The Department of Advanced Materials Science (AMS) consists of the three majors of the Graduate School of Engineering, "Applied Physics", "Materials Engineering", and "Applied Chemistry", and the Institute for Solid State Physics participates as a cooperative course. It was established in April 1999 as one of the four majors in the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences (GSFS), the University of Tokyo. So far, we have been working as a new 21st century graduate school major at this Kashiwa campus. Currently, we become the world's largest research center for interdisciplinary materials science research bases and are implementing leading materials science research, which has been done in collaboration with RIKEN, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), and SPring-8 (synchrotron radiation facility).
Director greetings The Department of Advanced Materials Science (AMS) consists of the three majors of the Graduate School of Engineering, "Applied Physics", "Materials Engineering", and "Applied Chemistry", and the Institute for Solid State Physics participates as a cooperative course. Currently, we are conducting interdisciplinary materials science research based on physics, chemistry, materials science, applied physics, and applied chemistry. Various nanoscale phenomena triggered by atomic nuclei and electrons dramatically change physical properties of their matters, and the combination of their matters plays a decisive role in materials properties. The goal of AMS is to understand and control nanoscale phenomena, and to develop new materials, which can contribute to the development of our society. Let’s explore a frontier in materials science!
The “material” we are dealing with is a many-body system formed by the astronomical numbers (~ 10 to the 23rd power) of nanoscale components like nuclei and electrons. To date, research has been conducted to understand and apply the diverse phenomena exhibited by various functional materials. However, the degree of freedom that we can currently handle is only a small part of the astronomical degree of freedom in many-body systems. The goal of AMS is to develop a stage that can control unexplored degrees of freedom in materials science, and to explore unprecedent phenomena and functionalities. Pioneering application fields in materials science can contribute to the development of human society. To achieve these goals, we conduct research under the following three approaches.
We are opening up a new world of materials science by utilizing wider variations of functional materials and their aggregation, such as strongly correlated electronic materials, semiconductor superstructures, and organic molecule, which will be an indispensable building block in future electronics, photonics and spintronics, soft matters including biological materials with aperiodic hierarchical structures, and interfaces formed by nanoclusters, solids, liquids and gasses.
We conduct material science research based on cutting-edge technologies, such as scanning tunneling microscopes, high-resolution electron microscopes, quantum beams such as synchrotron radiation and neutron beams, ultrafast pulse lasers, and first-principles simulations.
We are developing methods to generate and detect various extreme states and non-equilibrium states, as well as constructing theories to understand them, by which many-body effects in materials, such as strongly correlated electron systems, can be elucidated.
In contrast to the Hongo Campus, which aims to inherit and develop its specialized fields,
and the Komaba Campus, whose mission is interdisciplinary education and research, the
Kashiwa Campus offers cross-disciplinary education that is retroactively reorganized based
on existing specialized fields. We pursue research, that is, "adventure of knowledge".
By enriching the Kashiwa Campus as the third "pole" following Hongo and Komaba, the tripolar
structure that the University of Tokyo is aiming for will be completed.
In the Department of Materials Science, we will explore the undeveloped degrees of freedom of
materials that are composed of astronomical numbers of electrons and atomic nuclei and have
various degrees of freedom, explore new phenomena, and build new views of matter. Promote
research with the aim of developing these applications.
Through the practice of leading research at the frontier of material science and
comprehensive and systematic wide-ranging physical education, we have a cross-disciplinary
perspective and creative problem-solving ability based on advanced expertise, and
next-generation society and science. To develop human resources who will lead the way. The
Department of Materials Science consists of the three majors of the Graduate School of
Engineering, "Physical Engineering", "Materials Engineering", and "Applied Chemistry", and
the Institute for Solid State Physics participates as a cooperative course. It was newly
established in April 1999 as one of the four majors in the Graduate School of Frontier
Sciences, the University of Tokyo.
So far, I have been working as a new 21st century graduate school major at this Kashiwa
campus.
Currently, in collaboration with RIKEN, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Material
and Materials Research Organization, and SPring-8 (Large Photon Ring-8), it is based on
physics, chemistry, materials science, applied physics, and applied chemistry. It has become
the world's largest research center for integrated materials science and is practicing
leading material science research.
In this fulfilling environment, we are conducting a new type of material science education
based on academic fusion, aiming to develop researchers and engineers who can play an active
role on the international stage in the future.
Let's learn and practice cutting-edge science and disseminate it to the world under the
various elite professors of this major.
