Achievements(Outreach)

FY2025

A New Era in Materials Science: Antiferromagnetic Quasicrystals Unveiled
Ryuji Tamura, Takaki Abe (A01)
Tokyo University of Science Press Release  11/4/2025

FY2024

Research on physical properties unique to quasicrystals
Kazuhiko Deguchi (A04)
Online public relations magazine “RE-Philosophia online”, Nagoya University
15/4/2024
Strange physical properties of quasicrystals brought about by six-dimensional fluctuations
Elucidated through machine learning molecular motion dynamics simulations

Yuki Nagai (A03)
The University of Tokyo Press Release
14/5/2024
Discovery of non-identity of quantum chaos and scrambling - Quantum information understanding of complex quantum many-body dynamics -
Masaki Tezuka (A04)
Kyoto University Press Release  2/5/2024
Newly discovered superconductivity in quasicrystals, a third class of solids
To identify the unknown properties hidden in solid-state materials

Yuki Tokumoto (A04)
Web magazine "Possible Future Case#UTokyo-IIS", the Institute of Industrial Science (IIS), the University of Tokyo  7/6/2024
1st Technology Cafe in 2024: “The unexplored world of materials engineering: Challenge the creation and application of completely new materials!”
Ryuji Tamura(A01)
Library Building 1st floor “TUS Science Dojo”, Katsushika Campus, Tokyo University of Science
11/7/2024 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Aperiodic Approximants for Relating Quasicrystals and Modulated Structures
Toranosuke Matsubara, Akihisa Koga (A04)
Tokyo Institute of Technology Press Release  12/7/2024
HYPOD-X: Foundation Database Released to Advance Data-Driven Research in the Field of Quasicrystals
Erina Fujita(A03), Ryuji Tamura, Kaoru Kimura(A01), Ryo Yoshida, Yukari Katsura(A03)
The Institute of Statistical Mathematics Press release 14/11/2024
The symposium "Structure and Properties of Hypermaterials" was held at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Crystallographic Society of Japan.
Organizer: Hironori Takakura (A02)
Invited speakers:Tsunetomo Yamada(A01), Koichi Momma(A02), Ryuji Tamura(A01), Nobuhisa Fujita(A02), Yuki Tokumoto(A04), Masato Matsuura(A02)
Higashiyama Campus, Nagoya University  9/11/2024

FY2023

Creation of hyper material advertising leaflets
Yutaka Iwasaki (A01)
4/4/2023
Discovering a Tunable Ferromagnetic Quasicrystal with High Phase Purity
Ryuji Tamura (A01)
Tokyo University of Science Press Release
27/4/2023
Fukuoka Prefectural Meizen High School, Visiting class "Wondaful material science"
Shinji Watanabe (A04)
Fukuoka Prefectural Meizen High School
12/7/2023 1:35pm - 3:25pm
Lecture on hypermaterials, Himmeli craft experience event held
Kaoru Kimura(A01), Takanori Hiroto(A02), Erina Fujita(A01), Yutaka Iwasaki(A01)
National Museum of Nature and Science,Tokyo
4/8/2023 10:00am - 4:45pm
First Quasicrystal Discovered by Machine Learning Algorithm
Ryo Yoshida, Yukari Katsura(A03), Ryuji Tamura, Kaoru Kimura(A01)
The Institute of Statistical Mathematics Press release 28/09/2023
The University of Tokyo Press release 28/09/2023
Tokyo University of Science Press release 29/09/2023
28th seminor on Hypermaterials: "Magnetic orders induced by RKKY interactions in Tsai-type quasicrystal approximants"
Takanori Sugimoto (A04)
online
27/6/2023 15:00-17:00
30th seminor on Hypermaterials: "Thermoelectric properties of semiconducting hypermaterials"
Yutaka Iwasaki (A01)
online
12/9/2023 10:00-12:00
31th seminor on Hypermaterials: "Incommensurate composite crystals: characteristics and thermoelectric applications"
Yuzuru Miyazaki (A04)
online
13/9/2023 10:00-12:00
Accelerating the Phase Identification of Multiphase Mixtures with Deep Learning
Hirotaka Uryu, Tsunetomo Yamada, Yutaka Iwasaki, Kaoru Kimura, Ryuji Tamura, (A01), Ryo Yoshida(A03)
Tokyo University of Science Press release 17/11/2023
The Institute of Statistical Mathematics Press release 17/11/2023
32th seminor on Hypermaterials: "Topological Superconductivity in Quasicrystals"
Masahiro Hori (A04)
online
15/11/2023 15:30-17:30
33th seminor on Hypermaterials: "Supercurrent distribution on superconducting quasicrytals"
Takumi Fukushima (A03)
online
30/11/2023 15:30-17:00
Clarification of nonreciprocal dynamics in hedgehog ordered phase
Shinji Watanabe (A04)
Kyusyu Institute of Technology Press Release
06/09/2023
Unlocking the Secrets of Quasicrystal Magnetism: Revealing a Novel Magnetic Phase Diagram
Farid Labib(A01), Kazuhiro Nawa(A04), Shintaro Suzuki, Ryuji Tamura(A01)
Tokyo University of Science Press Release 18/1/2024
Tohoku University Press Release 18/1/2024
Koishikawa Seminar 2023 1st “Challenging academic fusion and fostering originality”
Kaoru Kimura (A01)
Metropolitan Koishikawa Secondary Education School
19/07/2023 10:30-12:00
Yokohama Minami Corporate Association Training Session “Current status of thermoelectric power generation that can extract electrical energy from waste heat and the potential of “hyper materials””
Kaoru Kimura (A01)
Kanazawa Public Hall Multipurpose Room (Leaflet)
22/11/2023 5:45pm-6:45pm
New discovery: Superconductivity in van der Waals layered quasicrystals -- A clue to elucidating the mechanism of superconductivity in the third solid "quasicrystal" --
Yuki Tokumoto, Keiichi Edagawa, Yasushi Kamimura, Sunao Nakagawa, Kotaro Hamano(A04), Ryuji Tamura, Shintaro Suzuki (A01)
Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo Press Release  2024/3/4
Tokyo University of Science Press Release  2024/3/4
37th seminor on Hypermaterials: "Photoemission study on strongly-correlated Tsai-type quasicrystal approximants"
Goro Nozue (A04)
online
26/2/2024 1:00pm-2:45pm
"Uroko pattern" woven by electrons in layered superconductor
Shunsuke Yoshizawa (A02)
National Institute for Materials Science Press Release
26/02/2024
Nagoya University Open Campus
Kazuhiko Deguchi (A04)
Nagoya university
8/8/2023 10:00 - 14:30
Nagoya University HomeComing Day
Kazuhiko Deguchi (A04)
Nagoya university
21/10/2023 10:00 - 14:30
Mini Symposium for Visiting Professors to Japan
Katsuhiro Yamamoto (A04)
Nagoya Institute of Technology
24/7/2023 9:30 - 14:00

FY2022

Clarification of magnetic dynamics in ferromagnetically ordered phase in quasicrystal -Discovery of nomreciprocal magnetic excitation in quasicrystal and nonreciprocal magnon in approximant crystal
Shinji Watanabe (A04)
Kyushu Institute of Technology Press Release
28/06/2022
Web experience lecture at open campus "Physics of quasicrystal"
Akihsa Koga (A04)
Tokyo Institute of Technology Web experience lecture
10/08/2022 16:30-17:00
Kibble-Zurek Mechanism for Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions
S. Maegochi, K. Ienaga, and S. Okuma (Publicly Offered Research Project A04 (The 1st period))
Tokyo Institute of Technology Web experience lecture
10/08/2022 16:30-17:00
Nagoya University Open Campus
Kazuhiko Deguchi (A04)
online
12/8/2022 10:00 - 14:30
Nagoya University HomeComing Day
Kazuhiko Deguchi (A04)
online
15/10/2022 10:00 - 14:30
Lecture in Yokosuka high school
Kazuhiko Deguchi (A04)
Yokosuka high school
3/10/2022 14:00 - 16:30
21th seminor on Hypermaterials: "Road to Semiconductor Hyper Materials -Four Impressions and Seven Academic Fusions-"
Kaoru Kimura (A01)
Gakushikaikan (210 Room)
5/7/2022 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
23th seminor on Hypermaterials: "Controlling band structure of graphene by introducing periodic strain"
Hikari Tomori (A01)
online
26/9/2022 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
24th seminor on Hypermaterials: "Entropy-based evaluation of many-body systems and its application to understanding hypermaterials"
Yoichiro Hashizume (A04)
online
4/10/2022 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
25th seminor on Hypermaterials: "Theoretical investigation of superconductivity in hypermaterials"
Nayuta Takemori (A03)
online
11/10/2022 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
26th seminor on Hypermaterials: "Development of surface electron microscopy for quasi-periodic surface structure analysis"
Koh Saitoh (A02)
online
28/11/2022 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

FY2021

A van der Waals interface that creates in-plane polarization and a spontaneous photovoltaic effect
T. Ideue (A01)
The University of Tokyo Press Release 02/04/2021
ISSP WOMEN'S WEEK 2021 Panel Discussion
Nayuta Takemori (A03)
online
04/08/2021 15:00 - 17:00
On-line lecture for high school students in Ehime Pref.
Yoshitaka Matsushita (A02)
online
26/07/2021 14:20 - 14:50
Ibaraki Prefectural Namiki Secondary School, Simulated University Lectures
"Materials Functions determined in Nano-space -Physics of Quasicrystals and Thermoelectric Power Generation-"

Kaoru Kimura (A01)
Ibaraki Prefectural Namiki Secondary School (Online)
02/07/2021 13:35-15:35
"Summer School for Female junior high and high school students Experiment ""Let's become a Mini-Scientist""
The Japan Institute of Metals and Materials, The Iron and Steel Institute of Japan, The Japan Institute of Light Metals,
""The Wonder of Metals"""

Kaoru Kimura (A01)
Online
09/08/2021 9:00-12:30
"Summer School for Female junior high and high school students Experiment ""Let's become a Mini-Scientist""
The Japan Society of Applied Physics, ""The Wonder of Metals"""

Yukari Katsura (A03)
Online
09/08/2021 9:00-12:30
Machine Learning to Predict New Quasicrystals
First step toward understanding the stabilization mechanism of quasicrystals

Ryo Yoshida, Yukari Katsura (A03), Kaoru Kimura, Ryuji Tamura (A01)
The Institute of Statistical Mathematics Press release 20/07/2021
The University of Tokyo Press release 20/07/2021
Tokyo University of Science Press release 21/07/2021
Okayama University Public Lecture
Masakazu Matsumoto (A02)
online
04/09/2021 14:00 - 17:00
Clear as (Quasi) Crystal: Scientists Discover the First Ferromagnetic Quasicrystals
Ryuji Tamura (A01), Tsunetomo Yamada (A01), Kazuhiro Nawa (A04)
Tokyo University of Science Press Release 19/11/2021
Ibaraki Prefectural Namiki Secondary School, Simulated University Lectures"Materials Functions determined in Nano-space -Physics of Quasicrystals and Thermoelectric Power Generation-"
Kaoru Kimura (A01)
Ishikawa Prefectural Kanazawa Izumigaoka High School(Online)
14/10/2021 10:00-12:00
Materials Functions determined in Nano-space
Kaoru Kimura (A01)
Kashiwa Open Campus of The University of Tokyo(Online)
09-29/10/2021 All day
Thermoelectric Materials : Key Technologies of Energy and Environmental Problems
Kaoru Kimura (A01)
Kashiwa Open Campus of The University of Tokyo(Online)
09-29/10/2021 All day
Women's Junior high and high school physiological career selection support event "Let's look into the future! "Datasets extracted from figures, tables, and text in published papers
Erina Fujita (A01, A03)
Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo(Online)
24/10/2021 10:30-16:00
Search for New Quasicrystals by Machine Learning
Erina Fujita (A01, A03)
Department of Advanced Materials Science, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo(Online)
18/10/2021 10:00
Tokyo Metropolitan Koishikawa Secondary School, Simulated University Lectures of Several Fields 2020 "Materials Functions determined in Nano-space -Physics of Quasicrystals and Thermoelectric Power Generation-"
Kaoru Kimura (A01)
Tokyo Metropolitan Koishikawa Secondary School
21/12/2021 13:15-14:55
Nagoya University Open Campus
Kazuhiko Deguchi (A04)
online
12/8/2021 10:00 - 14:30
Nagoya University HomeComing Day
Kazuhiko Deguchi (A04)
online
16/10/2021 10:00 - 14:30
Lecture in Yokosuka high school
Kazuhiko Deguchi (A04)
Yokosuka high school
25/10/2021 14:00 - 16:30
Nanoya university lecture in Toyohashi 2021
Kazuhiko Deguchi (A04)
Nagoya city midoro lifelong learning center
21/11/2021 10:00 - 12:00
JPS Osaka branch Symposium "Challenge of Hayabusa 2”
T. Sakai, S. Watanabe, M. Arakawa, K. Terada (A04)
online
19/12/2021 12:55-17:00
Aqua Life
Masakazu Matsumoto (A04)
Theatre 711
13/02/2022 15:00 - 17:00
16th seminor on Hypermaterials: "Creation of novel catalytic materials using hypermaterials"
Satoshi Kameoka (A04)
online
1/11/2021 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
17th seminor on Hypermaterials: "Quasi-periodic gap structure in quasicrystal lattice dynamics"
Masato Matsuura (A02)
online
8/11/2021 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
18th seminor on Hypermaterials: "Diffuse Nambu Goldstone Modes and Dynamic Critical Phenomena"
Shin Nakamura (A04)
online
21/1/2022 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
19th seminor on Hypermaterials: "Current status of machine learning molecular simulations for approximate crystals and attempts to elucidate abnormal high temperature specific heat"
Yuki Nagai (A03)
online
10/3/2022 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
20th seminor on Hypermaterials: "Equilibrium Order and Nonequilibrium Dynamics in Quasicrystalline Excitonic Insulator"
Ken Inayoshi (A04)
online
28/3/2022 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

FY2020

A paper by Makoto Nakamura, a professor of the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, published in Physical Review Letters
S. Nakamura (A04)
Chuo University Press Release 13/05/2020
Science Fest in Oita 2020
Yoichiro Hashizume, et al. (A04)
J:COM Holt Hall Oita, Japan
12/09/2020 11:00-17:00
Hypermaterial coloring sheet
Nayuta Takemori (A03)
04/09/2020
Facebook Page
Nayuta Takemori (A03)
27/08/2020
Natural Science Cafe "Seven Mysteries of Water"
Masakazu Matsumoto (A04)
03/10/2020 14:00-16:30
Nagoya University Open Campus
K. Deguchi (A04)
online
19/08/2020 10:00 - 14:30
Nagoya University HomeComing Day
K. Deguchi (A04)
online
17/10/2020 10:00 - 14:30
Search for novel physical properties in quasicrystals and crystals: magnetism and superconductivity
K. Deguchi (A04)
online
14/12/2020 15:35 - 16:20
Lecture in Ko-nan high school
K. Deguchi (A04)
online
09/11/2020 14:00 - 15:30
Nanoya university lecture in Toyohashi 2020
K. Deguchi (A04)
online
29/11/2020 11:00 - 12:00
"Independent power supply for IoT devices that utilizes low-temperature exhaust heat of 200 ° C or less" (Leaflet)
Y. Takagiwa (A04)
ENEX2021 (Tokyo Big Sight)
09-11/12/2020 10:00 - 17:00
Online class (Ehime Prefectural Saijo High School) "Material characterization using X-ray diffraction method"
Y. Matsushita (A02)
online
25/12/2020 13:00 - 14:00
Tokyo Metropolitan Koishikawa Secondary School, Laboratory Visit in University 2020
K. Kimura, K. Kitahara and Y. Iwasaki (A01)
Kaoru Kimura Laboratory, Graduate School of Frontier Scienses, The University of Tokyo
21/11/2020 13:30-15:00
Tokyo Metropolitan Koishikawa Secondary School, Simulated University Lectures of Several Fields 2020
"Materials Functions determined in Nano-space -Physics of Quasicrystals and Thermoelectric Power Generation-"

K. Kimura (A01)
Tokyo Metropolitan Koishikawa Secondary School
22/12/2020 13:15-14:55
Succeeded in developing a highly efficient magnetic structure prediction method by theoretical calculation
M.-T. Suzuki (A04)
Tohoku University Press Release 18/2/2021
8th seminor on Hypermaterials: "Quasicrystalline structural order and phazon"(The first of two times)
Keiichi Edagawa (A04)
online
20/7/2020 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
9th seminor on Hypermaterials: "Quasicrystalline structural order and phazon"(The second of two times)
Keiichi Edagawa (A04)
online
31/7/2020 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
10th seminor on Hypermaterials: "Nanoparticle imaging using coherent X-ray diffraction"
Tetsu Watanuki (A02)
online
1/10/2020 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
13th seminor on Hypermaterials: "Van der Waals nanostructures and hypermaterials"
Toshiya Ideue (A01)
online
12/1/2021 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
14th seminor on Hypermaterials: "Quasi-periodic superconductivity"
Shiro Sakai (A04)
online
1/2/2021 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
15th seminor on Hypermaterials: "Search for dynamic properties peculiar to quasicrystals"
Yuta Murakami (A04)
online
24/2/2021 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

FY2019

"Independent power supply technology development that supports the IoT society"
Y. Tagagiwa (A04)
ENEX2020 (Tokyo Big Sight)
29-31/1/2020 10:00-17:00
7th seminor on Hypermaterials: "Structure model of decagonal quasicrystals based on clusters"
H. Takakura (A02)
Room 415, Science Hall,Higashiyama Campus, Nagoya University
15/01/2020 16:30-18:00
M-laboratory, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University(Special lecture for MC)"Physics of Quasicrystals and Related Materials"
K. Kimura (A01)
Room 506, Science Hall,Higashiyama Campus, Nagoya University
16-18/12/2019
4th seminar on Hypermaterials: "Structure model of icosahedral quasicrystals based on the twelve-fold vertices of AKN tiling"
H. Takakura (A02)
Room 415, Science Hall,Higashiyama Campus, Nagoya University
12/12/2019 16:30-18:00
"The Introduction for hypermaterial and magnetism to high school student"
S. Suzuki (A01)
Tamura group, Department of Materials Science and Technology, Faculty of Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science
28/11/2019 10:30-11:30
College mock lessons(Visit lecture by the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo)"Functions of Materials Determined by Nano Space-Even Quasi-Crystal Physics and Thermoelectric Generation-"
K. Kimura (A01)
Chiba Prefectural Chiba Higashi Senior High School
25/11/2019 12:40-14:30
"Independent power supply for IoT sensor that utilizes temperature difference in the environment"
Y. Tagagiwa (A04)
INCHEM TOKYO 2019 (Makuhari Messe)
20-22/11/2019 10:00-17:00
Nagoya University Homecoming Day "Introduction Research: Beyond Crystals: Quantum Criticality in Quasicrystals"
K. Deguchi (A04)
Nagoya University(Science South Building)
19/10/2019 10:00 - 14:30
ISAC4(4th International School on Aperiodic Crystals )
Hiroyuki Takakura (A02)
VVF Club Intense Les lles Anglo-Normandes Port-Bail-sur-Mer,France
08-14/09/2019 9:00-19:30
Nagoya University Open Campus "Introduction Research: Beyond Crystals: Quantum Criticality in Quasicrystals"
K. Deguchi (A04)
Nagoya University(Science South Building)
9/8/2019 10:00 - 14:30
"Independent power supply for IoT sensor using minute temperature difference power generation"
Y. Tagagiwa (A04)
Innovation Japan 2019 (International Exhibition Center)
29/8/2019 10:00-17:00
2nd seminor on Hypermaterials: "Strong electron correlation effects on physical properties in Ce-based quasicrystal approximant"
Sintaro Suzuki (A01)
Tokyo University of Science Katsushika campus, Research buildong 8F, Second seminar room
18/11/2019 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
3rd seminor on Hypermaterials: "Higher dimensions from lower-dimensional perspective in particle theory"
Shin Nakamura (A04)
Chuo University Kourakuen Campus Building 5 3rd floor(5335 Room)
5/12/2019 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
6th seminor on Hypermaterials: "Chemical bonding conversion and Thermoelectrics, Self-compensation and Superconductivity in Icosahedral Cluster, Solid and Liquid including Quasicrystal"
Kaoru Kimura (A01)
Nagoya University Higashiyama Campus (506 Room)
17/12/2019 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm