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Contents List Message:President's Message The New Science and Technology Basic Plan and AIST Feature:Research on Environmentally Harmonious Building Materials Research Hotline In Brief

Front Cover

Front Cover [ PDF:271KB ]

President's Message
The New Science and Technology Basic Plan and AIST

Message:President's Message
The New Science and Technology Basic Plan and AIST
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Research on Environmentally Harmonious Building Materials
– Research on building materials that save energy and provide comfort to living spaces –
Significance of the Research [ PDF:2.5MB ]
Research on Energy-saving Building Materials to Reduce CO2 Emissions from the Residential and Commercial Sectors
Energy-saving Building Materials Being Studied at AIST
Expectations of Research and Development of Advanced Passive Building Materials to Provide Occupants with Comfort
Smart Building Materials
Evaluation of Control Systems to Achieve Both Energy Saving and Comfort
Expectations for the Development of New Window Materials
Next-generation Building Materials Offering Energy Saving and Comfort
Development of New Roof and Wall Materials
Demonstrations of Energy-saving Building Materials

Research Hotline

UPDATE FROM THE CUTTING EDGE (January−March 2011)
The abstracts of the recent research information appearing in Vol.11 No.1-3 of "AIST TODAY" are introduced here, classified by research area.
For inquiry about the full article, please contact the author via e-mail.
Visualization of oxide ionic flow inside the solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC)
- Development of new analytical tools for understanding of SOFC reaction mechanism -
 Environment and Energy
Elucidation of complex structure of viral RNA polymerase with host-proteins
- Expectations for a new anti-RNA virus drug development -
 Life Science and Biotechnology
Ultrawideband ultralow impedance evaluation technology for power distribution network
- Design and measurement technology of power distribution network for very low power consumption driving electronic circuits -
 Information Technology and Electronics
Development of monitoring technology for individual solar panels
- Smart grid technology to prevent power generation loss by detecting malfunctions of solar panels -
Low-power indoor positioning system that is robust to signal loss, fluctuation, and noise
- Analysis of ZigBee wireless packets with stochastic reasoning -
Developing a new photometric standard for light emitting diode (LED)
- Ensuring reliable photometric evaluation of LED -
 Metrology and Measurement Science
Nanopore standard: Supporting R&D of innovative materials
- Highly-reliable measurement of positron lifetimes and the world's first nanopore reference materials -
Evaluation of anechoic chamber for EMI test over 1 GHz
- New evaluation method using plane-wave spectral decomposition technique and optical microwave transceiver -
Digital super resolution in confocal Raman microscopy
- Numerical analysis of confocal volume within a sample -
Opening of borehole data processing system to the public
- Promotion of utilization of the borehole data as fundamental information on land -
 Geological Survey and Applied Geoscience

In Brief

MOU Concluded with imec [ PDF: 513KB ]
Seventh Biomass-Asia Workshop
Minister of Research and Higher Education of Norway Visits AIST Tsukuba

Back Cover

Back Cover [ PDF: 328KB ]

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