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Carbon Materials Science Lab
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The lab works on energy and environmental challenges using carbon materials.
AboutAbout the lab
Building the future from carbon
The Carbon Materials Science Lab studies carbon materials such as carbon fibers and activated carbon, and explores their applications in batteries, capacitors, fuel cells, and more.
Associate Professor Jin Miyawaki works on the creation of porous carbon and the analysis of its pores, and Associate Professor Koji Nakabayashi works on producing carbon materials from stranded resources.
The lab does not recruit undergraduate students; it is intended for those joining from the graduate level.
Key terms
- Stranded resources
- Carbon resources that remain unused. This lab studies them as raw materials for carbon fibers and other products.
- Biomass
- Resources derived from living organisms. This lab uses terrestrial and marine biomass as raw materials for carbon materials.
- Porous carbon
- A carbon material with many pores (tiny holes). The lab also studies techniques for analyzing the pores.
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The lab works on solving energy and environmental challenges using carbon materials. It not only develops high-performance carbon materials but also takes on elucidating their fundamentals and underlying principles.
*Illustrative imageFundamental and Foundational Research on High-Performance Carbon Materials
The lab handles a wide range of materials, from classical carbon materials to cutting-edge functional carbon materials. It develops carbon fibers, activated carbon, coke, battery electrodes, graphite electrode materials, and pitch materials, and also takes on elucidating their fundamentals and principles.
*Illustrative imageCarbon Nano-Hybrid Materials
The lab develops nanoscale carbon materials, such as carbon nanofibers, carbon nanoparticles, and carbon materials with ideal structures. It creates materials by designing them from the nanoscale.
*Illustrative imageAdvanced Utilization of Fossil Resources
The lab evaluates the properties of petroleum, coal, and similar resources and develops methods for upgrading them. It also uses terrestrial and marine biomass, industrial waste, and other materials as carbon resources for property evaluation and for developing carbon materials.
*Illustrative imageExploring New Substances and New Properties
The lab develops new materials that use carbon as a resource. Many of the carbon resources it targets are complex mixtures with a very large number of components, and by making materials from them, the lab explores the emergence of new materials and new functions.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Carbon Materials Science Lab consist of faculty, professors emeritus, visiting professors, technical staff, and doctoral and master's students.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorJin Miyawaki
- Associate ProfessorKoji Nakabayashi
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Carbon fiber chasi of Shell Eco-marathon prototype - Proto INSA Club - Phoenix” Proto INSA Club / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Fundamental and Foundational Research on High-Performance Carbon Materials: “Types of Carbon Nanotubes” User Mstroeck on en.wikipedia / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Carbon Nano-Hybrid Materials: “HAS GRAPHENE BEEN DETECTED IN SPACE? (noao1103a)” IAC; original image of the Helix Nebula (NASA, NOAO, ESA, the Hubble Helix Nebula Team, M. Meixner, STScI, & T.A. Rector, NRAO.) / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Advanced Utilization of Fossil Resources: “Petroleum sample” Nefronus / CC0 (cropped)
- Exploring New Substances and New Properties: “Single clear quartz, rock crystal 2” W.carter / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Energy Materials Lab): “Lithium-Ion Battery for BMW i3 - SB-LiMotive Cells” RudolfSimon / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Micro Process Control Lab): “Fluidized bed biomass gasification plant - Front wiew” Carvarsa / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Advanced Photofunctional Materials Lab): “Bilayer-OLED” Myxiao / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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