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Graduate School of Science and Engineering] Ms. Nanase Takahashi, Ms. Aoyama Ms. Mizu, Ms. Mana Shibata, and Mr. Akihiro Murakami received "TM4OE Poster Award (Gold, Silver, Encouragement)" at "MRM2025 International Conference".
From right to left: Murakami, Takahashi, Aoyama, Shibata Symposium G-4 at the Materials Research Meeting (MRM2025) held at Pacifico Yokohama on December 8~13, 2025; In Inorganic Thin Films for Sustainable Applications: From Material Design to Devices, Nanase Takahashi of Yuzo Shigesato Laboratory, a second-year doctoral student in the Graduate School of Science and Engineering Functional Materials Creation Course, presented TM4OE Best Gold in the Presentation Award, Silver in the Silver Award for Aoyama Mimu, a first-year doctoral student in the same laboratory, and Mana Shibata and Akihiro Murakami for the TM4OE Encouragement Award.
The award-winning research topics are as follows.
【TM4OE Best Presentation Award Gold】 : Nanase Takahashi,
“In-situ thermophysical analysis on metal or insulator states of GdHx thin films controlled by reversible electrochemical hydro-/dehydrogenations”, Materials Research Meeting 2025 ( MRM2025), December 8-13, 2025, Yokohama, Japan.
【TM4OE Best Presentation Award Silver 】: Miyu Aoyama,
“In-situ electrical, optical and thermal analyses on Pd catalyzed Tix-Mg1-x alloy films under gasochromic hydro-/dehydrogenations”, Materials Research Meeting 2025 (MRM2025), December 8-13, 2025, Yokohama, Japan.
【TM4OE Encouragement Award】 : Mana Shibata,
“Carrier generation in p-type NiO films deposited by RF magnetron sputtering using a NiO target”, Materials Research Meeting 2025 (MRM2025), December 8-13, 2025, Yokohama, Japan.
【TM4OE Encouragement Award】 : Akihiro Murakami,
“Temperature dependence of the hydro-/dehydrogenation reaction kinetics on switchable mirror Y-Mg and YMgHx films”, Materials Research Meeting 2025 (MRM2025), December 8-13, 2025, Yokohama , Japan.
Research on inorganic thin films with advanced functions has attracted attention as fundamental research to realize a sustainable society by contributing to the improvement of energy efficiency in various advanced devices and structural materials. The research presentations by these graduate students were highly evaluated by renowned judges in Japan and abroad for their originality, academic significance, usefulness for practical application, validity of logical construction, abundance of data such as advanced structure and composition control and structural analysis results, and ease of understanding of presentations in English.
From right to left: Murakami, Takahashi, Aoyama, Shibata MRM2025 attracted over 1,700 registered participants from approximately 40 countries, and featured around 1,600 research presentations on a variety of materials.
The field of materials science has long been said to be on the eve of a revolution, driven by advancements in innovative experimental techniques, first-principles calculations, AI, and informatics. This conference has made it clear that we are indeed in the midst of that revolution.
In this context, the graduate students' research findings have been recognized as contributing to the innovative development of materials science.
