http://www.nims.go.jp/ Press Release and News from National Institute for Materials Science 2011-03-17 http://www.nims.go.jp/eng/news/archive/2011/03/vk3rak00000141z8.html?rss All NIMS personnel are safe and uninjured. But there are some serious damage to our equipment and devices and we have started sequential recovery from March 14. ニュース 2011-03-17 http://www.nims.go.jp/eng/news/archive/2011/03/vk3rak00000139x4.html?rss Dr. Kazuhiro Hono, NIMS Fellow and Managing Director of Magnetic Materials Center, had received the TMS Fellows Award from the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS). ニュース 2011-03-01 http://www.nims.go.jp/eng/news/press/2011/01/p201101130.html?rss The Foresight Institute in the United States recently announced the award of the Feynman Prize for 2010 to Dr. Masakazu Aono, Director-General of International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA) of the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS). プレスリリース 2011-01-13 http://www.nims.go.jp/eng/news/press/2010/12/p201012240.html?rss A group headed by Dr. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, a Principal Investigator at the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, in joint research with Prof. Takuji Ogawa of the Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, and a research group under Prof. Shu Yamaguchi of the Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, succeeded in the development of a novel transistor. プレスリリース 2010-12-24 http://www.nims.go.jp/eng/news/press/2010/12/p201012100.html?rss A team led by Dr. Sherif El-Safty, Exploratory Materials Research Laboratory for Energy and Environment, NIMS, fabricated tight mosaic cage silica nanotubes (NTs) inside anodic alumina membranes (AAM) as a promising candidate nanofilter for high-speed (within several seconds) size-exclusion separation of high concentration macromolecules. プレスリリース 2010-12-10 http://www.nims.go.jp/eng/news/press/2010/12/p201012080.html?rss The Advanced Electronic Materials Center of the National Institute for Materials Science, in joint work with Chiba University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagoya University, the University of Tsukuba, Waseda University, and JST-CREST, developed a new electrode formation method for realization of future nano devices. プレスリリース 2010-12-08 http://www.nims.go.jp/eng/news/press/2010/11/p201011290.html?rss A team headed by Dr. Kazuhito Tsukagoshi, a Principal Investigator at the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, in joint research with Professor Kazuo Takimiya of Hiroshima University, succeeded in fabricating an organic transistor with the world’s highest field effect mobility directly on a substrate by developing solution process for producing organic crystal transistor from solution. プレスリリース 2010-11-29 http://www.nims.go.jp/eng/news/press/2010/11/p201011240.html?rss The Fuel Cell Nano-Materials Group, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, in joint research with the University of Rome Tor Vergata School, succeed in creating a new technique for cardiac regenerative medicine. プレスリリース 2010-11-24 http://www.nims.go.jp/eng/news/press/2010/11/p201011221.html?rss A team headed by Dr. Kazushi Miki, Group Leader of the Nano Architecture Group of the Organic Nanomaterials Center, National Institute for Materials Science succeed in realizing a large-area near-field light source by arraying trillion of point light “near-field light” sources on a substrate with a size of 1cm2. Use in various technologies is expected. プレスリリース 2010-11-22 http://www.nims.go.jp/eng/news/press/2010/11/p201011220.html?rss Dr. Kohei Uosaki, Coordinator of the Nano Green Area, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics of the National Institute for Materials Science, in joint work with Associate Professor Katsuyoshi Ikeda of the Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, developed a method which dramatically increases light utilization efficiency in organic ultra-thin film type molecular photoelectric conversion devices, which are expected to be applied in molecular electronics. プレスリリース 2010-11-22