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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.
Ken-ichi Uchida, Professor
Quantum & Condensed Matter1 student voices
The Uchida-Nakanishi Lab studies "spin caloritronics," a field that combines spintronics with the study of heat. Using magnetic materials and nanomaterials, the lab explores new principles and functions for converting heat and controlling the flow of heat. The lab conducts research together with the Spin Energy Group at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), and students can use NIMS research facilities. The lab aims to connect its results to thermal management technologies and contribute to a sustainable society.
Masataka Watanabe, Associate Professor
Software & Computing1 student voices
The Watanabe Lab aims to uncover how consciousness arises in the brain (the neural mechanisms of consciousness) by developing and testing artificial consciousness. Using spiking neural networks that mimic the workings of neurons in the brain, the lab aims to build a machine in which consciousness resides. To verify whether consciousness has arisen in a machine, the lab also pursues research and development of a new brain-machine interface that connects the brain and the machine. This research looks ahead to the realization of consciousness uploading in the near future.
Shinichi Yamashita, Associate Professor
Quantum & Condensed Matter1 student voices
The Yamashita Lab studies radiation chemistry and related fields. Radiation chemistry covers not only the chemical reactions that radiation induces but also the related physics, biology, and applications. The lab aims to control the randomness that characterizes radiation, so that radiation can be used actively rather than passively. It takes on the challenge of elucidating the principles of the phenomena that radiation causes in various complex systems, such as biological systems and nuclear power systems.
Murakami Shinsuke, Professor
Economics & Social Systems1 student voices
The Murakami Lab studies the design and evaluation of social systems that overcome resource constraints. The lab descends from the Rock Engineering Lab, which worked on mine development, particularly mining engineering, and it still draws on that expertise today. Today, through mine management and resource economics, the lab explores what "sustainable resource use and development" should look like from a broader perspective. One of its goals is to reflect the problems arising from the use of natural resources in research on the SDGs and the circular economy, and to design social systems that overcome those problems.
Kenta Murakami, Associate Professor
Energy & Batteries1 student voices
The Murakami Lab studies safety management of nuclear power plants and nuclear materials. The safety of a nuclear power plant can be improved even after construction is complete, throughout the entire period in which the plant remains in use. The lab studies how to manage this, from the perspectives of using risk information, maintenance, and aging management. In its materials research, the lab uses experiments and analysis to clarify complex phenomena that arise from the interaction between radiation and matter, with the aim of providing highly reliable nuclear materials.
Hideaki Miyamoto, Professor
Space, Particle Physics & Aerospace1 student voices
The Miyamoto Lab studies space resources science, a new academic field. The lab participates in exploration missions led by JAXA, NASA, and others, investigating the surfaces of asteroids, Mars, and the Moon to understand the true nature of the resources found there. From their undergraduate years, students can work with actual data obtained from exploration missions and conduct research related to those missions. No prior knowledge of space or Earth science is required, as long as you are interested in doing cutting-edge research.
Katsunori Mizuno, Associate Professor
Imaging & Sensing1 student voices
Mizuno Lab conducts research that addresses environmental issues, drawing on measurement engineering and information science. The lab develops new measurement technologies that use ultrasound and light to obtain quantitative data on environments such as seas and lakes efficiently. The images and other data collected are analyzed through information processing centered on deep learning (AI). Members often go out on fieldwork, and the lab carries its technologies all the way to practical use in society.
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