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Tomonari Inamura, Professor
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The Inamura Lab studies metallic materials such as shape memory alloys, magnesium alloys, and steels. The lab reexamines the microstructures visible under a microscope, and how they deform, from the perspective of the geometry of shape. Moving between theory and experiment, the lab explores the principles by which microstructures form and their mechanical mechanisms. Based on these findings, the lab aims to build guidelines for materials design leading to actuators, medical technologies, lightweight structural materials, and high-strength steels.
Yoshimitsu Sagara, Associate Professor
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The Sagara Lab studies organic materials whose luminescence changes when force is applied. The lab makes materials whose fluorescence color and intensity change in response to mechanical stimuli such as rubbing, stretching, and grinding. The lab covers the whole process, from multistep organic synthesis and polymer synthesis to evaluating the functions of the resulting materials and applying them in living systems. The lab also focuses on developing 'supramolecular mechanophores,' which make small forces visible at the single-molecule level.
Toshio Kamiya, Professor
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The Kamiya Lab studies new functional electronic materials and the devices made from them. A single lab handles everything from materials exploration by computational science to synthesis in experiments and demonstration of thin-film devices. IGZO, which came out of this approach, has improved the performance of displays around the world. By running theory and experiment together, the lab aims to create optical, electronic, and energy materials for the next era.
Hideki Abe, Program-Specific Professor
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The Abe Lab studies the design of polymer materials aimed at reducing environmental impact. The lab aims to create new, high-value-added plastic materials that are possible precisely because they are derived from biomass. The lab works on techniques for making full use of biopolyesters as materials, and on techniques for synthesizing new biomass-derived polymers. Prof. Abe, a Specially Appointed Professor, serves as Team Director of the Bioplastics Research Team at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science.
Masato Sone, Professor
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The Sone-Chang Lab studies techniques for making micro- and nano-sized materials using electrochemical methods. Aiming at next-generation high-sensitivity medical devices, the lab works with materials for semiconductor interconnects, MEMS, and wearable devices. The lab also develops its own evaluation techniques for measuring the functions and mechanical properties of these tiny materials. In addition, the lab works on electrochemically producing energy conversion catalysts that have low environmental impact and high efficiency.
Yuhei Hayamizu, Professor
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The Hayamizu Lab studies the interface between bio and nano, which connects the world of biology with the world of electronics. The lab focuses mainly on the phenomenon in which designed peptides self-assemble on two-dimensional materials such as graphene. Using peptides as scaffolds to functionalize surfaces, the lab builds biosensors that detect odor molecules and biomolecules. The lab uses atomic force microscopy and Raman spectroscopy to study the structure and electronic state of these interfaces.
Teruaki Hayakawa, Professor
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The Hayakawa Lab develops functional materials based on techniques for precisely synthesizing polymers. Using weak intermolecular forces such as hydrogen bonds, coordination bonds, and van der Waals forces, the lab controls molecular arrangement, as well as crystal, liquid crystal, and phase-separated structures, at the nanoscale. The lab handles the whole process, from molecular structure design through precision polymerization to control of higher-order structures, and creates one-of-a-kind tailor-made materials. Its work is applied to semiconductor nanolithography, high thermal conductivity epoxy resins, porous materials, and more.
Yoshihiro Terada, Associate Professor
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The Terada Lab researches the development of new high-temperature materials that are environmentally friendly and contribute to human society. Its work ranges from basic research investigating the scientific principles of high-temperature deformation to applied development research, including expansion into the environment and energy field. By controlling the microstructure of materials such as magnesium alloys and Ni-based superalloys, the lab aims for materials that remain strong even at high temperatures. It is a small lab where each student has an independent research topic and carries out research while discussing it with the faculty.
Mitsutoshi Ueda, Associate Professor
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The Kawamura Lab, jointly with the Ueda Lab, studies the properties and control of metals and metal oxides used at high temperatures. When a metal is placed at high temperature, its surface oxidizes and forms “rust,” but a good “rust” slows the thinning of the metal inside. By clarifying how this “rust” forms and grows, the lab connects its findings to the development of new materials that last long at high temperatures. Its goal is to create materials that help with high-efficiency energy conversion.
Shigeo Asai, Associate Professor
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The Asai Lab studies the relationship between the structure of polymer materials and the properties that arise from it. In polymers such as plastics, changing how the molecules are arranged greatly changes hardness, heat resistance, and how easily the material degrades. The lab studies ways to control this structure, such as infusing polymers with supercritical carbon dioxide and mixing in carbon fillers. The materials it works with are biodegradable plastics, electrically conductive composites, and materials that damp vibration and sound.
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