Through attempts to uncover mechanisms behind various properties of existing materials with real applications of materials in our minds, we aim at establishing novel and practical approaches toward materials design, by thoroughly exploiting various methods and schemes of computational materials science, based solely on the quantum theory. Upon these, we challenge to provide feed-backs to conventional theories for materials properties of solids, which enables materials scientists to acquire game-changing planning of cutting-edge experiments and to extend the theories toward creation novel materials and design of their functions beyond the horizon of the current theories. Our challenges are not and will not be confined to existing any of categories of materials, but extended to a wide spectrum of practical applications of materials, based on the foundations of lattice imperfections in crystals and of microscopic transport phenomena including motions of interface, i.e., phase transformations, both of which have developed mainly in this field.
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Professor :
Masato Yoshiya
Assistant Professor :
Susumu Fujii
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