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Advanced Institute for Materials Researchhttps://www.wpi-aimr.tohoku.ac.jp/en/index.html

Institute for Materials Research

http://www.imr.tohoku.ac.jp/en/

Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials

http://www2.tagen.tohoku.ac.jp/en/outline/index.html

Graduate School of Engineering
Department of Metallurgy, Materials Science and Materials Processing

http://www.material.tohoku.ac.jp/english/

Department of Applied Chemistry, Chemical Engineering andhttp://www.che.tohoku.ac.jp/english/

Biomolecular Engineering
Graduate School of Science and Faculty of Science

CORE RESEARCH CLUSTER for
MATERIALS SCIENCE

https://www.sci.tohoku.ac.jp/english/

2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577
E-mail:wrc-material@grp.tohoku.ac.jp

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"Top-level Science to Innovation”

CORE RESEARCH
CLUSTER

MATERIALS SCIENCEAccumulation of excellent research capabilities
Establishment of the core research cluster for Materials Science

Designated National University and Core Research Cluster
In June 2017, Tohoku University was named a
Designated National University by Japan's Ministry ofEducation, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology(MEXT), an accreditation that recognizes the university’scompetence for providing a world-class education andresearch system. As one of its efforts, the University has
Concept of Designated National University

integrated the full scope of its outstanding institutional
resources in four areas in which it has particular strengths(materials science, spintronics, next-generation medicineand disaster science) in order to establish researchclusters that will generate world-class research results
and create world-leading pioneering fields of research.

Leading Synergy of Excellence and Innovation

Creation of Knowledge via Excellence in Research & Education
GoalFormation of Research Centers
Cross-Sectoral Interdisciplinary
Research

Leading Innovation of Society & Economy

Governance Reform

Providing unique degree programs
through advanced global joint programs

Further reinforcement of functionality basedon advanced academic governance

Issues & Requests

Drastic Improvement of International
Presence

Leading innovation through global
industry-academia cooperation centers

Functional reinforcement responding
to various societal needs and issues

Incorporated
Research inMaterial Science

International
Joint Research
Alliance

Math.Science

Leading Research Centers

Strategic Formation of Research

Organization for
Advanced Studies
Core research cluster producing
research achievementson the highest level

Feature 2

Micro Materials

Institute for Materials
Research (IMR)

Advancing
cross-sectoralinterdisciplinary
research

Four Core Research Clusters for
Tohoku University's strongest fields:
1Materials Science
3

2

Spintronics

Next-Gen. Med. Care
4

Disaster Science

Centers & System Reform

Ca. 400

Researchers

Macro Materials

Application in SocietyInt. Joint Grad. Program in Materials Science (GP-MS)

Cluster ofBasicDepartments

Graduate School of Engineering
Center for Low
Temperature Science

Interdepartmental Doctoral Degree Program for
Multi-dimensional Materials Science Leaders (MD program)

Electron Microscopy Center
Research Center for Rare Metal & Green Innovation

Challenge new research objectives with increasing global importance

Global HR
Education
Environment

Advanced Energy
materials PT

Advanced Electronicmaterials PT

Structural Materials
Materials development
based on microstructure
control PT

Biomaterials
PT

Director of CORE RESEARCH CLUSTER for MATERIALS SCIENCE KOTANI Motoko

Mathematical Scienceand Computation

Mathematical scienceand computation
Evaluation and sensing
Processing
Education and humanresources development

SUITO
HiroshiPrincipal Investigator
AIMR

Evaluation and Sensing

TERAUCHI
Masami
Professor
IMRAM

Processing

Cross-Departments

The Core Research Cluster for Materials Science has the goal of "Top-level Science toInnovation". At our institute, we have assembled researchers in fields such as materials
science, physics, chemistry and mathematics to achieve the world's highest-level research
results. Our aim is to grow and strengthen as much as possible to become, both in name andreality, the world’s leading materials science research cluster for materials science based on
pursuing innovative research, while adhering to the tradition of "research first," the principleof "open doors" and the spirit of "respect for practical learning.”fieldCross

High strength
materials PT

Diverse Research for
future key areas based on thefree inspiration of thedepartments’ members

Message from the Director

Private-Public Coop.
for Social
Implementation

Innovations for the realization of a sustainable society

Functional Materials

Feature 3

Graduate School of Science

Cross-Fields

Interdisciplinary
ResearchAlliance

Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for
Advanced Materials (IMRAM)

Cutting-Edge Industry-Academia R&D Center (MaSC)

Feature 1

As the Core Research Cluster for Materials Science, weare building a worldwide alliance with highly renowned
international research clusters to serve as a key hub for
global brain circulation. Furthermore, in order to develop theglobal leaders, we have newly launched the International
Joint Graduate Program in Materials Science and theInterdepartmental Doctoral Degree Program for Multidimensional Materials Science Leaders, and we are promoting
the development of global leaders in collaboration with theInternational Joint Graduate Programs.

Core Research Cluster for Materials ScienceSociety Collaboration

4 World Leading ResearchCenters

Global Alliance & Leaders Development

Advanced Institute for Materials Research (AIMR)

HR Education

Research Capabilities

The Core Research Cluster for Materials Science brings
together a combination of five research institutes &graduate schools: (1) Advanced Institute for Materials
Research (AIMR), established under Japan's World PremierInternational Research Center Program (WPI), which has
an international presence through mathematics-materials
science collaboration, (2) the Institute for Materials Research(IMR), which has been conducting applied research basedon theories of materials science for more than 100 years,(3) the Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced
Materials (IMRAM), which develops new materials scienceand technology research, (4) and (5) the Graduate School ofEngineering and the Graduate School of Science, which haveproduced numerous educational and research achievements

according to their founding academic philosophies. By bringing
together these five, we aim to confront new challenges which
are becoming increasingly important on a global scale andcontribute to the realization of a sustainable society.

PT:Project Team

Advanced Energy
materials PT

Advanced Electronicmaterials PT

BiomaterialsPTMaterials development
based on microstructurecontrol PT

High strength
materials PT

ORIMO
Shin-ichi

FUKUMURA
Tomoteru

HIRANO
Ayumi

FUKUHARA
Tadashi

YOSHIMIKyosukeDirector and Principal
Investigator
AIMR

Professor
Graduate schoolof Science/ AIMR

Professor
RIEC/AIMR

Professor
IMR

Professor
Graduate School ofEngineering

KISU
Kazuaki

OKA
Hirofumi

MA Teng

SUN Fei

DEMIRSKYI
DmytroAssistant
Professor

Assistant
Professor

Assistant
Professor

Assistant
Professor

Assistant
Professor

Crossdepartment

Functional Materials
Wing Leader
AIMR: Advanced Institute for Materials Research

Cross

SASAKI
Takahiko
Professor IMR
IMR: Institute for Materials Research

department

Structural Materials
Wing Leader

FUKUYAMA
Hiroyuki

ADSCHIRI
Tadafumi
Principal Investigator
AIMR/IMRAM
Education and Human
Resources Development

OIKAWA
KatsunariProfessor
Graduate School ofEngineering
Management

KAIBE
Kenji
Specially Appointed
Associate Professor
AIMR

Professor IMRAM

IMRAM: Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials

Research Support

RIEC: Research Institute of Electrical Communication