In collaboration with Taiheiyo Cement Corporation, AIST discovered that living microorganisms are present in rock mass produced by tunnel construction work etc., and that those microorganisms insolubilize selenium, which is a harmful and difficult-to-treat heavy metalloid naturally contained in rock mass.

AIST determined the genome and analyzed the biological functions of the symbiotic bacterium found in leaf beetles. This study revealed for the first time that one species of symbiotic bacteria can perform different functions in larvae and adults of the same host insect.

AIST has developed a system that uses AI to support child abuse response and decision making of child guidance centers. The developed system consists of the "AiCAN" tablet application, a cloud database ensuring secure data storage and sharing, and probabilistic modeling and other data analysis AI.

AIST has developed a continuous flow synthesis technology for preparing aryl amines, which are important synthetic intermediates for fine chemicals, with small amounts of easily removable co-products. The developed flow system consists of two column reactors containing heterogeneous catalysts.

AIST and the Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute fabricated a Si nFET /Ge pFET vertically stacked heterogeneous complementary field effect transistor for the 2nm node. This ultimate new device architecture can lead to the realization of higher performance and lower power consumption CMOS devices.

AIST has published the Geologic Map of Volcanoes in Japan that lets you view and search for a distribution of volcanic eruption products and geological information of about 440 quaternary volcanoes across Japan as a new addition to the “Volcanoes of Japan” databases.

AIST constructed an original rotor rotation mechanism that enables both sealing and high-speed rotation. The mechanism was introduced in a novel centrifugal field-flow fractionation system. The system can classify particles of a wide size range from 10 nm to 40 µm.