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2024, July-Oct:

  • Sep. Our reflesh is making 4090GPU PC!Here

  • Sep. Japanese review on EELS simulation and machine learning application was published

  • Sep. Presentations in JAPS

  • Sep. Presentations in JIM

  • Aug. Web page updated! But please set your bookmark —>Here．

  • Aug. A student has a presentation in IJCAI @ Jeju, Korea.Here

  • July. New publication has been published in JPCC on ML application for new nano-analysis. Here

2024 , June :

  • Students and staff gave presentations at the 80th Microscopy Society in Makuhari. Click here

  • We participated in the Komaba Research Campus Open House. Many people visited us this year as well. Thank you very much !

  • The results of our research on developing a code for creating covalent bond diagrams (COOP) using FHI-aims and conducting COOP analysis of intercalation materials were published in MSMSE. Here

2024 , April :

  • New members have joined for 2024!

2024 , March :

  • The graduation ceremony for graduate school was held. Congratulations to all who graduated! In addition, students received the Dean’s Award from the Graduate School of Engineering and the Department of Materials Engineering Excellent Presentation Award! Click here

  • The research results, which express the stability of thousands of chemical compounds in a mathematical formula, have been published! A press release was also issued and the results were reported in various places. Here , the press release , Nikkan Kogyo , Nikkan Kogyo Online , Mynavi , Nikkei , PhysOrg , Asia Res ., Azo-Material , etc.

  • The results of our research on constructing a Message Passing Neural Network that takes anisotropy into account and its use in spectral analysis have been published in Digital Discovery. Here

  • We won the Best Poster Presentation Award at the International Microscopy Congress (IMC20) held in Korea! Click here

  • A student gave a poster presentation at the Spring Meeting of the Japan Institute of Metals.

  • The results of a joint research project with POSTECH, OakRidge National Laboratory, and Yonsei University on direct observation of defects in 2D compounds using atomic level measurements and machine learning have been published in ACS Nano. Click here

  • We held a farewell party for members graduating this spring !

  • The results of our research on the construction of a highly efficient and accurate GNN model using pre-training and its application to surface systems have been published in Appl. Phy. Exp. Here

Feb. 2024 :​

  • The results of a joint research project with POSTECH, OakRidge National Laboratory, and Yonsei University on direct observation of defects in 2D compounds using atomic level measurements and machine learning have been published in ACS Nano. Click here

  • The results of a joint research project with AIST, Shizuoka University, Tohoku University, Kyushu Synchrotron, Kyoto University, KEK, and NIMS on the state analysis of specific silver ions in glass have been published in Scientific Reports. Click here

  • We have published a high-precision prediction model (LCAONet) that utilizes the LCAO approach on arxiv and github.

  • We conducted training on the operation of the electron microscope installed at the Komaba Analytical Core.

  • We participated in the cutting-edge materials research open house @ University of Tokyo Komaba Research Campus . Thank you for participating!

2024 , Jan. :

  • we won the Best Presentation Award!

2023, Dec :

  • , came to visit our lab.

  • I presented at the NeurIPS AI4Mat workshop held in New Orleans. My presentation was also selected by Splotlight .

  • We held a farewell party for Dr. Xie, who has been in our lab for many years.

  • A student gave a presentation at the MRM2023/IUMRS-ICA2023 international conference held in Kyoto . Click here

2023, Nov :

  • A student gave a presentation at the MRS-fall meeting in Boston .

  • Dr. Kunyen, a graduate of our school, visited us .

  • also attended.

  • A group photo was taken for the Fall 2023 term.

2023, Oct:

  • We participated in the Halloween event at Komaba Research Campus!

  • We held a lunch party to celebrate the advancement of students and welcome new members

2023, Sep:

  • Our student presented at the Japan Institute of Metals held in Toyama and won the Excellent Poster Award!

  • Students and staff presented at IMC20 (International Microscopy Congress). Click here

2023, July:

  • We participated in a joint research project with Tokyo Institute of Technology and the High Energy Accelerator Research Institute, and developed a material that will be the world’s best lithium ion conductor based on new design guidelines for all-solid-state batteries. The results were published in Science magazine. See the published paper here , and the press release .

2023, June:

  • ** **A student gave a presentation at the 4th International Conference on Functional Materials Science (FMS). Click here

  • We participated in the Komaba Research Campus Open Day. Many people came and it was a great success. Students also participated with great enthusiasm. The images related to spectral informatics were also well received, so we have uploaded them to Twitter .

  • The results of our research on the electronic structure analysis of two-dimensional compounds based on the measurement and calculation of Compton scattering intensity using a transmission electron microscope have been accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B! This is the result of joint research with Druhum Univ. and TelAviv Univ.

  • We have updated the group photo! Here

2023, May:

  • [NEW] We have developed a method to predict the entire electronic structure of a material from partial spectral information, and the results have been published in J. Phys. Chem. Lett. A press release was issued and the results have been reported in various places. See the press release here , Nikkei Press Release , Optronics , Nanowerk , EurekAlert , NanoDigest , SciTechDialy , Mirage

  • We have prepared for the Komaba Research Campus Open Day (6/9, 10).

  • I participated in various events of the Univ. Toronto-MacMaster Univ.-UTokyo three-university workshop.

  • Research results on the search for new graphite intercalation compounds (GICs) and their prediction of physical properties have been published in J. Phys. Chem. C. Click here

2023, April:

  • Our research results on the temperature dependence of mechanical strength and interfacial structure at carbon nanotube interfaces have been accepted for publication in J. Ceram. Soc. Jpn.

  • A student won the Best contributed speaker award at the MRS fall meeting 2022! Click here

  • New members for 2023 (12th class) have been assigned!

  • The results of our research on a new method for interface modeling have been accepted for publication in J. Ceram. Soc. Jpn.

March 2023 :

  • The results of research on the dynamics of atomic and electronic structure reconstruction at silicon interfaces have been published in Acta Materialia .

February 2023 :

  • We will hold a research open day on February 13th at the Materials Laboratory of Komaba Research Campus . If you are thinking about going to graduate school, please come and join us! Here (now finished. Thank you for participating)

2023, January :

  • The Materials Engineering Independent Research has ended. This year, we won the Best Presentation Award! The students worked very hard .

  • I attended a lecture by Professor Xiao Su of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and had a discussion. I would like to thank Professor Ouchi for all the arrangements .

-2022-

 2022, December :

  • ** **We had a farewell lunch for Alina (JSPS short-term stay).

  • Students and staff attended the MRS fall meeting in Boston. It seems that it was very stimulating to have a face-to-face international conference overseas for the first time in a long time .

  • We have refreshed the campus and common areas by cleaning them .

2022, November :

  • A student gave a presentation at the 16th Interdisciplinary Symposium on Condensed Matter Science.

  • We have introduced a new GPU PC. A100!! Here

  • We have added a link to our lab’s Github. Here

  • The original paper on the interface structure modeling software “Interface Master” has been published on arxiv .

September 2022 :

  • I participated in the research lab’s Halloween event!

September 2022 :

  • A student gave a presentation at the Autumn Meeting of the Japan Institute of Metals held at Fukuoka Institute of Technology.

  • A student gave a presentation at the Ceramic Society Fall Symposium held at Tokushima University. Click here

2022, August :

  • Alina Talmantaite from Durham University has joined our lab! She will be staying with us until December as a JSPS short-term guest. Click here!

2022, July :

  • The results of a research project that clarified a new phenomenon in the intermediate state during the phase separation process of glass through experiments and theory have been published in Phys. Rev. Res. This is a joint research project with NIMS, Nagoya University, and AGC Inc. Click here

  • kun , visited our lab!

2022, June :

  • kun , visited our lab!

  • others came to visit. The students worked very hard from preparation to execution.

  • A review paper on functional cores has been published in J. Ceram. Soc. Jpn. Click here

May 2022 :

  • I refreshed it by replacing the memory .

  • We have released laboratory introduction materials for graduate school entrance examinations. Here

  • Research results on the CK edge database of organic molecules have been published in Scientific Data! Click here

2022, April :

  • New members for 2022 (11th batch) have been assigned!! Here , here (masks were removed only for the photo)

March 2022 :

  • Mr. Yoshimoto of Nikon Corporation received his doctorate with Mr. Mizoguchi as his chief examiner .

2022, January :

  • The farewell party, welcome party, and thank-you party, which had been postponed due to various factors, were held. Here
    (and we visited electric cars and smart houses at the COMMA House in the Institute of Industrial Science. Here )

  • Independent Research 2021 has ended. This year, students worked hard on the themes of SDGs and electronic structure .

  • The results of our joint research on surface quantum vibrations of nanowires have been published in Physical Review Research. This is a joint research project with the Shiomi Laboratory of the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Click here

  • The results of our research on a geometric structure calculation code for efficient calculation of rigid body displacement of interfaces have been published in Comp. Phys. Comm. Here

  • The results of a study on artificial intelligence technology for automatically interpreting a huge number of spectra have been published in Ultramicroscopy .

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-2021-**

December 2021 :

2021, November :

  • The results of our research on the preparation of atomic resolution electron microscope samples using fully automated robotics have been published in Scientific Reports. This is a collaborative study with Thermo Fisher Scientific. Here .

October 2021 :

September 2021 :

  • A student gave a presentation at the Japan Metals Society Autumn Symposium (online).

August 2021 :

  • The page for ELNES/XANES calculations using CASTEP has been updated .

  • The results of a research project on first-principles analysis of intercalation and diffusion behavior in graphite for the realization of sodium-ion batteries have been published in Phys. Rev. Mater. This is the result of research by a second-year student (at the time) in the College of Liberal Arts who gained research experience through the UROP system! Click here

  • The Komaba Analytical Core , a joint-use facility organization , has been established. We are in charge of managing the FIB-SEM.

2021, July :

2021, June :

  • An experiment was carried out to observe at atomic resolution using an aberration-corrected electron microscope at the National Institute for Materials Science, remotely operated from Komaba .

  • We participated in the Institute of Industrial Science’s Open House. Thank you to everyone who participated in the online live lab tour!

  • Laboratory members gave presentations at the academic conference of the Japanese Society of Microscopy.

May 2021 :

  • ** **The lab introduction video was created by members in 2020 and 2021. Please take a look! Here

  • ** **We hosted the 4th Young Researchers Collaboration Tour for the new academic field “Function Core”!

April 2021 :

  • New members for 2021 (10th batch) have been assigned! 2021 members

March 2021 :

  • We held a farewell party for students graduating from the master’s and doctoral programs in 2020, and a welcome party for new members of 2020, which we were unable to hold last year!

  • A student received the Dean’s Award from the Graduate School of Engineering (Top Student in Materials Engineering)! Click here

  • Presented at the Spring Meeting of the Ceramic Society of Japan (online).

  • A student gave a presentation at the Spring Meeting of the Japan Institute of Metals (online).

  • The results of our research on a bond database for two-element molecules have been published in Data in Brief .

2021, January :

  • ** Our student won** an award at the international conference Microscopy and Microanalysis (held online in August 2020), and the certificate has arrived! Here , here2

-2020- (The format has changed)

December 2020 :

  • ** **An article on spectral informatics has been published in the Journal of the Chemical Society of Japan .

  • ** **The student independent research has ended. This year, students worked hard on the theme of virus simulation .

  • ** **In collaboration with dancer Norihito Ishii , who was involved in a project organized by the Physical Society of Japan, we cooperated in the creation of a piece called “ΔG = ΔH - TΔS - Unknown Currents,” which expresses lattice defects through dance. Click here for the video .

  • ** **The 2nd Komaba Materials Science Seminar 2020 was held online. Click here

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November 2020** :

2020, October :

  • ** **The results of a study on direct observation of spinodal decomposition of glass by in-situ high-temperature observation in a TEM and elucidation of a new phase separation mechanism have been published in Acta Materialia. This is a joint research project with AGC. Open Access

September 2020 :

  • The results of our research on the development of a method for determining radial distribution functions from XANES regions using artificial intelligence techniques have been published in the journal J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. Open Access .

  • A student gave a presentation at the Japan Institute of Metals Autumn Meeting (online).

  • A student gave a presentation at the Autumn Meeting of the Society of Applied Physics (online).

  • A student gave a presentation at the Autumn Meeting of the Ceramics Society of Japan (online).

  • OG member Hiromi Oda was featured in Forbes magazine! **Click here
    **

  • Our alumnus, Professor Chishu Miyata from Tohoku University, was featured in Nanotech Japan!

August 2020 :

July 2020 :

  • The research results, which clarified the spatial distribution of Tricluster structures embedded in glass by measuring vibrational spectra at the nano level using monochromated STEM-EELS, have been published in ACS Applied Nano Materials. This is a joint research project with the Inoue Laboratory at the Institute of Industrial Science, the Hirosaki University Masuno Laboratory, and the Kurata and Haruta Laboratory at Kyoto University. Click here

June 2020 :

May 2020:

  • A research result on materials informatics that successfully predicted the physical properties of an interface without determining the interface structure was published in Applied Physics Express . It is open access.

  • We have created a YouTube channel for the Tokyo University Institute of Industrial Science’s Mizoguchi Laboratory. We plan to distribute scientific experiments, seminars, and lectures (simplified versions). Please use it for home study.

March 2020 :

  • A student received the Dean’s Award from the Graduate School of Engineering (top student in the Department of Materials Engineering ) !

  • The Mizoguchi Laboratory has started a Twitter account.

  • The textbook I co-wrote, “Tokyo University Engineering Course: Basic Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry II,” has been published by Maruzen Publishing .

Feb. 2020 :

  • An invited review paper on spectrum analysis using artificial intelligence techniques, “Machine learning approaches for ELNES/XANES”, has been published online in Microscopy . Open Access

  • A review paper on crystal interface informatics has been published in the journal “Materials” by the Japan Institute of Metals.

2020, Jan. :

  • An article on determining interfacial structure and functional correlation using machine learning has been published in the journal “Catalysts” of the Catalysis Society.

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-2019-**

2019, Dec. : Materials Engineering Independent Research 2019 has ended. I won the Outstanding Presentation Award! Click here　prize

2019, Nov : An article on interface structure analysis using machine learning was published in the journal of the Society of Applied Physics, “Applied Physics”.

2019, Oct. : A student gave a presentation at the Pacrim2019 international conference held in Okinawa. 1

2019, Sep. : 4th batch student Kiyohara successfully obtained his doctorate and graduated! 1 , 2 , 3

2019, Sep. : Assistant Professor Shibata received the Yayoi Prize from the Institute of Industrial Science! 1 , 2

2019, Sep .: A student gave an invited talk and presentation at the Young Researchers’ Meeting for the New Academic Field “Function Core” held in Shizuoka!

2019, Sep. : Our students gave invited talks at the Autumn Meeting of the Japan Society of Applied Physics in Hokkaido! 1 , 2

2019, Sep. : Students gave presentations at the Autumn Meeting of the Japan Institute of Metals held in Okayama. 1 , 2 , 3

2019, Sep : An article on the ELNES/XANES theoretical calculations was published in the journal of the Ceramic Society of Japan, “Ceramics”.

2019, Sep : An article on spectrum analysis using machine learning was published in the isotope journal.

2019, August : Komaba Materials Science Seminar was held. Click here

2019, June : A student gave an invited talk and presentation at the Japanese Society of Microscopy Academic Conference! 1

2019, June : Students gave presentations at AMTC6 International Conference. 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

2019, May & June : We participated in the Komaba Research Campus Open Day and had many visitors! 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12

2019, May : Our student received the Japan Society of Applied Physics Presentation Encouragement Award! Click here

2019, May : Research results on the structure-function relationship of interfaces using machine learning were published in J. Phys: Materials. Click here

2019, May : An article on interface and spectral analysis using machine learning was published in the journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence.

2019, April : The 9th batch of students has been assigned and a new assistant professor has arrived!

2019, March : Sugimori-kun, a 7th year student, has graduated safely! 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6

2019, March : The results of our joint research with AIST, which uses artificial intelligence technology to quantify the physical properties and structural information of materials from spectra alone, have been published in J. Phys: Materials, and a press release has been issued. Here is an illustration of this research ( Japanese , English ) Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun , Nikkei Business Daily , Optronics , Nikkei , Nikkan Kogyo Online , PhysOrg , EurekAleart , Medical Developpment , Engineering.com

2019, March : Research results on atomic resolution quantitative mapping of molecules and ions in ionic liquids were published in RSC Advances. Click here

2019, March : Students gave presentations at the Spring Meeting of the Ceramic Society of Japan. 1 , 2

2019, March : Three students presented at the Spring Meeting of the Japan Institute of Metals and won the Excellent Poster Award! See here , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

2019, Feb : A celebration party was held for us. Thank you very much to everyone! Photos

2019, Feb : The results of a collaborative research project (Sweden, Germany, Kyoto) on electron-phonon coupling in ELNES/XANES have been accepted for publication in J. Phys. Chem. C.

 -2018-

2018, Dec : Material Independent Research 2018 has ended.

2018, Nov : Students gave presentations at the Materials Research Society (MRS) held in Boston. 1 , 2

2018, Nov : Our student was featured on Chem Station, Japan’s largest chemistry portal site !

2018, Oct : A student gave a presentation at the 9th Ionic Liquid Symposium and won the Excellent Presentation Award! Here , 1

2018, Oct : The results of our collaborative research with JFCC on lattice modulation of SrTiO3 due to defect formation were published in Phys. Rev. B.

2018, Oct : Students (8th batch) have been assigned!

2018, Sep .: The results of our joint research with AIST, which uses artificial intelligence technology to predict various physical properties from only molecular structure information, were published in J. Phys. Chem . Lett . and we issued a joint press release .

2018, Sep .: A student gave a presentation at the international conference International Commission on Glass (ICG 2018) held in Yokohama. Click here

2018, Sep .: A student presented at the Autumn Meeting of the Physical Society of Japan held in Kyoto. Click here

2018, Sep .: An article on atomic resolution observation of ionic liquids was published in “Chemical Industry.”

2018, Sep.: An article on the observation of phase separation in glass using STEM was published in “New Glass.”

2018, Sep .: The results of our research into establishing a method for interpreting core electron excitation spectra (ELNES/XANES) using artificial intelligence technology have been published in Scientific Reports and a press release has been issued. See here , JST , an image of this research , Nikkan Kogyo , Tekko Shimbun , Nikkei , Optronics , University Journal , Technology network , Science Daily , Lab manager , Phys Org , Scientific Computing , Asian Scientist , Spectroscopy Europe and Asia

2018, Sep. : A co-authored commentary on materials informatics was published in MRS Bulletin. Click here

2018, August : We organized a session and our students gave presentations at an international conference held in Cancun, Mexico. 0 , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

2018, August : The manual page for ELNES/XANES theoretical calculations using CASTEP has been updated! Here

2018, August : The results of our collaborative research on the orientation dependence of the Li-K-edge exciton peak in positive electrode materials for Li-ion batteries were published in Physical Review B.

2018, June : Our research results on searching for interfacial segregation structures using Monte Carlo tree search were published in J. Chem. Phys.

2018, June : We participated in the Komaba Research Campus Open Day and many visitors came to visit! Photos 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , with alumnus Yamaguchi-kun @ Kanazawa

2018, June : A student won the Japan Ceramics Society Excellent Poster Award! Click here

2018, June : The results of a study on the analysis of the phase separation structure and formation process of glass by HAADF image intensity were published in Scripta Mater.

2018, May : Our research results were introduced in JST News. Click here

2018, April : Students (8th batch) have been assigned!

2018, March : Miyata-kun (third-year student), Kikuchi-kun and Nakazawa-kun (sixth-year students) have graduated safely! Photos , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7

2018, March : A student received the Dean’s Award from the Graduate School of Engineering! Click here

2018, March : A student gave a presentation at the Spring Meeting of the Japan Institute of Metals in Chiba.

2018, March : Students gave presentations at the Spring Meeting of the Ceramic Society of Japan in Sendai.

2018, Feb : Mr. Tomita, an alumnus, visited us .

2018, Feb : The results of research on rapid determination of interfacial segregation structures using data mining have been published in Physica B.

2018, Feb : The results of a study on accelerating the speed of determining the structure of oxide interfaces using machine learning have been published in Physica B.

2018, Feb .: The results of our collaborative research on dislocation structures in ceramics have been accepted for publication in J. Mater. Sci.

2018, Jan. : A co-authored textbook on materials informatics, “Nanoinformatics,” has been published by Springer. It is Open Access .

-2017-

2017, Dec. : Material Independent Research 2017 has ended .

2017, Dec. : We held a year-end party in our lab, and our alumna, Ms. Oda, joined us !

2017, Dec .: Research results clarifying the behavior of individual atoms in liquids (collaboration with NIMS) have been published in Science Advances , and a press release has been issued. This has been reported in JST , Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun , Chemical Daily , Optronics , Nikkei , Mynavi , Motor Cars , Excite News , Fabcross , Science Magazine , Nano werk , Mining , Nikkan Kogyo Online , etc. Slider image on the IIS homepage . Illustration of this research

2017, Dec. : A student gave an invited talk at the NIMS-MI2I Data Science Workshop !

2017, Dec .: The results of research into the vibrations and properties of gas molecules using an electron microscope ( collaboration with Hitachi High-Technologies) were published in Scientific Reports and a press release was issued. This has been reported in JST , Optronics , Nikkei , PhysOrg , Science Daily , Science News Line , Azo Materials , Nano werk , Technology Breaking News , etc.

2017, Nov .: A student gave an invited talk at the Ionic Liquid Forum for Young Researchers ! Click here

2017, Nov .: A student gave a presentation at the ionic liquid symposium . Photo 1 , Photo 2

2017, Nov .: The results of our research, which used transfer learning to reduce the computational cost of searching for interface structures to 1/3600, were published in the journal J. Phys. Soc. Jpn and a press release was issued. This article was also featured in JST , Nikkan Kogyo , Chemical Daily , Mynavi , fabcross , JPubb , Jnet21 , nifty , Nikkei , etc.

2017, Nov. : Our paper on molecular mapping in ionic liquids was published in Microscopy. You can access it here .

2017, Oct. : A student gave a presentation at Car-Parrinello Molecular Dynamics in 2017 (CPMD2017) in Tsukuba and won a presentation award! Photo 1 , Photo 2 , Photo 3 , Award (with Professor Car and Professor Parrinello, famous for the Car-Parrinello method)

2017, Sep. : Our student presented at the Ceramic Society of Japan in Kobe and won the Session Encouragement Award! Photo 1 , Photo 2 , OB Tomita-kun , winner

2017, Sep. : An invited review paper on fundamentals and applications of ELNES/XANES theoretical calculations has been published in Microscopy. It can be accessed here.

2017, July : A student gave a presentation at the Young Researchers’ Meeting on the New Academic Field “Nanostructure Information” and won the Best Presentation Award (Gold Award)! Photo 1 , Photo 2

2017, July : A textbook I co-wrote on “The Fundamentals and Applications of XAFS” was published by Kodansha Scientific.

2017, June : We participated in the Komaba Research Campus Open House and many visitors came! Photos 1 , 2,  3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10

2017, May : A student gave a presentation at the Japanese Society of Microscopy in Hokkaido. Photos 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

2017, May : Students gave presentations at PacRIM12 International Conference in Hawaii. Photos 1 and 2

2017, May : A student gave a presentation at the EELS International Conference (Edge) in Okinawa. Photo 1,  2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8

2017, April : Students (7th batch) have been assigned!

2017, April : Professor Eva Olsson from Chalmers Uni. Tech. visited us. Photo 1 , Photo 2 

2017, April : We participated in the dismantling of an old TEM on-site. Photo 1 , Photo 2 

2017, March : 5th graders Oda-san and Katsukura-kun have graduated! Photos 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

2017, March : A student received the Dean’s Award from the Graduate School of Engineering! Click here

2017, March : A student gave a presentation at the annual meeting of the Ceramic Society of Japan. Photo 1, 2 , 3 , 4

2017, March : An electron microscope image observed in our laboratory was featured on the cover of the magazine NEW GLASS .

2017, March : An invited review paper theoretically demonstrating new possibilities of EELS was published in Ultramicroscopy.

2017, Jan. : Materials Engineering Independent Research 2016 has ended. We won the Best Presentation Award! Click here

-2016-

2016, Nov. : Students gave presentations at the MRS Fall meeting. 1 , 2

2016, Nov .: The results of our research on predicting the structure of material interfaces using a simple artificial intelligence created through machine learning were published in Science Advances and a press release was issued. Click here for the press release . Research image Eng (Monochrome Jpn , Eng ), Nikkan Kogyo 1 , 2 , Nikkei , University Journal

2016, Nov. : I participated in the 19th Information-Based Learning Theory Workshop (IBIS2016). 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6

2016, Nov. : A student gave a presentation at the 57th Glass and Photonics Materials Symposium .

2016, Oct. : Our student gave a presentation at the 7th Ionic Liquid Symposium and won the Outstanding Presentation Award! Here is the award ceremony , OB Yamaguchi , OB Yamaguchi 2 , JAIST tour 1 , JAIST tour 2

2016, Oct. : A student gave a presentation at the Electroceramics Research Symposium .

2016, Oct .: Our research results on the preparation of high-resolution TEM samples from ionic liquids have been accepted for publication in Ultramicroscopy.

2016, Oct. : Professor Masuno from Hirosaki University visited us .

2016, Sep. : A student presented at the European Microscopy Society (EMC) held in Lyon. Click here

2016, Aug. : Our students participated in the metallurgical social gathering held at JAXA.

2016, July : Students gave presentations at the American Society for Microscopy’s Microscopy & Microanalysis 2016. 1 , 2

2016, July : A student gave a presentation at the Young Researchers’ Meeting on the New Academic Research Area “Nanostructure Information”. Click here

2016, July : The results of our collaborative research on XANES analysis of positive electrode materials for Li-ion batteries were published in J. Appl. Phys.

2016, July : Our research on the effect of van der Waals forces on ELNES/XANES has been accepted for publication in Ultramicroscopy.

2016, July : Our student gave a presentation at IIS PhD Student Live and won the Best Presentation Award! See here , 2 , 3

2016, July : A student gave a presentation at the 26th EUCHEM conference on Molten Salts and Ionic Liquids. Click here

2016, July : Mr. Tomita, an alumnus, visited us .

2016, July : The results of our collaborative research on MEMS in TEM were published in Microelectronic Engineering .

2016, June : Students gave presentations at the Microscopy Society (Sendai). 1 , 2

2016, June : We participated in the Komaba Research Campus Open Day and many visitors came! 0 , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11

2016, May : Professor Seungwu Han from Seoul National University visited us .

2016, May : A student gave a presentation at the AMTC5 international conference.

2016, April : Research results on the effect of van der Waals forces on the stability of SiC crystal polymorphs were published in J. Appl. Phys.

2016, April : Students (6th batch) have been assigned!

2016, April : Our research results on strong excitonic effects at the O-K edge of perovskite oxides have been accepted for publication in Ultramicroscopy.

2016, April : Research results on the correlation between the exciton effect at the Na-L2,3 edge and the electronic structure were published in J. Phys. Chem. C.

2016, April : The results of our collaborative research with the University of Tokyo, Harvard Univ., and NIMS on a Bayesian optimization library have been published in Materials Discovery.

2016, March : A student gave a presentation at the Ceramic Society of Japan. Click here

2016, March : Fourth-year students Kiyohara and Tomita have graduated! 1 , 2

2016, March : The results of a research project that uses information science techniques to determine interface structures at a speed 100 times faster have been published in Jpn J. Appl. Phys and a press release has been issued. See here . Press release . Research image , Nikkan Sangyo , Nikkei Sangyo , Nikkei , Asahi , UTokyo Research , Science and Technology Research News , Global News Connect , Weekly Hot News .

2016, March : The results of our collaborative research with the University of Toronto on the state analysis of metals in oil sands were published in Fuel.

2016, Feb .: Research results on the influence of dynamic behavior of molecules in liquids on XANES were published in Chem. Phys. Lett.

2016, Jan. : Ms. Kawanishi from Tohoku University, an alumna of our lab, visited us .

2016, Jan. : Mr. Yamaguchi, an alumnus, visited us .

2016, Jan .: Our research results on grain boundary segregation behavior were published in the AIP-Conference Proceedings Series.

2016, Jan. : Materials Engineering Independent Research 2016 has ended .

2016, Jan : Students participated in the KRC International Relay Race as a Division 4 Metals Team, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6

-2015-

2015, Nov : Our students won the Best Poster Award and the European Award at the international conference Frontier of Materials Science! See here 1 , here 2

2015, Nov : Our student won the Best Poster Award at the international conference IUMRS! Click here

2015, Nov : We held a farewell party for Mr. Kawanishi who is being promoted to Tohoku University.

2015, Nov : Mr. Yamamoto, a first-year alumnus, visited us .

2015, Oct. : The joint research on high-strength transparent glass was published in Scientific Reports and a press release was issued. Click here . ASCII , Nikkei Business Publications , Asahi , Zaikei

2015, Sep.: A student gave a presentation at the Japan Institute of Metals.

2015, Sep.: The results of our collaborative research on new polar materials have been accepted for publication in J. Appl. Phys.

2015, Sep .: FT-IR was installed. Other research equipment was updated.

2015, Sep.: The results of our collaborative research on XAFS analysis of biomaterials were published in Bone Reports.

2015, Sep .: The results of our collaborative research on the local structure analysis of rare earth elements in detector elements were published in Scientific Reports.

2015, Aug. : We had a farewell party for Jocelyn who is returning to her home country. 1 , 2

2015, Aug .: A textbook I co-authored on “Structural Analysis Techniques for the Creation of New Inorganic and Organic Materials Aimed at Industrial Applications” was published by CMC Publishing. Click here

2015, Aug .: Students presented at the American Society of Microscopy’s Microscopy & Microanalysis 2015. 1 , 2

2015, Aug. : We are looking for an academic support staff member to prepare TEM samples. Click here for details.

2015, July : Students gave presentations at the 18th XAFS Symposium. 1 , 2 , 3

2015, July : Students gave presentations at the Young Researchers’ Meeting on the New Academic Research Area “Nanostructure Information”. 1 , 2

2015, June : Professor Wolfgang Jaeger from Kiel University in Germany visited us. 1 , 2 , 3

2015, June : A review article on first-principles calculations and ELNES theoretical calculations was published in the Microscope magazine. It was featured on the cover. Click here

2015, June : We participated in the Komaba Research Campus Open Day and many visitors came! 0 , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14

2015, May : A student gave a presentation at the Japanese Society of Microscopy. Click here

2015, May : The results of our collaborative research on the increase of oxygen vacancies near lattice defects have been accepted for publication in Nano Lett.

April 2015 : Jocelyn Zuliani from University of Toronto joined us as a short-term exchange student.

April 2015 : The fifth batch of students has been assigned!

2015, Mar .: A student gave a presentation at the Japan Institute of Metals.

2015, Jan. : The Materials Engineering Independent Research 2015 has ended. We won the Excellence Award!

2015, Jan : Ms. Catherine Chan and Mr. Charles ChiFong Kwan, former students, visited us .

-2014-

2014, Dec : Prof. Weine Olovsson from Linkoping University, Sweden, Prof. Yamamoto from Waseda University, Prof. Fujihira and Prof. Ishikawa from the University of Tokyo Research Institute visited us .

2014, Nov : Yamaguchi-kun and Kamo-san, 2nd batch alumni, visited us .

2014, Nov : A study on the effect of Fermi level on intermixing behavior at LaAlO3/SrTiO3 artificial superlattice interfaces was published in Appl. Phys. Lett. Here

2014, Oct : Professor Taniguchi from NIMS and Professor Ishikawa from the University of Tokyo visited us .

2014, Oct : The results of a study on measuring molecular vibrations in liquids using monochromated STEM-EELS were published in Microscopy .

2014, Sep.: A student gave a presentation at the International Microscopy Congress (IMC18) held in the Czech Republic. Click here

2014, Sep.: A student gave a presentation at the Electrochemical Society.

2014, Sep .: A student gave a presentation at the 14th Crystal Interface Symposium and won the Outstanding Presentation Award!

2014, Sep.: A textbook on “XAFS/EELS local structure analysis” that I co-wrote was published by Information Science and Technology Agency .

2014, Sep.: A manual for ELNES/XANES calculations using CASTEP has been published .

2014, Sep. : A STEM textbook that I co-authored was published by Imperial Colledge Press.

2014, Sep.: A review on ELNES/XANES calculations in materials analysis was published in Materia.

2014, July : The web page and research contents have been updated (the display may be slightly off on older browsers).

2014, June : We participated in the Komaba Research Campus Open Day and many visitors came! 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

2014, June.: Research results on defect formation behavior at grain boundaries in the photoabsorption layer of CuInSe2 in solar cells were published in a special issue of J. Ceram. Soc. Jpn here .

2014, June : The results of a study on the effect of stress on the Ti-L2,3 edge of BaTiO3 were published in Microscopy .

2014, May : A student gave a presentation at the 70th Anniversary Meeting of the Japanese Society of Microscopy and won the Outstanding Presentation Award! Click here 2 3

2014, April : Research results clarifying the correlation between grain boundary atomic structure, band gap, and band bending in the solar cell light absorption layer CuInSe2 were published in Appl. Phys. Lett. Here

April 2014 : Fourth batch of students assigned!

2014, March : Yamaguchi-kun, a second-year student, has graduated! Here , 1 , 2

2014, March.: The results of research on XMCD analysis of magnetic thin films, conducted in collaboration with Tokyo Institute of Technology, Osaka Prefecture University, Kyoto University, and SPring-8, were published in Appl. Phys. Lett. Click here

2014, March : A student gave a presentation at the Japan Society of Applied Physics. Click here

2014, March : Computer Cluster No. 5 is now operational.

2014, March : A review on visualization of heavy element dopants in glass was published in NEW GLASS.

2014, Feb .: Research results on the charge/discharge mechanism of Li2MnO3, a cathode material for Li-ion batteries, were published in Appl. Phys. Lett. Here

2014, Jan. : Materials Engineering Independent Research 2014 has ended .

-2013-

2013, Dec : Research results on high-pressure phases of AlN, conducted in collaboration with Univ. Nevada-Las Vegas, were published in Physica Status Solidi (b).

2013, Dec : Research results on nano-analysis of liquids were published in Scientific Reports and a press release was issued. Here , image of this research result , press release , Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun

2013, Nov. : Organized EMMM2013 international conference and students gave presentations. 1 , 2 , 3

2013, Oct : Professor Weine Olovsson from Linkoping University in Sweden and Professor Tomoyuki Yamamoto from Waseda University visited us . 2 3 4

2013, Oct : A student presented at the 33rd Electroceramics Research Symposium and won the Excellence Award! Click here 2

2013, Oct : Research results on new high-temperature capacitor materials were published in Scientific Reports and a press release was issued. Here , Press Release , Nikkei Sangyo , Nikkan Kogyo , Chemical Daily , Optronics , Mynavi .

2013, Sep. : Research results on the defect structure of titania nanosheets were published in Scientific Reports. Click here

2013, Sep.: The 16th XAFS Symposium was held. 1 , 2 .

2013, August : Research results on atomic resolution ELNES, a joint project with Kyoto University, NIMS, Melbourne University, and Monash University, were published in J. Appl. Phys. Here .

2013, August : Our research results on the effect of local strain on the Mn-L2,3 edge were published in J. Appl. Phys. Here .

2013, July : Students gave presentations at the ISAM4 international conference. 1 , 2 ,

2013, July : Patrick Thomas from the University of Missouri-Kansas City visited our lab and we had a good exchange. 1 , 2

2013, June. : Students gave presentations at the PacRIM10 international conference. 1 , 2

2013, June : A study on periodic conductive nanowires in an insulator has been accepted for publication in ACS Nano. A press release has been issued. See the press release , Chunichi Shimbun , and Mynavi .

2013, June : Participated in the IIS Open House 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6

2013, May : The research results of making a rare earth atom visible in an optical fiber were published in ACS Nano, and a press release was issued. Here , the image of this research result , press release , Nikkei Industry , Nikkei , Optronics , Mynavi , Yahoo , Nikkei Weekly ,

2013, May : A paper on the effects of surrounding vacancies and charge states on atomic diffusion was published in Appl. Phys. Lett. Here

2013, April : Students (third batch) assigned!

2013, March : Students gave presentations at the Japan Society of Applied Physics. 1 , 2

2013, March : First-year students Matsui and Yamamoto have graduated! 1 , 2

2013, March : A paper on the formation of oxygen vacancies in rock-salt oxides was published in a special issue of Ceramic Inter. Click here

2013, March : Professor Hak-Sung Lee from KIMS visited us .

2013, March : I co-authored a book.

2013, March : SuperSTEM Professor Quentin Ramasse visited us .

2013, March : A student gave a presentation at the Kanto Branch Meeting of the Japanese Society of Microscopy.

2013, Feb : Professor Gianluigi Botton from McMaster University visited us .

2013, Jan. : Materials Engineering Independent Research 2013 has ended.

-2012-

2012, Nov .: A collaborative research project with Melbourne Univ., NIMS, and Monash Univ. was published in Appl. Phys. Lett.

2012, Oct .: A paper on the solid solution behavior of dopants in HfO2 was published in J. Appl. Phys. Click here

2012, Oct. : A student gave a presentation at the WOE-19 international conference. Click here

2012, Sep.: A paper on defect formation behavior in LaAlO3 was published in Phys. Rev. B. Click here

2012, Sep.: Students gave presentations at the IUMRS International Conference. 1 , 2

2012, Sep.: Students gave presentations at the Ceramic Society of Japan. 1 , 2

2012, Sep.: The 19th WIEN2k workshop was held. 1 , 2 .

2012, Sep. : A paper on the effect of dislocation movement on electrical properties was published in Scientific Reports. Click here

2012, Aug. : Ben Walker from the University of Missouri-Kansas City visited our lab and we had a good exchange. 1 , 2

2012, June : Participated in the Komaba II Campus Open Day. 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

2012, May : A student gave a presentation at the Japanese Society of Microscopy. 1

2012, May : Students gave presentations at the AMTC3 international conference. 1 , 2

2012, April : Second batch of students assigned!

2012, April : A paper on the thin film growth and STEM observation of solid electrolyte (LaLiTiO3) for lithium-ion secondary batteries was published in Appl. Phys. Lett. Here

2012, Feb.: A paper on oxygen vacancies in CeO2 grain boundaries was published in Appl. Phys. Lett. Click here

2012, Jan. : Prof. Weine Olovsson from Linköping University visited us. Here .

2012, Jan. : Materials Engineering Independent Research 2012 has ended. We won the Excellence Award! 1

-2011-

2011, Nov. : Prof. Goichi Ikeno from Kyoto University visited us. Here .

2011, Dec.: A paper on the effect of oxygen vacancies on Ti-L2,3 ELNES and the quantitative determination of oxygen vacancy concentration was published in Appl. Phys. Lett. Click here

2011, Nov : A paper on ELNES calculations of the lattice mismatch region using the first-principles pseudopotential method was published in Micron. Here

2011, Nov. : A paper on modeling of asymmetric grain boundaries and calculation of grain boundary energy was published in Phys. Rev. B. Here

2011, Nov. : We organized a special session at the Japan Institute of Metals (Okinawa) and our students gave presentations. Click here 2 3 .

2011, Oct. : The 31st Electroceramics Research Symposium was held on October 28-29 . 2 .

2011, Oct. : A research paper on Zr segregation and defect formation at Al2O3 grain boundaries was published in a special issue of J. Ceram. Soc. Jpn. Click here

2011, Sep. : Organized the 4th Young Researchers’ Meeting (Aichi) for the Special Area Research “Nanomaterial Science of Functional Elements” and students gave presentations. Here . 2 3

2011, Sep. : Computer Cluster No. 4 begins operation .

2011, Sep. : A paper on the change in valence of V at the SrVO3/LaAlO3 interface was published in J. Appl. Phys. Click here

2011, Sep.: A paper clarifying the cause of the decrease in brightness of HAADF images at crystal interfaces was published in Ultramicroscopy.

2011, August : On August 26th, Professor Naoya Shibata from the University of Tokyo visited us .

2011, July : On 7/22, Professor Masanori Kayama from AIST and Professor Tomoyuki Tamura from Nagoya Institute of Technology visited us .

2011, July : On July 19th, Professor Christian Elsaesser from Fraunhofer-Institut visited us .

2011, July : ISAM4, an international conference on theoretical computation , was held at the Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo on July 20-22 .

2011, June : A paper on diffusion control at heterointerfaces in artificial superlattices was published in Adv. Func. Mater. Here

2011, June : We participated in the Komaba II Campus Open Day .

2011, May : We organized the STEM-EELS session at the International Microbeam Conference (IUMAS-V) held in Seoul.

2011, May : A research review from our laboratory was published in J. Ceram. Soc. Jpn. You can download it here .

2011, April : The first batch of students has been assigned!

2011, Mar : A paper on atomic diffusion in SrTiO3 was published in Appl. Phys. Lett. Click here

2011, Mar : Professor WY Ching from Univ. Missouri-Kansas city visited us .