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Yoshinao Kobayashi, Professor
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The Kobayashi Lab studies metal smelting, recycling, and deoxidation technologies based on thermodynamics. As high-quality iron ore becomes scarcer, the lab explores refining methods that make good use of low-grade ore and iron scrap. It also investigates what happened to core materials in severe nuclear reactor accidents, with the aim of contributing to safe decommissioning. The lab belongs to the Laboratory for Zero-Carbon Energy in the Institute of Integrated Research, and to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in the School of Materials and Chemical Technology.
Hiroshi Funakubo, Professor
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The Funakubo Lab researches the creation of new, highly functional inorganic materials. The lab designs materials targeting properties such as ferroelectricity, piezoelectricity, ionic conductivity, and thermoelectric performance. Beyond creating new materials, the lab works on improving their quality and drawing out even more of their functionality. With the goal of 'research that makes it into textbooks,' students from different specialties come together to take on the development of new materials.
Takumi Sannomiya, Professor
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The Sannomiya Lab researches new functional materials that confine light. The lab makes plasmonic materials, in which the collective oscillation of free electrons in metals is controlled, as well as sensors and filtering devices. Combining self-assembly and lithography, the lab controls the composition, microstructure, and interfaces of materials to produce new functions. To verify those functions visually, the lab also puts effort into developing measurement methods based on transmission electron microscopy.
Takao Sasagawa, Associate Professor
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The Sasagawa Lab researches the discovery of surprising new ceramic materials and functions, and the elucidation of their mechanisms. Copper-oxide ceramics, which should hardly conduct electricity, become superconducting when cooled, at temperatures higher than those of metallic superconductors. Properties like this that defy common sense are the starting point. The lab takes pride in being able to do everything in-house: making (samples and single crystals with precisely controlled composition), measuring (macroscopic properties and advanced quantum measurements), and thinking and predicting (first-principles calculations). The lab aims to discover materials that surpass high-temperature superconductors and to understand them.
Masahiro Miyauchi, Professor
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The Miyauchi-Yamaguchi Lab studies materials that use light and electricity to convert one substance into another. The lab improves photocatalysts that produce hydrogen from water using sunlight or break down harmful substances, using electrochemical measurements to identify what makes them work. Using hydrogen-rich two-dimensional materials in the form of nanosheets, the lab aims to realize lightweight and safe hydrogen carriers. The lab also develops electrode materials and catalysts for electrochemical reactions that convert carbon dioxide into useful chemical feedstocks.
Yoshihiro Gohda, Professor
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The Gohda Lab studies metallic materials from the viewpoint of theoretical physics, specifically first-principles electronic structure theory. It is a group of specialists in theory and simulation, making full use of electronic structure theory and supercomputers such as TSUBAME. The lab uncovers the mysteries hidden inside matter, predicts the properties of materials, and designs new materials inside the computer. Using only the fundamental equations of physics and fundamental physical constants, the lab evaluates the free energy and magnetic properties of materials, and studies magnetic materials and heat-resistant metallic materials that can contribute to carbon neutrality.
Katsumi Yoshida, Professor
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The Yoshida Lab develops advanced ceramic materials intended for use in harsh environments. By controlling microstructure at the nano, micro, and macro levels, the lab improves reliability and gives materials new properties and functions. The intended applications are in aerospace, nuclear power and fusion, and energy and environment fields. The lab also works on engineering ceramics and their process development with an eye to carbon neutrality, low environmental impact, energy saving, and resource saving.
Equo Kobayashi, Associate Professor
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The Kobayashi Lab studies the design of metallic materials with outstanding functionality and the evaluation of their properties. Building on the fundamentals of materials science, such as phase stability, thermodynamics, and crystallography, the lab layers on forming processes, heat treatment, and microstructure control techniques. The lab develops titanium alloys, aluminum alloys, magnesium alloys, copper alloys, and composite materials, and evaluates their properties from multiple perspectives according to the intended application. The materials created this way are expected to be useful as biomaterials, materials for transportation equipment, and materials for electronic devices.
Kota Suzuki, Associate Professor
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The Kanno-Suzuki-Matsui Lab studies materials for batteries and fuel cells at the interface of solid-state chemistry and electrochemistry. The lab synthesizes new inorganic solids, examines their structures and properties, and develops them into electrochemical devices. It focuses in particular on developing solid electrolytes, in which ions move quickly through the solid, and also works on all-solid-state batteries, in which every component of the battery is solid. In addition to a wide range of synthesis techniques, the lab uses machine learning and simulation to search for new materials.
Soyoung Park, Associate Professor
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The Park Lab studies how nucleic acid chemistry relates to the origin of life, molecular recognition, and the regulation of immunity. Combining organic chemistry, chemical biology, and immunology, the lab designs and synthesizes molecules with functions based on nucleic acids. Using these molecules, the lab aims to visualize and control the molecular workings behind the processes of life. The lab is also interested in nucleic acid catalysts that serve as models of primitive enzymes, and in nucleic acids with unusual structures such as Z-DNA.
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