Lecture by Researcher SEKINE
Meiji University International Institute for Materials with Life Functions (research representative: Professor AIZAWA Mamoru, School of Science and Technology) held a symposium on March 5 at Building No.2 of Ikuta Campus. About 30 undergraduate and graduate students as well as general applicants attended the symposium.
The symposium has been held every year since 2018, when the Institute was a research cluster, as a group to consider next-generation biomaterials. In recent years, the symposium has been organized under the title of “Materials with life functions: how to bring artificial materials to life” and was held for the third time in fiscal 2023 on this day. Professor IKOMA Toshiyuki at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Researcher SEKINE Yurina at the Materials Sciences Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, were invited to give lectures.
Professor IKOMA gave a lecture entitled “Material therapy utilizing bioceramics.” He introduced research cases of the treatment of tumor tissue by radiation and light irradiation through the utilization of nanoparticles which respond to external stimuli.
Researcher SEKINE gave a lecture entitled “Synthesis and development of application of a new material using chemical reaction in freeze concentration layer.” She reported the successful formation of a new hydrogel based on the woody cellulose, which exists in the amount of 90 billion tons on Earth, by controlling the microstructure of carboxymethyl cellulose using a freezing process.
Professor AIZAWA, the representative of the Institute, concluded the symposium by saying, “I could feel that researches are being carried out with enthusiasm as a driving force.”
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