News & Events

2025

2025/06/15
Publication
A paper shown below by Park has been published in Acta Materialia.
"Grain refinement of dual phase steel maximizes deformation ability of martensite, leading to simultaneous enhancement of strength and ductility"〇Myeong-heom Park, Akinobu Shibata, Stefanus Harjo, Nobuhiro Tsuji: Acta Materialia, 292 (2025), 121061
2025/04/10
Welcome Party for New Members
Lab members had a welcome party for new members.
Picture taken at the party
2025/04/05
News
Ms. LAU Wing Sum has been staying for collaborative research with Prof. Xiaoxu HUANG’s group at Chongqing University, Chongqing, China from April 5 to May 29, which is a part of the activity of KAKENHI International Leading program.
2025/04/01
News
There were the following transfers as of April 1, 2025.
・Hwang: Institute of Science Tokyo (former Tokyo Institute of Technology), Assistant professor (Fujii Lab)
・Yan: The University of Osaka, Post doctoral fellows (Nakano Lab)
・Yako: Kyoto University, Program-Specific Assistant Professor (Tsuji Lab)
・Liu: Kyoto University, Program-Specific Researcher (Tsuji Lab)
2025/03/27
International Conference
Tsuji, Hwang, Suzumura, Hamshini, and Lau joined in TMS2025 Annual Meeting held in Las Vegas. Please refer to the link below for more information.
Conference HP
2025/03/24
Event
D3 students (Yako, Liu, Yan) were awarded the doctor's degree, M2 students (Ueda, Katayama, Dono, Nishikawa) were awarded Master's degree, and B4 students (Aranami, Sako, Shimazaki, Nakatani, Mizunoue, Baba) were awarded Bachelor's degree.
Doctor student
Master student
2025/03/21
Publication
The paper on Ti-Mo-O alloy by Chong Yan, Baoqi, Reza, and other colleagues has been published in Communications Materials.
"Mechanistic origin of grain size and oxygen interstitial effects on strain-induced α” martensitic transformation in Ti-12Mo alloy"〇an Chong, Tomohito Tsuru, Masatoshi Mitsuhara, Baoqi Guo, Reza Gholizadeh, Koji Inoue, Andrew Godfrey, Nobuhiro Tsuji: Communications Materials, 6: 50 (2025)
2025/03/20
Publication
The paper shown below by Dr. Lu has been published in Acta Materialia.
Gao from our lab has contributed somehow in the research.
"The role of layer strength ratio in enhancing strain hardening and achieving strength-ductility synergy in heterostructured materials"〇Xiaochong Lu, Yilun Xu, Hao Ran, Guohua Fan, Si Gao, Nobuhiro Tsuji, Chongxiang Huang, Huajian Gao, Yong-Wei Zhang: Acta Materialia, (2025), 120928
2025/03/18
Lab Meeting
Research report by Park (Assistant Professor) and Pankaji (Visiting PhD student)
2025/03/14
Lab Meeting
Research report by Reza (Foundation A Assistant Professor) and Gao (Associate Professor)
2025/03/10
International Conference
Tsuji gave oral and poster presentations with collaborators from the Czech Republic and Slovakia at the JST CONCERT Project Final Presentation Workshop held in Paris on March 10-11.
2025/03/10
Domestic Conference
Tsuji, Gao, Park, Yoshida, Hwang,  Gholizadeh, Yako, Fu, Xu, Harada, Kobayashi, Pankaji participated in the JIM Spring Meeting and the ISIJ Spring Meeting held at Tokyo Metropolitan University. Please refer to the link below for more information.
Presentation From This Lab
JIM Spring Meeting
ISIS Spring Meeting
2025/03/06
Lab Meeting
Research report by Yoshida (Assistant Professor)
2025/03/04
Seminars and Lectures
Hwang gave a seminar lecture in Prof. Kim Yunseok's lab at Sungkyunkwan University and in a graduate class at Seoul National University.
2025/03/04
Lab Meeting
2nd JIM/ISIJ Rehearsal
2025/02/28
Lab Meeting
1st JIM/ISIJ Rehearsal
2025/02/27
Lab Meeting
Research report by Zhao and Chu
2025/02/22
News
Suzumura has been staying for collaborative research with Prof. Andy MINOR in University of California Berkeley, CA, USA from February 22 to May 24, which is a part of the activity of KAKENHI International Leading program. 
2025/02/21
International Conference
Small-scale international workshop on "Mechanical Behavior of Advanced Materials" was held as part of KAKENHI and International Leadership activities​​​​​. Gao made a presentation from this lab.
2025/02/19
Lab Meeting
Research report by Ding (Visiting PhD student) and Wang Xiao (Visiting Scholars)
2025/02/18
PhD defense
The doctoral dissertation defense by Yan and Yako was carried out.
2025/02/17
PhD defense
The doctoral dissertation defense by Liu was carried out.
2025/02/12
Lab Meeting
Research report by Hamshini (D2) and Xu Hang (Visiting PhD student)
2025/02/07
Event
M2 students gave presentations at the Master-thesis presentation of the department of Material Science and Engineering.
2025/02/05
Lab Meeting
1st rehearsal for Ph.D defense by Yako (D3), Yan (D3), Liu (D3) 
2025/02/03
Lab Meeting
2nd rehearsal of master thesis presentation
2025/01/25
Seminars and Lectures
Tsuji stayed at IIT Hyderabad, India, from 1/25 to 1/31. He held various research discussions and presented the seminars.
Picutre taken at IIT Hyderabad
2025/01/24
International Conference
Tsuji joined in IIT Madras held in India. Please refer to the link below for more information.
Picture taken at the conference
2025/01/23
Publication
A paper shown below by Go has been published in Journal of Alloys and Compounds.
"Loading-direction dependence of non-basal slip activity in a pre-twinned AZ31 magnesium alloy"〇Jongbin Go, Myeong-heom Park, Si Gao, Hisashi Matsumiya, Wu Gong, Nobuhiro Tsuji: Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 1014 (2025), 178749
2025/01/23
Publication
A paper shown below by Park has been published in Journal of Alloys and Compounds.
"Enhancing the precipitation hardening ability of Al-Mg-Ga-In-Sn alloy through low-temperature aging treatment"〇Myeong-heom Park, Daisuke Terada, Manuel Marya, Nobuhiro Tsuji: Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 1014 (2025), 178669
2025/01/21
Lab Meeting
1st rehearsal of master thesis presentation
2025/01/20
Lab Meeting
Research report by Wang Chunyu (D2) and Xu Jianan (M1)
2025/01/20
Publication
A paper shown below by Park has been published in Scripta Materialia.
"Unusual deformation behavior and the consequent emergence of Type C serrations in Fe-1.6Mn-2Ni-1.4Si-0.4C steels"〇Myeong-heom Park, Sukyoung Hwang, Yoshitaka Okitsu, Nobuhiro Tsuji: Scripta Materialia, 259 (2025), 116563
2025/01/19
Publication
The research result by Prof. Fukami’s group in our department on CoCrNi medium entropy alloy has been published in Advanced Functional Materials.
Our group has contributed somehow in the research.
"Electroplating of Wear‐ and Corrosion‐Resistant CrCoNi Medium‐Entropy Alloys beyond Hard Chromium Coatings"〇Yuki Murakami,Shuhei Yoshida,Kosuke Ishii,Naoya Nishi,Akiyuki Ryoki,Nobuhiro Tsuji,Kuniaki Murase,Kazuhiro Fukami: Advanced Functional Materials, (2025), 2418621
2025/01/17
Lab Meeting
Research report by Gabriel (D2) and Lau (D2)
2025/01/15
Event
B4 students gave presentations at the Mid-report of the department of Material Science and Engineering.
2025/01/10
Lab Meeting
Research report by Fu (D3) and Suzumura (D2)
2025/01/08
Lab Meeting
2nd rehearsal of Mid-report by B4 students
2025/01/06
Event
Prof. Longchao ZHUO from Xi'am University of Technology has joined our lab for about one year.