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Tsuyoshi Michinobu, Professor
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The Michinobu Lab develops functional polymer materials that make use of the optical and electronic properties of conjugated electron systems. The lab studies efficient synthesis of semiconducting polymers for organic solar cells and organic transistors. The lab is also working on making polymers that can be shaped and processed from lignin, a component of woody biomass. Each student has an independent topic and conducts research through molecular design, synthesis experiments, structural analysis, and evaluation of physical properties.
Akira Nakajima, Professor
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The Nakajima-Isobe Lab creates functional materials and separation technologies based on materials science. Issues such as global warming, water resources, environmental pollution, public health, and energy are intricately intertwined. In collaboration with different fields such as chemical engineering, environmental engineering, data science, and social science, the lab develops materials that are useful for a carbon-neutral society and for the conservation of the water environment. The lab aims not only to make materials but also to deliver its results to society through industry-academia-government collaboration and international joint research.
Nobuo Nakada, Professor
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The Nakada Lab studies how to make structural metal materials, especially steel, stronger and tougher. Steel is used in automobiles, railways, large bridges, and skyscrapers, and accounts for more than 95% of all metals by weight. By adjusting alloy composition and applying heat and stress from outside, the lab controls the metal's microstructure as desired. Exploring the science of metal microstructure and mechanical properties, the lab aims to make steel materials just a little stronger and more resistant to fracture.
Kan Nakatsuji, Associate Professor
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The Nakatsuji Lab studies the construction of nanoscale structures, atom by atom, on solid surfaces and interfaces. By controlling the structure and symmetry of surfaces, the lab aims to artificially create new two-dimensional and one-dimensional electronic and spin states. Using a scanning tunneling microscope, it directly observes how surface electrons spread out as waves. Its research lies in the boundary area where chemistry, electronic engineering, and materials science overlap, with physics at the center.
Shi Ji, Professor
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The Shi-Harumoto Lab studies the physical properties of functional nano thin films, based on metal physics and diffraction crystallography. In thin films, surfaces and interfaces make up a large proportion, and when the thickness reaches the nanometer scale, properties different from those of bulk materials appear. The lab makes thin films by controlling crystal structure, growth mode, and surface condition, and examines their properties with electron microscopes and X-ray diffractometers. Within the materials field, it is a lab where students can learn subjects close to condensed matter physics, such as electron motion and electrical conduction.
Satoru Kobayashi, Associate Professor
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The Kobayashi Lab studies the reliability evaluation and performance improvement of heat-resistant metallic materials used in thermal power generation and aircraft engines. Even in a society moving toward decarbonization, thermal power generation remains indispensable, and aircraft engines are required to be more efficient than ever. The work proceeds along three axes: changes in materials exposed to high-temperature hydrogen, creep fatigue under repeated operation, and the design of new materials. In every study, the lab examines the fine microstructure that determines a metal's properties and traces its relationship to strength at high temperatures.
Takeharu Tsuge, Professor
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The Tsuge Lab researches how to create bioplastics that are in harmony with the global environment, and extends that work to biodegradable polymer materials. Using renewable resources such as sugars, plant oils, and carbon dioxide, the lab has microorganisms produce biodegradable polymers. The lab's work spans gene analysis and microbial breeding, crystal structure analysis, and materials design, approaching all of it from both polymer science and biological science. The lab works in collaboration with the Abe Lab in the same program.
Fumiyasu Oba, Professor
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The Oba-Takahashi Lab studies inorganic electronic and energy materials using computational materials science and materials informatics. The lab uses computer simulation based on state-of-the-art first-principles calculations, together with machine learning on large-scale computational data. Its goal is to understand materials from a broad perspective and to advance the design and exploration of next-generation materials. The lab belongs to the Frontier Materials Research Institute of the Institute of Integrated Research and to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in the School of Materials and Chemical Technology.
Toshiyuki Ikoma, Professor
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The Ikoma-Anraku Lab studies how to create materials for medical use by combining inorganic and organic materials. The lab makes artificial bone shaped for each patient with 3D printers, and develops materials that regenerate the cornea from fish scales. It is also developing mechanisms that use drug-loaded nano-sized capsules to deliver drugs to targeted cells at the targeted time. Combining this work with computational science and biotechnology, the lab aims to understand phenomena from the side of the living body and feed that understanding back into materials development.
Junko Morikawa, Professor
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The Morikawa Lab studies the fundamental physical properties of materials based on measurements of thermal energy and thermophysical properties. Temperature wave analysis, which the lab has developed over many years, is used to measure all kinds of materials, not just polymers, and has been adopted as an international standard. The lab also develops thermal imaging with infrared cameras, as well as new thermal analysis methods combined with other structural analysis techniques. It also works on applications in materials development, such as heat-dissipating and heat-insulating materials and thermal control at the interfaces of multilayer materials.
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