2023.04.20 Press Release Heat Highway Researchers at #UTokyo_IIS use isotopically purified graphite to study the phenomenon of heat flowing like a fluid, which can lead to new heat-sink devices for electronics.
2023.04.06 Press Release Two Tasks Are Better Than One: Learning If and How Much It’s Raining Improves Deep Models Researchers from the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, find that a deep-learning model that simultaneously learns to classify satellite data as rain/no-rain while determining rain intensity outperforms other models.
2023.03.23 Press Release Like Flipping the Switch Researchers at The University of Tokyo develop a gate driver for circuit bipolar transistor electronic switches with a timing function robust to changes in current and temperature, which can be used in many industrial control applications.
2023.01.05 Press Release Counter-Rotating Fates Researchers at The University of Tokyo simulate the phase separation of self-spinning particles, and show that the process differs from other unmixing processes, which may shed light on the organization of bacteria and other organisms
2022.12.21 Press Release A Rough Start Can Lead to a Strong Bond Researchers at The University of Tokyo develop a simple but effective method of bonding polymers with galvanized steel, a material ubiquitous in the automobile industry, to cheaply and easily create a lightweight and durable product.
2022.12.12 Press Release Simulations are Starting to Gel Researchers at The University of Tokyo show how including the effects of the surrounding water during the aggregation of charged particles can improve the accuracy of simulations, which may help elucidate biological self-assembly
2022.11.18 Press Release Exploring the deep: drones offer new ways to monitor sea floor Researchers led by the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo develop a novel method for measuring seafloor movement
2022.10.11 Press Release Past the Breaking Point Researchers at The University of Tokyo simulated fractures in amorphous materials due to both cyclic fatigue and constant stress using course-grained dynamics, and demonstrated various failure modes, which can help improve reliability of materials
2022.09.22 Press Release Upgrading your Computer to Quantum Researchers at The University of Tokyo grow a nanoscale layer of a superconducting material on top of a nitride-semiconductor substrate, which may help facilitate the integration of quantum qubits with existing microelectronics