TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
CREATING GLOBAL EXCELLENCE
CREATING GLOBAL EXCELLENCE
Tohoku University is renowned for its achievements in technological innovation and for the practical application of these technologies to the advancement of society. Inventions born at Tohoku University include the KS and NKS steels, the Yagi-Uda antenna, fibre optics, and perpendicular magnetic recording.
Before stepping down on March 31, former president Susumu Satomi shared some of his favourite memories of his time at the university.
AIMR Director Motoko Kotani, talks about using mathematics as the common language bridging the different disciplines within materials science.
Researchers have developed a new way to quantify ring shapes in chemically bonded networks of glass, revealing more about its atomic structure.
The key to the researchers' breakthrough was the researchers ability to develop a special type of porous carbon sheet called a graphene mesosponge sheet.
Thanks to a high-resolution observation, researchers have uncovered the mechanisms behind accretion flows toward a supermassive black hole in a nearby galaxy.
Researchers revealed the mechanism behind this observed phenomenon after developing a model that simulates fish tail motion.
Tohoku University has 1,763 Research fellows from overseas, 12 Inter-Department Institutes for Education and 11 University Collaborating Institutions.
A new institution which is open to researchers around the world, where people from diverse disciplines can gather, learn and create.
Utilizing Tohoku University's research results and resources in various industries.
This site provides you with information on academic research staff at Tohoku University.
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