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Cooperative Research and Development Center for Advanced Materials
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A collaborative research center of the Institute for Materials Research (IMR) that creates new materials and opens its equipment to the world.
AboutAbout the lab
Giving 'dreams' form, a bridge to the future.
The Center works on developing new materials that will support innovation in the 21st century.
It establishes the basic principles and techniques for controlling and synthesizing substances and materials, and creates new substances and new materials.
It explores possible applications in energy materials, environmental materials, structural materials, electronic and information materials, and biomedical and welfare materials.
Since 2018, as the International Joint Usage/Research Center for Materials Science, it has opened the equipment of the Institute for Materials Research to researchers around the world.
Key terms
- Joint Usage/Research Center
- A system recognized by the national government in which a university opens its equipment and facilities to researchers in Japan and around the world and conducts research together with them
- Materials design
- Deciding how to arrange a material's composition and internal structure in order to obtain the desired properties
- Process technology
- Technology related to the steps used to make materials, such as melting, solidifying, and processing raw materials
NewsLab news
Paper by Prof. Yoshikawa and colleagues published in JOURNAL OF CRYSTAL GROWTH
Paper by Prof. Yoshikawa and colleagues published in JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC MATERIALS
Paper by Prof. Yoshikawa and colleagues published in Journal of Crystal Growth
Paper by Prof. Yamanaka and colleagues published in Welding Journal
A technical specialist received the Commendation by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in the field of science and technology
ResearchResearch themes
The Center aims to establish the basic principles of materials design and process technologies, and to create outstanding new materials. Working with the research divisions and centers of the Institute for Materials Research, it nurtures the seeds of materials, process technologies, and evaluation techniques that emerge within the institute.
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MembersFaculty
The Center's members consist of faculty, technical staff, research fellows, administrative staff, and doctoral and master's students.As of 2026
- Center Director and Professor (concurrent)Hidemi Kato
- ProfessorRie Umetsu
- ProfessorNobuyuki Nishiyama
- ProfessorHao Chen
- Professor (Concurrent)Akira Yoshikawa
- Professor (Concurrent)Goro Miyamoto
- Professor (Concurrent)Kenta Yamanaka
- Associate Professor (Concurrent)Rodion V. Belosludov
- Assistant ProfessorYunjeong Hwang
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Bismuth Crystal 13x )” Savannah River Site / Public domain (cropped)
- Creation of high-performance materials and materials design: “Laue-Cubic-Disoriented” Tizeff / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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