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Materials Composite Process Engineering Lab
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A lab that designs the “shape” of materials to create new functions.
AboutAbout the lab
Designing function from the “shape” of materials.
The Kobashi-Suzuki-Tsuchida Lab researches how to design the “shape” of materials to create materials with new functions.
Porous materials, which contain pores (holes) of various sizes, gain properties such as absorbing impact and exchanging heat efficiently.
Using additive manufacturing (3D printing) and powder metallurgy, the lab designs and controls the shape of materials at scales from the nano to the macro.
Key terms
- Additive manufacturing
- A fabrication method that builds a shape by stacking material layer by layer, based on data of a designed shape. Also called 3D printing.
- Porous material
- A structure with many small holes (pores) inside or on the surface. It is lightweight and has a large surface area.
- Powder metallurgy
- A method of making parts by pressing metal powder into shape and then heating it, without melting, to sinter it into a solid.
NewsLab news
A master's student received the Excellent Presentation Award at the Japan Society of Powder and Powder Metallurgy 2026 Spring Meeting
A master's student was selected for a Winner Poster of Merit at World PM2026
A master's student received the Excellent Poster Presentation Award at the 150th Spring Meeting of the Japan Institute of Light Metals
A master's student received the Excellent Presentation Award at the master's interim presentations
Associate Professor Suzuki received the Young Scientists' Prize in the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
ResearchResearch themes
To enhance the functions of metals and ceramics, the lab designs and controls the “shape” of materials at scales ranging from nano, micro, and meso to macro. Advances in additive manufacturing have made it possible to produce materials with properties not found in nature, such as a negative Poisson's ratio.
*Illustrative imageCreating New Shapes with Additive Manufacturing
Additive manufacturing is used to produce complex shapes that conventional processing cannot make, enhancing material functions. The lab designs shapes inspired by crystal structures and nature, and uses artificial intelligence to design shapes that humans would not think of.
*Illustrative imageHierarchical Porous Structures
By removing the electrochemically less noble metal from an alloy, the lab creates nano- and micro-scale pores on the surface. Nanopores are added to the walls of interconnected micropores to increase the usable surface area, and the lab aims for hierarchical porous structures that combine this with the complex shapes made by additive manufacturing.
*Illustrative imageExploiting the Heterogeneous Microstructure of Additively Manufactured Parts
In laser powder bed fusion, only the spot hit by the laser is heated and then cooled rapidly, producing a heterogeneous microstructure inside the material. The lab varies the laser conditions to control the microstructure and properties location by location, and applies this to metals and composite materials.
*Illustrative imageNew Powder Metallurgy Processes
The lab develops processes for making diamond–metal composite materials, which have been difficult to produce, and sintered aluminum powder compacts. It also aims at shaping in combination with sinter-based additive manufacturing, and incorporates analysis using a large synchrotron radiation facility.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Kobashi-Suzuki-Tsuchida Lab consist of faculty, secretaries, technical assistants, and students in the doctoral program (including working professionals), master's program, and undergraduate program.As of 2026
- ProfessorMakoto Kobashi
- Associate ProfessorAsuka Suzuki
- Assistant ProfessorNatsumi Tsuchida
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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: “Iss071e ) ---A view the Metal 3D printer that manufactures experimental samples printed with stainless steel aboard the International Space Station's Columbus laboratory module” NASA Johnson Space Center / Public domain (cropped)
- Creating New Shapes with Additive Manufacturing: “Filament cardboard plastic refill 1” Suit / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Hierarchical Porous Structures: “Rhodium powder pressed melted” Alchemist-hp (talk) www.pse-mendelejew.de derivative work: Purpy Pupple (talk) / CC BY-SA 3.0 de (cropped)
- Exploiting the Heterogeneous Microstructure of Additively Manufactured Parts: “Inaugurazione del 3DMetal@UniPV 6 dicembre )” Università di Pavia / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- New Powder Metallurgy Processes: “Dense pellet forming5” Dominik Bejma, Marta Kowalkińska / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Structural Materials Design Lab): “Iss071e ) --- A metal specimen 3D printed on the ground for ESA’s Metal 3D Printer investigation” NASA Johnson Space Center / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Materials Creation Nanotectonics Engineering Lab): “Nanoart Fluorescence” Яна Сычикова / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Nanoionics Design Engineering Lab): “Lithium Ion Battery Cell - Cylindrical Cell, Prismatic Cell, Pouch Cell” CRBAman / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Nanostructure Control Lab): “Transmission electron microscope circa 1960” CDC/ Dr. Hogan / Public domain (cropped)
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