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Matsushita-Kubota Lab
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The lab uses solution processes to produce functional ceramics with low environmental impact.
AboutAbout the lab
Frontrunners in next-generation materials processing!
The Matsushita-Kubota Lab studies solution processes that can produce functional ceramics with low environmental impact.
The lab works on materials for the environment and energy fields, such as electrode materials for supercapacitors.
It is also extending this work to electronics, including gas and bending sensors and transparent conductive films, as well as to implants and biosensing.
Through its research, the lab aims to train people with a deep understanding of the structure and function of materials.
Key terms
- Functional ceramics
- Ceramic materials, such as metal oxides, that are given electrical, optical, or magnetic functions
- Spin-spray method
- A method of making a thin film by spraying solutions onto a substrate placed on a rotating stage
- Nanosheet
- A plate-like material about 1 nanometer thick that extends several micrometers laterally
NewsLab news
A master's student received an Excellence Award at the Kanto Branch of the Ceramic Society of Japan
A master's student received an Excellence Award at the Three-University Joint Research Meeting
A master's student received an Outstanding Presentation Award at MISW2025
A master's student received an award at the Kanto Branch of the Ceramic Society of Japan
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies the production of functional ceramics through low-environmental-impact processes that use solutions. It develops methods for making thin films and nanostructures and applies them to energy, electronics, and biomaterials.
*Illustrative imageMaking Films with the Spin-Spray Method
A raw material solution and a reaction solution are sprayed onto a substrate placed on a rotating stage, producing ferrite thin films at below 100°C and atmospheric pressure. With this method, the lab also succeeded in fabricating zinc oxide transparent conductive films at a low temperature of 90°C.
*Illustrative imagePioneering New Solution Processes
The lab is developing a method to form metal oxide films by dissolving basic gas in a sealed container, and a method to make oxide nanosheets using a gas–liquid interface lined with surfactant molecules as a template.
*Illustrative imageApplications to Biomaterials
The lab bioactivated the surface of metallic glass by a hydrothermal-electrochemical method and formed bone-like apatite on it. It also works on controlling the corrosion resistance of biodegradable magnesium alloys and on biosensors using oxide electrodes.
MembersFaculty
The Matsushita-Kubota Lab consists of faculty members and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorNobuhiro MatsushitaPublications ↗
- Associate ProfessorYuta KubotaPublications ↗
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Report an errorAbout the images
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: “Photoresist spin-coaters at LAAS 0448” Guillaume Paumier (user:guillom) / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Making Films with the Spin-Spray Method: “Plasma Spray-Physical Vapor Deposition” NASA/Marvin G. Smith (Wyle Information Systems LLC) / Public domain (cropped)
- Pioneering New Solution Processes: “Such different zinc oxide - nanowalls” Andrey P. Tarasov / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Applications to Biomaterials: “Hip replacement Image 3684-PH” X-ray Image ID: 3684. Photographer: Unknown. / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (松田研究室): “Au sputtering light” GcG(jawp) / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (安井研究室): “Ceramic fracture” Mtbusca / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (東研究室): “Aust.-Synchrotron-Interior-Panorama” jjron / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (吉田研究室): “Silicon carbide mirror subjected to thermal–vacuum testing ESA377848” European Space Agency / CC BY-SA 3.0 igo (cropped)
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