• Our institute creates innovative materials—spanning inorganic, metallic, organic, and biomaterials—that deliver unprecedented functions and performance. We are a collective that covers the full spectrum, from establishing new academic frameworks that drive paradigm shifts in materials science to implementing these advances in society through practical deployment.

    Our commitment to both academic excellence and industrial relevance is evidenced by the following achievements of our current faculty members:
    • Commendations from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: 9 recipients
    • Principal Investigators of JSPS programs (Specially Promoted Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S), and (A)): 6 faculty members
    • Leaders of large-scale social implementation programs: 1 faculty members

    Azuma Lab

    Electric field–induced ferromagnetic domain change by ferroelectric topological domain switching in Co-substituted BiFeO3 nanodots (Science Advances (2026), DOI:10.1126/sciadv.aec2861) Azuma Lab

  • Our institute creates innovative materials—spanning inorganic, metallic, organic, and biomaterials—that deliver unprecedented functions and performance. We are a collective that covers the full spectrum, from establishing new academic frameworks that drive paradigm shifts in materials science to implementing these advances in society through practical deployment.

    Our commitment to both academic excellence and industrial relevance is evidenced by the following achievements of our current faculty members:
    • Commendations from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: 9 recipients
    • Principal Investigators of JSPS programs (Specially Promoted Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S), and (A)): 6 faculty members
    • Leaders of large-scale social implementation programs: 1 faculty members

    Azuma Lab

    6.1% Volumetric Negative Thermal Expansion Induced by the Reversible Reconstructive Phase Transition in Pb-Free Bi1−xLnxCoO3 (Ln: Lanthanoid) (Advanced Science (2026), DOI:10.1002/advs.77022) Azuma Lab

  • Our institute creates innovative materials—spanning inorganic, metallic, organic, and biomaterials—that deliver unprecedented functions and performance. We are a collective that covers the full spectrum, from establishing new academic frameworks that drive paradigm shifts in materials science to implementing these advances in society through practical deployment.

    Our commitment to both academic excellence and industrial relevance is evidenced by the following achievements of our current faculty members:
    • Commendations from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: 9 recipients
    • Principal Investigators of JSPS programs (Specially Promoted Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S), and (A)): 6 faculty members
    • Leaders of large-scale social implementation programs: 1 faculty members

    Yasui Lab

    Harnessing Two-Step Heating and Solid-State Dewetting for Highly Ordered L10-FePd Alloy Epitaxial Films (Journal of Alloys and Compounds (2026), DOI:10.1016/j.jallcom.2026.189751) Yasui Lab

  • Our institute creates innovative materials—spanning inorganic, metallic, organic, and biomaterials—that deliver unprecedented functions and performance. We are a collective that covers the full spectrum, from establishing new academic frameworks that drive paradigm shifts in materials science to implementing these advances in society through practical deployment.

    Our commitment to both academic excellence and industrial relevance is evidenced by the following achievements of our current faculty members:
    • Commendations from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: 9 recipients
    • Principal Investigators of JSPS programs (Specially Promoted Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S), and (A)): 6 faculty members
    • Leaders of large-scale social implementation programs: 1 faculty members

    Katase Lab

    Novel layered crystal for high-efficiency thermoelectric energy conversion ― Embedding atomically thin materials within bulk crystals enables both a high thermoelectric power factor and exceptionally low thermal conductivity ― (Journal of Materials Chemistry A (2026), DOI:10.1039/D6TA02075E) Katase Lab

  • Our institute creates innovative materials—spanning inorganic, metallic, organic, and biomaterials—that deliver unprecedented functions and performance. We are a collective that covers the full spectrum, from establishing new academic frameworks that drive paradigm shifts in materials science to implementing these advances in society through practical deployment.

    Our commitment to both academic excellence and industrial relevance is evidenced by the following achievements of our current faculty members:
    • Commendations from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: 9 recipients
    • Principal Investigators of JSPS programs (Specially Promoted Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S), and (A)): 6 faculty members
    • Leaders of large-scale social implementation programs: 1 faculty members

    Azuma Lab

    A cleaner strategy for negative thermal expansion materials ― Highly oxidized amorphous precursor enables safer, cleaner synthesis of negative thermal expansion materials ― (Journal of the American Chemical Society (2026), DOI:10.1021/jacs.6c04051) Azuma Lab