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Hiraku Matsukuma, Associate Professor
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The Matsukuma Lab uses state-of-the-art lasers to study ultra-precision measurement of the motion and shape of objects. At the center are the mode-locked femtosecond laser and its frequency spectrum, the optical frequency comb. An optical comb can have its frequency stabilized by synchronizing it with an external frequency standard, and it is characterized by a wide wavelength range and high directionality. The lab uses it as the light source for angle sensors and encoders and studies its application to measurement.
Hironori Tohmyoh, Professor
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The Tohmyoh-Kimura Lab takes an interdisciplinary approach to creating new material systems. To take advantage of micro-scale materials with excellent properties and shapes, the lab handles making, joining, examining, and using them as one continuous process. The lab has identified the factors that govern the phenomenon in which passing direct current through the contact between micro-scale materials causes localized melting by Joule heating, making it possible to join materials with high reliability. Its work also extends to studies of hair and nails, and to developing methods that use sound waves and electric current to inspect bonded interfaces and thin layers.
Keiichi Shirasu, Associate Professor
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The Shirasu Lab works on circular materials design, dealing with thermoplastics, their composites, and recycled materials. It connects everything from material design through property evaluation, advanced measurement, and simulation, to the making of new materials. Advancing 3D additive manufacturing and direct bonding to dissimilar materials can reduce machining and joining steps. By using synchrotron radiation measurements to understand how resin degrades as it melts and solidifies, the lab aims to build a resource-circulation system with no waste or loss.
Matsuhiko Nishizawa, Professor
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The Nishizawa Lab develops devices that combine biological components such as cells and proteins with soft, wet materials. Its main pillars are biofuel cells and sensors, cell and tissue chips, hydrogel electrodes, skin iontronics, and biodelivery. Based on mechanical engineering and materials science, it is an experimental lab that tackles bio and medical topics in collaboration with Tohoku University Hospital. No prior knowledge is required, and lab visits are accepted at any time.
Takuji Ishikawa, Professor
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The Ishikawa Lab applies biomechanics to study flows related to living things, such as blood flow and the swimming of microorganisms. It is a biofluid mechanics lab belonging to the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Finemechanics in the Graduate School of Engineering, and calls itself the "Ishikawa/Kikuchi/Omori Lab" on its website. Its research spans medicine, fluids, the environment, robotics, food, biology, and evolution. The lab carries out its research in collaboration with medical school and biology experts, the Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, and others.
Takuji Ishikawa, Professor
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The Kikuchi Lab studies biological fluid mechanics, which deals with flows related to living things, such as the flight of birds and the swimming of fish. It presents research that applies biomechanics across a wide range of fields, from medicine and food to the evolution of living things. On the lab's website, it is presented under the name "Ishikawa/Kikuchi/Omori Lab" as the biofluid mechanics group of the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering and the Graduate School of Engineering.
Taku Ohara, Professor
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The Ohara Lab studies liquids, soft matter, and their interfaces, investigating the molecular motion that determines their properties. Macroscopic properties such as viscosity, thermal conductivity, and interfacial tension are determined by molecular motion at much finer scales. Analyzing this motion shows how a medium should be designed to obtain a targeted property. Unlike solids, where phonon theory gives a clear picture, liquids lack such a well-developed theory, so molecular dynamics simulation, which follows molecular motion computationally, is a powerful tool.
SURBLYS Donatas, Associate Professor
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The SURBLYS Lab uses molecular dynamics analysis to study phenomena that occur at the interfaces of liquids and soft matter. Technologies that use nanoscale structures have advanced, such as semiconductor lithography, self-assembly, and carbon nanotube synthesis. Inside such fine structures, the properties of liquids and soft matter clearly differ from those in the bulk. The resistance to heat transfer that appears as interfacial thermal resistance is a phenomenon that macroscopic fluid dynamics cannot fundamentally explain.
Gota Kikukawa, Professor
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The Kikukawa Lab studies thermo-fluid phenomena involving molecular-level physics through numerical simulation. In particular, understanding heat flow at interfaces and similar phenomena from the molecular scale is essential for heat dissipation in semiconductor devices and for the design of new polymer materials. Using large-scale numerical simulation, including molecular dynamics, the lab investigates how heat and matter are transported at the microscale. Based on its findings, the lab aims to contribute to industry, such as semiconductor processes and the development of polymer materials.
Takashi Tokumasu, Professor
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The Tokumasu Lab studies flows that occur at the nanoscale from the perspective of how atoms and molecules behave. Using supercomputers, the lab investigates the behavior of atoms and molecules through numerical simulation. The knowledge gained is applied to next-generation industrial technologies, especially battery technology. Research is organized into three groups: fuel cells, secondary batteries, and semiconductors.
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