NIMS NOW International 2009.Vol.7 No.8 <Oct>

Contents

• The Forefront of High Temperature

  NIMS superalloys for cutting CO₂ emissions

  Hiroshi Harada
  Managing Director, High Temperature Materials Center
  (Director, The Rolls-Royce Centre of Excellence for Aerospace Materials)

  Materials development

  Single crystal superalloy
  - World’s highest temperature capability

  Kyoko Kawagishi
  (Associate Director, The Rolls-Royce Centre of Excellence for Aerospace Materials)
  Toshiharu Kobayashi

  EQ coating
  - Both improved oxidation resistance and reduced interdiffusion

  Kyoko Kawagishi
  (Associate Director, The Rolls-Royce Centre
  of Excellence for Aerospace Materials)
  Kazuhide Matsumoto

  Development of high-performance cast-and-wrought
  Ni-Co-base superalloys for turbine disks

  Yuefeng Gu
  Tadaharu Yokokawa

  Design and analysis - High-accuracy alloy design program

  Tadaharu Yokokawa
  Dehai Ping
  Michinari Yuyama

  Simulation
  Development of a virtual gas turbine

  Tomonori Kitashima
  Masafumi Fukuda
  Tadaharu Yokokawa

  Research for practical use

  Efforts to put high temperature materials into practical use

  Junzo Fujioka
  Yutaka Koizumi
  Masao Sakamoto
  Toshimitsu Tetsui

  Patent licenses

  Shoichiro Mori

• FACE

  Original Ideas Create Next-Generation Ultra-High Temperature Materials

  Hiroshi Harada
  Managing Director, High Temperature Materials Center Director, The Rolls-Royce Centre of Excellence for
  Aerospace Materials

• NIMS NEWS

  Dr. Sophonpanich of Thailand’s Minister of Science and Technology (MOST) Visits NIMS

  Establishment of NIMS/Saint-Gobain Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials

  Prof. Lindqvist, Director of the Nobel Museum, Visits NIMS

  NIMS new partnerships

  METU, Turkey

  USTB-NCMS , Beijing

  University of Padua, Italy

  Hanyang University, Korea

  NIMS Group Leader Wins the Experimental Feynman Prize for 2009

  Establishment of NIMS/Saint-Gobain Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials

  Prof. Lindqvist, Director of the Nobel Museum, Visits NIMS

• Hello from NIMS

  Victoria X. Yu (USA)
  1-D Nanomaterials Group
  Exploratory Research Laboratory
  2009/06/16 - 2009/09/10