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Eiji Abe, Professor
Materials & Nanotech1 student voices
The Abe-Egusa Lab studies the atomic-level structure of metal-based materials. The properties of metallic materials change greatly depending on structures and microstructures too small to see. Using electron microscopes that can directly image atoms, together with computer simulations, the lab explores how material properties arise. The lab aims to apply what it learns to the development of new materials.
Shoichi Nambu, Associate Professor
Materials & Nanotech1 student voices
The Nambu Lab studies the properties of metallic materials, including steels, and their fine internal structure (microstructure). The properties of a material depend not only on the elements it contains but also, to a large extent, on its microstructure. The lab controls microstructure across multiple length scales, and layers and combines materials, to create new metallic materials that achieve both strength and ductility. The lab also studies new joining methods that can bond dissimilar materials together, as well as separate them.
Toshiya Sakata, Associate Professor
Imaging & Sensing1 student voices
The Sakata Lab studies "semiconductor biosensing," which uses semiconductors to measure biological functions. Using transistors, the lab directly detects the behavior of electric charge, an electrical property of DNA, proteins, cells, and other biological materials. A key feature is that measurements are label-free, non-damaging, and made in real time. With applications to devices for diagnosis and drug discovery in view, the lab also aims for a comprehensive understanding of how life works.
Hirotaka Ejima, Professor
Materials & Nanotech1 student voices
The Ejima Lab studies new materials modeled on the mechanisms of living organisms. Drawing on knowledge of the structure and function of biomolecules, the lab designs its own original molecules and synthesizes them using chemistry. By also combining the latest nano- and biotechnology, the lab aims to create "biomimetic materials" that can help address environmental problems and advance cutting-edge medicine.
Satoshi Watanabe, Professor
Materials & Nanotech1 student voices
The Watanabe Lab conducts research that uses computer simulations to predict the properties of materials and related characteristics, and develops the methods needed to do so. Its goal is to obtain design guidelines for new materials and for the processes used to make them. The lab mainly addresses problems related to the electrical properties of nanostructures, which form the foundation of nanotechnology. It is also expanding its research targets to biomaterials and eco-materials.
Hidehiro Yoshida, Professor
Materials & Nanotech1 student voices
The Yoshida-Masuda Lab studies how "structural ceramics", which are used where strength and hardness are required, deform and fracture. The mechanical properties of structural ceramics depend heavily on the arrangement and composition of atoms at grain boundaries, the interfaces between crystal grains. The lab aims to give ceramics distinctive mechanical properties by controlling grain boundary structure and atomic movement. The lab also studies a phenomenon in which brittle ceramics deform greatly at lower temperatures than before when a strong electric field is applied.
Kosuke Nagashio, Professor
Semiconductors & Electronic Devices1 student voices
The Nagashio Lab studies atomically thin "two-dimensional layered materials," such as graphene, for use in electronic devices. The lab aims to understand the properties unique to graphene and to bring out those properties in working devices. Other materials that are likewise made of atomic layers, such as h-BN and MoS2, are also studied. By stacking different layers, the lab aims to bring out the functions unique to interfaces that are atomically flat.
Takanori Ichiki, Professor
Materials & Nanotech1 student voices
The Ichiki Lab studies nanobiotechnology, a field that integrates microfabrication technology (nanotechnology) and materials engineering with bioengineering. The lab aims to realize dream devices and systems that exist nowhere else, such as a device that rapidly diagnoses cancer by testing bodily fluids. The lab applies microfabrication technology, which advanced through semiconductor manufacturing, to biology and medicine.
Toru H. Okabe, Professor
Materials & Nanotech1 student voices
The Okabe Lab (Resource Recycling and Materials Process Engineering Lab) studies new technologies for producing rare metals such as titanium, as well as technologies for recycling them. Rare metals are also called the "vitamins of industry," and demand is growing for their use as materials for magnets and electronic components. The lab also works on environmental technologies essential to a recycling-oriented society, such as methods for recovering rare metals from scrap (waste). The lab provides research supervision that values students' independence and initiative, and students can even design and build their own experimental equipment.
Junya Inoue, Professor
Materials & Nanotech1 student voices
The Inoue Lab studies defects, deformation, and fracture in metals and alloys, including steels. Stronger structural materials make it possible, for example, to build lighter car bodies, which helps address resource and energy problems. The lab aims to make materials easier to deform without losing strength. Drawing on data-driven materials science, the lab works to develop new structural materials with improved performance.
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