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Tamura Lab
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A lab that creates new metallic materials, such as quasicrystals and magnets.
AboutAbout the lab
Starting from the elements to make new materials
Tamura Lab studies quasicrystals and approximant crystals, permanent magnets, metallic glasses, and metal catalyst materials.
On the lab's website, it calls on people to start from the elements and make entirely new materials with their own hands.
For quasicrystals and approximant crystals, the lab is developing new substances and exploring the phenomena and physical properties that appear in them.
For its experiments, the lab uses not only its own measurement equipment but also the joint-use facilities of the Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP) at the University of Tokyo and overseas synchrotron radiation facilities.
Key terms
- quasicrystal
- The third form of solid, with symmetries such as five-fold rotation axes that are forbidden in crystals.
- approximant crystal
- A group of materials in which icosahedral clusters are arranged periodically.
- metallic glass
- A metal in which the atoms are arranged randomly, as in glass, even though it is a solid.
NewsLab news
A paper by Professor Tamura and colleagues was published in Journal of the American Chemical Society
Assistant Professor Farid Labib and a master's student received the 6th An-Pang Tsai Award
Assistant Professor Farid Labib received the Young Scientist Award (Division 6) of the Physical Society of Japan
A paper from Tamura Lab was published in Journal of the American Chemical Society
Professor Tamura received The 2025 Jean-Marie Dubois Award
ResearchResearch themes
This lab makes new materials with its own hands and investigates the properties that emerge in them. In addition to quasicrystals and approximant crystals, it works on permanent magnets, metallic glasses, and metal catalysts.
*Illustrative imageDevelopment and physical properties of quasicrystals and approximant crystals
The lab develops new quasicrystals and approximant crystals and explores the new phenomena and physical properties they show. Research to find applications suited to quasicrystals has only just begun.
*Illustrative imageDeveloping high-performance permanent magnets
Permanent magnets have the drawback that their magnetization decreases at high temperatures. Using methods such as rapid quenching and mechanical milling, the lab makes high-performance permanent magnets, aiming to develop next-generation permanent magnets.
*Illustrative imageBulk metallic glasses and their applications
Metallic glasses, in which atoms are arranged randomly as in glass, resist corrosion well. The lab makes them in bulk form and, comparing them with conventional products, aims to apply them in new fields.
Alloy catalysts without platinum
Platinum is widely used in catalysts that render harmful gases harmless, but platinum is a scarce resource. The lab is working to develop new alloy catalysts with high catalytic activity, based on alloy systems other than platinum.
MembersFaculty
Tamura Lab's members consist of faculty, master's and undergraduate students, secretaries, and research assistants.As of 2026
- ProfessorRyuji Tamura
- Assistant ProfessorFarid Labib
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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: “Rendering of quasicrystal lattice structure” LinKayser / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Development and physical properties of quasicrystals and approximant crystals: “Icosahedrite Diffraction Pattern” Paul Steinhardt / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Developing high-performance permanent magnets: “Diamagnetic graphite levitation” en:User:Splarka / Public domain (cropped)
- Bulk metallic glasses and their applications: “Bulk Metallic Glass Sample” George Stobbart / Public domain (cropped)
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