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Smart Materials & Devices Research Core

	Prof. Masato SONE
	Room: R2	Mail-Box: R2-35
	TEL: 045-924-5043
	E-mail: sone.m.aa(at)m.titech.ac.jp Please replace "(at)" with "@".
	HomePage: http://www.ames.pi.titech.ac.jp/

Research Field　Material Characterization
Objective　Material fabrication and characterization for medical devices
Current Topics
・Fabrication of noble metal/polymer hybrid fiber for wearable devices and the application
・Fabrication and material characterization of noble metal materials for non-invasive high sensitive medical device
・Single atomic noble metal electrodeposition for smell sensor and the application

Micro-compression specimen	Micro-bending specimen
Micro-tensile specimen
Various micro-testing specimens proposed （Possible to examine micro-compression,bending and tensile deformation）

	Prof. Hideki HOSODA
	Room: R2	Mail-Box: R2-27
	TEL: 045-924-5057
	E-mail: hosoda.h.aa(at)m.titech.ac.jp Please replace "(at)" with "@".
	HomePage: http://www.mater.pi.titech.ac.jp/

Research Field　Functional and structural materials, metallurgy
Objective　Innovation and development of novel functional materials and materials design, and their applications
Current Topics
・Development of biomedical shape memory and superelastic alloys
・High temperature shape memory alloys
・Ferromagnetic shape memory alloys and their composites
・Intermetallic compounds, phase diagram
・Biomaterials, medical materials and dental materials and their applications
・Phase stability, phase transformation and microstructural control

Superelastic behavior and unique internal structure of TiMoSnZr biomedical alloy.

Micro CT image of NiMnGa ferromagnetic shape memory alloy particle distributed silicone composite (left) and SEM image of NiMnGa particle with smooth surface by Bi-modified pulverization process.

	Prof. Junji WATANABE（Specially Appointed）〔Sone-Chang Lab〕
	Room: R2	Mail-Box: R2-36
	TEL: 045-924-5048
	E-mail: watanabe.j.ab(at)m.titech.ac.jp Please replace "(at)" with "@".
	HomePage: http://www.smartmd.first.iir.titech.ac.jp/

Research Field 　Functional soft material fabrication and characterization
Objective 　Soft material fabrication and characterization for sensor devices
Current Topics

・Fabrication of soft materials with high dielectric constant and their application.
・Fabrication of liquid crystalline elastomers and their application.
・Fabrication and characterization for smart window which can automatically adjust light transmittance.

(a) Optical microphotograph of the wetting ridge pattern on the polymer liquid coated plate during its advancement.
(b) AFM surface image. The arrows indicate the advancing direction of the water.

	Assoc. Prof. Masaki TAHARA
	Room: R2	Mail-Box: R2-27
	TEL: 045-924-5061
	E-mail:tahara.m.aa(at)m.titech.ac.jp Please replace "(at)" with "@".
	HomePage: http://www.mater.pi.titech.ac.jp/

Research Field　Metallography, Shape memory alloy
Objective　Development of functional metal materials by advanced microstructure analysis
Current Topics
・Microstructural analysis of stress-induced martensite in shape memory alloys
・Plastic deformation mechanism of shape memory alloys
・Isothermal martensitic transformation

Superelasticity and microstructure of stress-induced martensite in Ti-Nb alloy single crystal

	Assoc. Prof. Tso-Fu Mark CHANG
	Room: R2	Mail-Box: R2-35
	TEL: 045-924-5044
	E-mail: chang.m.aa(at)m.titech.ac.jp Please replace "(at)" with "@".
	HomePage: http://www.ames.pi.titech.ac.jp/

Research Field　Electroplating, catalytic materials, metal-based composite photocatalyst
Objective　Design and performance enhancement of materails for medical sensor and wearable devices
Current Topics

・Preparation of flexible functional composite materials and the applicaitons
・Metal-based catalyst for biosensors
・Development of visible light driven anti-infection materials

Visible light driven anti-infection textile

	Lecturer Chun-Yi Chen（Specially Appointed）（Concurrent Post）
	Room: R2	Mail-Box: R2-35
	TEL: 045-924-5631
	E-mail: chen.c.ac(at)m.titech.ac.jp Please replace "(at)" with "@".
	HomePage: http://www.ames.pi.titech.ac.jp/

Current Topics
・Alloying electroplating for fabrication of electronic micro-components
・Development of nanostructured catalystic materials
・Development of visible light photocatalyst

SEM and TEM images of Ti-Nb-Ta-Zr-O Nanotubes

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