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Circular Materials Creation Lab
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A lab that creates new eco-friendly wood-based materials from wood and plants.
AboutAbout the lab
New eco-friendly materials made from woody biomass.
The Circular Materials Creation Lab creates new wood-based materials with a low environmental impact by making use of the structure and functions of woody biomass, and also conducts research to deeply understand and evaluate the characteristics of those materials.
The lab studies not only wood but also unused biomass such as herbaceous plants and agricultural waste.
Key terms
- Wood-based materials
- Materials made by breaking wood down into boards, small pieces, or fibers and bonding them back together
- Natural adhesives
- Adhesives made from biological resources rather than petroleum
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies the creation of new low-environmental-impact wood-based materials that make use of the structure and functions of woody biomass, and the evaluation of those materials.
*Illustrative imageDevelopment of new wood-based materials
Aiming at effective and sustainable use of plant biomass, the lab develops eco-friendly wood-based materials with practical-level performance and productivity from unused biomass such as wood, herbaceous plants, and agricultural waste.
*Illustrative imageNew natural adhesives
The lab is developing natural adhesives that rival synthetic adhesives, which depend on fossil resources. It discovered, for the first time in the world, that a mixture of citric acid and sucrose can be used as an adhesive.
*Illustrative imageAging of wood and wood-based materials
Through analysis of materials that have actually aged and a unified analysis of natural aging and accelerated degradation, the lab aims to clarify the mechanisms of aging, predict service life, and create materials that reproduce the effects of aging.
*Illustrative imageDeveloping wood-based materials with artificial intelligence
With the help of artificial intelligence, the lab aims to develop systems that evaluate the properties of wood-based materials quickly and with high accuracy, optimize manufacturing conditions, and explore new wood-based materials.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorKenji Umemura
- Assistant ProfessorShuoye Chen
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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: “Particleboard” en:User:Rotor DB / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Development of new wood-based materials: “Compressed wood briquettes from bush biomass Namibia” Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) - Bush Control and Biomass Utilisation Project / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- New natural adhesives: “Birkenpech” Jorre / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Aging of wood and wood-based materials: “Wooden gate with open double door leading to the garden of Isshinin Buddhist temple in the compounds of Chion-in Kyoto Japan” Basile Morin / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Developing wood-based materials with artificial intelligence: “Unraveling AI Complexity - A Comparative View of AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Generative AI” PopovaZhuhadar / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (居住圏環境共生分野): “Termite damage on a block of wood 01” Pratishkhedekar / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (生活圏木質構造科学分野): “Mjøstårnet1” Peter Fiskerstrand / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (生物機能材料分野): “Cellulose nanofiber network” Qspheroid4 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (バイオマス変換分野): “Lignin” Smokefoot / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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