Laboratories at the School / Graduate School of Engineering

Under the bland slogan of Panasonic Group, “Live Your Best”, our department provides a setting that combines with the potentials of Panasonic and Osaka University, including its research information, technologies, personnel, and facilities, and thereby makes a place for innovation that creates social changing new values. Furthermore, by combining research in a diverse range of fields, including engineering, science, medicine, economics, and psychology, through exchanges and collaboration, our department creates synergistic effects to enable top-level research and personnel development for both parties.

Microwave Driven Chemistry
・Inorganic Reaction
　 (Nanoparticle, Complex)
・Organic Reaction
(Suzuki-coupling, Esterification)
・Hybrid Catalyst

This Institute conducts collaborative research with the aim of building and strengthening the digitized fundamental technologies needed in a data-driven society. The digitization of the experience and intuition of skilled engineers, which is one of the fundamental technologies, requires the acquisition of data collection and analysis techniques, including experiments and simulations. We are promoting cross-faculty researches and developments with related laboratories in the Graduate School of Engineering and affiliated laboratories such as the Joining and Welding Reserch Institute and Cybermedia Center.

We revolutionize production engineering by converge the core manufacturing technologies such as bonding, forming and casting and more to keep international superiority in the manufacturing. We create innovative electric products by using the production engineering.

The NEXCO(West Nippon Expressway Company Limited) has obtained practical knowledge about the technology and management of the expressways thorough their constructing and operating over half century.
Based on the knowledge, we develop the state of the art technology to renovate the expressways that are required maintenance.
This course which started in July 2011 has carried out incorporating some results of one of the most advanced research by Osaka University
to the research of the NEXCO.

As a base for joint research between Osaka University and Komatsu, we are engaged in improving the productivity of construction & production sites, to realizes automation, remoteness, and efficiency. In addition to utilizing ICT, we will collaborate with various laboratories in a wide range of fields such as control, image processing, sensors, simulation, and other data analysis by utilizing the viewpoints and ideas unique to universities, aiming for speedy establishment.

Joint Research Laboratory (TOPPAN) for Advanced Cell Regulatory Chemistry carries out a cooperative research between laboratory of Industrial Organic Chemistry at graduate school of engineering, Osaka University and TOPPAN Printing CO., Ltd. We are going to develop and commercialize a novel cell regulation technology. In this laboratory, we focus on interaction between cell and synthetic polymer, natural polymer or protein to control cell adhesion, differentiation, proliferation, self-assembly and so on. In addition, we will apply these technologies to 3D tissue construction. 3D tissues are expected to be useful for high throughput drug assays and regenerative medicine.

This Joint Research Chair aims to improve repeatability, safety, stability, and productivity of cell culture for drug discovery screening, cell manufacture in regenerative medicine. To achieve this aim, this Joint Research Chair conducts research on mechanization of manual culture procedures, development of culture containers and instruments applicable for culturing equipment, and construct methodology of objective culture evaluation using cell images. In addition, we are engaged in research and development of culture systems incorporating these technologies.

This joint research chair aims to establish the design of smart factories for advanced medicine such as regenerative medicine.
We acquire and analyze various data of cell culture and develop a manufacturing system of innovative regenerative medicine products that can utilize it in real time.
Furthermore, by linking medical data and product data, we aim to study and construct a system used for continuous quality improvement of products and treatment prediction.

Always DAIKIN between “People” and “Air”

DAIKIN Collaboration Research Institute, which was founded as the former chemical research section of DAIKIN Industries, Ltd. in 2006, was established as a collaborative research project in Osaka University and has obtained many research results until now.
From early 2016, it aims to create fundamental technologies for the innovation of existing products or systems with the collaboration of the air conditioner section and other sections.
In order to continue creating a more comfortable living environment and earth environment, our company DAIKIN Industries now accelerates a challenge to next generation technologies, keeping our eyes wide open into the future from the viewpoint of people living there.

In our research alliance laboratory, fused state-of-the-art of Osaka University technology and accumulated technology of Nippon Shokubai, is working on the creation of new products and technologies that are innovative and competitive.

Our mission is to make a contribution to the stability and growth of the society for the next 100 years.
To aim at the transformation to co-creation, Osaka University and NTN are planning and carrying out research with open innovation.
Our institute is based on the “”N-type strategy.””
The strategy is made up a technology push vector and a vision-driven vector.

In ULVAC-OSAKA University Joint Research laboratory for Future Technology, we perform the various studies based on the vacuum technology widely from the preservation of pharmaceutical products to film deposition equipments for the flat-panel display, semiconductor devices and LED devices. Through a framework of joint research with Osaka University, we work for the advanced personnel development, as well as the contribution to development of the science in the medical and engineering fields. We hope to establish networks formed by the interchange of mutual researchers.

In the evolution of the society and our lifestyles with the progress of science and technology, we will pursue the infinite ability of advanced recyclable steels to guarantee the safety and security in our life, on the representations of lightweight vehicles, high-rise buildings, and energy transportation materials.
We will develop a new multi-physics and multi-scale characterization techniques, resulting in the understanding of a dynamic deformation mechanism in steels, including the time dependent phenomenon. It is a key for us to make a good relationship among several kinds of　laboratories in material science divisions.

Metabolomics is the study on investigating comprehensively biological phenomena in vivo by analyzing exhauslive various metabolites generated by life activities. It is useful for elucidating complex systems such as disease prediction, drug discovery support, and food improvement based on scientific evidence. Our laboratories are collaborating with various professors at Osaka University, mainly in the field of metabolomics. Furthermore, since fiscal year 2021, Shimadzu has started the REACH Project, in which Shimadzu employees are dispatched as doctoral students, with the aim of further accelerating collaboration and early social implementation of research results.

To contribute to the commercialization of new regenerative medicine techniques, we develop technology and equipment for cell storage and transportation by combining Kino-oka lab’s know-how regarding stabilization of cell processing and Iwatani Corporation’s cryogenic engineering experience.

Mobility System Joint Research Chair is aiming at configuring comfortable, eco-friendlly, and sustainable smart city powered by e-Mobility. Research themes are on multi-modal mobility analysis, optimal charging infrastructure design for various electric fleet, and coupling analysis beyond mobility and energy sectors, and so on. Final target of the research chair is to create a prototype of smart city platform in foundation of versatile landscape of the city and community.

　Responses to global climate change and the conservation of our terrestrial, atmospheric, and marine environments have become major issues in recent years. The creation of a circular economy has been proposed as a possible solution to these issues. As a result, the importance of nonferrous metal materials, such as copper and rare metals, that are used in electronic devices and other products is increasing significantly.
　This time, the Graduate School of Engineering at Osaka University, and the Company have decided to come together in a new industry-academia collaboration with a shared vision of promoting resource recycling and contributing to the creation of a circular economy.

In this joint research chair, we are working on research and development of elemental technologies for next-generation CAE, considering the ideal form of next-generation CAE. We will establish innovative structural design and evaluation methods for real structures through digital twin by integrating state-of-the-art fracture prediction and evaluation technology, VMT (Virtual Materials Testing) technology based on crystal plasticity analysis, and machine learning/AI technology.

We will work to build an automated system that enables stable and mass production for the practical application of cell therapy using umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells. In addition, we will connect a series of processes from manufacturing to transportation to medical sites, aiming to realize social implementation of regenerative medicine.

Koji mold is designated as ‘Japanese National Microorganisms’ by The Brewing Society of Japan, and is used in the manufacture of Japanese rice wine, soy sauce, soybean paste, recognized as industrial fungi. This donated laboratory had been established on October 2021. The members in this laboratory proceed research for breeding engineering of koji mold, where we are to investigate the diversity of genomic structure among koji mold and its related fungi and to apply the newly active koji mold. One of the goal of this study may develop fermented foods using new materials which are not used in traditional foods.

We are engaged in fundamental research on the control mechanism of chemical reactions in microchannels using ultrasonication and on ultrasonic sensors. We also approach the basic comparative research between ultrasonication and energy from gunpowder action regarding the control of reactions on proteins.

This research alliance laboratory was established in September 2021 to evaluate and develop human resources in biotechnology. Osaka University and Persol Tempstaff Corporation will work together to develop an evaluation method based on a job analysis and career visualization, to contribute to high-level human resources in the field of biotechnology.

This is a joint research laboratory among Prof. Matsusaki laboratory of Industrial Organic Chemistry at graduate school of engineering, Osaka University, ITOHAM YONEKYU HOLDINGS INC. and TOPPAN INC. Prof. Matsusaki has developed a superior method to produce cultured meat using 3D cell printing technology. We work on further development of the techniques to enable its implementation in society (ensuring food safety, cost reduction, mass production, etc.). In addition, as key members of the Consortium for Future Innovation by Cultured Meat, we will contribute to solving environmental and food problems, improving people’s health, and proposing food for the future, in collaboration with people in other research and industrial fields.

This Joint Research Chair was established in March 2023 as a laboratory that will serve as a driving force to create a new offshore wind industry in Japan and to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Then, it is necessary to integrate technologies for offshore wind spreading over various fields. We are working for promoting the industrialization of offshore wind, and for developing human resource who can lead the offshore wind industry.