Materials solution for energy and environmental issues
Outline
Greeting from Division Director
- Division Director
- Naoki OHASHI
High energy efficiency of social systems including information and transportation systems, are of crucial demands for reduction of fossil fuel consumptions. For utilization of innovative systems for high efficiency, development of materials science is of great importance. To this context, we are developing optical, electronic and magnetic materials for information systems, new alloys and hybrid materials for safe and efficient mechanical systems, materials for solar energy harvesting and high performance cells, catalysts and adsorbent materials for environmental renovation, and methodology for evaluation of the materials and human safety.
Research Units (12 units)
Environmental Remediation Materials Unit
Conducting research and development of innovative materials & technology which enable efficient environmental remediation
Superconducting Properties Unit
We perform the basic research on superconductivity for the understanding the mechanism.
Superconducting Wire Unit
We perform R&D in the field of applied superconductivity in order to mature and spread superconducting technologies.
Battery Materials Unit
Research on energy storage and conversion materials for high efficient use of energy
Hydrogen Materials Unit
Developing materials for hydrogen production and purification, and also trying to develop materials utilizing the property changes of solids caused by hydrogen
Photovoltaic Materials Unit
Development of high efficiency technologies for cost next generation solar cells to solve global-scale environmental and energy problems.
Materials Reliability Unit
The aim of this unit is to study on degradation mechanism and to develop assessment technique for improvement of materials reliability
High Temperature Materials　Unit
By developing materials with higher temperature capability, we contribute to improve the efficiency of jet engines and power generation plants, and thus to reduction of CO2 emission.
Hybrid Materials Unit
Challenging of new hybrid materials for high-performance functional and mechanical properties
Optical and Electronic Materials Unit
Development of novel crystalline materials for optical and electronic applications
Sialon Unit
We investigate improving processing technology, searching new materials and developping function of non-oxide ceramics, which is represented by sialon.
