Kyushu University Japan
Overview
As one of Japan’s leading institutes of higher education, Kyushu University is committed to being a research and educational hub that drives innovation through knowledge creation at its 12 undergraduate and 18 graduate schools, hospital, and world-class research centers covering the natural sciences, medicine, engineering, humanities, social sciences, arts, and design.
Home to around 19,000 students and 8,000 faculty and staff, Kyushu University is making advances in medicine, sustainable energy technologies, materials, and more from its highly accessible location on the southwestern Japanese island of Kyushu in Fukuoka City, a coastal metropolis frequently ranked among the world’s most livable cities and historically known as a gateway to Asia.
In 2018, the university completed the relocation of major facilities to Ito Campus, the largest single campus in Japan. The new main campus has an extensive range of state-of-the-art equipment and buildings in a rich natural environment that can be easily reached from the heart of Fukuoka City by public transportation.
Kyushu University has been bolstering efforts to enhance STEAM education that integrates the humanities and sciences to produce future global leaders, as exemplified by the opening of the School of Interdisciplinary Science and Innovation in 2018. The school aims to cultivate a global mindset in students by having them develop their own problem-solving curriculum, engage in hands-on collaborative learning, and participate in study abroad programs.
To achieve its goal of excellence in education and research to address future challenges today, Kyushu University has enacted a comprehensive, sustainable development campaign for securing and training the next generation of researchers who will bring about innovation. Known as the Kyushu University Renaissance Project, the program enables a number of promising early-career, female, and international researchers to pursue their academic career path with peace of mind.
The university is also actively engaging in promoting and creating university-initiated startups based on academic research, such as by providing grants for researchers who have an employment relationship with Kyushu University and are interested in starting a company.
Welcoming its 110th anniversary this year, Kyushu University aims to continue strengthening efforts to fulfill its role as a research and educational hub that drives innovation through knowledge creation.
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Research
Date range: 1 November 2020 - 31 October 2021
Region: Global
Subject/journal group: All
The table to the right includes counts of all research outputs for Kyushu University published between 1 November 2020 - 31 October 2021 which are tracked by the Nature Index.
Hover over the donut graph to view the Share for each subject. Below, the same research outputs are grouped by subject. Click on the subject to drill-down into a list of articles organized by journal, and then by title.
Note: Articles may be assigned to more than one subject area.
| Count | Share |
|---|---|
| 254 | 82.97 |
Outputs by subject (Share)
| Subject | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Physical Sciences | 83 | 14.29 |
| Life Sciences | 72 | 23.59 |
| Chemistry | 102 | 45.06 |
| Earth & Environmental Sciences | 20 | 6.37 |
Share output for the past 5 years
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 113.98 | 97.34 | 87.70 | 100.48 | 111.50 |
Highlight of the month
Polymeric glasses have rubber-like surfaces
© Colin Anderson Productions pty ltd/DigitalVision/Getty Images
Some polymeric glasses can have surface layers that are more rubber-like than glassy in behaviour, making them promising as ultra-stable glasses for TV screens and phone displays.
Many glassy materials have an ultrathin outer layer with quite different properties to the bulk of the material, being liquid and highly mobile rather than glassy in nature. In glassy materials made from polymers, this behaviour can be complicated due to polymer chains at the surface being entangled with polymer chains deeper in the material.
Now, a team that included two Kyushu University researchers has shown that this polymeric entanglement leads to transient rubbery properties at the surface of polymeric glasses.
Using a combination of theoretical and experimental studies, the team found that this property was displayed even by glasses made from short polymer chains that have less entanglement.
The discovery may have implications for devices that rely on the properties of the polymeric glass surface.
References
- Nature 596, 372–376 (2021). doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03733-7
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Collaboration
Date range: 1 November 2020 - 31 October 2021
International vs. domestic collaboration by Share
- 51.75% Domestic
- 48.25% International
Hover over the graph to view the percentage of collaboration.
Top 10 domestic collaborators with Kyushu University by Share (186 total)
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Kyushu University and The University of Tokyo (UTokyo)
(18.29)
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Kyushu University and Kyoto University
(14.69)
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Kyushu University and RIKEN
(10.35)
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Kyushu University and Nagoya University
(9.86)
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Kyushu University and Osaka University
(9.48)
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Kyushu University and Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech)
(8.27)
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Kyushu University and Integrated Research Consortium on Chemical Sciences (IRCCS)
(6.74)
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Kyushu University and Hokkaido University
(5.85)
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Kyushu University and National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
(3.71)
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Kyushu University and Kumamoto University
(3.66)
Top 10 international collaborators with Kyushu University by Share (676 total)
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Kyushu University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
(4.70)
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Kyushu University and Harvard University
(3.38)
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Kyushu University and French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
(3.30)
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Kyushu University and Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres
(3.12)
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Kyushu University and Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
(2.84)
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Kyushu University and Imperial College London (ICL)
(2.27)
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Kyushu University and The University of Queensland (UQ)
(1.97)
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Kyushu University and National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN)
(1.92)
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Kyushu University and Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT)
(1.86)
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Kyushu University and University of Cambridge
(1.68)
Relationships
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Affiliated joint institutions and consortia
- Asian Genetic Epidemiology Network (AGEN)
- Asian Genetic Epidemiology Network Type 2 Diabetes (AGEN-T2D) Consortium
- Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry
- Chemical Materials Evaluation and Research Base (CEREBA)
- Expedition 302 Scientists
- Fukuoka i3 Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (i3-OPERA)
- Functional Annotation of the Mammalian Genome (FANTOM)
- Integrated Research Consortium on Chemical Sciences (IRCCS)
- International Lung Cancer Consortium (ILCCO)
- Japan Kawasaki Disease Genome Consortium (JKDGC)
- Multiproxy Approach for the Reconstruction of the Glacial Ocean Surface (MARGO)
- Research Center for Hydrogen Industrial Use and Storage (HYDROGENIUS)
- The AMD Gene Consortium
- The ATLAS Collaboration
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