NIMS NOW International 2009.Vol.7 No.9 <Nov>

Contents

• Creating World-class Research Centers in Innovative Fields

  The Directors' Talk of WPI Centers

  Hitoshi Murayama,
  Director, Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe(IPMU),
  The University of Tokyo.
  
  Masakazu Aono,
  Director General, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics(MANA),
  National Institute for Materials Science(NIMS)

• The First Two Years of MANA

  Progress in Internationalization

  55% International Researchers

  Heaven for Researchers

  Toward the Realization of a Sustainable Society

  MANA Independent Scientists

  3D System

  The MANA Family: Satellites

• Research Highlights

  Platinum Nano-Kompeito

  Success in the Development of Platinum Nanoparticles with an Ultrafine Mesostructure

  Yusuke Yamauchi,
  MANA Independent Scientist, JST PRESTO Researcher(concurrent).
  
  Wang Liang,
  MANA Research Associate

  Establishment of Stacking Structure of Chlorophyll Macromolecules

  The NIMS 930MHz Solid State NMR Plays the Crucial Role

  Tadashi Shimizu, High Field NMR Group, Advanced Nano Characterization Center

  Molecular assembly allowing 16-bit parallel signal transmission

• Special Interview

  Great Science, Good Art Needed To Overturn Paradigms

  Prof. Nadrian C. Seeman, Department of Chemisry, New York University

• NIMS NEWS

  University of Rome Tor Vergata: New NIMS Sister Institution

  Test Drive Event at NIMS with Toyota Fuel Cell Automobile

  Dr. Seiji Kuroda Receives the Title of Fellow from ASM International, The Materials Information Society

  2nd NIMS-WUT-EMPA Workshop in Tsukuba

• Hello from NIMS

  Jose Rafael Colmenares-Angulo(Venezuela).
  Visiting Graduate Student
  Coating Materials Group, Hybrid Materials Center