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Ishikawa Lab
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A solid-state chemistry lab that focuses on the states of electrons to search for new quantum materials.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring quantum properties that arise from intriguing arrangements of elements and molecules
The Ishikawa Lab is a solid-state chemistry lab that focuses on the electrons that determine the properties of solids, synthesizing new materials and studying their properties.
Depending on the states of the many electrons in a solid, a material can become a magnet or a metal with zero electrical resistance.
Targeting a wide range of solids, from ceramics, alloys, and halides to metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), the lab searches for new materials that can serve as magnetic, superconducting, and quantum materials.
To explore electronic states, the lab actively uses large-scale facilities such as pulsed ultra-high magnetic field facilities.
Key terms
- Metal-organic framework (MOF)
- MOF is an abbreviation of metal-organic framework. It is a solid with a framework made of metals and organic molecules.
- Pulsed ultra-high magnetic field facility
- A large-scale facility for examining the states of electrons in a material under extremely strong magnetic fields.
- Gyroid
- A three-dimensional structure with space group I4132. It attracts attention in various fields, including structural materials, insects, and liquid crystals.
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The lab synthesizes materials expected to show interesting properties, and studies their physical properties, from chemical perspectives such as crystal structure, valence, and chemical bonding, and from physical perspectives such as electron correlation, frustration, and band structure. It aims to open up new materials and new physical properties that do not lie on the extension of materials already in practical use.
*Illustrative imageQuantum Gyroids
A gyroid is a three-dimensional structure with space group I4132, and it attracts attention in various fields, including structural materials, insects, and liquid crystals. Focusing on the gyroid of electronic degrees of freedom, which is the smallest gyroid, the lab explores new quantum properties.
*Illustrative imageMaterials with Unusual Valences
The valence of an ion is a fundamental parameter that determines physical properties. The lab searches for unknown properties, such as the magnetism of elements that are normally nonmagnetic, like tantalum and niobium, and superconductivity in compounds containing anionic transition metals.
*Illustrative imagePhase Transitions in High Magnetic Fields
In recent years, it has become possible to measure various physical properties in strong magnetic fields exceeding 100 tesla. The lab actively uses this capability in research on magnetic materials to discover unknown magnetic-field-induced phase transitions.
*Illustrative imageNew Structural Phase Transitions
Inorganic materials show a variety of structural changes when temperature is changed. The lab explores the orientational order of water molecules in crystals, the order of spins and orbitals in materials with strong spin-orbit interaction, and piezoelectric transitions in MOFs.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Ishikawa Lab are faculty and students in the master's program and the undergraduate program.As of 2026
- Hajime Ishikawa
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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: “Scanning electron microscope view of iron crystal (S72-55208)” NASA Johnson Space Center / Public domain (cropped)
- Quantum Gyroids: “Gyroid surface with Gaussian curvature” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped)
- Materials with Unusual Valences: “Amethyst sceptre2” Didier Descouens / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Phase Transitions in High Magnetic Fields: “Bar-magnets-repelling-iron-filings-max” MikeRun, Vera Wurmsdobler / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- New Structural Phase Transitions: “Liquid Crystal Phase Transition” KarlGaff / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (貞清研究室): “Potassium trisoxalatoiron(III) trihydrate in vial” EryZ / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (川﨑研究室): “Discoveries from Asteroid Bennu- Media Briefing Graphics (SVS14772 - NASA Chiral Molecules V2)” NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio - NASA/Nicola Fox, Smithsonian Institution/Timothy McCoy, Natural History Museum, London/Sara Russell, NASA/GSFC/Daniel Glavin, NASA/GSFC/Jason Dworkin, NASA/GSFC/Rani Gran, eMITS/Dan Gallagher, Jacobs-JETS/Scott Eckley, Barrios Technology Ltd/Rachel Barry, ADNET Systems, Inc./Lonnie Shekhtman / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (福井研究室): “ZeaSeedling” Douglas Goldman / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (工藤研究室): “U.S. Department of Energy - Science - )” U.S. Department of Energy from United States / Public domain (cropped)
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