[Element Strategy] Creation of Innovative Functions of Intelligent Materials on the Basis of the Element Strategy

※ Affiliations and titles are as of the end of the research activity.

Research Supervisor

Kohei Tamao（Science Advisor / Director, Global Research Cluster, RIKEN）

Overview

　This research area addresses resource, energy, and environmental problems, which should be solved to build a sustainable society from the viewpoint of materials science and solid-state science based on Element Strategy and aims to create innovative functions of intelligent materials that are quite different from conventional functions.
Specifically, under the concept of Element Strategy “understanding and effective use of the roles of key elements that determine the properties and functions of intelligent materials,” we conduct research and development to create innovative properties and functions of intelligent materials by multilaterally and systematically elucidating and understanding problems common in the expression of a variety of functions, such as structure, interface, and electron correlation, and controlling the functions. With a variety of element properties in mind, we investigate ways of expressing the intended functions from a microscopic viewpoint, such as electronic state, atomic arrangement, and molecular structure, and aim to create innovative functions of intelligent materials to solve a variety of problems by using various methods, such as measurement technology and computational science, and designing structures, functions, and reactions. We promote ambitious and challenging research with a multidisciplinary integration beyond the boundaries of the academic fields of physics, chemistry, engineering, and materials science.

Research Area Advisors

Hideki Iba

Kohsaku Ushioda

Masuo Okada

Masatoshi Takao

Setsuko Tajima

Masaaki Tokunaga

Eiichi Nakamura

Tomohiro Nakayama

Hideo Hosono

Sadamichi Maekawa

Hiroaki Misawa

Shinji Murai

Masanori Murakami

Hatsumi Mori

Year Started: 2010

Research Director

Yasuaki Einaga (Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University)

Yousoo Kim (RIKEN)
Tsuyoshi Saitoh (University of Tsukuba)
Kazuya Nakata (Faculty of Science and Engineering, Tokyo University of Science)

Research Director

Shimakawa Yuichi (Professor, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University)

Tamio Oguchi (Specially Appointed Professor, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University)
Hiroshi Kageyama (Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University)
Shigeru Kimura

Research Director

Satoshi Sugimoto (Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University)

Hiroshi Ohtani (Fellow, Toyota Riken Fellow, Toyota Physical and Chemical Research Institute)
Atsunori Kamegawa (Professor, Muroran Institute of Technology)
Miho Yamauchi (Professor, Kyushu University)

Research Director

Tadashi Furuhara (Professor, Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University)

Hiroshi Ohtani (Fellow, Toyota Riken Fellow, Toyota Physical and Chemical Research Institute)
Kaneaki Tsuzaki (Fellow, National Institute for Materials Science)
Hiroshi Numakura (Professor, Osaka Prefecture University)

Research Director

Sachio Horiuchi (Chief Senior Researcher, Research Institute for Advanced Electronics and Photonics, National Institute of Advanced Science and Technology)

Fumitaka Kagawa (Professor, School of Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Reiji Kumai (Professor, Institute of Materials Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization)
Hironori Nakao

Year Started: 2011

Research Director

Hiroshi Kitagawa (Professor, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University)

Michihisa Koyama (Professor, Research Institute of Supra-Materials, Shinshu University)
Katsutoshi Nagaoka (Professor, Nagoya University)
Syo Matsumura (President, National Institute of Technology, Kurume Colleage)
Osamu Yamamuro (The University of Tokyo)

Research Director

Hideo Nagashima (Professor, Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University)

Yasuhiro Uozumi (Professor)
Fumitoshi Kakiuchi (Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Keio University)
Yoichiro Kuninobu (Professor, Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University)
Hiroaki Sasai (Specially Appointed Professor, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University)
Masaya Sawamura (Professor, Hokkaido University)
Yusuke Sunada (Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo)
Hikaru Takaya (Professor, Faculty Life & Environmental Sciences, Teikyo University of Science)
Yoshiaki Nakao (Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University)

Research Director

Tetsuya Hasegawa (Professor, The University of Tokyo)

Toshihiro Shimada (The University of Tokyo)
Shoichiro Nakao
Tomoteru Fukumura (The University of Tokyo)

Research Director

Kazuhiro Hono (National Institute for Materials Science)

Akimasa Sakuma (Professor, Tohoku University)
Toshiyuki Shima (Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Tohoku Gakuin University)
Thomas Schrefl (Professor, Center for Integrated Sensor Systems, Danube University Krems（Austria）)
Yasukazu Murakami (Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University)