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Dodbiba Lab
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The lab takes on recycling and environmental remediation through technologies that separate and recover resources.
AboutAbout the lab
Materials processing technology for a sustainable future.
The Dodbiba Lab (Materials Processing Engineering Lab) studies technologies for resource recovery, recycling, waste treatment, and environmental remediation.
Depletion of natural resources and environmental problems are difficult to address with existing technologies alone, and new technologies for sustainable materials processing are needed.
Using experiments and computer simulations, the lab searches for environmentally friendly chemical and physical processing methods, and also synthesizes new functional materials.
The environmental impact of recycling and wastewater treatment methods is evaluated using LCA.
Key terms
- LCA (Life Cycle Assessment)
- A method for comprehensively evaluating the environmental impact of a product or system over its entire life, from raw material extraction to disposal
- Urban mine
- The idea of treating the metals contained in used electronic devices and similar items as a resource, like a mine
- Mineral processing (beneficiation)
- The process of separating the target minerals from mined ore and increasing their quality
NewsLab news
Won the Best Poster Award (2nd place) at the international conference IPIC 2025
Started joint research with Shinko Holdings Co., Ltd.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to gain a fundamental understanding of the mechanisms behind phenomena that occur in materials, minerals, solid waste, and wastewater. Through experiments and computer simulations, it searches for environmentally friendly processing methods, with a focus on reducing energy and resource consumption as well as emissions.
*Illustrative imageFine Particle Processing and Functional Materials
This research focuses on separating and applying fine particles. In addition to synthesizing and developing functional materials such as adsorbents, the lab also works on the production and application of magnetic fluids.
*Illustrative imageWastewater and Soil Remediation
The lab studies wastewater purification, which removes heavy metal ions from wastewater, and soil remediation, which removes toxic metals from soil. For wastewater treatment methods using adsorbents, the lab also evaluates the environmental impact using LCA.
*Illustrative imageRecycling from Urban Mines
The lab is developing recycling systems that make use of urban mines. It also works on recycling discarded electrical and mechanical parts, and on recovering useful substances from incineration ash.
*Illustrative imageMineral Resource Processing
The lab studies the separation and recovery of critical elements, as well as the recovery of resources on land and on the seabed. Its research also covers mineral processing technologies for low-grade ores from overseas, and the recovery and mineral processing of cobalt-rich crusts and rare-earth mud.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Dodbiba Lab consist of faculty members and students in the doctoral program, master's program, and undergraduate program.
- Associate ProfessorGjergj DodbibaPublications ↗
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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: “Prominenthill-flotation” Geomartin / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Fine Particle Processing and Functional Materials: “Ferrofluid spikes (magnet placed underneath the fluid)” ChemGeeks / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Wastewater and Soil Remediation: “Aeration tank activated sludge process STP Bengaluru India” Vraj Acharya, WELL Labs / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Recycling from Urban Mines: “Residuo electronico tarjeta madre colombia” Crista Castellanos / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Mineral Resource Processing: “Deep Discoverer ferromanganese nodules North Atlantic 2021” Unidentified NOAA photographer / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Tokoro-Takaya Lab): “Froth flotation” Andreslan / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Saito Lab): “Onkalo driving tunnel” kallerna / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Kato-Nakamura-Yasukawa Lab): “Deep Discoverer ferromanganese nodules North Atlantic 2021” NOAA
（撮影者不明） / Public domain (cropped) - Related lab (Geosphere Environmental Systems Lab): “Layers of sedimentary rock formed on the earth's surface. 5310” AlixSaz / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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