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Biomaterials Science Lab
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The lab learns from biological tissue to create biomaterials and aerospace materials with metal 3D printers.
AboutAbout the lab
Learning from living tissue to make anisotropic materials
The Biomaterials Science Lab (Nakano Lab) uses materials science to clarify the properties and functions of biological tissue, with the aim of creating biomaterials and aerospace materials.
Learning from the way biological tissue has anisotropic arrangements and structures at each hierarchical level, the lab makes materials using metal 3D printers and computer simulation.
To create materials that perform highly even in extreme environments, including living bodies and ultra-high temperatures, the lab aims to establish a new academic discipline called "anisotropic materials science."
On the lab's website, it is introduced under the name "Nakano Lab."
Key terms
- Anisotropic materials science
- A field of materials science that focuses on properties that differ depending on direction (anisotropy) and learns from the structure of biological tissue
- Metal 3D printer
- A fabrication machine that builds three-dimensional objects from metal material. Its English name is Additive Manufacturing (AM)
- Crystal plasticity
- The field that deals with how materials made of crystals deform under force
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Aiming to realize life innovation and green innovation, the lab clarifies the properties and functions of biological tissue, with materials science such as crystallography and crystal plasticity as its foundation. Based on these findings, it works on creating innovative biomaterials and aerospace materials.
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MembersFaculty
The members of the Biomaterials Science Lab (Nakano Lab) consist of faculty, project faculty, visiting faculty and visiting researchers, project researchers, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and administrative assistants.As of 2026
- ProfessorTakayoshi Nakano
- Associate Professor (Concurrent)Aira Matsugaki
- LecturerRyosuke Ozasa
- LecturerOzkan Gokcekaya
- Assistant ProfessorTadaaki Matsuzaka
- Project ProfessorMitsuo Niinomi
- Project ProfessorKazuhiko Ishihara
- Project ProfessorHiroshi Fukutomi
- Project ProfessorKoji Hagihara
- Project ProfessorTakao Hanawa
- Project ProfessorHideyuki Kanematsu
- Project Assistant ProfessorYan Jinge
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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: “Bone Tissue” Andreacise / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Establishing anisotropic materials science: “Bone structure I -- Smart-Servier” Laboratoires Servier / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Crystal Plasticity Engineering Lab): “Transmission electron microscope” Johannes Schneider / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Materials Microstructure Control Engineering Lab): “FZU 3Dprinting 3” René Volfík / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Materials Informatics Lab): “Microstructure-for-the-annealed-Ti-15-3-3-3-sample” K. V. Sudhakar, Ethan Wood / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Materials Design and Process Engineering Lab): “FZU 3Dprinting 4” René Volfík / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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