LAB LOGLab reviews by studentsOpen the app
A page on LabLog, a review site (not the lab's official page)
33 labs · 27 student voices
Other departments in Faculty of Engineering ›Faculties at The University of Tokyo ›
Ryo Yoshida, Professor
Materials & Nanotech3 student voices
The Yoshida Lab studies materials that use polymer gels to artificially recreate the functions of living things. The lab believes that cells and gels have very similar physicochemical properties, and that gels can be used to create materials with cell-like functions such as motion and mass transport. Centered on "self-oscillating gels" that beat on their own like a heart, the lab approaches the question "What is life?" from the perspective of materials science.
Horacio Cabral, Professor
Materials & Nanotech2 student voices
The Cabral Lab studies nanomedicines used for the diagnosis and treatment of disease. By accurately recognizing targets in the body and triggering a drug's action only at a defined site, the lab controls drug behavior down to the intracellular level. The lab investigates how to design effective nanomedicines and how they interact with the body, aiming to bring them to the treatment of patients. Using tiny polymer-based carriers, the lab works on methods for delivering mRNA and on cancer immunotherapy.
Miyata Kanjiro, Professor
Medicine & Healthcare2 student voices
The Miyata Lab studies nanometer-sized materials that function inside the body (nanobiomaterials). Using materials whose size and surface properties are tuned, the lab controls where drugs are carried within the body. In particular, the lab focuses on mechanisms for delivering nucleic acid therapeutics, which are made of nucleic acids such as DNA and RNA, to targeted cells. Building on polymer materials and combining them with inorganic materials, the lab develops new nanomedicines.
Takayuki Shiraiwa, Associate Professor
Structures & Mechanics2 student voices
The lab studies the mechanisms by which materials fracture, as well as the reliability of materials. When a material is subjected to mechanical loads or environmental stress, deformation and cracks form in its fine internal microstructure, eventually leading to visible fracture. Combining experimental observations with simulations that faithfully reproduce them, the lab investigates fracture from the mechanisms by which it begins to how the material fails as a whole. The lab also aims to analyze the large volumes of data obtained from simulations to gain insights useful for materials design.
Uchida Ken, Professor
Materials & Nanotech2 student voices
The Uchida-Toyoshima Lab studies electronic devices at the scale of nanometers, as well as sensors that use nanomaterials. The transistors that form LSIs (integrated circuits) can no longer easily gain performance just by being made smaller. Through both experiments and computation, the lab seeks to understand phenomena that occur in the nanoscale world, such as heat generation and quantum effects, and to provide guidelines for future device design. The lab also works on nanoscale molecular sensors that can distinguish the components of a person's breath.
Ichiro Daigo, Professor
Environment & Sustainability1 student voices
The Daigo Lab studies where the resources that society needs come from and where they go. The lab views industrial activity as a kind of "metabolism" that takes in and transforms materials and energy, and works to uncover how it operates. Focusing on materials such as steel, the lab designs recycling systems that take into account the variability of impurities mixed into scrap. Based on life cycle assessment (LCA), the lab also develops evaluation methods that look ahead to future technologies and societies.
Yoko Yamabe-Mitarai, Professor
Materials & Nanotech1 student voices
The lab studies heat-resistant materials used in aircraft jet engines and similar applications. By creating different microstructures inside materials through processing and heat treatment, it clarifies how mechanical properties at high temperatures arise. The materials it works with include titanium alloys, shape memory alloys that recover their shape even at high temperatures, and high-entropy alloys. It also aims to contribute to a circular society through material design that reduces environmental impact.
Koji Kita, Professor
Semiconductors & Electronic Devices1 student voices
Kita Lab studies the phenomena that occur in the immediate vicinity of interfaces, where the materials of an electronic device meet. The lab aims to design device functions by controlling the structure and properties of this region. Its targets include next-generation power devices that convert electric power efficiently, and advanced electronics that run on little power. To help make society more energy-efficient, the lab proposes new technologies and works to demonstrate them.
Madoka Takai, Professor
Materials & Nanotech1 student voices
Takai Lab conducts research on creating functional materials to realize new forms of medicine. Learning from the mechanisms of living organisms and applying them to technology, the lab aims to create new biomaterials that are gentle on people. Because water is involved in the functions of cells and proteins, the lab examines at the molecular level the interfaces where materials, biomolecules, and water meet, and applies the findings to material design. The lab also aims to deliver the knowledge and technology gained from its research to society as products in actual use.
Naoya Shibata, Professor
Materials & Nanotech1 student voices
The Electron Microscopy Materials Lab develops new electron microscopy methods that can distinguish individual atoms, and uses them to study materials. The materials it studies range widely, including metals, ceramics, devices, magnetic materials, and organic materials. By creating new "eyes" for observing materials with electron microscopy methods found nowhere else, the lab aims to fundamentally uncover how the properties of materials arise.
Student voices are for students only. Sign up free with your university email to read student voices for each lab.
Sign up freeLabLog is a lab review app for students only. Student members at each university interview students in labs and publish what they say. Student voices can only be read by students who sign up with a university email address. Operated by bestiee Inc.
Learn more about LabLog ↗Search engines and AI may reference the lab list and basic info on this page and the description of LabLog. Student voices are for student members only. Automated collection by programs (scraping, or input to or training of AI) is prohibited under Article 8 of the Terms of Service. If you need data for research or analysis, please contact us.
LAB LOG