Research Perspectives

There has been remarkable progress in science and technology. But our society still face many unresolved issues to be tackled toward realization of sustainable society. For example, development of environmentally–friendly alternative energy resources and advanced functional devices has been highly demanded. Our group focuses on metal oxides or ceramics. We are developing new types of powder processing techniques using external fields at nano to micro scale, in order to enhance or expand functions of materials used for electronic devices or catalyst. We also search for new materials that exhibit a rich variety of properties from ferromagnetic to antiferromagnetic, from electrically conductive to semiconducting, by using high-pressure or low-temperature synthesis method.

Research themes that we are recently interested in are as follows.

(i)Ceramic Forming Process Using Electrophoresis of Colloidal Particles
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(ii)Orientation control of ceramics using their magnetic anisotropies
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(iii)Morphology and surface controlled nanocrystals / High pressure technique for Syntheses and Characterizations
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(iv)Self–organized structure formation of gold spheres due to the induced magnetic dipole interactions
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(v)Protein crystal growth in high magnetic field
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Our group has collaborated with several universities and companies, and also has accepted university students from undergraduate to postgraduate. If you are interested in collaboration with us, please contact us.

2016/3/17
Farewell party for Dr. Zhang, Dr. Tsujimoto, Mr. Ishii, and Mr Fujita
2016/3
Dr. Tsujimoto won CSJ Award for Innovatory Research
2015/12/11
End-Year-Party.
2015/09/15
Ms. Ako joins us as an intership student from Gunma Univ.
2015/08/24
Ms. Terashima joins us as an intership student from Ochanomizu Univ.
2015/08/17
Ms. Murai joins us as an intership student from Ochanomizu Univ.
2015/03/12
Farewell Party for Dr. Matsunaga, Ms. Yamamoto, Mr. Yamazaki, & Mr. Tsuchiya
2015/4/01
Nguyen joined our group as a Ph.D candidate.
2014/12/8
Group members enjoyed a End-Year Party.
2014/10
H. Suzuki received her PhD degree from Tokyo City Univ.
2014/04/20
NIMS held an open house.
2014/03/25
Farewell Party for Suzuki san and Takahashi kun.
2013/12/02
End-Year Party. Gift exchanged with the group members!
2013/6/20
Dr. Matsunaga won the Best Poster Award in STAC-7 international conference.
2013/4/15
Members list updated.
2013/3/21
Uchikoshi GL gave the commemorative speech for CerSJ Award in TIT
            
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2013/3/07
The group web site newly launched.

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