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Functional Properties Engineering Lab
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The lab studies how to make good use of sunlight and heat with carbon nanotubes.
AboutAbout the lab
Putting the remarkable properties of nanomaterials to work for energy
The Functional Properties Engineering Lab (Miyauchi Lab) aims to create new, highly efficient technologies for using solar light and heat energy that contribute to a sustainable energy society.
The lab conducts research focused on the properties and functions of nanoscale materials, including carbon nanotubes, and of quantum materials, and on their energy applications.
Key terms
- Carbon nanotube
- A material in which carbon atoms are linked in a tube shape, with a diameter of a few nanometers
- Thermal radiation
- Light (electromagnetic waves) emitted by an object depending on its temperature
- Quantum materials
- Materials in which the effects of quantum mechanics appear strongly
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies the properties and functions of nanoscale and quantum materials such as carbon nanotubes, and their energy applications.
*Illustrative imageConverting Sunlight with Nanotubes
The lab applies narrow-band thermal exciton emission, which it found in carbon nanotubes at high temperatures above 1,000°C, to the control of thermal radiation. It is building converters that narrow the broad spectrum of sunlight, aiming to apply them to areas such as solar thermal power generation.
*Illustrative imageIntegrated Functional Materials from Quantum Materials
The lab clarifies the properties and functions that emerge only when nanomaterials are assembled together, and develops highly functional nanocarbon materials, such as single-chirality nanotube assembled films and composites, along with low-cost synthesis technologies for them.
*Illustrative imageNew Thermal and Optical Properties of Quantum Materials
The lab studies the high-temperature thermal and optical properties of materials such as atomically thin semiconductors, and infrared photoelectric conversion phenomena in quantum materials that directly convert mid-infrared thermal radiation from waste heat into electricity.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorYuhei Miyauchi
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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: “Types of Carbon Nanotubes” User Mstroeck on en.wikipedia / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Converting Sunlight with Nanotubes: “Carbon nanotube zigzag povray cropped” Carbon_nanotube_zigzag_povray.PNG: Arnero derivative work: Antony-22 (talk) / Public domain (cropped)
- Integrated Functional Materials from Quantum Materials: “(10,0) Carbon Nanotube Divacancy and Oxygen Adsorption Energy Barrier” Tcwillard / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- New Thermal and Optical Properties of Quantum Materials: “NASA Earth radiation thermal balance energy budget atmosphere” NASA Earth Observatory / Public domain (cropped)
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