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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.
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.
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