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Yasuaki EINAGA | Development of Innovative Technologies Using Diamond Electrodes for Improving Environment |
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Yuichi SHIMAKAWA | Exploring for New Functional Materials with Unusual Ionic States and Coordinations |
Satoshi SUGIMOTO | Development of New Fe-based Magnetic Materials by Controlling Crystal Structure |
Tadashi FURUHARA | Creation of New Principles in the Multi-scale Design of Steels Based on Light Element Strategy |
Sachio HORIUCHI | Creation of Materials Science for Advanced Ferroelectrics of Organic Compounds |
Yasuaki EINAGA
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Professor, Keio University
Yousoo KIM | Associate Chief Scientist, RIKEN |
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Kazuya NAKATA | Associate Professor, Tokyo University of Science |
Tsuyoshi SAITOH | Assistant Professor, University of Tsukuba |
This project aims to develop innovative technologies using conductive diamond electrodes as next generation functional materials for improving global environment. Our research continuously proceeds from studies on the fundamentals of the functional interfaces to the development of the devices such as electrochemical sensors, wastewater treatment systems, and carbon dioxide reduction systems.
Yuichi SHIMAKAWA
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Professor, Kyoto University
Hiroshi KAGEYAMA | Professor, Kyoto University |
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Shigeru KIMURA | Associate Chief Scientist, Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute |
Tamio OGUCHI | Professor, Osaka University |
We are seeking new materials with new functional properties. New functional materials are strongly demanded for electronic devices in future information technology. Also, science on new materials will give some solutions for the problems in energy- and environment-related issues we face, and will develop our sustainable society. We are thus focusing on new materials containing ubiquitous 3d transition metals. With characteristic synthesis techniques we will be able to make such new functional materials with unusual ionic states and coordinations.
Satoshi SUGIMOTO
Professor, Tohoku University
Hiroshi OHTANI | Professor, Tohoku University |
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Miho YAMAUCHI | Associate Professor, Kyushu University |
We aim to develop new Fe-based magnetic materials with high magnetocrystalline anisotropy for saving rare earth content in permanent magnets. To realize our objective, we study on the possibility for controlling crystal structure of materials by thin film technique, nanoparticle technology that uses substitutional or interstitional elements and composites, and high pressure synthesis. Phase equilibria in the systems are also clarified by First-principles calculations and thermodynamic analyses.
Tadashi FURUHARA
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Professor, Tohoku University
Hiroshi OHTANI | Professor, Tohoku University |
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Hiroshi NUMAKURA | Professor, Osaka Prefecture University |
Kaneaki TSUZAKI | Managing Director, National Institute for Materials Science / |
Professor, Kyushu University |
In this research project, the interactions of light elements, which can improve or degrade the properties of steels significantly by a small addition, with nanostructures of iron are studied. By understanding the fundamental functions of alloying elements, we aim to create new principles in the multi-scale design of high-strength and high ductility/toughness in steels with the minimum use of rare-metals.
Sachio HORIUCHI
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Team Leader, Flexible Materials Base Team, Flexible Electronics Research Center (FLEC), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Reiji KUMAI | Professor, Institute of Materials Structure Science(IMSS), KEK |
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Fumitaka KAGAWA | Unit Leader, Cross-Divisional Materials Research Program, Center for Emergent Matter Science, RIKEN |
Exclusion of toxic lead and rare metallic elements in ferroelectrics is still one of the most important issues of element strategy. This research team aims at paradigm shift on ferroelectrics on the basis of the molecular compounds of C, H, O, and N elements, the ferroelectricity of which has been lately discovered by the team leader. Materials science for advanced ferroelectrics will be constructed by clarifying the microscopic/mesoscopic mechanisms of ferroelectricity specific to the molecular system, and by developing new materials and processes for improvement of the performance, endurance, and thin-film device fabrications.