" Inasawa Lab

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Welcome to INASAWA Lab.

"The formation kinetics of solids during chemical reactions and/or drying" is the key in our researches.

What's New!

1 June 2023 Research Paper
in Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspect
Free link by July 19, 2023
"Drying kinetics of colloid-polymer suspensions confined in a two-dimensional geometry"
by M. Tanaka and S. Inasawa

24 April 2023 (10 May 2023 updated)
Research Paper
in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
"Position-dependent rates of film growht in drying colloidal suspensions on tilted air-water interfaces"
by K. Abe and S. Inasawa

2 March 2023
Research Paper in
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
"Spontaneous transfer of amphiphilic molecules from evaporating water to involatile oil and its effects on the rate of water evaporation"
by K. Hasegawa and S. Inasawa

1 April 2022
Update of Lab members.

25. Dec. 2021 Research Paper in Chemical Engineering Science
"Effects of liquid-liquid interfaces on flow of oil-in-water emulsions in a capillary tube"
by C. Tajima and S. Inasawa

9. Nov. 2021 Research Paper in Colloid and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspect
"Deformation and coalescence of particle-stabilized oil droplets in drying aqueous NaCl solutions"
by K. Abe and S. Inasawa

11. Oct. 2021 Research Paper in RSC Advances
"Scaling law for the kinetics of water imbibition in polydisperse foams"
by K. Tsuritani and S. Inasawa

1 April 2021
Newlab members

30. Dec, 2020
Research Paper in Langmuir
"Buckling and drying kinetics of particle-stabilized water droplets fully or partially immersed in an oil layer"
by K. Abe and S. Inasawa

2. Oct, 2020
Research Paper in Drying Technology
"How do drying methods affect quality of films? Drying of polymer solutions under hot-air flow or infrared heating with comparable evaporation rates"
by T. Kinnan, Y. Kondo, M. Aoki and S. Inasawa

13. August, 2020
Research Paper in Soft Matter
"Evaporation kinetics of continuous water and dispersed oil droplets"
by K. Hasegawa and S. Inasawa

14. July, 2020
Research Paper in Journal of Crystal Growth
"Formation of boron-doped silicon wires and control of dopant concentrtaion using zinc, SiCl4 and BCl3"
by R. Taniguchi and S. Inasawa

21. April, 2020
Research Paper in RSC Advances
free access
"Drying-induced back flow of colloidal suspensions confined in thin unidirectional drying cells"
by K. Inoue and S. Inasawa

2. April, 2020
New members have joined.

14. Jan., 2020
Research Paper in RSC Advances
free access
"Positive and negative birefringence in packed films of binary spherical colloidal particles"
by K. Inoue and S. Inasawa

13. May, 2019
Research Paper in Journal of Crystal Growth
free link by 6 July, 2019
"Experimental and numerical approaches on the effect of gas flow on the formation of tens-square-cm-scale mat of silicon nanowires from SiCl4 and zinc vapor"
by S. Inasawa and K. Inoue

25. Apr., 2019
Research Paper in Soft Matter
"Flow of condensed particles around a packing front visualized by drying colloidal suspensions on a tiltied substrate"
by T. Mizuguchi and S. Inasawa

1. Apr., 2019
Three undergraduate students have joined to our Lab.

5. Mar., 2019
Research Paper in Drying Technology
"Packing structures of colloidal silica particles formed by drying condensed suspensions"
by H. Miyazaki, K. Abe and S. Inasawa
Free eprints (limited-number only)

28. Nov., 2018
Research Paper in Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects
"Packing structures and formation of cracks in particulate films obtained by drying colloid–polymer suspensions"
by S. Koga and S. Inasawa

12. Oct., 2018
Research Paper in Journal of Crystal Growth.
"Formation of thicker silicon wires on a sufficiently cooled substrate during the gas phase zinc reduction reaction of SiCl4"
by N. Shirane and S. Inasawa

2. April, 2018
Three undergraduates have joined in our lab.

23. Feb, 2018
Research Paper in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.
"Quantitative study of enhanced drying flux from a narrow liquid-air interface of colloidal suspensions during directional drying"
by K. Abe and S. Inasawa.

14. Nov, 2017
Research Paper in Soft Matter.
"Drying kinetics of water droplets stabilized by surfactant molecules or solid particles in a thin non-volatile oil layer"
by H. Miyazaki and S. Inasawa.

11. Aug, 2017
Research Paper in Soft Matter.
"Kinetics in Directional drying of water that contain deformable non-volatile oil droplets"
by K. Hasegawa and S. Inasawa.

9. Aug, 2017
Yusuke Hori, Awarded by Society of Chemical Engineering Japan. more details (in Japanese)

18. May, 2017
9th Asia Coating Workshop at Koganei Campus, TUAT, has been successfully completed.more details

13. April, 2017
Research Paper in CrystEngComm
"Cross-sectional analysis of the core of silicon microparticles formed via zinc reduction of SiCl4"
by S. Inasawa, Y. Ono, T. Mizuguchi, A. Sunairi, S. Nakamura, Y. Tsuji and Y. Yamaguchi

1. April, 2017
Three undergraduates have joined to our lab.

7. Feb., 2017
New website for 9th Asia Coating Workshop (ACW2017)
click here

8. Sep. 2016
Research Paper in Powder Thechnology
"Liquid penetration as a simple detection method for structural differences in particulate films prepared from slurries"
by H. Miyazaki, Y. Nomura, H. Sugai, M. iijima, S. Inasawa and H. Kamiya

23. Aug. 2016
Research Paper in Soft Matter
"Surface freezing and surface coverage as key factors for spontaneous formation of colloidal fibers in vacuum drying of colloidal suspensions"
by S. Inasawa, T. Katayama and Y. Yamaguchi

10. Aug. 2016
Research Paper in Soft Matter
"Formation kinetics of particulate films in directional drying of a colloidal suspension"
by S. Inasawa, Y. Oshimi and H. Kamiya

Apr.1,2016
Three new undergraduates and 6 new graduate students have joined our lab.

Aug. 25, 2015
Free link for publication in Chemical Engineering Science.
"Measurement and Kinetic Modeling on Photoluminescence Stability from "Trenched" Silicon Microparticles under Continuous Excitation" by S. Inasawa & Y. Yamaguchi
(until Oct. 14, 2015)

July 31, 2015
Relaunch lab website.

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Adress BASE 232, Tokyo Univeristy of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT), 2-24-16 Nakacho, Koganei, Tokyo, 184-8588, Japan