News & Topics

• 2024.11.17
  

  Three oral presentations were made at the JSME Symposium : Sports engineering and Human Dynamics 2024 (SHD2024). /日本機械学会 シンポジウム：スポーツ工学・ヒューマンダイナミクス2024（SHD2024）にて3件の口頭発表を行いました．

• 2024.11.04
  

  We made five oral presentations on friction of rubber and textile materials at Tribology Conference 2024 Autumn Nago./日本トライボロジー会議2024秋名護にて，当研究室からゴムの摩擦，繊維材料の摩擦に関する5件の口頭発表を行いました．

• 2024.10.26
  

  Published/論文掲載:  Hide Matsumoto, Masaki Tomosada, Toshiaki Nishi, Yoshihiro Sasaki, Ryota Sakurai, Taekshi Yamaguchi, Comparing the Ground Reaction Forces, Toe Clearances, and Stride Lengths of Young and Older Adults Using a Novel Shoe Sensor System, Sensors. https://doi.org/10.3390/s24216871

• 2024.10.24
  

  Prof. Nishi made a presentation about the rubber friction 2024 JSAE Congress (Autumn) /西助教が自動車技術会2024年秋季大会にてゴムの摩擦に伴うひずみの計測に関する研究発表を行いました．

• 2024.09.23
  

  We made three oral presentations on friction between sanitary napkins and skin, and friction of rubber in liquid at the 2024 Autumn Meeting of the Japan Society for Design Engineering./日本設計工学会2024年度秋季大会研究発表講演会にて，当研究室から生理用品と肌の摩擦，液体中のゴムの摩擦に関する3件の口頭発表を行いました．

• 2024.09.06
  

  At 49th Leeds Lyon Symposium on Tribology, two oral presentations and a poster presentation on friction of rubber and textiles were given./49th Leeds Lyon Symposium on Tribologyにて，当研究室からゴムとテキスタイルの摩擦に関する2件の口頭発表と1件のポスター発表を行いました．

• 2024.08.28
  

  At 22nd Triennial Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA2024 Jeju), four oral presentations on fall prevention and sensor shoe systems were given./第22回国際人間工学会（済州島，韓国）にて，当研究室から転倒防止やセンサシューズシステムに関する4件の口頭発表を行いました．

• 2024.08.04
  

  Published/論文掲載:  Nishi and Yamaguchi, Influence of surface free energy of liquids and liquid distributions on the friction of paper wipers, Friction. https://doi.org/10.26599/FRICT.2025.9440970

• 2024.07.25
  

  Development of official sportswear for the Japanese national track and field team at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games/パリ2024オリンピック陸上競技日本代表オフィシャルスポーツウェアの開発に協力 https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/japanese/2024/07/news20240724-paris.html

• 2024.06.28
  

  Published/論文掲載:  Ishizako et al., Effect of orientation and hardness of rubber tread block on the friction coefficient under glycerol lubrication and its underlying mechanisms, Tribology International. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.triboint.2024.109904

• 2024.06.26
  

  Assistant Prof. Nishi’s research project has been selected as a research project of the JST FOREST pgoram for FY2023./西助教の研究課題（放射光で切り拓くゴム摩擦の学理創成と革新的材料開発）が2023年度創発的研究支援事業の研究課題に採択されました．

• 2024.06.13
  

  Published/論文掲載:  Nishi et al., Visualization of strain distribution in rubber bulk during friction, Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-64271-6

• 2024.06.10
  

  Published/論文掲載:  Shibata et al.,Slip-resistance of rubbers and polymer fibers as shoe sole on dry and wet ice surfaces, Tribology International. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.triboint.2024.109867

• 2024.05.29
  

  Three oral presentations and one award-winning lecture were given at the tribology conference 2024 Spring Tokyo./トライボロジー会議2024 春 東京にて3件の口頭発表と1件の受賞講演を行いました．

• 2024.05.29
  

  Assistant Prof. Nishi, Prof. Yamaguchi, and Emeritus Prof. Horikirigawa received the Technology Award of the Japanese Society of Tribologists for 2023/西助教，山口教授，堀切川名誉教授が2023年度日本トライボロジー学会技術賞を受賞しました．

• 2024.05.19
  

  Prof. Nishi received the Best Presentation Award at the 2023 Autumn Meeting of the Japan Society for Design Engineering./西助教が（公社）日本設計工学会2023年度秋季大会研究発表講演会優秀発表賞を受賞しました．

• 2024.05.15
  

  Published/論文掲載:  Zarazúa-Villalobos, et al.  Wear resistance of spark plasma sintered Fe-based BMG reinforced with Al2O3, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2024.123010

• 2024.03.27
  

  Our research was introduced on “Jonetsu Labo”, Miyagi news every., Miyagi Television Broadcasting  (March 26, 2024)./山口・西研の研究がミヤギテレビ ミヤギnews every.「情熱Labo」で紹介されました（2024年3月26日）．

• 2024.03.27
  

  Ms. Chiharu Yoshihara (B3) received Hatakeyama Award, the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers./B3の吉原千晴さんが日本機械学会畠山賞を受賞しました．

• 2024.03.25
  

  Mr. Shoma Kobayashi (M1) received the Dean’s Award of School of Engineering, Tohoku University./M1の小林祥真さんが東北大学工学部長賞を受賞しました．