Research Director: Tomokazu IYODA
(Professor, Frontier Research center, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Research Term: Oct 2010 - Mar 2016
Special Extension Period: Apr 2016 - Mar 2017
Grant Number: JPMJER1001

The creation of new metal, ceramic, plastic, and semiconductor materials is extremely important in scientific, technological, and industrial development. There is infinite potential for new functional materials through the combination of existing materials. To date, however, materials produced through such combinations have been limited to the sum of functions in these existing materials. In this project, we developed methodologies to precisely combine different materials at the nanoscale, leading to create supra-integrated materials with orchestrated functions exceeding the sum of the functions of the individual materials.