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Makoto Kambara, Professor
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The lab controls material interfaces that arise at various scales, aiming to develop materials that meet real-world needs. It designs material structures starting from the nanoscale, with realization in mega-scale production in mind. Using plasma materials engineering, the lab takes on proposing next-generation materials and processes that can reconcile partly conflicting properties, such as higher quality with higher functionality, and lower cost with reduced environmental impact.
Hidetoshi Fujii, Professor
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The Joining Interface Mechanisms Lab (the Fujii Lab) analyzes phenomena that occur at the interfaces of joining and welding, which connect materials, and studies how those interfaces form. Its aim is to establish new interface control technologies based on this knowledge. Focusing mainly on friction joining methods such as friction stir welding and on fusion welding methods, the lab aims to create next-generation joining and modification process technologies. Assignment to the lab is stated to require passing the entrance examination of the Department of Materials and Manufacturing Science, Graduate School of Engineering. Professor Hidetoshi Fujii is also director of both the Nippon Steel Monozukuri Future Collaborative Research Institute and the Honda-Osaka University Joining Science Monozukuri Collaborative Research Institute at the Joining and Welding Research Institute, and states that students take part in the research themes at both.
Rinsei Ikeda, Professor
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The Joining Microstructure Design Lab studies the properties of welded and joined parts from a materials science perspective, aiming to create technologies to control and predict them. To make industrial products and structures from high-performance materials, welding and joining technologies that fully draw out the properties of the materials are essential. Covering various methods such as fusion joining and solid-state joining, the lab studies how to improve the properties and reliability of joints, whether between materials of the same type or of different types. On the institute's website, this lab is introduced under the name "Joining Microstructure Evaluation Lab."
Masakazu Tane, Professor
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The Materials Informatics Lab (Tane Lab) studies the mechanics, phase transitions, and microstructure formation of materials. The lab regards materials as hierarchical, complex mechanical systems spanning the nanoscale to the macroscale, and investigates them using mechanics, such as mechanics of materials and thermodynamics, together with multiple regression analysis. The lab also works on developing measurement and analysis systems. The lab hopes that students who join it will, through their research, combine experimental science and computational science and grow into professionals who will lead this interdisciplinary field.
Kazuhisa Sato
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The Materials Ultrafine Process Engineering Lab analyzes the relationship between ultrafine structures and material properties at nanometer spatial scales and nanosecond time scales. Using the latest transmission electron microscopy, electron diffraction, and electron and X-ray spectroscopy, the lab investigates inhomogeneities in materials, typified by crystal lattice defects. Based on the results of these analyses, the lab advances materials design. The lab conducts education and research aimed at elucidating universal, common principles that lie at the foundation of materials science.
Mitsuru Ohata, Professor
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The Materials Structural Integrity Evaluation Lab (Ohata Lab) studies the mechanisms by which large structural members, such as steel for buildings, bridges, and other infrastructure structures, fracture. Guided by the philosophy of "knowing how things break, to research how to keep them from breaking," the lab works to build the foundations of fracture evaluation technology and to develop theory and simulation technology that lead to the design of new materials and joints. By linking different hierarchical levels, from the performance of structural members to the properties of materials, the lab approaches the mechanisms of fracture.
Takeshi Yoshikawa, Professor
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The Yoshikawa Lab (Materials Thermodynamics) studies new manufacturing processes for next-generation materials, built on thermodynamics, kinetics, and crystal growth engineering. The lab develops its own observation techniques to directly "see" high-temperature reactions, phase transformations, and crystal growth, and controls processes based on an understanding of these phenomena. Its targets include SiC, nitride semiconductors, metallic materials, and recycling processes. The lab also works toward zero-emission manufacturing of steel, nonferrous metals, glass, and ceramics, and on environmental materials that make up for the CO₂ emitted to date.
Takayoshi Nakano, Professor
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The Nakano Lab, based on materials science such as crystallography and crystal plasticity, studies the properties and functions of biological tissues. Using that knowledge, the lab aims to create innovative biomaterials and aerospace materials. Learning from the anisotropic arrangements and structures that biological tissues have at each hierarchical level, the lab uses metal 3D printers and computer simulation to create materials that perform well even in extreme environments. On the lab's website, it is introduced as the "Nakano Lab."
Yuichiro Koizumi, Professor
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The Materials Design and Process Engineering Lab studies materials that deliver the desired performance and how to make them, combining computer simulation with experiments. Currently, the lab focuses on the solidification of metals that occurs in metal 3D printing (additive manufacturing), and works on controlling crystal orientation and size so that not only the shape but also the properties of the material are made as intended. The lab also works on metamaterials, which exhibit properties that the substance does not originally have through the shapes given by 3D printing, and on research that contributes to sustainable development, such as recycling. On the lab's website, it is introduced as the "Koizumi Lab."
Hiroshi Utsunomiya, Professor
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The Materials Morphology Control Lab studies how to shape materials such as metals through metal forming, including rolling, forging, and extrusion. The lab proposes and develops processing methods for creating the new materials needed in the next generation, such as lightweight eco-materials, highly workable materials, and ultrafine-grained materials. At the same time, it is clarifying how a material's microstructure and properties are determined during processing, and developing methods to predict them. The lab's website introduces it under the name "Utsunomiya Lab."
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