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Yasuhiro Asano, Professor
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The Mathematical Physics Engineering Lab conducts theoretical research on quantum condensed matter, centered on superconductors. In quantum condensed matter, many particles behave cooperatively, giving rise to states that cannot be predicted from a single particle. Superconductivity is a representative example: electrons form Cooper pairs, electrical resistance disappears, and magnetic fields are expelled. Focusing on the topological properties of quantum states and the internal degrees of freedom of Cooper pairs, the lab works to elucidate new superconducting states.
Kenji Tajima, Professor
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The Biomolecular Chemistry Lab conducts research based on bacteria and cells, and on the proteins and polysaccharides they produce. The lab pursues a wide range of work, including developing materials, analytical methods, and therapies that lead to solutions to real problems. The lab hopes to connect its results to fundamental technologies for addressing global warming and the environmental damage caused by plastics.
Toshifumi Satoh, Professor
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The Polymer Chemistry Lab studies how to make polymers of various shapes using precise polymerization methods. It efficiently synthesizes polymers with special architectures such as star-shaped, cyclic, and cage-shaped polymers, and examines their physical properties in detail. The lab also develops polymerization methods with a low environmental burden, such as catalysts that contain no heavy metals. It is also developing environmentally friendly materials using sugar chains and polyesters, as well as electrically conductive polymers.
Tetsu Yonezawa, Professor
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The Advanced Materials Hybrid Engineering Lab studies materials in which metals and metal oxides are combined with carbon, semiconductors, organic molecules, and polymers. The lab creates new materials by understanding the mechanisms at material surfaces and interfaces and controlling them. Its work ranges from designing and synthesizing nanoparticles of about 10 atoms to protecting against corrosion the metal materials used to extract oil in oil fields. Although it is a lab of the Applied Materials Engineering Course, it also works with organic molecules, and it is set up so that students with no prior experience with organic chemistry can learn step by step.
Shigenari Hayashi, Professor
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The Advanced High-Temperature Materials Engineering Lab develops heat-resistant materials for harsh high-temperature environments, as well as high-temperature corrosion-resistant coatings. Its targets are materials for equipment that converts heat into energy, such as jet engines, power generation boilers, and gas turbines. Drawing on materials microstructure science, thermodynamics, and strength of materials, the lab conducts fundamental research to improve strength at high temperatures and resistance to oxidation and corrosion. The lab pursues materials with long service life and high reliability.
Naoto Tsubochi, Associate Professor
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The Energy Conversion System Design Lab aims to solve problems of resources, energy, and the environment using the power of chemistry. The lab develops processes that turn carbon resources not currently in use, such as biomass and low-grade coal, into clean energy and high-value chemical feedstocks. It also works on mechanisms that make low-quality iron ore usable for ironmaking, and on carbon recycling technologies that reuse CO2 that has already been emitted. From the viewpoint of food loss, the lab studies freshness management of marine biological resources such as fish and shellfish from a chemical engineering perspective.
Kenichi Shimizu, Professor
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The Catalyst Materials Division (Shimizu Lab) studies the design of solid catalysts needed for a sustainable society. By combining experiments, theory, and data science, the lab aims to create new catalysts that solve energy and environmental problems. Using computational science and a variety of spectroscopic methods, the lab investigates how catalysts work and develops guidelines for designing them. The lab also pursues research in "catalyst informatics," which is based on data science and the theory of material properties.
Hidekatsu Suzuura, Professor
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The Condensed Matter Physics Engineering Lab studies, from a theoretical standpoint, the properties shown by electrons in materials. In nanoscale materials, quantum properties appear strongly, and behaviors different from those of large crystals emerge. Targeting carbon nanotubes, quantum dots, antiferromagnets, and superconductors, the lab investigates electron transport phenomena and optical responses. Using symmetry-based techniques and first-principles calculations, the lab works to predict physical phenomena that are not yet known.
Koichi Ichimura, Professor
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The Topology Science and Engineering Lab studies the properties of matter from the perspective of topology (the mathematical study of shapes and spaces). Topology is a field of mathematics that focuses on properties that do not change under continuous deformation. The lab investigates the behavior of electrons, focusing mainly on low-dimensional conductors, in which electrons can move only in limited directions and which exhibit charge density waves and superconductivity. Using scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy and molecular beam epitaxy, the lab also studies the properties of strongly correlated electron systems and ultrathin films.
Osamu Matsuda, Professor
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The Quantum Functional Engineering Lab uses ultrashort pulse lasers to generate sound inside materials and observes how it propagates. Ultrasound, whose frequencies are far higher than the sound audible to the human ear, can reveal very fine structures and stiffness. The lab films ripples spreading across crystal surfaces as video, and controls how sound travels using phononic crystals and acoustic metamaterials. It also works on detecting nanoscale vibrations with atomic force microscopy and observing ultrafast electron and heat diffusion.
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