My research is primarily focused on investigating the fundamental problems related to glass science.
a) New glasses by containerless process – we prepared new glass system by using the containerless process and found some glasses showed high refractive indices. These high refractive indices are attributed to the characteristic atomic arrangement and chemical bond in the glasses. We clarify the glass formation by the containerless process and the relation between the atomic arrangement and the physical properties.
b) Glass structure and computer simulations: The description of the glass structure is still a difficult problem even now. Using structural analysis and molecular dynamics simulations, we will clarify the relation between atomic arrangement and physical properties mainly for the new glasses.

K. Yoshimoto, A. Masuno, M. Ueda, H. Inoue, H. Yamamoto and T. Kawashima, “Low phonon energies and wide band optical windows of La2O3-Ga2O3 glasses prepared using an aerodynamics levitation technique”, Scientific Reports, 7, 45600 (2017).
G. A. Rosales-Sosa, A. Masuno, Y. Higo, and H. Inoue, “Crack-resistant Al2O3-SiO2 glasses”,Scientific Reports,6, 23620 (2016).
K. Kato, A. Masuno, H. Inoue, “Containerless solidification of undercooled SrO–Al2O3 binary melts”, Physical Chemisty Chemical Physics, 17, 6495 (2015).