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Functional Materials Engineering Lab
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A lab that builds nanosheets only a few atoms thick into structures, like stacking building blocks.
AboutAbout the lab
Turning ordinary materials into high-tech ones with nanotechnology.
The Osada Lab researches creating new functional materials from “nanosheets”, inorganic two-dimensional materials only a few atoms thick.
Using inexpensive, simple solution processes, the lab makes and arranges nanomaterials in a beaker.
The aim is to build structures and materials by combining nano-sized blocks, like a child's building blocks.
The lab also works on applying the nanosheets it makes to electronic and energy materials.
Key terms
- Nanosheet
- A sheet-shaped material only about a nanometer (one billionth of a meter) thick
- First-principles calculation
- A method of predicting a material's properties by calculation from the fundamental laws governing atoms and electrons, without relying on experimental values
- Doping
- Mixing a small amount of another element into a material to change its electrical and other properties
- Artificial superlattice
- A structure made by deliberately stacking extremely thin layers with different properties in a regular order
NewsLab news
Established guidelines for designing the composition of oxide nanosheets using surfactants (press release)
Realized a highly sensitive, ultra-compact photosensor using transparent nanosheets (press release)
Elucidated the domain structure of a ferroelectric at the atomic level (press release)
Assistant Professor Yamamoto received the Young Scientists' Award in the FY2026 Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Master's and undergraduate students received the Tokai Branch Chair's Award of the Chemical Society of Japan
ResearchResearch themes
Focusing on two-dimensional materials a few atoms thick (inorganic nanosheets), the lab makes and arranges nanomaterials with solution processes. It works on exploring new functions, building nanostructures, and developing electronic and energy materials.
*Illustrative imageDesign and synthesis of inorganic nanosheets
The lab studies oxide nanosheets, obtained by peeling layered compounds apart one layer at a time. Using design based on first-principles calculations, it precisely controls doping and electronic states, aiming for nanosheets with new functions and with functions that surpass graphene.
*Illustrative imageStructures made by stacking nanosheets
Room-temperature solution processes can produce structures and layered thin films whose composition and structure are controlled at the nanoscale. By stacking nanosheets with different properties into artificial superlattices, the lab develops materials with structures and functions that can be obtained only by this method.
*Illustrative imageApplications to electronic and energy materials
Because nanosheets are so thin, simply stacking them like LEGO blocks lets the lab control interactions between materials. By stacking them layer by layer to build multilayer films and superlattices with precisely controlled structure and electronic states, it develops new electronic and energy materials.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Osada Lab consist of faculty, postdoctoral researchers, administrative assistants, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorMinoru Osada
- Associate ProfessorMakoto Kobayashi
- Assistant ProfessorEisuke Yamamoto
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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: “RLLvsSXTLgraphite” P. Fraundorf / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Design and synthesis of inorganic nanosheets: “Claudetite-I-layer-3D-balls” Ben Mills / Public domain (cropped)
- Structures made by stacking nanosheets: “The structure of a superlattice of semiconductor layers. Acoustic waves undergo amplification,January 2013” Philipposc / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Applications to electronic and energy materials: “Photovoltaic Panels” Noggen13 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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