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What’s New

  • 2025/10/01 Nishihara-san's(former member) paper is published in Scripta Materialia. Congratulations! More Details
  • 2025/10/01 We have the following new members joining our research group. Welcome!
    D1 students: Hieu-san, Sun-san, Kanagawa-san.
  • 2025/09/24 Kasai-san(D3)，Hogaki-san(M2)，Satake-san(M1) gave oral and poster presentaions in CMD2025 (The 38th Annual Meeting, JSME Computational Mechanics Division)．And Dr. Minami gave an oral presentation.
  • 2025/04/15 Kasai-san's(D3) paper is published in Physical Review B. Congratulations! More Details
  • 2025/09/17 Kasai-san(D3) gave a poster presentation in 2025 Autumn Annual Meeting, The Japan Institute of Metals and Materials．And Prof. Shimada gave an oral presentation.
  • 2025/09/16 Maruyama-san(M2), Kono-san(M1), Nishimura-san(M1) gave poster presentations in 80th Annual Meeting(2025),The Physical Society of Japan Program．And Dr. Minami gave an oral presentation.
  • 2025/06/16 Maruyama-san(M2) has been accepted to the SPRING and NEXT AI Program. Congratulations!
  • 2025/06/07 Kasai-san(D3), Noda-san(D2), Abe-san(D1), Kawakane-san(M2), Hogaki-san(M2), Maruyama-san(M2), Kono-san(M1), Satake-san(M1)，Nishimura-san(M1) gave poster presentations in SMMM10(The 10th Symposium on Multiscale Materials Mechanics: Mechanism and Modeling). Kawakane-san got the Student Poster Presentation Award (Bronze Prize). Congratulations!
  • 2025/04/17 Welcome party for new members! More Details
  • 2025/04/15 Kasai-san's(D3) paper is published in Scripta Materialia. Congratulations! More Details
  • 2025/04/01 We have the following new members joining our research group. Welcome!
    B4 students: Inai-san, Kozakai-san, Kasiwagi-san, Tomo-san. More Details
  • 2025/03/26 Collaboration work with RIKEN is published in Nature Communications. Assistant Professor Dr. Minami is involved in this project as a theoretical investigator, and RIKEN has a press release. More details.
  • 2025/03/24 Ikeda-san(M2) got the JSME-Miura Award in FY2024. Congratulations!
  • 2025/03/18 Kono-san(B4), Satake-san(B4), and Nishimura-san(B4) gave presentations in Graduation Conference in JSME-Kansai branch. Kono-san got the Best Presentation Award. Congratulations!
  • 2025/02/18 Bachelor Thesis in FY2024. More Details
  • 2025/02/04 Master Thesis in FY2024. More Details
  • 2025/02/03 Noda-san's(D1) paper is published in Acta Materialia. Congratulations! More Details
  • 2024/12/20 2024 End-of-Year Party! More Details
  • 2024/12/03 Ikeda-san's(M2) paper is published in Journal of Applied Physics. Congratulations! More Details
  • 2024/11/29 Kawakane-san(M1), Noda-san(D1), Kasai-san(D2), and Dr. Minami gave presentations in Asia-Pacific Conference on Fracture and Strength 2024(APCFS2024).
  • 2024/11/14 Kasai-san's(D2) paper is published in ACS Nano. Congratulations! More Details
  • 2024/10/20 Maruyama-san(M1), Nishihara-san(M2), and Kasai-san(D2), and Dr. Minami gave presentations in CMD2024.
  • 2024/10/15 Kasai-san's(D2) paper is published in Nano Letters. Congratulations! More Details
  • 2024/09/19 Hogaki-san(M1), and Ikeda-san(M2), and Dr. Minami gave presentations in JPS 79th Annual Meeting (2024).
  • 2024/08/19 Nakayama-san's (former member) paper is published in Acta Materialia. Congratulations! More Details
  • 2024/06/04 Hogaki-san's(M1) paper is published in Physical Review Materials.
    Congratulations! More Details
  • 2024/06/28 Kawakane-san (M1) and Hogaki-san (M1) got a best poster presentation prize at The 9th Symposium on Multiscale Mechanics of Materials. Congratulations! More Details
  • 2024/06/04 Noda-san's(D1) paper is published in Internatonal Journal of Mechanical Sciences.
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  • 2024/05/24 Kawakane-san (M1), Hogaki-san(M1), Maruyama-san(M1), Ikeda-san(M2), Nishihara-san(M2), and Dr. Minami gave presentations in The 9th Symposium on Multiscale Mechanics of Materials.
  • 2024/05/20 Kasai-san(D2) gave presentations in The 5th International Symposium on Phase-Field Modelling in Materials Science (PF24).
  • 2024/05/04 Kasai-san's(D2) paper is published in Computational Materials Science.
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Our Vision

Materials Science &
Computational Mechanics
for future technology


Our world is filled with materials that have a wide variety of properties and functions. How does this seemingly infinite diversity of material functions come about? In fact, the microscopic structure and mechanical state of materials are the key. Once we understand this, we can freely change the functions of materials.

Through the development of physical and mechanical theories that describe the material world, from mechanics of materials and continuum mechanics, which play a fundamental role in manufacturing, to state-of-the-art computational science and condensed matter physics, and their numerical analysis techniques, we are conducting research to uncover the hidden mechanical laws of the material world and to mechanically create and design advanced material functions that overturn conventional wisdom. In this way, we are promoting research to create and design advanced material functions mechanically.

  • Research Interests:
    Mechanics & Strength of Materials, Strain Engineering, Ferroelectric, Ferromagnetic, and Multiferroic Properties, Quantum Trasnport, Topological Matters.
  • Techniques:
    First-principles density-functional theory (DFT) calculations, Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, Phase-field (PF) modeling, Discrete dislocation dynamics (DDD), Finite element method (FEM), High-throughput calculations, Machine learning.
  • Materials:
    Structural materials, Nanomaterials, Advanced functional materials including Ferroelectrics, Ferromagnetic materials, and Multiferroics, Quantum materials.

Principal Investigator
Takahiro Shimada
Since July 2021

Research Projects

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All Mechanical Properties Ferroelectricity Magnetism Quantum Transport Nanomaterials Ferroic Materials Quantum Materials First-Principles DFT Molecular Dynamics Phase-Field Modeling Finite Element Method Data Science Facility
Science of Fracture and Strength of Materials
Toward Unbreakable Materials
Our research is aimed at understanding the fundamental mechanisms that why materials mechanically fail and how to create materials that do not break. By controlling light and electronic environments, we have discovered that brittle and fragile materials such as glass can behave like strong and tough metals.
Science of Fracture and Strength of Materials
Ferroic Properties in Nanomaterials
Toward Quantum Devices as One Billionth of a Machine
Nano- and atomic-scale materials exhibit specific magnetic and ferroelectric properties and multiferroic functions that can interconvert mechanical, electrical and magnetic energy. The aim is to unravel this and create ’nano-quantum machines’, machines that can operate in the tiny world of ‘one hundred millionth of a billionth’.
Ferroic Properties in Nanomaterials
Quantum Materials Science
Novel Functions for Next Generation Devices
As ’the 21st century is the age of quantum’, devices based on quantum technology, such as quantum computers, are being invented at an ever-increasing rate. We are conducting research on advanced quantum material functions that will pioneer innovative devices of the future that will cause such a paradigm shift.
Quantum Materials Science
Strain Engineering for Advanced Functional Materials
Multiphysics & Functional Emergence
As human beings exhibit great power when under great pressure, materials also express potential functions when subjected to mechanical stress. We are challenging to develop new material functions by utilizing the mechanical load.
Strain Engineering for Advanced Functional Materials
Development of Materials Theory & Computational Techniqes
Fusion of Computational/Data Science to Unravel Material World
By solving physical laws and simulating the real world in a computer, we can reveal phenomena that cannot be seen/understood experimentally. In addition to state-of-the-art solid state physics theory and the development of proprietary materials analysis software, we are also integrating with data science such as machine learning.
Development of Materials Theory & Computational Techniqes
Research Facility Environment
Our laboratory exclusively owns a large number of large scientific and technical parallel computing servers (3,000 Cores of Intel Xeon Processor in 100 Nodes with InfiniBand interconnections) and workstations. In addition, the laboratory owns microscopic shape and property measurement equipment such as an atomic force microscope.
Research Facility Environment

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Materials Science Laboratory (Shimada Group)
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Science
Graduate School of Engineering
Kyoto University

shimadame.kyoto-u.ac.jp
+81 75 383 3620 (Secretary Office)

Location

C3 Bldg., C Cluster, Kyoto daigaku-katsura,
Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8540, Japan

- c2S01: Professor Office
- c2S02: Staff Office
- c2S03: Postdoc/Secretary Office
- c2N01: Student Room

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Takahiro Shimada

Kyoto University

Professor, Kyoto Univ. FOREST PI / Ph.D.

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Susumu Minami

Kyoto University

Assistant Professor / Ph.D.

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Eriko Nakakubo

Kyoto University

Secretary

Languages:
English
日本語

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