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Fujimoto Lab
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An inorganic materials lab working on the synthesis and rapid exploration of functional ceramics.
AboutAbout the lab
Rapidly searching for functional ceramics
The Fujimoto Lab studies the exploration and enhancement of functional inorganic materials (ceramics), centered on environmental purification materials and energy materials.
Besides creating new materials, the lab also conducts fundamental research that clarifies how materials are synthesized and what their properties are.
Based on the concept of combinatorial chemistry, the lab is developing high-throughput synthesis, evaluation, and analysis technologies.
In the lab, each member is in charge of a different material system and works on their own theme.
Key terms
- Ceramics
- A type of inorganic material, often used inside electronic devices and energy equipment
- Combinatorial chemistry
- An approach to finding new materials by systematically trying many combinations of elements and experimental conditions
- High-throughput
- A technology that processes many samples one after another in a short time. In this lab, it is developed for each of the synthesis, measurement, and analysis steps
- Flux method
- One method for growing single crystals. In this lab, it is used for materials whose crystal structure is to be examined in detail
NewsLab news
Prof. Fujimoto received the Research Progress Award from the Japan Society of Powder and Powder Metallurgy
Posted a lab overview guide for 2nd- and 3rd-year students considering lab assignment
Prof. Fujimoto received a Best Poster Award at the 2025 MRS Fall Meeting
ResearchResearch themes
The search for functional ceramics has moved toward multicomponent systems, and research that finds high-performance materials among many components and experimental conditions is becoming mainstream. The lab combines high-throughput technologies for synthesis, measurement, and analysis with conventional research methods, aiming to discover next-generation functional ceramic materials.
*Illustrative imageHigh-Throughput Materials Exploration Technologies
For each of the synthesis, measurement, and analysis steps, the lab has built an independent system that can process 100 or more samples per day. It is now integrating these, aiming for a research system that can autonomously carry out the entire materials exploration workflow.
*Illustrative imageProposing New Materials with Machine Learning
Using datasets of process conditions and physical properties accumulated so far, the lab works on proposing new materials with machine learning and analyzing the mechanisms by which properties appear.
*Illustrative imageWide-Ranging Synthesis Methods and Functional Evaluation
In addition to solid-state synthesis, the lab uses liquid-phase synthesis such as the sol-gel and coprecipitation methods, soft chemical processes, and single-crystal growth by the flux method. For evaluation, besides structural analysis by X-ray diffraction, it examines the functions of thermoelectric materials, photocatalysts and exhaust gas purification catalysts, gas sensors, phosphors, and shape memory alloys.
MembersFaculty
The Fujimoto Lab consists of faculty members, a visiting professor, JST project staff, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorKenjiro Fujimoto
- Assistant ProfessorTakuro Dazai
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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: “Celtic pottery kiln, Samborowice” Marsilar / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- High-Throughput Materials Exploration Technologies: “High-throughput screening” Tiia Monto / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Proposing New Materials with Machine Learning: “Unraveling AI Complexity - A Comparative View of AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Generative AI” PopovaZhuhadar / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Wide-Ranging Synthesis Methods and Functional Evaluation: “Goniometer-xray-diffraction hg” Hannes Grobe / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
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