ x-ray absorption near-edge structure spectroscopy of ZnO nanowire growth during
chemical bath deposition
KM McPeak, MA Becker, NG Britton, H Majidi, BA Bunker, JB Baxter
Chemistry of Materials 22 (22), 6162-6170