About Division

Energy Materials

Mission

Through material innovation related to energy devices, we are conducting research at all levels, from materials and devices to systems that contribute to a sustainable and decarbonized society.

Regarding energy creation, conservation, and storage devices such as solar cells, fuel cells, storage batteries, thermoelectric elements, and heat storage devices, we will not only use nanocarbon materials and energy-saving materials, but also build systems through horizontal cooperation.

環境マテリアル研究部門

Mission

By developing materials and process technologies that enable recycling by separating and refining waste generated from people’s daily lives and production activities such as industry and agriculture, we can control it into a form that can be used again. Our mission is to contribute to the realization of a circular economy where material circulation is possible.

Through collaboration between industry, academia, and government, this project is characterized by the design of new environmentally purifying materials and environmentally friendly materials, as well as the development of processes for upgrading recycling starting from waste materials that are essential for material circulation.

• Development of materials and separation/purification processes for the separation and purification of valuable molecules from wastewater and exhaust gas
• Development of metal leaching, separation, and purification technology from waste materials
• Creation of highly functional materials using waste materials as starting materials and development of the creation process

マテリアルDX研究部門​

Mission

By cultivating the fusion field of information science and materials science, we aim to develop cross-disciplinary DX human resources and innovate industry-academia collaboration “manufacturing”

産学官の連携により、新たな環境浄化材料や環境調和材料の設計や物質循環に不可欠な 廃材を出発源としたアップグレードリサイクルに向けたプロセス開発を行うことを特徴とする。

バイオマテリアル研究部門

Mission

Our mission is to develop new industries in the field of regenerative medicine, etc. through material development centered on biocompatible materials and innovation in manufacturing technology.
It is characterized by biomaterial design and smart manufacturing process development through medical-engineering and industry-academia collaboration.

Research theme

Material

• biocompatible gel
• protein nanofiber
• peptide
• cell sheet
• Stem cell-derived factors
• Nucleic acid medicine
• nucleic acid
• Functional magnetic nanoparticles

Process

• Regenerative medical processes (device development, cell culture, differentiation induction, tissue engineering, tissue culture, cryopreservation)
• Cell adhesion/spreading device
• Cell image information processing
• Drug discovery screening
• micro flow reactor
• Endoscope/laparoscopic treatment equipment
• Cancer treatment development
  • Hyperthermia using magnetic nanoparticles
  • Hyperthermia using semiconductor laser
• Animal experimentation

Green structural materials informatics

Department special site

Mission

We aim to design completely virtual structural metal materials that contribute to the environment through the advanced fusion of experiments, simulations, and artificial intelligence.

Keyword

Cyber/physical space/ICME/phase field, cellular automata/first-principles calculation, crystal plasticity finite element method/digital image correlation method/stress distribution/high-resolution electron microscope/two-indenter method/three-dimensional analysis/hostile generative network/ Deep learning, image recognition, forward/reverse analysis, persistent homology, materials image engineering, innovative steel materials, additive manufacturing, synchrotron radiation, environment