The research project “Design engineering for outstanding materials with controlled soft-stiff heterogeneity”, for which Associate Professor Tasuku Nakajima (Laboratory of Soft and Wet Matter) is one of the project leaders, has been selected as a KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (B), which aims to create interdisciplinary research fields beyond the boundaries of existing academic fields. A guiding principle to toughen all kinds of materials ranging from hard glass and metals to soft plastics and rubbers will be investigated!
Research project:
“Design engineering for outstanding materials with controlled soft-stiff heterogeneity”
Project representative:
Kenji Shinozaki, Associate Professor, Osaka University
Project leaders:
Tasuku Nakajima, Associate Professor, Hokkaido University, et al.
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