• Our laboratory creates the innovative materials with conspicuous properties and functions through the interdisciplinary collaboration between inorganic materials, which are composed of various elements, and a wide range of different materials such as metals and organic materials. Our aims are the pursuit of scientific principles for innovative materials by uniting theories of different scientific fields, establishment of material science applicable to innovative materials based on extensive and new concepts, and contribution to the resolution of social problems including safety and environmental problems through the societal implementation of innovative materials.

    Yanaka Lab

    Key Role of Pro230 in the Hinge Region on the Architecture and Function of IgG1 (Journal of Medicinal Chemistry(2026), DOI:10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5c02419)
    Yanaka Lab

  • Our laboratory creates the innovative materials with conspicuous properties and functions through the interdisciplinary collaboration between inorganic materials, which are composed of various elements, and a wide range of different materials such as metals and organic materials. Our aims are the pursuit of scientific principles for innovative materials by uniting theories of different scientific fields, establishment of material science applicable to innovative materials based on extensive and new concepts, and contribution to the resolution of social problems including safety and environmental problems through the societal implementation of innovative materials.

    Matsushita Lab

    Advancing N-type doping in semiconductors through hydrogen-defect interactions (Communications Materials (2026),DOI:10.1038/s43246-025-00955-4)
    Prof. Yu-ichiro MATSUSHITA

  • Our laboratory creates the innovative materials with conspicuous properties and functions through the interdisciplinary collaboration between inorganic materials, which are composed of various elements, and a wide range of different materials such as metals and organic materials. Our aims are the pursuit of scientific principles for innovative materials by uniting theories of different scientific fields, establishment of material science applicable to innovative materials based on extensive and new concepts, and contribution to the resolution of social problems including safety and environmental problems through the societal implementation of innovative materials.

    Yanaka Lab

    High-Resistance-State Tunneling in 25 nm TiOx/Y-Doped HfO2/Pt Nanocrossbar Ferroelectric Tunnel Junctions (Nanoscale (2026),DOI:10.1039/D5NR04010H)
    Majima-Izawa Lab

  • Our laboratory creates the innovative materials with conspicuous properties and functions through the interdisciplinary collaboration between inorganic materials, which are composed of various elements, and a wide range of different materials such as metals and organic materials. Our aims are the pursuit of scientific principles for innovative materials by uniting theories of different scientific fields, establishment of material science applicable to innovative materials based on extensive and new concepts, and contribution to the resolution of social problems including safety and environmental problems through the societal implementation of innovative materials.

    Azuma Lab

    Achieving Canted-Spin Weak Ferromagnetism and Negative Thermal Expansion in A- and B-Site-Substituted Bismuth Ferrite (Journal of the American Chemical Society (2025),DOI:10.1021/jacs.5c12255) Azuma Lab

  • Our laboratory creates the innovative materials with conspicuous properties and functions through the interdisciplinary collaboration between inorganic materials, which are composed of various elements, and a wide range of different materials such as metals and organic materials. Our aims are the pursuit of scientific principles for innovative materials by uniting theories of different scientific fields, establishment of material science applicable to innovative materials based on extensive and new concepts, and contribution to the resolution of social problems including safety and environmental problems through the societal implementation of innovative materials.

    Terada Lab

    Reconstructing past volcanic plume activity of Kusatsu–Shirane volcano, Japan, using historical drawings of the Kusatsu spa area (Bulletin of Volcanology (2025),DOI:10.1007/s00445-025-01890-5) Terada Lab