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Kazuhiro Fukami, Professor
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The Materials Design Engineering Lab studies how to create fine structures of metals, alloys, and semiconductors through liquid-based (wet) processing. It designs processes across scales from nanometers to millimeters, aiming to create functional materials by controlling surfaces and shapes. Its research spans fields such as materials science, physical chemistry, interface science, and nonlinear science. The lab belongs to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in the Graduate School of Engineering, and Professor Fukami joined in April 2025.
Tetsuya Uda, Professor
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The Surface Treatment Engineering Lab studies new smelting processes that produce metals such as titanium at low cost, as well as materials for fuel cells. The lab develops methods for producing and recycling metals using chemical reactions in molten metals and molten salts, electrolysis, and related techniques. Combining experiments with first-principles calculations and machine learning, the lab investigates how ions move through solids and searches for new energy materials. The lab is also known as the Uda Lab, and it publicly releases computational software developed in the lab.
Koretaka Yuge, Associate Professor
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The Materials Information Engineering Lab theoretically studies how the properties of materials made of many atoms are determined by the way those atoms are arranged. By combining statistical mechanics with mathematical tools such as geometry, the lab seeks to clarify how the thermodynamic properties of materials arise. The lab also publishes manuals for computational software developed in the lab. The lab belongs to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in the Graduate School of Engineering, and has master's students and undergraduates.
Shu Kurokawa, Associate Professor
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The Advanced Materials Physics Lab uses tools such as scanning tunneling microscopes to observe structures from the atomic to the nanometer scale and to measure physical properties. The lab also uses three-dimensional atom probes and devices that create atomic-sized contacts. Building on scanning tunneling microscopy techniques, the lab works on methods for evaluating materials and on developing new measurement techniques. Since 2025, the lab has been run jointly with the Materials Design Engineering Lab (Fukami Lab).
Atsuto Seko, Professor
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The Quantum Materials Lab conducts research on advanced materials using first-principles calculations and machine learning. First-principles calculations can compute energies and electronic states with high accuracy from only information about the elements and crystal structure, but they require an enormous amount of computation time. The lab speeds up first-principles calculations through machine learning and algorithmic improvements, making it possible to predict properties and search for structures efficiently. Prof. Seko joined the lab in April 2025, and the lab has master's students and fourth-year undergraduates.
Kyosuke Kishida, Professor
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The Crystal Physics and Engineering Lab focuses mainly on structural materials and studies how crystalline materials deform and exhibit their properties. Using micropillar mechanical testing, a new method, the lab evaluates mechanical properties at scales from the micrometer down to the submicron level. Using electron microscopes that can image the arrangement of atoms, among other tools, the lab precisely analyzes the structures of crystals and crystal defects. Based on the findings obtained, the lab aims to create new structural materials with excellent mechanical properties.
Nobuhiro Tsuji, Professor
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The Structural Properties Lab conducts fundamental research on the control of nano- and microstructures and on the mechanical properties of advanced structural metallic materials. Structural materials are materials for which mechanical performance matters most, and they are essential to the development of a safe society. In particular, the lab is a world leader in research on metallic materials with extremely fine grain structures (bulk nanostructured metals). It is an international lab with many international students and researchers, and it collaborates with other universities, research institutes, and industry.
Hideyuki Yasuda, Professor
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The Advanced Materials Functionality Lab studies how the microstructure of a material forms when molten metal solidifies (solidification) and when crystals grow. Solidification is an important process that determines material properties, but because it occurs at high temperatures and the material is opaque, many phenomena remain poorly understood. The lab develops methods such as time-resolved X-ray imaging to confirm how microstructures form in metal alloys, and verifies the results with physical models and simulations. It also studies new materials processes that use the response of matter to magnetic fields and other fields to produce microstructures in which crystal orientations are aligned.
Hiroyuki Nakamura, Professor
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The Physics of Magnetism Lab studies the physics of magnetism, the most fundamental development of quantum mechanics. By exploring quantum phenomena, the lab aims to open up new phenomena and functions and to bring cutting-edge knowledge and methods into materials development. It works from the fundamentals of magnetism in metals and compounds to the development of magnetic materials such as ferrite magnets. It also aims to train people who can develop materials from new perspectives and physicists who are globally competitive.
Kuniaki Murase, Professor
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The Materials Control Lab studies processes that give the surfaces and interfaces of materials new functions, using the power of electrochemistry in solutions. Most materials are made of a combination of two or more substances, and their surfaces and interfaces determine how they function. Based on the electrochemistry of aqueous solutions, ionic liquids, and organic solvents, as well as solution chemistry and chemical thermodynamics, the lab works from fundamentals to applications in areas such as plating, metal extraction, and batteries.
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