[Fuel Reforming Materials Group] [Fuel Cell Materials Center] [NIMS] [Japanese]

Masahiko Demura

Senior researcher, Fuel Reforming Materials Group

Fuel Cell Materials Center, National Institute for Materials Science

Address

• 1-2-1 Sengen, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0047 JAPAN.
• Tel: +81-29-859-2547
• Fax: +81-29-859-2501.
• Email: DEMURA.Masahiko @ nims.go.jp

Education

• Dr.Eng.,``Plastic deformation in binary, stoichiometric Ni₃Al'', the Univ. of Tokyo, 2003 (abstract in japanese)
• M.S. Materials Science, the Univ. of Tokyo, 1995.
• B.S. Metallurgy, the Univ. of Tokyo, 1993.

Professional experience

• Senior researcher, NIMS, 2005-present.
• Researcher, NIMS (due to reorganization with government reform), 2001-2005
• Researcher, National Research Institute for Metals (NRIM), 1995-2001

Research topics

• Development of intermetallic thin foils for high-tempearture chemical system.
• Microstructure and texture control by thermo-mechanical process.
• Mechanical and other properties evaluation

Selected papers

• S. Kobayashi, M. Demura, K. Kishida and T. Hirano, ``Tensile and Bending Deformation of Ni<sub>3</sub>Al Heavily Cold-rolled Foil'', Intermetallics 13 (2005) 608-614.
• C. Cui, M. Demura, K. Hasegawa, T. Ohashi, K. Kishida and T. Hirano, ``Notch sensitivity of heavily cold-rolled Ni₃Al foils'', Scripta Mater. 53 (2005) 1339-1343.
• C. Cui, M. Demura, K. Kishida and T. Hirano, ``Ductility of Cold-Rolled and Recrystallized Ni<sub>3</sub>Al Foils'', J. Mater. Research 20 (2005) 1054-1062.
• M. Demura, K. Kishida, Y. Xu and T. Hirano, ``Texture development of Ni₃Al thin foils during recrystallization and grain growth'', Mater. Sci. Forum 467-470 (2004) 447-452.
• J.-Q. Su, M. Demura and T. Hirano, ``Grain-boundary fracture strength in Ni<sub>3</sub>Al bicrystals'', Phil. Mag. A 82 (2002) 1541-1557.
• M. Demura, K. Kishida, Y. Suga, M. Takanashi and T. Hirano, ``Fabrication of thin Ni₃Al foils by cold rolling'', Scripta Mater. 47 (2002) 267-272.
• M. Demura, Y. Suga, O. Umezawa, K. Kishida, E.P. George and T. Hirano, ``Fabrication of Ni<sub>3</sub>Al thin foil by cold-rolling'', Intermetallics 9 (2001) 157-167.
• M. Demura and T. Hirano, ``Stress response by the strain-rate change in a binary soichiometric Ni₃Al single crystal'', Phil. Mag. Letters 75 (1997) 143-148.