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Materials Surface Chemistry Lab
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A lab that transforms the properties of materials by changing their surfaces.
AboutAbout the lab
Change the surface, and you change everything about the material.
The Materials Surface Chemistry Lab uses chemical processes to control the surfaces of metallic materials and create materials with unprecedented properties.
The lab arranges nanoscale pores in regular patterns by anodizing aluminum, and creates surfaces that strongly repel water or let water spread across them instantly.
It also develops corrosion-resistant magnesium materials and water-droplet generators that produce electricity from water drops.
The lab places importance on changing surfaces through simple chemical processes, without expensive equipment or complicated methods.
Key terms
- Anodizing
- Anodizing: a treatment in which a metal is used as the anode in electrolysis to form an oxide film on its surface. Also called anodic oxidation.
- Superhydrophobicity
- Superhydrophobicity: the property of almost completely repelling water, so that water drops form beads on the surface.
- Contact electrification
- Contact electrification: the phenomenon in which the surfaces of two different materials become electrically charged when they touch.
NewsLab news
A paper on anodic oxide films on magnesium was published in Surface and Coatings Technology
A review article on new aluminum materials made by anodizing was published in the Journal of the Japan Institute of Light Metals
A master's student and an Assistant Professor received an award at the Summer Session of the Hokkaido Branch of the Japan Institute of Metals and Materials
A paper on water-droplet generators was published in Colloids and Surfaces A
A student received the Aragane Award at the undergraduate thesis presentation of the Applied Materials Engineering Course
ResearchResearch themes
The lab develops processes that control material surfaces using various chemical approaches, including electrochemistry, inorganic chemistry, and physical chemistry, and takes on the challenge of creating materials with innovative functions. When surfaces are modified without expensive equipment or complicated methods, unprecedented and remarkable properties appear.
*Illustrative imageSelf-Ordered Nanomaterials
Anodizing aluminum produces an oxide film with nanosized pores. By finely controlling the conditions, the lab makes the pores arrange themselves naturally in regular patterns, and works toward applications such as nanofilters and substrates for structural color.
*Illustrative imageSuperhydrophilic and Superhydrophobic Materials
Using electrochemical processes, the lab controls the fine structure of metal surfaces at the nanometer scale to create surfaces on which water spreads extremely quickly, and surfaces that repel water so that it slides off immediately. The lab is also working on surfaces that repel even oil.
*Illustrative imageToward Corrosion-Free Metals
Corrosion, the rusting of metals, is a natural process that cannot be avoided. The lab controls the nanostructure and chemical composition of magnesium surfaces to protect them from the environment, aiming for metallic materials that can be used for a long time without maintenance.
*Illustrative imageGenerating Electricity from Water Droplets
When two different materials come into contact, their surfaces become electrically charged. The lab develops water-droplet generators that harvest the charge produced when a droplet falls onto a surface with a controlled nanostructure, aiming to generate electricity on rainy days.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Materials Surface Chemistry Lab are faculty members and master's and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorTatsuya Kikuchi
- Assistant ProfessorMasayuki Miyamoto
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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: “The bottom of closed titanium dioxide nanotubes with a brain structure surface” Robert Kamalov / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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- Superhydrophilic and Superhydrophobic Materials: “Super-hydrophobic paint ( )” UCL Mathematical and Physical Sciences from London, UK / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Toward Corrosion-Free Metals: “500px photo (39215042)” Rosa Elena Méndez Meza / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
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