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Advanced Ceramics Lab
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The lab creates advanced ceramics by controlling powder processes scientifically.
AboutAbout the lab
Creating advanced ceramics from powder
The Advanced Ceramics Lab aims to create advanced ceramics and composite materials that contribute to the environment, energy, and information devices.
The lab studies how to elucidate and control powder processes, including particle synthesis, dispersion, forming, sintering, and machining, in a more scientific way rather than relying on intuition and experience.
It holds that establishing methods of making materials while improving mechanical reliability, that is, making components harder to fracture, is essential.
On the lab's website, it is introduced under the name "Tatami-Iijima Lab."
Key terms
- Powder process
- A method of making ceramics and composite materials through steps such as particle synthesis, dispersion, forming, sintering, and machining
- Optical coherence tomography
- A technique that uses light to observe the inside of a material in three dimensions. This lab uses it to observe the process by which ceramics form
- Master sintering curve
- A theoretical method for analyzing how materials shrink during sintering
- Composite particles
- Particles made by mechanically applying compressive shear force to particles of different sizes
NewsLab news
A master's student won the Best Presentation Award at the Spring Research Meeting of the Society of Powder Technology, Japan
Paper on the grain boundary strength of α/β-SiAlON ceramics to be published in Ceramics International
Review article on interparticle photo-crosslinkable Pickering emulsions published in the Journal of the Society of Powder Technology, Japan
A master's student won the top prize at the 19th Ceramic Festa in Kanagawa
A master's student won the Best Poster Presentation Award at the 9th Asian Particle Symposium
ResearchResearch themes
Centered on powder processing technology, the lab aims to create ceramics and composite materials whose structures are controlled from the atomic to the nano to the micro scale. It studies the whole process of making materials from powder, including observing how structures form, designing and compositing particle surfaces, and evaluating the fracture properties of materials.
*Illustrative imageObserving and Optimizing the Manufacturing Process in 3D
Using optical coherence tomography, the lab observes the internal structure of ceramics in three dimensions, in real time, as they form. By elucidating the factors behind structure formation through approaches such as designing particle interfaces, it aims to optimize the entire manufacturing process.
*Illustrative imagePowder Processes for High Functionality and High Reliability
By combining powder processing and analysis equipment such as bead mills, spray dryers, and atmosphere-controlled pressure sintering furnaces, the lab works to make ceramics more functional and more reliable. It also conducts theoretical research, such as analysis of sintering shrinkage using master sintering curves.
*Illustrative imageControlling Ceramic Structure with Composite Particles
Applying mechanical compressive shear force to particles of different sizes to make composite particles makes fine particles easier to handle and allows them to be dispersed uniformly. This works regardless of particle type, making it possible to control the microstructure of ceramics and improve their properties.
*Illustrative imageSurface Modification to Disperse Nanoparticles
For functional nanoparticles a few to several tens of nanometers in size, preventing aggregation and stabilizing dispersion is the key to controlling and improving their function. The lab works on techniques to disperse them uniformly in organic solvents and resins using functional anionic surfactants and multistep surface modification.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Advanced Ceramics Lab consist of faculty members, doctoral students (including working professionals), master's and undergraduate students, and secretaries.As of 2025
- ProfessorJunichi Tatami
- Associate ProfessorMotoyuki Iijima
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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: “Diamond blades for cutting advanced ceramic materials” Vijesh Gogia / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Observing and Optimizing the Manufacturing Process in 3D: “X-ray Computed Tomography of Astromaterials -- jsc2024e076997” NASA Johnson Space Center / ROBERT MARKOWITZ NASA-JSC / Public domain (cropped)
- Powder Processes for High Functionality and High Reliability: “Rhodium powder pressed melted” Alchemist-hp (talk) www.pse-mendelejew.de derivative work: Purpy Pupple (talk) / CC BY-SA 3.0 de (cropped)
- Controlling Ceramic Structure with Composite Particles: “Digital Ceramics Printing Lab” BSUELK / CC0 (cropped)
- Surface Modification to Disperse Nanoparticles: “Platinum nanoparticles” PieroSpeleo / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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