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Research Center for Material Science and Engineering
Many significant innovations in the 21st century are based on material science and its importance will be increasing in the future. On the other hand, it is rather difficult for researchers from various fields who possess enormous amounts of knowledge and technology to be “utility players” since current academic fields is segmented. Likewise, it is getting more difficult to independently create materials with new functions. Therefore, in order to overcome such obstacles, collaboration among researchers from multiple different fields is in high demand.
With "interdisciplinary" as a keyword, the main objective of the Research Center for Material Science and Engineering is to create new functional materials and substances by providing a cross-disciplinary opportunity to promote collaboration among researchers from various fields inside and outside of the university.
Three foci in the creation of functional materials are as follows:
"Hybrid" is another essential keyword in the development of completely new highly functional materials.
On the basis of our research results in inorganic and organic material science, we are aiming to make this center a hub for the integration of "manufacturing" and "functional evaluation." We are also aiming at the creation of new fields to integrate expertise and various technologies so as to pursue our objectives.
Current major projects at the Research Center for Material Science and Engineering include: