Research

May 19, 2011New!
Prof. Hiroshi Takahashi, Earth Exploitation Environmental Studies, was awarded the Environment Prize by the Hitachi Environment Foundation.
(Updated on June 10, 2011)
May, 2011New!
Assist. Prof. H. Kobatake from Center for Advanced Nitride Technology, IMRAM and his fellows were awarded "2010 Outstanding Paper Award (Sesors and SensingSystems)" in the journal "Measurement Science and Technology" published by Institute of Physics (IOP).
Title Noncontac modulated laser calorimetry in a dc magnetic field for stable and supercooled liquid silicon
Awardees Hidekazu Kobatake, Hiroyuki Fukuyama, Takao Tsukada, Satoshi Awaji
(Updated on May 13, 2011)
March 25, 2011New!
Assit. Prof. H. Kobatake from Center for Advanced Nitride Technology, IMRAM was awarded the research incentive award by The Iron and Steel Institute of Japan.
(Updated on May 13, 2011)
March 25, 2011New!
Kazutoshi Sugie, M1 student from Center for Advanced Nitride Technology, IMRAM, and his fellows were awarded the article award by The Iron and Steel Institute of Japan.
(Updated on May 13, 2011)
March 3, 2011New!
Professor Hiroyuki Fukuyama from Center for Advanced Nitride Technology, IMRAM, was won the 7th Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) prize.
(Updated on May 13, 2011)
April 10, 2011
Sasaki Architect, the designer of Ecollab. received the Special Award from a competition for wooden architecture and product held in Tokyo on April 10, 2011. The fact that Ecollab. was stable enough to survive the Great East Japan Earthquake gives a good evaluation for their work.
Title Ecollab. Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University
Awardee Fumihiko Sasaki, Sasaki Architect Ltd.
URL http://www.sasakisekkei.co.jp/info.html
(Updated on April 20, 2011)
April, 2011
Assist. Prof. Noriaki Watanabe from Sustainable Recycle Process, Takuya Ishibashi (D1) from GeoMaterials and Energy Science, Assoc. Prof. Noburo Hirano from Energy Security, and Prof. Noriyoshi Tsuchiya won the Best Paper Award at The 16th Formation Evaluation Symposium 2010 held in Chiba on October 7-8, 2010.
Title ANALYSIS OF FRACTURE FLOW WITHIN RESERVOIR CORE SAMPLE UNDER CONFINING PRESSURE BY NUMERICAL MODELING COUPLED WITH X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY
Authors Noriaki Watanabe, Takuya Ishibashi, Yutaka Ohsaki, Yoshihiro Tsuchiya, Tetsuya Tamagawa, Nobuo Hirano, Hiroshi Okabe, and Noriyoshi Tsuchiya
(Updated on April 13, 2011)
January 20, 2011
Assist. Prof. Masanobu Kamitakahara from Environmentally-benign Material Science and Engineering was received an award for Encouragement of Research of Materials Science at the 20th Symposium of Materials Research Society of Japan held in Yokohama on December 20-22, 2010.
Title Hydrothermal Synthesis and Evaluation of Hydroxyapatite/Titania Spherical Granules
Awardee Masanobu Kamitakahara
(Updated on February 23, 2011)
February 4, 2011
An article that Prof. Fangming Jin wrote from Sustainable Recycle Process was accepted by RSC Publishing and selected as RSC Publishing press pack. You can download the article from the following URL for a limited time.
Title: High-yield reduction of carbon dioxide into formic acid by zero-valent metal/metal oxide redox cycles

RSC Publishing

(Updated on February 7, 2011)
December 8, 2010
Prof. Hiroshi Takahashi from Solar and Terrestrial Systems and Energy Sciences won the Best Paper Award at the International Symposium on Earth Science and Technology 2010.
Title : A Two Dimensional Mechanical Model to Apprehend the Dynamic Response of Shallow Buried Structures due to Direct Impact Loading on the Soil Surface Related to Mechanical Landmine Clearing Operations
Authers : Nuhansyah Sulaiman, Hiroshi Takahashi
(Updated on December 13, 2010)
December 3, 2010
Assoc. Prof. Kazuyo Matsubae from Ecomaterial Design and Process Engineering won the Research Incentive Award of M. Ishii Foundation.
(Updated on December 9, 2010)
November 7, 2010
Kang Jihyun, D2 student from Urban Environment and Environmental Geography won the Outstanding Presentation Award at the 5th Japan-Korea-China Joint Conference on Geography.
Title : The change of river geomorphic diversity by dam opening in a mountain stream
Authors : Kang Jihyun, So Kazama
(Updated December 3, 2010)
November 25, 2010
Hanae Saishu, M2 student from Geomaterial & Energy Lab won the student best poster award at the conference held by The Geothermal Research Society of Japan in Tsukuba, Ibaraki.
(Updated on November 29, 2010)
November 14, 2010
Hikaru Nishizaka, M1 student from Environmentally Benign Systems won first place in the poster presentation for youth at the conference held by the Mining and Materials Processing Institute of Japan(MMIJ).
(Updated on November 29, 2010)
November 16, 2010
Yoriyuki Tomiya, M2 student from Environmentally Benign Systems was awarded for his excellent poster presentation at the 30th Symposium for Capillary Electrophoresis.
(Updated on November 18, 2010)
October 26, 2010
Professor Hiroshi Takahashi from Solar and Terrestrial Systems and Energy Sciences won a special award for his collaborated research at the 5th Monodzukuri collaboration awards organized by Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun Ltd.
(Updated on November 12, 2010)
September 4, 2010
Kosuke Konno, M2 student from Life Cycle Assessement, was awarded for his excellent poster presentation at the summer seminar held by Magnetic Separation and Control.
(Updated on November 5, 2010)
October 7, 2010
Hiroko Takahashi, M2 student from Ecomaterial Design and Process Engineering was rewarded for her excellent research presentation at the conference held by Japan Association of Inorganic Phosphorus Chemistry.
(Updated on October 22, 2010)
September 17, 2010
The research group that Professor Matsue from Environmentally Benign Systems leads has been adopted by Intelligent Cosmos Research (ICR). The group focuses on the development of compact medical testing equipment using bio MEMS techniques. It aims at building a framework for a major project in the future. More info here: Intelligent Cosmos Research http://www.icr-eq.co.jp/info/index.html
(Updated on October 19, 2010)
October 7-8, 2010
Keita Tamakawan, M2 student from Solar and Terrestrial Systems and Energy Sciences received the Best Student Award at the The 16th Formation Evaluation Symposium of Japan.
Title : Identification of Reflected Phase by Coherence Analysis of 3D Hodogram and Application to Reflecting Imaging
Author : Keita Tamakawa
Organizer : Japan Formation and Evaluation Society(JFES)
(Updated October 12, 2010)
September 26, 2010
Minoru Takahara, M1 student from Harmonic Material for Environment, and Kosuke Konno, M2 from Life Cycle Assessement were awarded a prize for their effort at the poster session at the 160th Autumn Conference organized by The Iron and Steel Institute of Japan (ISIJ).
(Updated September 30, 2010)
September 16, 2010
Associate Professor Shunsuke Magagi from International and Regional Environment was awarded "Fuji Denki Prize" at Society of Environmental Studies 2010.
(Updated September 21, 2010)
July 31, 2010
Assistant Professor Maki Ikegami from Solar and Terrestrial Systems and Energy Sciences Division was awarded from The Geothermal Research Society of Japan (GRSJ).
Title : Utilization of Hot Spring Waste Heat to Improve Economical and Environmental Benefits
Winner : Maki Ikegami
Organization : The Geothermal Research Society of Japan (GRSJ)
(Updated September 2, 2010)
August 10, 2010
The Article written by Assistant Professor Yasumasa Ogawa from Geomaterial and Energy Lab. is chosen as one of the "Hot Article" in ANALYTICAL SCIENCE.
Title : Application of a Dynamic Reaction Cell (DRC) ICP-MS in Chromium and Iron Determinations in Rock, Soil and Terrestrial Water Samples
Authors : Y. OGAWA, S. YAMASAKI and N. TSUCHIYA
Publisher : ANALYTICAL SCIENCES AUGUST 2010, VOL. 26,867-872.
(Updated August 16, 2010)
August 2, 2010
Assistant Profossor Ryo Kasuya from Control of Environmental Materials was awarded the Best Poster Award at the 12th International Conference on Magnetic Fluids(ICMF) held August 1-5.
Title : Heat dissipation characteristics of magnetite nanoparticles and their application to macrophage cells
Authors : Ryo Kasuya, Teppei Kikuchi, Hiroaki Mamiya, Koji Ioku, Shota Endo, Akira Nakamura, Toshiyuki Takai, Balachandran Jeyadevan
(Updated August 9, 2010)
July 24, 2010
Hayato Takahashi, M2 student from Urban Environment and Environmental Geography awarded the poster session prize at the 56th Materials Tailoring Conference.
(Updated August 5, 2010)
August 4, 2010
Yusuke Mukuhira, D1 student from Solar and Terrestrial Systems and Energy Sciences, associate Professor Hiroshi Asanuma and Professor Hiroaki Niitshuma were awarded the Best Paper Award at the international conference Renewable Energy 2010(RE2010) held June 27- July 2.
Title : Characteristics of Microseismic Events with Large Magnitude Collected at Cooper Basin, Australia and Basel, Switzerland
Authors : Yusuke Mukuhira, Hiroshi Asanuma, Hyuma Nozaki, Hiroaki Niitsuma, Doone Wyborn and Markus Haring
(Updated August 4, 2010)
July 3, 2010
Tsuyoshi Watanabe, M2 student from Environmental Bioengineering was awarded the poster presentation prize at the gathering for young fellows of the "Japan Society of Analytical Chemistry, Tohoku Branch" held July 2-3 at Akita University.
(Updated July 6, 2010)