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Hideo Hosono
(Professor, Laboratory for Materials and Structures, Institute of Innovative Research, Director, Materials Research Center for Element Strategy, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
1982 Ph.D. from Tokyo Metropolitan University
1999-present Professor, Laboratory for Materials and Structures, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2012-present Director, Materials Research Center for Element Strategy, Tokyo Institute of Technology
URL:http://www.mces.titech.ac.jp/en/index.html
Toshiharu Yokoyama
(ACCEL Program Manager, Japan Science and Technology Agency)
2005 Ph.D. The University of Tokyo
2011 Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2013 ACCEL Program Manager, JST
2014 Visiting Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2013 Oct - 2018 Mar
The electride is a unique material in which electrons act as anions; the electride, however, has long been considered too unstable for practical purposes. The new material C12A7 (12CaO·7Al2O3) electride, developed by HOSONO’s earlier ERATO, ERATO SORST and FIRST projects, has the major advantages of being chemically and thermally stable, and able to emit electrons easily. In ACCEL, we plan to apply this unique material to practical uses, such as high-functional catalyst, electronic materials, and so on.