News & Topics
- 2025.11.30 News
- Mr. Zhao received the Best Presentation Awardat the Joint-Symposium on Mechanics of Advanced Materials & Structures 2025.
- 2025.11.18 News
- Ms. Nanako received the Excellent Paper Awardat the 2025 Tohoku University & Taipei Tech Joint Symposium.
- 2025.10.30 News
- Mr. Zhao received the GSES Incentive Award.
- 2025.10.7 News
- Mr. Maruyama received the IGPAC 2025 Young Scientist Award – Gold Prize
- 2025.9.19 News
- The Narita–Kurita–Wang Laboratory was listed in the "Top 2% of the World’s Most Influential Scientists 2025", published by Stanford University and Elsevier on September 19, 2025. This marks our fifth consecutive year of recognition./dd>
- 2025.7.25 News
- Students of the Green Materials Engineering Course (GMEC)received the Excellence Award at the Final Presentation of the Tohoku University Engineering Summer Program (TESP).
- 2025.7.25 Event
- At the Gakuto Sendai–Miyagi Science Dayheld at Lala Garden Nagamachi, we organized a hands-on science class for elementary school students titled "Fly Beyond the Sky and Future! Adventures with Drones and 'Mysterious Materials'."
- 2025.5.4 News
- Our research on sensor development for medical applications and its future prospects was featured in the Japan Red Cross exhibition "Future Field Hospital: Zero-Emission Disaster Medicine" at the Expo 2025 Osaka–Kansai, Gallery WEST.
- 2025.3.27 News
- The vibration energy-harvesting material developed by the Narita–Kurita–Wang Laboratory was featured in the children’s book 『“How to Use? How to Make? Energy”』,, which was published on March 27.
- 2025.3.25 News
- Mr. Otsuka received the Dean’s Award of the Faculty of Engineering and the Scholarship Award jointly presented by The Iron and Steel Institute of Japan and The Japan Institute of Metals and Materials.
- 2025.1.23 News
- The book "Piezoelectric Materials, Composites, and Devices: Fundamentals, Mechanics, and Applications"was published.
- 2025.1.20 News
- The Narita–Kurita–Wang Laboratory was listed in the "Top 2% of the World’s Most Influential Scientists 2024"published by Stanford University and Elsevier on September 17, 2024.
- 2024.12.24 News
- The book Fundamentals and Applications of Piezoelectric Materials: Principles, Structures, and Devices”was published.
- 2024.12.24 News
- The research on washi paper–based composite materials was introduced in Tohoku University’s English-language magazine "Notebook".
- 2024.11.12 News
- Ms. Lovisa received the Graduate School of Environmental Studies Scholarship Award for Academic Year 2024.
- 2024.10.26 Event
- A science workshop titled “Can the Motion of an Ordinary Marble Really Be Converted into Electricity!?” was organized at the 76th Tohoku University Festival.
- 2024.9.18 News
- Associate Professor Daiki Kurita received the 21st Murakami Incentive Award of The Japan Institute of Metals and Materials.
- 2024.8.9 News
- The 22nd Summer Holiday Children's Science Campus (held on 7th and 8th of August), which was conducted by Associate Professor Hiroki Kurita, was introduced in a television news programme.
- 2024.7.1 News
- The title of Prominent Research Fellowat Tohoku University was granted to Assistant Professor Zhenjin Wang.
- 2024.5.14 News
- Press release:Creating a Green Composite Material from Japanese Washi Paper
- 2024.3.18 News
- The review paper by Yaonan Yu was selected as an Wiley Top Downloaded Article.
- 2024.1.2 News
- The academic paper by Toshiki Ueno and Takeru Nakaki was selected as an Editors' Choice article.
- 2023.12.28 News
- Press release:Piezo Composites with Carbon Fibers for Motion Sensors
- 2023.12.8 News
- Takeru Nakaki received the Best Presentation Award at the 1st Student Symposium on Surface Modification.
- 2023.11.28 News
- Alia Gallet-Pandellé received the Poster Award at the 15th International Conference on Ecomaterials 2023.
- 2023.11.1 News
- Yaonan Yu's academic paper (Composites Part A) was presented on IEEE Spectrum.
- 2023.9.14 Event
- The 32nd Symposium on New Structural Materials・Functional Controlled Materials・Functionally Graded Materials was held at the main building of the Graduate School of Environmental Studies.
- 2023.9.12 Event
- The 48th Symposium on Composite Materials was held at the Main Building of the Graduate School of Environmental Studies.
- 2023.6.15 News
- Press release:Energy Harvesting Via Vibrations: Researchers Develop Highly Durable and Efficient Device
- 2023.3.24 News
- Kohei MARUYAMA won the 2022 Award of the Dean of the Graduate School of Environmental Studies.
- 2022.12.14 News
- Toshiki UENO won the Best Paper Award at 8th Asian Conference on Mechanics of Functional Materials and Structures (December 11-14, 2022, India).
- 2022.12.2 News
- Press release:Batteryless and Wireless Device Detects Coronavirus with Magnetostrictive Composite Plates
- 2022.8.9 News
- Kohei MARUYAMA won the Best Presentation Award at 16th International Symposium on Functionally Graded Materials (August 7-10, 2022, USA).
- 2022.6.16 News
- A review paper on virus sensor materials has been selected for the Wiley Top Downloaded Article.
- 2022.5.27 News
- The article from Aoba Kankyo Hozen."The Narita laboratory of the Tohoku University came to the Japanese paper studio. ～Across the sea? Japanese paper and apron～ ".
- 2022.5.19 News
- A special number of the “7th Asian Conference on Mechanics of Functional Materials and Structures (March 13-15, 2021, Internet) “ was published, and the illustrationis on the cover.
- 2022.4.27 News
- Narita laboratory won the gold prize at "the 8th of Japan Resilience Award" and "STOP infection award" .
- 2022.3.1 News
- The authors of a review article on virus sensor materials have received a global award in Disaster Prevention and Mitigation x SDGs Award 2022 : Academy & Junior Academy Category.
- 2021.12.28 News
- Zhenjin WANG won the 2020 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad.
- 2021.9.21 News
- A thesis was written by Mr.Satoshi Egawa, a graduate in our laboratory, was featured on the cover of an academic journal.
- 2021.9.3 News
- The relationship between the silk scarf worn by UAE athletes at the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic ceremonies and the "UAE-NIPPON Friendship Silk Project", in which our laboratory participates, was posted on the Tohoku University Global Site.
- 2021.6.23 Event
- A message of support was sent from our laboratory to UAE Olympic athletes.It was handed over to the UAE National Olympic Committee at the silk scurf presentation ceremonyin Dubai.
- 2021.5.18 News
- A review paper on virus sensor materials was featured in Asia Research News 2021.
- 2021.4.19 News
- Research result is featured in JST Science Japan.
- 2021.4.10 News
- Yinli Wang and Kei Makabe won the Best Presentation Award at 7th Asian Conference on Mechanics of Functional Materials and Structures (March 13-15, 2021, Internet).
- 2021.3.3 News
- Research result on silk is featured in the top page of Asis Research News. It is also selected and distributed in EurekAlert e-newsletter.
- 2021.2.26 News
- Research result is featured in YAHOO News. It is also featured in Nikkei Business Daily.
- 2021.2.26 News
- Press release:Changing the Silkworm's Diet to Spin Stronger Silk
- 2021.2.3 News
- Press release:Succeeded in creating unidirectional plant nanofiber reinforced silkworm thread-Expected as a reinforcing material for green composite-
- 2020.11.30 News
- A review paper on virus sensor materials was featured in Advanced Science News and won first place in Most read this week.
- 2020.11.25 News
- Press release:Grabbing Viruses Out of Thin Air
- 2020.8.31 News
- Prof. Kurita won the 7th IRMAIL Science Grant "Verder Scientific Award" in 2020.
- 2020.6.30 News
- Our "Energy Harvesting Materials Research" was published in The Innovation Platform.
- 2020.4.1 News
- Prof. Narita and Assistant Professor Kurita have been moved to Graduate School of Environmental Science.
- 2020.2.17 News
- The book "Let's Learn Fracture Mechanics of Materials" will be published, and the caricature of a former member will appear on the four-frame comics in this book.
- 2020.1.29 News
- Invited Review Paper by Narita and Fox is recognized as a top cited paper in Advanced Engineering Materials (2018-2019).
- 2018.11.9 News
- Our " Energy Harvesting Materials Research" was published in Impact, Science Impact Ltd., U.K.
- 2018.8.12 News
- Assist.prof. Kurita won the Best presentation awards at 2018 3rd International Conference on Design, Materials and Manufacturing (Okinawa, Japan)
- 2018.5.22 News
- The illustration designed by members of our laboratory became the cover of Advanced Engineering Materials（Vol.20, No. 5）.
- 2017.4.1 News
- The book “Let's Learn Mechanics of Materials” has been published.
- 2016.11.28 News
- Research result has been published in Nikkei Newspaper. It is also featured in EE Times Japan.
