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Shigeru Ueda Lab
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A lab studying processes for making iron and also putting the resulting by-products to use.
AboutAbout the lab
Thinking about materials production from the viewpoint of resources and the environment.
The Ueda Lab researches the production of metals, including iron, and the effective use of by-products.
Global crude steel production increases year by year, and demand for base metals and rare metals keeps growing, but problems have emerged such as the deterioration of mineral resources and the generation of CO2 and harmful by-products.
What is needed are processes that adapt well to changes in the supply and demand of resources and energy and in raw materials, and that can produce materials stably with low environmental impact.
The lab aims to build the reaction processes needed for social infrastructure, such as responding to resource and energy constraints and reducing and using by-products.
Key terms
- Crude steel
- Steel as it comes out of the steelmaking furnace, not yet processed. Used when expressing iron and steel production volume.
- Slag
- In metal smelting, the layer of molten oxide that separates from the target metal and floats on top.
- Urban mine
- Metals accumulated in used products that can be extracted as resources.
NewsLab news
A student received the Excellence Award at the Student Poster Session of the Iron and Steel Institute of Japan 2026 Spring Meeting
A student received the Encouragement Award at the Student Poster Session of the Iron and Steel Institute of Japan 2025 Spring Meeting
A student received the Encouragement Award at the Student Poster Session of the Iron and Steel Institute of Japan 2024 Spring Meeting
A student received the Excellence Award at the Student Poster Session of the Iron and Steel Institute of Japan 2024 Spring Meeting
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to create materials production processes that can respond to changes in resource and energy supply and demand and in raw materials, with low environmental impact. It works on both producing basic materials efficiently and reducing by-products and using them as resources.
*Illustrative imageRecovering Phosphorus from Slag
Demand for phosphorus as agricultural fertilizer and as electrode material is rising, and competition for phosphorus resources is intensifying. The lab aims to leach and recover phosphorus from slag containing it at high concentrations, in order to secure domestic phosphorus resources.
*Illustrative imageDistribution of Metals between Copper and Slag
This research is on recovering metal resources from urban mines. The lab investigates the distribution equilibrium of how lead and tin partition between copper and slag.
*Illustrative imageDroplets Moving on Solid Surfaces and Interfacial Reactions
The lab investigates how interfacial reactions and droplet shape come into play when a droplet moves across a solid surface. Controlling solid-liquid interface phenomena and reactions is the foundation for controlling processes.
*Illustrative imageBattery Cathode Materials from Steelmaking Slag
This research is on producing iron phosphate, used as a cathode material for lithium-ion batteries, from the slag produced in the dephosphorization step of steelmaking (steelmaking slag).
MembersFaculty
The Ueda Lab's members consist of faculty, academic researchers, technical assistants, and master's students.As of 2026
- ProfessorShigeru Ueda
- Assistant ProfessorTakayuki Iwama
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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: “DSC03947 Blast Furnaces and Sinter Plant at Night, voestalpine Leoben-Donawitz, 2026-02” Aciarium / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Recovering Phosphorus from Slag: “DAP (Diammonium Phosphate) Granules (1)” Suyash Dwivedi / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Distribution of Metals between Copper and Slag: “Recycled Electronics - Circuit Boards ( )” Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Droplets Moving on Solid Surfaces and Interfacial Reactions: “Droplets ( )” Nicola Sap De Mitri / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Battery Cathode Materials from Steelmaking Slag: “Indiana-Harbor-scrap” Nadine Piatak, USGS / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Nogami Lab): “Iron runners - Trumbull-Cliffs Blast Furnace” "New Trumbull-Cliffs 600-Ton Blast Furance", The Iron Age, September 15, 1921, p. 676 / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Miki-Saito Lab): “Blast furnaces at Scunthorpe Steelworks - geograph.org.uk - 5844975” Gareth James / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Shibata (Hiroyuki) Lab): “In-stream inoculation addition while molten cast iron is poured to a green sand mold in a foundry in Bangladesh” Sm faysal / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Zhu Lab): “FLiBe” ornl.gov / Public domain (cropped)
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