2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses School of Materials and Chemical Technology Undergraduate major in Materials Science and Engineering
Introduction of Advanced Materials
- Academic unit or major
- Undergraduate major in Materials Science and Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Sachiko Matsushita / Tomohiro Hayashi / Akifumi Matsuda / Hidenori Hiramatsu / Hiroshi Funakubo / Masaki Azuma / Takao Sasagawa / Fumiyasu Oba / Yutaka Majima / Seiichiro Izawa / Masaaki Kitano / Michikazu Hara / Keigo Kamata / Toshio Kamiya / Takayoshi Katase / Hitoshi Kawaji / Hiroko Yokota / Satoshi Ishikawa / Chun-Yi Chen / Saeko Yanaka
- Class Format
- Lecture
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Class
- -
- Course Code
- MAT.C321
- Number of credits
- 200
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 3Q
- Syllabus updated
- Jun 9, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course gives an overview of the current status and outlook of several topics in materials science. Students will learn the fundamentals and applications in a variety of fields in materials science. The course also encourages students to develop critical thinking skills by taking a global view of materials science.
Course description and aims
By the end of this course, students will be able to understand the following concepts:
energy harvester, phase transitions, catalysis, oxide semiconductors, eco-energy materials, biomass based-plastics, materials dynamics, ultra precision thin-film-growth techniques, biomedical applications, biointerfaces, computational science, nanomaterials, nano-scale magentism and spintronics, heterogeneous catalysts
Keywords
cutting-edge materials science
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Each class gives an overview of different topics in materials science, including the fundamentals and applications .
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Solution to Global Energy Issue Using Semiconductor-Sensitized Thermal Cell | Understand that thermally excited charges are generated in semiconductors and that electrochemical reactions occur with the thermally excited charges. |
| Class 2 | Novel enegry hervester and green materials using functional thin films | Understand energy hervestes. |
| Class 3 | Materials design and exploration of optoelectronic semiconductors | Learn materials design concepts and exploration methods to achieve required functionalities for optoelectronic semiconductors. |
| Class 4 | Design of functional transition metal oxides and mixed anion compounds | Study about the synthesis and properties of functional transition metal oxides and mixed anion compounds. |
| Class 5 | Catalysts and Material Science | To understand advanced inorganic catalyst materials and their environment-friendly chemical process. |
| Class 6 | Materials design of earth abundant heterogeneous catalysts | Study the role of heterogeneous catalysts in various chemical reactions and the design guidelines of highly functional catalysts. |
| Class 7 | Nano-structure control of catalyst materials and development of reactions | Learn about the specific catalysis caused by controlling the nano-sized structures. |
| Class 8 | Single nanoscale materials and devices | Fabrication methods of single nanoscale materials and their devices |
| Class 9 | Elelctronic structures and materials design of oxide semiconductors | Learn electronic structures specific to oxides with strong ionicity which will be required to design new functional materials |
| Class 10 | Development of green processing and novel functionality of thin films and nanomaterials | Study about advanced nano-/atomic-scale technology for development of novel electronic and energy materials. |
| Class 11 | Production strategy and material property of biomass based-plastics | Understand the types and characteristics of biomass-based plastics and learn about applications according to material properties. |
| Class 12 | Design and prediction of new materials based on advanced computational science and materials informatics | Understand the design and prediction of inorganic materials based on modern computational and data science. |
| Class 13 | intermolecular interactions at biointerfaces | Understand intermolecular interactions to explain various interfacial phenomena such as adsorption, self-assembly, waterproof, etc. |
| Class 14 | New functionalities induced by boundaries | learn about the role of boundaries and their measurement methods, and to understand their novel functional exploitation. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
Unspecified.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Text book specified by the instructor.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Assessment is based on the quality of the written quiz and on the status of submission thereof.
Related courses
- MAT.M201 ： Fundamentals of Crystallography
- MAT.C202 ： Crystal and Phonon
- MAT.C205 ： Introduction of Ceramics
- MAT.C206 ： Ceramic Processing
- MAT.C301 ： Crystal Chemistry (Ceramics course)
- MAT.C305 ： Semiconductor Materials and Device
- MAT.C306 ： Dielectric Materials Science
- MAT.C307 ： Magnetic Materials Science
- MAT.C308 ： Continuum Mechanics
- MAT.C316 ： Biomaterials Science
Prerequisites
No prerequisites.