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Yoshikazu Ohara, Professor
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The Ohara-Nagakubo Lab conducts cutting-edge research on non-destructive measurement, using ultrasound to examine the inside of materials. Building on its original technologies in nonlinear ultrasonics, phased arrays, and laser measurement, the lab aims to create measurement techniques that make visible what could not be seen before. Drawing on international joint research, mainly with partners in Europe and the United States, the lab also aims to realize the industrial metaverse, the "digital twin." The lab is the Materials System Measurement field of the Department of Materials System Engineering.
Chaonan Xu, Professor
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The Xu-Uchiyama Lab studies "conversion materials" that convert force into light and electricity. The lab invented the "mechanoluminescent material" and the "multi-piezo material," realizing materials that glow with high sensitivity and stability when only a slight mechanical stress is applied. These materials combine strong mechanoluminescence and piezoelectricity, and are attracting international interest as a function based on a new concept. Approaching the problem through both theory and experiment, the lab is pioneering conversion materials that will be useful in a future society of AI and IoT.
Masaya Yamamoto, Professor
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The Yamamoto-Kobayashi Lab studies, based on medical polymers, the phenomena that occur at the "interface" where living bodies and materials meet. For regenerative medicine, the lab develops biomaterials for building cell scaffolds and vascular networks. The other pillar is research that examines, at the cellular level, the effects of nano- and microplastics on living organisms.
Takayuki Narushima, Professor
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The Narushima-Ueda Lab conducts research aimed at giving higher performance to metallic and ceramic materials used inside the body. On the metal side, the lab works with titanium and titanium alloys and cobalt-chromium alloys; on the ceramic side, it works with calcium phosphate. Through joint research with the Graduate School of Dentistry, the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, the Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, and the Institute for Materials Research, the lab conducts evaluations both inside and outside the body. The lab also actively works on securing intellectual property for its results and on clinical application through collaboration with companies.
Satoshi Kameoka, Professor
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The Kameoka Lab conducts fundamental research and materials development on metals and alloys with new structures and functions, based on a metallurgical perspective. The core of its research is the design and preparation of metal and alloy catalysts with excellent catalytic performance, using bulk metals as the starting material. The lab develops processes for creating new catalytic materials by applying activation treatments such as leaching, hydrogen absorption, and oxidation to metals and alloys. It also works on the synthesis and structural analysis of quasicrystal-related materials (hypermaterials), exploring their potential as catalytic materials.
Kenji Tsuda, Professor
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The Tsuda Lab analyzes local structures in materials using transmission electron microscopy and nano-sized electron probes. In functional materials, a growing number of cases show unusual properties arising from nanoscale local structures and from crystal or domain interfaces, which makes investigating local crystal structure increasingly important. Using convergent-beam electron diffraction (CBED), in which an electron beam focused to nanometer size is directed at the specimen, the lab was the first in the world to achieve quantitative local crystal structure analysis based on theoretical calculations. Currently, the lab is working on analyzing inhomogeneous structures such as crystal interfaces and nanodomains, using methods that combine CBED with scanning transmission electron microscopy.
Takahiro Yamada, Professor
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The Yamada Lab pioneers new inorganic compounds and functional materials and develops new synthesis methods. Most inorganic materials are metals, alloys, and oxides, but inorganic compounds such as nitrides and intermetallic compounds also have high potential as materials. Many multinary inorganic compounds remain undiscovered, and many that are known still have functions that are not fully understood. The lab searches for new compounds, prepares high-purity samples, and uses experiments and theoretical calculations to verify how their properties and functions arise.
Akira Yoshikawa, Professor
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The Yoshikawa Lab researches new crystalline materials for high-performance devices that support the safety and security of civil society. Centered on scintillators used in nuclear medicine equipment, security inspection, and resource exploration, the lab covers everything from crystal development through evaluation to device fabrication. It searches for unknown substances among inorganic compounds that combine many elements, and also pursues new synthesis methods. The lab conducts many joint research projects with universities, research institutes, and companies in Japan and abroad, and members have opportunities for overseas training.
Yu Kumagai, Professor
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The Kumagai Lab works to understand and discover new functional ceramics through materials informatics, which combines advanced computational techniques with informatics. The lab runs high-throughput calculations on a huge number of substances and applies machine learning to the resulting data. It is also working to clarify how material properties arise, in systems such as two-dimensional materials and rechargeable batteries. The lab is new, established in April 2022.
Hidemi Kato, Center Director and Professor (concurrent)
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The Center works on developing new materials that will support innovation in the 21st century. It establishes the basic principles and techniques for controlling and synthesizing substances and materials, and creates new substances and new materials. It explores possible applications in energy materials, environmental materials, structural materials, electronic and information materials, and biomedical and welfare materials. Since 2018, as the International Joint Usage/Research Center for Materials Science, it has opened the equipment of the Institute for Materials Research to researchers around the world.
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