Related Organizations & Projects
As a world-leading research institute in materials science, AIMR plays a central role in various organizations and projects both within Tohoku University and beyond, contributing to the advancement of innovative materials science and to fostering future research leaders.
Related Organizations
Core Research Cluster for Materials Science (CRC-MS)
CRC-MS is a research base established in FY2017 in conjunction with Tohoku University’s accreditation as a designated national university corporation. It brings together seven graduate schools/institutes/centers within the university in the material science area where the university has particular strengths and serves as a platform for all materials science researchers at Tohoku University. AIMR is one of the constituent departments of CRC-MS and also serves as its secretariat.
Related Projects
Green Technologies of Excellence (GteX) “Innovative Hydrogen Storage”
JST's Green Technologies of Excellence (GteX) project supports integrated, “team-based” R&D approaches led by top-level researchers from universities and other institutes across Japan in three areas of “Storage battery,” “Hydrogen,” and “Biomanufacturing”. Under the R&D project titled “Innovative Hydrogen Storage – Analyses of Hydrogen Reactions and Application of Digital Technologies –” in the Hydrogen area, AIMR Director Shin-ichi Orimo serves as the team leader and aims to develop a hydrogen storage system that achieves high density, high durability, and low cost.
Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP) “Carbon Neutral Mobility System”
The Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP) is a national project led by the Cabinet Office that promotes R&D from basic research to practical application and commercialization through industry-academia-government collaboration. “Carbon Neutral Mobility System” is a subproject B, Theme B2-1 of the “Smart energy management system,” which was adopted as the third phase of the SIP. Professor Hiroyasu Ando of AIMR is the R&D leader for this project, which aims to realize the linkage between multiple carrier conversion of renewable energy and next-generation mobility using mathematical and AI techniques.
