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Hiroshi Masumoto, Professor
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The Masumoto Lab researches the development of new intelligent materials that combine multiple material functions. It works with magnetic-dielectric materials that have a multilayer structure of metal and ceramics, and with osteoconductive implant materials made by modifying the surface of titanium. Its most important theme is 'integrated functional materials,' which give a single material two or more functions. To make materials, the lab uses vapor-phase methods such as plasma, sputtering, and chemical vapor deposition (CVD), as well as pressure sintering.
Taichi Murakami, Professor
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The Murakami-Higashi Lab studies how to reduce the environmental impact of the processes used to produce basic metal materials, including steel. Its main theme is making smelting, which relies on high-temperature processes, carbon neutral. The lab clarifies how raw materials degrade inside the furnace when iron is made with hydrogen, and searches for ways to suppress that degradation. It also conducts materials processing research, such as manufacturing technologies for porous metals and the development of self-healing materials.
Fumio Narita, Professor
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The Narita-Kurita-Wang Lab studies the design of composite materials made by combining multiple materials, and the evaluation of their mechanical properties and functions. Using piezoelectric, magnetostrictive, and ferroelectric materials, the lab builds energy harvesting devices that draw electricity from vibration and temperature. It also works on highly heat-resistant metal matrix composites for lighter aircraft, as well as plant-derived materials. The lab collaborates with sports equipment manufacturers, universities overseas, and aircraft manufacturers.
Naoto Todoroki, Professor
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The Todoroki Lab studies catalyst and electrode materials used in water electrolysis, fuel cells, carbon dioxide electrolysis, and similar devices. The performance of these devices depends heavily on the arrangement of atoms and the electronic state at the catalyst surface, and on the interfaces where different materials meet. The lab aims to understand from the fundamentals what happens there and, based on that knowledge, to create new materials for practical use. Its goal is to contribute to realizing a hydrogen society and achieving carbon neutrality.
Shinichi Orimo, Professor
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The Orimo Lab studies hydrides for efficiently converting, storing, and transporting energy. Hydrogen bonds with most elements, forming a wide variety of materials, including metal and alloy hydrides and complex hydrides. Drawing on its research infrastructure for synthesizing, evaluating, and analyzing these hydrides, the lab pursues functional design and fundamental science of high-density hydrogen storage materials and fast ion-conducting materials. The field is closely connected to fuel cells and lithium-ion batteries, as well as to electronic properties and superconductivity.
Yuki Yamakawa, Professor
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The Mathematical Systems Design Lab uses mathematical methods to address a range of problems in the development of infrastructure. It develops methods to predict how much force materials and structures can withstand and how they deform. The lab also works on predicting the deformation and strength of the ground that supports structures, and on assessing the safety of power transmission towers after earthquakes. The theory and computer simulation techniques the lab has built up so far are its strengths.
Makoto Hisada, Professor
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The Infrastructure Materials Engineering Lab studies inorganic materials used in infrastructure facilities, especially concrete. Because concrete deteriorates at different rates depending on the environment in which it is placed, the lab considers it important to investigate the speed and mechanisms of deterioration and link them to maintenance and management. The lab holds that it is desirable to contribute, from a materials perspective, to efforts to reduce environmental impact toward a decarbonized society and a recycling-oriented society. In experiments, the lab takes a broad perspective from the nanoscale to the macroscale, and in computation, it tackles problems using data science such as Thermodynamic Modelling.
Shotaro Yamada, Professor
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The Geosphere and Geotechnical Engineering Lab studies the investigation, design, construction, and maintenance of social infrastructure structures related to the ground. It explores how the processes of the earth work and unravels how they connect to issues in geotechnical engineering. It clarifies how ground disasters occur and develops effective methods for disaster prevention and mitigation. Building on soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering, the lab also actively adopts new digital and data-driven approaches.
Hideki Naito, Associate Professor
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The Structural Creation Lab studies technologies for using social infrastructure structures, including bridges, safely over a long period. It develops methods for evaluating how safe a structure is throughout its entire period of use, from the time it is built. It investigates how bridges behave during earthquakes and applies the findings to the design of earthquake-resistant structures. The lab also works on inspection and diagnostic technologies for finding damage in concrete structures.
Yu Otake, Professor
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The Advanced Social Infrastructure Lab develops new methodologies and theories for civil engineering that are not bound by disciplinary boundaries. Built on the traditional fields of structural mechanics, soil mechanics, hydraulics, and infrastructure planning, the lab uses them in combination across fields. On top of this, it brings in data science, probability theory, statistics, optimization, and computer science to solve practical problems. Its research starts from the situation in Japan: frequent disasters, aging infrastructure, and a declining birthrate and aging population.
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