NIMS NOW International 2010.Vol.8 No.03<Apr>

Contents

• Reflecting Future of Materials with the Computational Science

  Progress in Computational Science

  Takahisa Ohno
  Managing Director, Computational Materials Science Center,
  Managing Director, Innovative Center of Nanomaterials Science for Environment and Energy

  Approaching to Surface Boraphene--
  Collaboration of Computational, Experimental, and Theoretical Science

  Shigeru Suehara
  First-Principles Simulation Group 2,
  Computational Materials Science Center

  Development of Large-Scale First-Principles Calculation Method

  Tsuyoshi Miyazaki
  First-Principles Simulation Group 1,
  Computational Materials Science Center

  First-Principles Simulation of Redox Reaction

  Yoshitaka Tateyama
  Independent Scientist,
  International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

  Investigating Nanostructures by Molecular Dynamics Simulation

  Masato Shimono
  Particle Simulation & Thermodynamics Group,
  Computational Materials Science Center

  Simulation of Solidification Microstructure by Phase-Field Method

  Machiko Ode
  Particle Simulation & Thermodynamics Group,
  Computational Materials Science Center
  

  CALPHAD Modeling of Order-Disorder Transition in LiCoO2

  Taichi Abe, Toshiyuki Koyama
  Computational Materials Science Center,
  NIMS-TOYOTA Materials Center of Excellence for Sustainable Mobility

  Alloy Design Considering Atomic Arrangement

  Hidehiro Onodera
  Particle Simulation & Thermodynamics Group, Computational Materials Science Center

  Innovative Center of Nanomaterials Science for Environment and Energy and Computational Science

  Takahisa Ohno
  Managing Director, Computational Materials Science Center,
  Managing Director, Innovative Center of Nanomaterials Science for Environment and Energy

• Special Interview

  Ask the Discoverer -- The Present, Past, and Future of Carbon Nanotubes

  Professor Sumio Iijima
  Meijo University

• Research Highlights

  Environment-friendly Lead-free Piezoelectric Material Surpassing PZT

  Xiaobing Ren
  Group Leader, Ferroic Physics Group, Sensor Materials Center

  Success in Trial Fabrication of BN/Si Heterodiode Solar Cell

  Shojiro Komatsu
  Group Leader,
  Wide Band Gap Semiconductor Group, Advanced Electronic Materials Center
  
  Yuhei Satoh
  Tokyo Institute of Technology
  
  Daisuke Hirano, Takuya Nakamura
  Nihon University

• NIMS EVENT REPORT

  9th NIMS Forum

  nano tech 2010 "International Nanotechnology Exhibition & Conference"

  JAPAN NANO 2010 "Challenge of Nanotechnology for Energy and Environment"

• NIMS NEWS

  The MANA International Symposium 2010

  NIMS New Partnership

  Hello from NIMS