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  Researchers Create Strong "Super Silk" That Maintains Shape After Wetting

  You are what you eat! Researchers discovered that a small change to the diet of silkworms improves the quality of silk they produce.

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  Scientists Realize Stable "Boron Graphene" and Uncover Quantum Liquid Crystal State

  The breakthrough opens a pathway toward high-temperature superconductivity and more energy-efficient electronics.

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  Understanding Textile Structures by Studying Defect Propagation

  Researchers classify periodic textile structures by mathematically tracking how defects propagate through interconnected yarn networks.

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  Scientists Discover Alternative B-Cell Development Pathway in Birds

  The discovery overturns a long-standing belief that these immune system-related cells developed exclusively in one organ, painting a better picture of how birds' immune systems develop.

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  Research Institutes and Centers

  Tohoku University has 1,763 Research fellows from overseas, 12 Inter-Department Institutes for Education and 11 University Collaborating Institutions.

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  International Visitor Research Center

  A new institution which is open to researchers around the world, where people from diverse disciplines can gather, learn and create.

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  Research Profiles

  Utilizing Tohoku University's research results and resources in various industries.

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  Academic Research Staff

  This site provides you with information on academic research staff at Tohoku University.

Feature Highlights

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  In Conversation with Susumu Satomi

  Before stepping down on March 31, former president Susumu Satomi shared some of his favourite memories of his time at the university.

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  Motoko Kotani: By the Numbers

  AIMR Director Motoko Kotani, talks about using mathematics as the common language bridging the different disciplines within materials science.