Staff members in five departments of our University who promote projects in
catalytic chemistry and related fields will be reorganized into the four fields
shown below, and each field will have a group leader who will unite the areas.
The groups will offer positions to researchers inside and outside Japan and
carry out priority assignment of hired post-doctoral researchers, aiming for
effective advancement of fundamental research. Report conferences will be held
periodically to sum up research results and external evaluation will be conducted
to ensure maximum performance.
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The above four specialized groups will be linked transversely by COE project
research to achieve multi-discipline technological advancements, the creation
of new materials science concepts, and materials science innovations in response
to issues confronting society. This will enable us to
achieve the technical innovations that are demanded by 21st century society
in future materials, energy, medicine, welfare and so on. The following innovation
research fields will be pursued:
i) Syntheses of new functional organic molecules and materials for medicine,
agricultural chemicals, liquid crystals, EL and other applications.
ii) Development of next-generation environmental process chemistry for material
syntheses.
iii) Development of bio-resource conversion processes and other advanced techniques
for using energy resources.
iv) Development of photo, electrical, and magnetic energy conversion materials
and systems.