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Miyuki Hayashi, Professor
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The Hayashi Lab focuses on 'carbon-neutral ironmaking,' which reduces carbon dioxide emissions. The lab works on iron raw materials suited to blast furnaces that use a large amount of hydrogen, lubricants (mold fluxes) used in casting high-grade steel, and methods of using steelmaking slag in cement. The lab also pursues research that applies high-temperature physical chemistry to industry, such as the recycling of non-ferrous materials.
Masaki Azuma, Professor
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The Azuma Lab studies transition metal oxides that exhibit functions such as magnetism, ferroelectricity, and superconductivity. Using high-pressure synthesis, the method used to make diamonds, and thin-film growth on single-crystal substrates, the lab explores new functional oxides and mixed-anion compounds. Its targets include negative thermal expansion materials that shrink when heated, lead-free piezoelectrics, and materials that combine the properties of a magnet and a capacitor. Using synchrotron X-rays and neutron beams, the lab detects subtle changes in crystal structure and clarifies how the functions arise.
Tomohiro Hayashi, Associate Professor
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The Hayashi Lab studies molecular-level events at “biointerfaces,” where artificial materials meet the body. Whether materials such as contact lenses, artificial joints, and catheters are compatible with the body is determined by what water, proteins, and cells do within just a few nanometers of the surface. The lab “sees” and understands what happens there using measurement methods it develops itself, and connects this understanding to the design of new biomaterials. Members from many different countries carry out research while discussing it daily in English and Japanese.
Chie Kojima, Professor
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The Kojima Lab studies the design and fabrication of medical materials based on polymer chemistry. The lab makes drug carriers and imaging agents for nanomedicine, and cell scaffold materials for regenerative medicine. Using dendrimers, which are tree-shaped branched polymers, the lab designs materials whose molecular weight and end-group structures are precisely defined. The work spans material synthesis and property evaluation through to experiments with cells and animals, and the lab also pursues joint research with medical and pharmaceutical labs.
Wan-Ting Chiu, Associate Professor
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The Chiu Lab studies the design of metal-based composite materials and the science of their surfaces and interfaces. Composite materials combine materials with different properties and are used in everything from rockets and aircraft to tiny sensors. The lab balances the constituent materials and controls surface and interface properties to design composites with enhanced mechanical properties and functions. Beyond evaluating the materials it makes, the lab also advances design through computer simulation.
Toshiyuki Fujii, Professor
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The Fujii-Lei Lab studies the link between the microstructure and structure of materials and the properties those materials have. The Fujii Lab quantitatively evaluates how microstructures form and develop inside materials as the environment changes, using electron microscopy and synchrotron X-rays. The Lei Lab analyzes the functions and mechanical properties that arise from microstructure, based on computational materials science. Once the mechanisms by which microstructures and structures form are understood, that understanding provides insight for creating new materials.
Yuta Nabae, Associate Professor
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The Nabae Lab studies the development of catalytic materials that take advantage of the characteristics of organic materials. Catalysts promote chemical reactions and support environmental and energy technologies such as fuel cells. The lab creates new catalysts from heat-resistant aromatic polymers and from carbon materials made by carbonizing polyimide microparticles. By developing platinum-free catalysts for fuel cell electrodes, the lab aims to help solve environmental and energy problems.
Nobuhiro Matsushita, Professor
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The Matsushita-Kubota Lab studies solution processes that can produce functional ceramics with low environmental impact. The lab works on materials for the environment and energy fields, such as electrode materials for supercapacitors. It is also extending this work to electronics, including gas and bending sensors and transparent conductive films, as well as to implants and biosensing. Through its research, the lab aims to train people with a deep understanding of the structure and function of materials.
Hidenori Hiramatsu, Professor
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The Hiramatsu Lab searches for new semiconductors and superconductors that have never existed before. The lab narrows down which materials to pursue using chemical design guidelines and calculations, then synthesizes them and confirms their properties. The lab makes both bulk samples and thin films itself, and often builds the experimental equipment it needs. The lab shares facilities with the Hosono Lab and the Kamiya-Katase Lab and carries out research in collaboration with them.
Kitano Masaaki, Professor
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The Kitano Lab studies catalysts with a low environmental burden that use elements abundant on Earth. Precious metals such as platinum and rhodium make excellent catalysts, but they are rare resources available only in limited amounts. Using substances in which the oxygen in metal oxides is replaced with nitrogen or hydrogen, and electrides, in which electrons are incorporated into the crystal, the lab creates catalysts that do not depend on precious metals. The lab works on ammonia synthesis and decomposition, the conversion of carbon dioxide into methanol, and more.
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