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Nakajima-Isobe Lab
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The lab tackles problems of heat, water, and the environment with ceramics.
AboutAbout the lab
Taking on global-scale challenges with materials science
The Nakajima-Isobe Lab creates functional materials and separation technologies based on materials science.
Issues such as global warming, water resources, environmental pollution, public health, and energy are intricately intertwined.
In collaboration with different fields such as chemical engineering, environmental engineering, data science, and social science, the lab develops materials that are useful for a carbon-neutral society and for the conservation of the water environment.
The lab aims not only to make materials but also to deliver its results to society through industry-academia-government collaboration and international joint research.
Key terms
- Ceramics
- Materials made by firing and hardening inorganic substances such as clay and minerals at high temperature
- Negative thermal expansion materials
- Materials that, unlike ordinary materials, shrink when heated. They can be used to suppress dimensional errors.
- PFAS
- A general term for organofluorine compounds that repel water and oil. They are hard to break down and persist in the environment.
NewsLab news
Research results on negative thermal expansion materials published in J. Mater. Chem. C
A student received an Award for Excellence at the 24th Joint Research Meeting on Inorganic Materials
Results on a material whose antiviral properties change with light published in the English-language journal of the Ceramic Society of Japan
An antiviral material intended for fiber applications published in the English-language journal of the Ceramic Society of Japan
Creation of a high-performance antiviral material through mechanochemical treatment
ResearchResearch themes
By organically linking materials science with social issues, the lab pursues materials research that contributes to solving problems such as environmental issues, climate change, and the protection of culture. Its research rests on four pillars: low-thermal-expansion materials, ceramics that protect the environment, low-environmental-impact processes, and applications of ceramic processing.
*Illustrative imageMaterials that shrink when heated
The lab makes negative thermal expansion materials, which shrink when warmed, and investigates how they work. It works with the crystal Zr₂SP₂O₁₂ and with zeolites, and also pursues cold sintering, which densifies materials at low temperatures.
*Illustrative imageCeramics that solve environmental problems
The lab develops Lotus Ceramics, which draw up water by capillary force and evaporate it, cooling the surface in the way that sprinkling water on the ground (uchimizu) does. It also works on materials that remove PFAS by membrane distillation or activated carbon, and on antibacterial and antiviral materials.
*Illustrative imageZero and negative emissions
The lab studies a process that fixes carbon dioxide by passing electricity through seawater and reacting the carbonate ions dissolved in the seawater with calcium and magnesium to turn them into solid carbonates. It is also fabricating gas separation membranes.
*Illustrative imageNew culture from ceramics
Applying ceramic forming techniques, the lab works on establishing forming methods for porcelain buttons that were made during wartime and can no longer be reproduced, and for small porcelain works called porcelain jewelry.
MembersFaculty
The Nakajima-Isobe Lab consists of faculty members, researchers, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and international students.As of 2026
- ProfessorAkira NakajimaPublications ↗
- Associate ProfessorToshihiro IsobePublications ↗
- Program-Specific Lecturer望月 泰英
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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: “Kutani-Style Arita-Ware, 17th century, Japan, porcelain - Art Institute of Chicago - DSC00212” Daderot / CC0 (cropped)
- Materials that shrink when heated: “ZrW2O8 W2O8 diagonal” myself, own work / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Ceramics that solve environmental problems: “Cam Bioceramics Large Porous Granule” Onnovisser1979 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Zero and negative emissions: “Magnesite” Didier Descouens / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- New culture from ceramics: “Dish with Landscape Design, c. , Arita, hard-paste porcelain with underglaze cobalt - Gardiner Museum, Toronto - DSC00372” Daderot / CC0 (cropped)
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