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Materials Design Engineering Lab
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A lab that creates fine shapes of metals and semiconductors through chemical reactions in liquids.
AboutAbout the lab
Creating functional materials by controlling surfaces and shapes.
The Materials Design Engineering Lab studies how to create fine structures of metals, alloys, and semiconductors through liquid-based (wet) processing.
It designs processes across scales from nanometers to millimeters, aiming to create functional materials by controlling surfaces and shapes.
Its research spans fields such as materials science, physical chemistry, interface science, and nonlinear science.
The lab belongs to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in the Graduate School of Engineering, and Professor Fukami joined in April 2025.
Key terms
- Anodization
- A processing method in which a material is used as an electrode and an electric current is passed to oxidize or dissolve its surface
- Nanoporous
- A state in which there are many tiny holes at the nanometer scale
- Electrodeposition
- A method of forming a film by passing an electric current to deposit metal dissolved in a liquid onto a surface
NewsLab news
A paper by Program-Specific Assistant Professor Yasuda and colleagues was published in CleanMat
A paper by Professor Fukami and colleagues was published in Journal of The Electrochemical Society
A paper by Professor Fukami and colleagues was published in Advanced Functional Materials
A paper by Professor Fukami and colleagues was published in Nature Communications
ResearchResearch themes
Through the design of dynamic processes spanning scales from nanometers to millimeters, the lab controls surfaces and shapes, and is pioneering materials engineering for creating and using metal and semiconductor nanomaterials.
*Illustrative imageNanofabricating semiconductor surfaces by anodization
The lab makes the surfaces of semiconductors such as silicon, silicon carbide, and diamond nanoporous by anodization, and uses them as templates and electrodes. Even materials that are difficult to process have been processed, by creating defects at the places meant to be dissolved.
*Illustrative imageMaking metal nanomaterials using nano-sized pores as templates
Using nanopores in silicon made by anodization as templates, metal nanoparticles and other nanomaterials can be made. The lab has shown that they can be produced in large quantities in a short time.
*Illustrative imageCutting semiconductors with a carbon catalyst
Dicing, the process of cutting silicon wafers, wastes material as cutting debris. Together with collaborators, the lab is pioneering a chemical dicing method that chemically dissolves silicon using graphene nanoribbons as a catalyst and produces almost no cutting debris.
*Illustrative imageMaking multicomponent alloy films from liquids
Using electrodeposition, which can form films uniformly even on surfaces of complex shapes, together with a liquid that undergoes microscopic phase separation, the lab has achieved alloy coatings with wear resistance and corrosion resistance exceeding those of hard chrome plating. It continues research on precisely controlling the elements and composition.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorKazuhiro Fukami
- Assistant ProfessorTakumi Yasuda
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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: “Stone Flower (Кам’яна квітка)” Яна Сычикова, Сергей Ковачев / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Nanofabricating semiconductor surfaces by anodization: “Porous silicon” SomovPA / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Making metal nanomaterials using nano-sized pores as templates: “Gold Nanowire Array” lacomj / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Cutting semiconductors with a carbon catalyst: “Black silicon on micro-pillars” Mgerlt / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Making multicomponent alloy films from liquids: “Chitosan Thin Film” D.S. Soriano / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Advanced Materials Physics Lab): “Scanning tunneling microscope-MHS 2237-IMG 3819” Rama / CC BY-SA 3.0 fr (cropped)
- Related lab (Physics of Magnetism Lab): “Metal shavings around bar magnet (close-up)” Maciej J. Mrowinski / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Crystal Physics and Engineering Lab): “Plastic Stress Versus Strain” Mikeviti6 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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