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2021/12/03: Boosting Thermopower of Oxides via Artificially laminated Metal/Insulator Heterostructure (Assoc.Prof. Takayoshi Katase, Prof. Toshio Kamiya)

2021/11/24: Media coverage (Prof. Michikazu Hara)

2021/10/22: Breaking Trade-Off Problem That Limits Thermoelectric Conversion Efficiency of Waste Heat (Assoc.Prof. Takayoshi Katase, Prof. Toshio Kamiya)

2021/10/21: Quantum spin fluctuations and hydrogen bond network in the antiferromagnetic natural mineral henmilite (Prof. Masaki Azuma, Assis Prof. Kei Shigematsu)

2021/10/14: Ruling Electrons and Vibrations in a Crystal with Polarized Light (Assoc.Prof. Kazutaka Nakamura)

2021/09/30: Study Explores Remarkable Negative Thermal Expansion Seen in Layered Ruthenates (Prof. Masaki Azuma)

2021/09/06: Media coverage (Prof. Shoichi Kishki)

2021/06/17: Mind the Nanogap: Fast and Sensitive Oxygen Gas Sensors
(Prof. Yutaka Majima)

2021/04/08: Articles on the design method of the damage control truss beam construction method "RAIJIN" jointly developed with Sumitomo Mitsui Construction Co. (Assoc. Prof. Shoichi Kishiki)

2021/04/08: The results of the study group on structure-related standards for government facilities were published as "Revision of the Structural Design Criteria and Materials for Buildings (R3)".

2021/03/08: OPERA project efforts in JST News, March 2021 issue (Assoc. Prof. Shoichi Kishiki)

2020/12/02: Double Charge Polarity Switching in Sb‐Doped SnSe with Switchable Substitution Sites (Assoc.Prof. Takayoshi Katase, Prof. Toshio Kamiya)

2020/11/24: Strain-induced creation and switching of anion vacancy layers in perovskite oxynitrides (Associate Professor Takafumi YAMAMOTO)

2020/10/16: Quantum transport evidence of Weyl fermions in an epitaxial ferromagnetic oxide (Specially Appointed Associate Professor Hena Das, Specially Appointed Assistant Professor Sergey A. NIKOLAEV)

2020/09/30: Research video: Making high-rise buildings that can operate safely even during a disaster(Assoc. Prof. Shoichi Kishiki)

2020/09/08: Detection of boson peak and fractal dynamics of disordered systems using terahertz spectroscopy (Assistant Professor Suguru Kitani)

2020/09/07: Media coverage (Specially Appointed Associate Professor Yu-ichiro Matsushita)

2020/09/04: Design and formation of SiC (0001)/SiO₂ interfaces via Si deposition followed by low-temperature oxidation and high-temperature nitridation (Specially Appointed Associate Professor Yu-ichiro Matsushita)

2020/08/06: Template-Free Synthesis of Mesoporous β-MnO₂Nanoparticles: Structure, Formation Mechanism, and Catalytic Properties (Assoc.Prof. Keigo Kamata, Prof. Michikazu Hara)

2020/07/02: Media coverage (Prof. Masaki Azuma)

2020/06/04: Coherent control of 40-THz optical phonons in diamond using femtosecond optical pulses (Assoc.Prof. Kazutaka Nakamura)

2020/04/27: Fuelling the World Sustainably: Synthesizing Ammonia using Less Energy (Prof. Michikazu Hara)

2020/03/19: Media coverage (Prof. Michikazu Hara)

2020/01/19: Media coverage (Prof. Susumu Kono)

2019/06/21: Shaken and stirred: Scientists capture the deformation effect of shock waves on a material

2019/05/23: A light matter: understanding the Raman dance of solids ~Quantum interferometry reveals the chosen pathway of coherent phonon generation~

2019/03/07: Magnetization Reversal achieved at room temperature using only an electric field

2019/01/08: Green catalysts with Earth-abundant metals accelerate production of bio-based plastic

2018/07/26: Hideo Hosono's story of IGZO TFT development features in Nature Electronics

2018/07/13: Barium ruthenate: A high-yield, easy-to-handle perovskite catalyst for the oxidation of sulfides

2018/07/05: High Performance Nitride Semiconductor for Environmentally Friendly Photovoltaics

2018/07/04: A ruthenium-based catalyst with highly active, flat surfaces outperforms metal-based competitors

2018/06/27: Control of quantum state of optical phonon in diamond induced by ultrashort light pulses

2018/02/09: Highly efficient ammonia synthesis catalyst developed

2018/01/19: Room-Temperature Multiferroic Thin Films and Their Properties

2017/09/29: Harnessing the rattling motion of oxygen ions to convert T-rays to visible light

2017/09/06: Reusable ruthenium-based catalyst could be a game-changer for the biomass industry

2017/06/07: Mixed valence states in lead perovskites: A possible avenue to produce next-generation materials

2017/05/23: New antiferromagnetic phase: Clue to design of iron-based superconductor with higher critical temperature

2017/03/21: Transparent ceramics make super-hard windows

2017/02/28: Chemoselective acetalization by a bifuncional cerium phosphate catalyst

2017/01/04: New material with ferroelectricity and ferromagnetism may lead to better computer memory(Prof. Azuma, Assis Prof. Hojo)

2016/10/20: Development of highly active and stable ammonia synthesis catalyst under low temperatures

2016/06/23: Computational materials screening and high-pressure synthesis reveal a promising nitride semiconductor for optoelectronics(Prof. Oba, Prof. Hosono, Assoc Prof Hiramatsu)

2016/04/25: Thin iron-based insulator-like film found capable of superconductivity at a high temperature (Prof. Hosono, Assoc Prof Hiramatsu)

2016/04/19: Towards Controlling the Electronic Surface Structure of Materials (Assoc.Prof. Sasagawa)

2015/11/25: Turning metals into insulators and back again (Assoc.Prof. Sasagawa)

2015/11/16: Research group unravels 50 year mystery concerning lead chromate

2015/10/05: More than what's going on at the surface (Assoc.Prof. Sasagawa)