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Functional Materials Design Lab
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The lab creates oxides that are normally impossible to make and draws out new functions from them.
AboutAbout the lab
New oxides from new principles.
The Functional Materials Design Lab designs and synthesizes metal oxides to pioneer inorganic materials with new functions.
Oxides are widely used in everyday life as dielectrics, magnetic materials, electrical conductors, and optically functional materials.
Solid-state reactions at high temperature yield only thermodynamically stable substances, but combining synthesis techniques that use the gas or liquid phase makes it possible to reach substances that have never existed before.
By adding a nanoscience perspective to diverse synthesis methods, the lab aims to create metastable and nonequilibrium materials, as well as functions based on entirely new mechanisms.
Key terms
- Ferroelectric
- A material that has an electric polarization even without an applied voltage, and whose direction can be switched from outside
- Metastable and nonequilibrium materials
- Materials that are kept in a different structure even though a more stable form exists. They cannot be obtained by solid-state reactions at high temperature, and are created by synthesis that uses the gas or liquid phase
- Lattice mismatch
- A condition in which the spacing of atoms differs between a thin film and the crystal underneath it. The mismatch strains the film and can change its properties
NewsLab news
Paper on controlling the Curie temperature of layered perovskite oxides published
Paper on a new perovskite oxide ferroelectric published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society
Doctoral student wins Best Poster Award at ISSSC2025
Paper on a new layered perovskite oxide ferroelectric published in Chemistry of Materials
ResearchResearch themes
The lab makes full use of diverse synthesis methods to create inorganic oxides that could not be obtained before. Keeping three goals in mind, namely pioneering metastable and nonequilibrium materials, creating functions based on new mechanisms, and developing materials with highly controlled morphology, the lab works on materials design and synthesis.
*Illustrative imageFerroelectrics Made with a New Principle
In perovskite ferroelectrics and piezoelectrics, specific elements were required to break the inversion symmetry of the crystal. The lab found that symmetry is also broken when oxygen octahedra rotate in a layered structure, and is presenting a new guideline for materials design.
*Illustrative imageNew Oxides Born Under High Pressure
Synthesis under high pressure freezes in high-density states and leads to structures that do not appear at ambient pressure. The lab has synthesized an iron oxide in which ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity coexist at room temperature, and a quadruple perovskite oxide in which atoms vibrate with large amplitude.
*Illustrative imageMetastable Crystals Grown as Thin Films
Thin-film growth from the gas phase makes it possible to create crystal structures and compositions that are unstable at thermal equilibrium. Taking advantage of lattice mismatch and charge mismatch with the substrate, the lab has also succeeded in straining an antiferromagnetic oxide and turning it into a ferromagnet.
MembersFaculty
The Functional Materials Design Lab consists of faculty members, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and administrative assistants.
- ProfessorKoji Fujita
- Associate ProfessorYI Wei
- Assistant ProfessorYukiko Obata
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- Top image: “VO2 crystal” Ding-Shyue Yang, Peter Baum, and Ahmed H. Zewail / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Ferroelectrics Made with a New Principle: “180 degree ferroelectric domains with profiles” Tertib64 / Public domain (cropped)
- New Oxides Born Under High Pressure: “DiamondAnvilCell 004” National Institute of Standards and Technology / Public domain (cropped)
- Metastable Crystals Grown as Thin Films: “Perovskite oxide thin film” Magnunor / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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