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Saida Lab
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A lab that creates materials with nanostructures from supercooled liquids, such as metallic glasses.
AboutAbout the lab
New metallic materials from liquids before they solidify.
The Saida Lab studies the mechanism that makes the supercooled liquids of alloys stable, and the nanostructures that form naturally from them.
Among alloys, some have supercooled liquids that stay especially stable without solidifying, even below the melting point.
This stability is thought to depend heavily on the arrangement of atoms (local structure) that forms within the liquid, and the lab investigates that mechanism.
Using this phenomenon, the lab makes materials in which nanostructures self-organize, as in bulk metallic glasses, and evaluates their properties.
Key terms
- Supercooled liquid
- A state in which a substance stays liquid without crystallizing, even at temperatures below its melting point
- Metallic glass
- A metallic material that solidifies without its atoms arranging in an orderly way, giving it a glass-like structure
- Self-organization
- The natural formation of a microstructure inside a material without any shape being imposed from outside
NewsLab news
Prof. Saida received the Materials Scientist Award 2026
A paper on plastic deformation of metallic glasses was published in Scripta Materialia
A paper on controlling the relaxation state of metallic glasses was published in Advanced Engineering Materials
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to clarify, from various angles, why the supercooled liquids of alloys are stable. It also precisely controls supercooled liquids to make nanosized structures self-organize, and evaluates the properties of the resulting materials.
*Illustrative imageThe mechanism that stabilizes supercooled liquids
The lab examines from many angles the local structures that stabilize supercooled liquids, aiming to clarify the mechanism behind that stability.
*Illustrative imageSelf-organization of nanostructures and property evaluation
The lab elucidates the self-organization of nanostructures that occurs when stable supercooled liquids are precisely controlled, and evaluates the properties of the resulting materials.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorJunji Saida
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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: “U.S. Department of Energy - Science - )” U.S. Department of Energy from United States / Public domain (cropped)
- The mechanism that stabilizes supercooled liquids: “Supercooling water bottle after shaking” s.k. / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Self-organization of nanostructures and property evaluation: “Metallic Glass of Genesis After Removal from Canister DSC 2869 large” NASA/JSC / Public domain (cropped)
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