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Kiyoshi Kanie, Professor
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The Kanie Lab develops methods for precisely controlling the size and shape of inorganic nanoparticles. Nanoparticles are materials used in a wide range of industries, such as catalysts and electronic devices. The lab also studies the surface properties of the particles and combines them with organic materials to create organic-inorganic hybrid materials. Based on precision synthesis spanning organic, inorganic, and bio materials, the lab works on developing the materials of the future.
Takahiro Miki, Professor
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The Miki-Saito Lab studies the smelting processes of metals, the most familiar materials in everyday life, with the aim of solving the various problems that arise in those processes. The steel process requires an enormous amount of energy, most of which is used in the blast furnace process that produces molten iron from iron ore. The lab researches ways to produce metals with less energy. The faculty introductions list keywords such as high-purity refining of metals, resource recycling, and the physical properties of high-temperature melts.
Xiao Xu, Associate Professor
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The Xu Lab conducts fundamental research on controlling the microstructure of materials by making use of phase stability and phase transformations in metals. Even with the same composition, a metal's strength and magnetic properties change greatly when its microstructure, such as crystal orientation or grain size, changes. Focusing on how magnetic transformation, order-disorder transformation, and martensitic transformation affect one another, the lab aims to develop shape memory materials and magnetic materials. Based on phase diagrams, the lab carries out everything within the lab, from alloy making to microstructure analysis and property evaluation.
Toshihiro Omori, Professor
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The Omori-Ito Lab determines phase diagrams, often called 'maps of materials,' through experiments, then analyzes them by computer and compiles them into databases. With computational phase diagrams, materials development that once relied on trial and error can proceed much more efficiently. Using thermodynamic databases the lab has built itself, it conducts research on shape memory alloys, medical materials, heat-resistant materials, magnetic materials, and steels. The lab carries out the whole process in-house, from alloy fabrication to microstructure control, microstructure analysis, and property evaluation.
Katsunari Oikawa, Professor
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The Oikawa Lab combines metal forming such as rolling and forging with materials science and numerical simulation to study new materials and manufacturing processes. Formed parts and components (sokeizai) are parts and members given their shape by applying heat and force to materials, and many everyday products are made from them. The lab controls deformation and flow so that defects that cause failure do not appear, and also controls the internal microstructure of the material so that the required properties are obtained. It also uses simulations from the atomic scale to the bulk scale to uncover what happens inside a material during processing.
Hongmin Zhu, Professor
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The Zhu Lab researches how to produce and recycle metallic materials using electrolysis in molten salts. Molten salt is a liquid obtained by heating and melting an ionic crystal that is solid at room temperature. It is also used to produce aluminum metal. The lab also works on recycling and synthesizing functional materials with high-temperature chemical processes, and on the physical properties of molten salts themselves. By freely controlling highly functional liquids, the lab aims to create new materials.
Hiroyuki Shibata, Professor
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The Shibata Lab aims to clarify the mechanisms of reactions at interfaces involved in material separation processes, and the mechanisms by which physical properties emerge. In the refining, manufacturing, and recycling of materials, solids, liquids, and gases made of various elements proceed while reacting at high temperatures. Because the thermal conductivity and viscosity of molten silicates and molten metals play a major role in high-temperature refining processes, the lab investigates how these properties arise in relation to the structure of the material. In addition, the lab directly observes high-temperature reaction fields, aiming to make materials manufacturing processes more efficient and to develop new processes.
Shigeru Ueda, Professor
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The Ueda Lab researches the production of metals, including iron, and the effective use of by-products. Global crude steel production increases year by year, and demand for base metals and rare metals keeps growing, but problems have emerged such as the deterioration of mineral resources and the generation of CO2 and harmful by-products. What is needed are processes that adapt well to changes in the supply and demand of resources and energy and in raw materials, and that can produce materials stably with low environmental impact. The lab aims to build the reaction processes needed for social infrastructure, such as responding to resource and energy constraints and reducing and using by-products.
Goro Miyamoto, Professor
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The Miyamoto Lab aims to develop materials with outstanding properties by controlling the microstructure of structural metallic materials, including steel. Structural metallic materials must resist deformation so they can support heavy loads, resist fracture, and be easy to form into complex shapes. These properties are governed by grain boundaries, second phases, and other defects within the metal crystal, collectively known as the microstructure. Using advanced analytical methods, the lab clarifies how microstructures form through both experiments and theory, and then controls them by optimizing thermomechanical processing and alloying elements.
Tetsu Ichitsubo, Professor
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The Ichitsubo Lab researches and develops materials that show new functions by controlling their microstructure. The foundation of this work is the study of various phase transformations, which Professor Ichitsubo has pursued as his lifework. The lab mainly works on materials related to energy issues, such as electrode materials for rechargeable batteries and thermoelectric conversion materials. Using X-ray structural and spectroscopic analysis, electron microscopy, femtosecond laser spectroscopy, and other techniques, the lab investigates the link between microstructure, structure, and function.
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