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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.
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.
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