Establishment of Innovative Manufacturing Technology Based on Nanoscience

Outline

This field involves constructing an infrastructure for groups of technologies used in the highly efficient production of nano-scale devices and nanomaterials and the demonstration of specific examples of their application. . It also involves promoting research aiming at innovation through the nano-scale science of the phenomena related to the production process, attempting to realize the practical application of nanotechnology in the future by implementing these goals as an infrastructure for "nanoproduction technology". Specifically, the present research targets the development of feasible new materials with superior properties through the use of nanomaterials and their compounds, the construction and highly efficient production of new devices whose high performance is derived from such nanomaterials and nanostructures, nano-level processing technologies, manufacturing techniques which make use of nano-scale self-organization properties, and nano-scale measurement and investigation techniques which can be used in the manufacturing process. In addition, the field also targets nanoscience research which can innovate production technologies, and it is fully expected that practical applications will be created for various settings at the end of the research period.

Strategic Sector

Development of Technologies for Highly-Efficient Manufacturing of Nanodevices and Nanomaterials, and Innovation in Manufacturing Technology Based on Nanoscale Science

Research Projects

Year Started : 2008
Research Director	Affiliation	Research Project
Takanori Ichiki	Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo	Development of the High-Speed Molecular Evolution System for Enzymes using Nanobiochip Technologies
Masatsugu Shimomura	Professor, Tohoku University	Novel Engineering of Hierarchically Structured Biomimetic Surfaces
Takayoshi Sasaki	Fellow, National Institute for Materials Science	Creation of New Nanostructured Materials and Manufacturing Processes for Next-Generation Electronics using Inorganic Nanosheets
Yutaka Majima	Professor,Tokyo Institute of Technology	Development of Single Electron Devices by Highly Precise Bottom-up Processes

Year Started : 2007
Research Director	Affiliation	Research Project
Mitsuru Akashi	Professor, Osaka University	Manufacturing of Polymeric Nanoparticle Vaccines with Control Capability of Immune Responses
Taizo Uda	Professor, Oita University	Development of an Automated Synthesis Apparatus and a Large Production for a Highly Functional Molecule "Super Catalytic Antibody"
Hiromichi Kataura	Group Leader, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)	Development of Irreplaceable Devices by Creation of the Second Generation Carbon Nanotube
Susumu Kuwabata	Professor, Osaka University	Development of Innovative Synthesis Methods of Nano-materials Using Ionic Liquid and Vacuum Techniques
Masaru Hori	Professor, Nagoya University	Establishment of Process Navigation by Creation of Plasma Nano Science and Soft Material Processing
Jiro Matsuo	Associate Professor, Kyoto University	3 Dimensional Molecular Imaging for Soft Material

Year Started : 2006
Research Director	Affiliation	Research Project
Kazunori Kataoka	Professor, The University of Tokyo	Development of Manufacturing Processes of Supramolecular Nanodevices for Practical Gene Therapy
Hidetoshi Kotera	Professor, Kyoto University	Development of Bio/Nano Hybrid Platform Technology towards Regenerative Medicine
Osamu Takai	Director and Professor, Nagoya University	Autonomous Reaction Control in Solution Plasma for Application to Nanosynthesis and Nanoprocessing
Kazuhito Tsukagoshi	Principal Investigator, National Institute for Materials Science	Development of High-perfomance Organic Transistor
Jun-ichi Hanna	Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology	Research and Development of Selforganizing Molecular Semiconductors for Device Applications
Hideaki Maeda	Team Leader, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Kyushu	Precise Synthesis of Nano-particulate Materials in Micro-space

Research Area Website: http://www.nmt.jst.go.jp/english/index.html