Research Areas

In order to solve urgent environmental, energy and element-resource problems, implementing the recovery and use of lost heat from factories and automobiles, reduction of energy loss by use of superconducting electricity transmission, and highly efficient synthesis of organic and polymer materials are highly desirable. To realize these, in addition to concurrent improvement of present technology, elucidation of poorly understood physical phenomena and discovery of new theories allowing realization of innovative technologies are indispensable. In view of this background, this research department started in 2010, interdisciplinary research covering condensed matter physics, polymer science, organic synthesis and element science based on the fundamental material research conducted at the Advanced Science Institute. Our goal is, based on construction of new scientific methodologies, to contribute to the solution of problems on a global scale by developing "innovative functional materials" such as high-efficiency thermoelectric conversion materials and high-temperature superconductors based on the electric changes within materials and ecologically compatible soft materials containing greater than 99% water, and "high-efficiency catalytic reactions" to realize 100% atom efficiency processes as a resource conservation strategy.

Related links

1. RIKEN Advanced Science Institute Website_Laboratories Page