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Advanced Hard Materials Lab [Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research]
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The lab designs the structures of ceramics and metals to create advanced materials.
AboutAbout the lab
Designing material structures from the nano to the macro scale
The Advanced Hard Materials Lab (Sekino Lab) researches how to build materials, mainly ceramics and metals, through structural design and control from the nano to the macro scale.
The lab makes bulk materials and nanomaterials with diverse functions, evaluates their structures and fundamental properties and characteristics, and clarifies the mechanisms behind them.
Its goal is the research and development of advanced functional structural materials with new structural and functional properties.
It aims to develop next-generation fundamental materials and their applications that help solve important challenges facing society today.
Key terms
- Ceramics
- Materials made by firing and hardening inorganic substances other than metals at high temperature. Pottery and porcelain are also in this group
- Bulk materials
- Materials in the form of a solid mass of a certain size, rather than thin films or small particles
- Nanomaterials
- Materials with structures on the scale of nanometers (one billionth of a meter)
NewsLab news
A paper by Assistant Professor Xu and colleagues was published in Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical
A paper by Professor Sekino and colleagues was published in Journal of the Ceramic Society of Japan
A paper by Assistant Professor Xu and colleagues was published in Journal of the European Ceramic Society
A paper by Professor Sekino and colleagues was published in RSC Advances
Assistant Professor Kondo received the Academic Lecture Encouragement Award (20th Academic Lecture Meeting, Kansai Branch, Ceramic Society of Japan)
ResearchResearch themes
The Advanced Hard Materials Lab uses structural design and control from the nano to the macro scale for materials, mainly ceramics and metals, together with fusion technologies, as its key technologies. From these, the lab makes bulk materials and nanomaterials with diverse functions, evaluates their structures and fundamental properties and characteristics, and conducts research to clarify the mechanisms behind them.
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MembersFaculty
The members of the Sekino Lab consist of faculty, project faculty and researchers, visiting faculty, doctoral and master's students, and administrative assistants.As of 2026
- ProfessorTohru Sekino
- Assistant ProfessorNingjun Xu
- Assistant ProfessorYoshifumi Kondo
- Project ProfessorTomoyo Goto
- Project ProfessorMasato Kakihana
- Project ProfessorYukihiro Morimoto
- Project ProfessorHirohisa Tanaka
- Project Associate ProfessorNaotaka Nishida
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