About Center
Greeting
The Creation of Novel Energies and The Development of Next Generation Human Resources
The Center for Advanced Research of Energy and Material (CAREM) belongs to Faculty of Engineering and conducts the basic research on materials science and energy related engineering to provide development of new clean energy resources and highly efficient energy conversion that contributes to the SDGs.
Nowadays, human beings are facing global energy-environmental problems. We need to get out from the conventional energy societies in which we have been depending mainly on fossil fuels such as coal and petrol, and we must construct other safe and highly efficient energy converting systems out of various renewable energy sources such as sunlight, wind and biomass.
Our three missions to perform at CAREM:
1.Studying on development of systems and materials to improve the efficiency of energy conversion.
2.Conducting interdisciplinary and fusional research on energies.
3.Formation of research networks along with industry-academia collaboration based on fusion of energy-related fields.
CAREM consists of five laboratories of:
1. Integrated Functional Materials, 2. Quantum Energy Conversion Materials, 3. Photon and Thermal Energy Conversion Materials, 4. Energy Media and 5. Chemical Energy Conversion Systems. All of them are aiming to contribute to highly efficient energy conversion, tailoring essential materials for energy storage and analyzing atomic-scale structures and functions of the materials. In addition, we will continue striving for excellence in advance research on new energy conversion processes and energy medias using novel materials as a research institute that makes a significant contribution to green innovations.
CAREM is also contributing to the education of undergraduate and graduate students of School of Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering and Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering to foster the next generation of researchers and engineers in energy fields.
The Multi-Quantum Beam High Voltage Electron Microscope Laboratory also belongs to CAREM that has a unique high voltage electron microscope equipped with two ion accelerators and a pulsed-laser oscillator that enables us to observe dynamic processes of materials at atomic level. In addition, Neutron Materials Analysis Laboratory was settled in April 2018. This laboratory is equipped with a 45MeV electron linear accelerator that enables us to perform analysis of materials by both electron and neutron beams, so that we can provide a good research environment to utilize our facilities complementarily.
We support the projects of Hokkaido University such as “ Research and Education Center for Robust Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery Industry ” and fusion / interdisciplinary research with off-campus researchers. You are always welcomed to visit our center.