The latest issue includes ‘Research Highlights’ — easy-to-understand summaries of some of the top papers from researchers at the university — as well as news and views from one of Japan’s most dynamic science and technology based universities.
In this issue’s Research Highlights:
Ultra high sensitivity magnetic field sensors: The attraction of magnonic crystals: http://www.tut.ac.jp/english/newsletter/research_highlights/research01.html
Highly sensitivity magnetic devices for the measurement of weak magnetic fields are important in medicine for applications such as monitoring heart and brain activities. Here researchers demonstrate that magnonic crystals—artificial magnetic crystal structures for controlling the propagation of magnetostatic waves—exhibit properties enabling the fabrication of extremely sensitive magnetic field sensors operable at room temperature.
Bio-imaging offers insights into the relationship between circadian and ultradian rhythms: http://www.tut.ac.jp/english/newsletter/research_highlights/index.html
Here, collaborators at Toyohashi University of Technology and Tokyo Medical and Dental University propose bio-imaging methodology to observe both clocks. Bio-imaging detecting of luminescent and fluorescent signals enables observation of more comprehensive sets of genes and spatio-temporal regulation of these clockwork machineries during development.
Supervisory Control of Automatic Pouring Robot: http://www.tut.ac.jp/english/newsletter/research_highlights/research03.html
High speed motion control and sloshing (liquid suppression) control problems are trade-off issues. It is difficult to use conventional control methods to achieve level control and weight control with high speed motion control in pouring processes while suppressing sloshing. Here, Kazuhiko Terashima describes how these problems can be solved by a novel supervisory control.
Spatiotemporal behavior of lipids in a cell membrane model on nanostructured substrates: http://www.tut.ac.jp/english/newsletter/research_highlights/research04.html
Ryugo Tero at EIIRIS and his colleagues have shown that a hierarchic structure with a comparable size in vivo can be introduced into an artificial lipid bilayer membrane using nanostructures on oxide surfaces as templates.
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In this issue’s ‘Tech-Overtures’ Toyohashi Tech inventors describe an innovative method for controlling the electrical conductivity of composite materials for enzymes and cosmetics. http://www.tut.ac.jp/english/newsletter/tech_overtures/index.html
Hiroyuki Muto and colleagues at the Toyohashi University of Technology (Toyohashi Tech) have developed an innovative method for producing CNT (carbon nano-tube) resin composite material that only requires 1/100 of the conventional amount of CNT additive to produce electrical conductivity in the composite material.
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Other features of the Toyohashi Tech e-Newsletter include:
--Ultra-fast, terabyte-order holographic memory for medical applications. Toyohashi Tech’s Mitsuteru Inoue describes the development of the next generation holographic memory for applications including storage of medical data of patients. http://www.tut.ac.jp/english/newsletter/features/index.html
--News on an administrative exchange program with Korea University of Technology and Education. http://www.tut.ac.jp/english/newsletter/news/index.html
--Events and activities of the University such as:
The Toyohashi Tech triathlon team: plenty of pain and even more gain http://www.tut.ac.jp/english/newsletter/club_activities/index.html
Toyohashi Gion Festival: An unforgettable summer of fireworks http://www.tut.ac.jp/english/newsletter/excursions/index.html
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Ms. Junko Sugaya and Mr. Masashi Yamaguchi
International Affairs Division
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About Toyohashi University of Technology:
Founded in 1976, Toyohashi University of Technology is a vibrant modern institute with research activities reflecting the modern era of advanced electronics, engineering, and life sciences.
Website: http://www.tut.ac.jp/english/
