Advanced Institute for Materials Research （AIMR）

AIMR aims to establish a Premier Research Center for materials science, to reform the conventional Japanese system, and to construct a visible center. To achieve this goal, excellent researchers in the fields of materials science, physics, chemistry, engineering and mathematics will come together under the environment appropriate to a top world-level research center.
A mathematical viewpoint is added to identify common principles behind all kinds of materials and all layers and to elucidate common mathematical principles, as well as eventually to establish a new path to "materials science research added with a mathematical viewpoint."
AIMR creates new fundamental paradigms and also promotes the application of research projects with the new materials and system architecture which generates direct societal impacts especially for green innovation; thus exhibiting the qualities necessary to become a world-leading international center of materials science.

Thrust 1 Bulk Metallic Glasses

This division is dedicated to the cutting-edge research of advanced non-equilibrium metallic materials including amorphous, quasicrystalline and nanostructured metals and alloys that exhibit unique and superior physical, chemical and mechanical properties.

Thrust 2 Materials Physics

Exploring and understanding innovative materials for electronic devices are the key targets in the research of division.

Thrust 3 Soft Materials

Synthesis, characterization and evaluation of soft materials, such as organo-π-electronic devices, gel, polymer composites, microporous polymer films, and nano-structured materials catalysts, are key issues of this division.

Thrust 4 Device/System

Our device/system group consists mainly of spintronics, electronics, MEMS materials and bio device laboratories. Fabrication of innovative materials and developing them to devices are key target of our group.

Thrust 5 Mathematics Unit

Mathematical Unit gives a viewpoint beyond various levels of hierarchy of the outcomes of materials science and builds a new scientific principle in cooperation with Groups of Bulk metallic glasses, Materials physics, Softmaterials and Device/Construction.