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Majima Yutaka, Professor
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The Majima-Izawa Lab studies how to shape nanomaterials down to the smallest possible scale and bring out their functions. The lab fabricates materials by combining state-of-the-art electron beam lithography with its own original electroless gold plating technique. It develops nanopore sequencers that read DNA, single-molecule transistors, nanoscale gas sensors, and memory. The lab is also advancing research on upconversion, which changes the wavelength of light, as well as organic EL (OLEDs) and organic solar cells.
Hideki Hosoda, Professor
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The Hosoda-Tahara Lab studies new materials that are kind to people and the environment and useful to society by controlling atomic arrangements. Its main focus is shape memory and superelastic materials, which return to their original shape after large deformation simply by being heated or having the force removed. The lab has been a pioneer worldwide in researching titanium-based medical alloys that are safe for the body and gold-based alloys that are easily visible in X-ray images. Its work ranges from basic studies of the properties of new materials to applications in medicine and energy.
Michikazu Hara, Professor
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The Hara-Ishikawa Lab specializes in materials, surfaces, chemistry, and catalysis, and conducts research targeting energy, the environment, and carbon dioxide reduction. To obtain energy and chemical resources for modern society, it is essential to reduce energy consumption, carbon dioxide emissions, and costs. To cut these as far as possible, the lab uses new scientific principles and technologies to create catalysts based on new concepts from inorganic and metallic materials. The lab has reported an iron catalyst that synthesizes ammonia at low temperatures and a catalyst that produces useful chemicals from biomass, among others.
Shinji Muraishi, Professor
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The Kumai-Muraishi Lab conducts research with the goal of creating strong and gentle materials for social infrastructure. Centered on aluminum alloys, a representative social infrastructure material, the lab explores the relationships among manufacturing process, microstructure, and mechanical properties. The lab aims to solve problems facing practical materials and to find seeds for new basic research among them. Regardless of material type, the lab takes on new themes and is also advancing collaboration with other fields.
Takayoshi Katase, Professor
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The Katase Lab studies functional materials for heat, electrons, and light that will support next-generation energy and electronics. Through original materials design, the lab creates new materials and aims to achieve breakthroughs in the performance of thermoelectric devices, optical sensors, thin-film transistors, and superconducting devices. Grounded in solid-state chemistry and materials science, the lab covers the whole process in an integrated way, from designing crystal and electronic structures to synthesizing materials and applying them to devices. Aiming to 'contribute to solving social issues with new materials,' the lab pursues themes such as energy saving and waste heat utilization.
Takuya Hoshina, Professor
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The Hoshina Lab studies the properties of materials related to phonons, the regular vibrations of atoms and ions in crystals. The lab develops research that changes the structure of materials at the nanometer scale to greatly enhance phonon-related properties, and builds the academic framework that underlies it. Targeting dielectrics, ferroelectrics, piezoelectrics, and ionic conductors, the lab covers everything from materials synthesis to computational science and measurement. It develops electroceramic materials and devices for the environment, energy, and medicine.
Akifumi Matsuda, Associate Professor
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The Matsuda Lab studies how to create functional materials for electronics and energy at the nano and atomic scales. Using methods far from equilibrium, such as laser-based processes and self-assembly, it synthesizes thin films and nanomaterials at low temperatures. Focusing on “creating materials and properties, observing and analyzing them, and thinking about the underlying principles,” the lab brings forth materials and processes never seen before. Students and researchers from a wide range of fields, including materials, chemistry, physics, and electrical and electronic engineering, work together in the lab.
Satoshi Kaneko, Associate Professor
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The Kaneko Lab focuses on the single molecule, the smallest unit from which matter is built, with the aim of developing new nanomaterials. Using single-molecule junctions, in which one molecule is bridged between two electrodes, the lab examines electron flow and clarifies what happens at the interface between a metal and a molecule. The lab develops its own measurement and analysis methods to identify, at the single-molecule level, where and how molecules are adsorbed. Applications are expected in highly sensitive chemical sensors and in novel electronic devices that exploit molecular properties.
Saeko Yanaka, Associate Professor
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The Yanaka Lab studies the functions of biopolymers such as nucleic acids, proteins, glycans, and lipids. Deciphering the operating principles of functions hidden within biomolecules advances the understanding of life and disease. Combining experimental and theoretical approaches, the lab works both to elucidate functions and to create new ones. Biomolecules, and versions with modified functions, can be put to use in medicine and industry.
Azusa Ooi, Associate Professor
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The Ooi Lab studies corrosion, the process by which metallic materials dissolve and degrade in the environments where they are used. Metals excel in strength and electrical conductivity, but dissolution reactions at their surfaces gradually erode these properties. The lab covers materials from steel to non-ferrous materials, and from nanosized catalysts to large structures such as bridges, regardless of the environment of use. Elucidating the mechanisms of dissolution leads to effective use of limited resources and to the protection of the global environment.
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