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Awards & Prizes

DATE2025.01.14 #Awards & Prizes

Professor Shin-ichi Ohkoshi , Associate Professor Asuka Namai, and Assistant Professor Marie Yoshikiyo received the 24th Yamazaki Teiichi Award.


Third from right, Professor Shin-ichi Ohkoshi; Fourth, Associate Professor Asuka Namai; Fifth, Assistant Professor Marie Yoshikiyo

We are pleased to announce that Professor Shin-ichi Ohkoshi, Associate Professor Asuka Namai, and Assistant Professor Marie Yoshikiyo of the Department of Chemistry have jointly received the Yamazaki Teiichi Prize from the Foundation for Promotion of Materials Science and Technology.

This prestigious award, named after the late Teiichi Yamazaki, the first Executive Vice President of the Foundation for Promotion of Materials Science and Technology, is given to researchers who have made outstanding achievements leading to practical applications through publications, patents, and the development of methods and technologies. Past recipients of this prestigious award include Akira Yoshino (2011, materials field) and Shinya Yamanaka (2008, biotechnology and medical science field), and Hideki Shirakawa served as the first selection committee chairman.

The title of the prize awarded to Professor Ohkoshi and three others is "Development and Application of Epsilon Iron Oxide Magnets". Although the simple composition of ε-Fe2O3, Professor Ohkoshi and his team have derived from it fantastic science such as huge coercive force, nanoparticulation, and millimeter wave absorption properties, and it is recognized as an important material for the Beyond-5G and IoT era. This achievement seems really appropriate for this award named after Mr. Teiichi Yamazaki, who, as the second president of Tokyo Denki Kagaku Kogyo (the predecessor of TDK), pioneered the commercialization of ferrite and its applied products in the world. The presentation ceremony and celebration were held at the Japan Academy on November 27th in the presence of Dr. Takeshi Sasaki, President of the Japan Academy.

We congratulate Professor Ohkoshi , Associate Professor Namai, and Assistant Professor Yoshikiyo for their outstanding achievements and the award, and wish them continued success in their future endeavors.

Yamazaki Teiichi Prize

 

( Responsibility: Professor Teppei Yamada, Department of Chemistry)