Green-forefront Materials Department
Director
Kohei Tamao
- Brief resume
- 1970
- Assistant Professor, Kyoto University
- 1971
- D.Eng., Kyoto University
- 1993
- Professor, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University
- 2000
- Director, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University
- 2005
- Director, RIKEN Frontier Research System
- 2006
- Unit Leader, Functional Elemento-Organic Chemistry Unit, RIKEN
- 2008
- Director, RIKEN Advanced Science Institute (-current)
Outline
In order to solve urgent environmental, energy and element-resource problems, implemention of 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, our department started in 2010 interdisciplinary research covering condensed matter physics, polymer science, organic synthesis and element science, based on fundamental material research conducted at the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute. Our goal is, based on construction of new scientific principles, 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.
Research Groups
- Group Director
- Hidenori Takagi
We aim to explore the physics of such complex electron systems and to develop novel functionalities based on the concept of electronic phase and phase change.
- Group Director
- Takuzo Aida
Attention worldwide is focused on environmental and energy issues, and our group aims to establish novel principles of materials sciences addressing these problems, through the development of unprecedented functional materials with precisely controlled structures and properties at the molecular to nanoscale levels.
- Group Director
- Zhaomin Hou
To tackle these problems, we focus particularly on the development of highly efficient, selective or unprecedented synthetic processes on the basis of advanced catalytic chemistry and advanced element chemistry.
Core Members
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Complex Electrons and Functional Materials Research Group
Functional Soft Matter Research Group
Advanced Synthesis Research Group