AIST has demonstrated supply chain technology for producing hydrogen using renewable energy power promoted by Fukushima Prefecture, chemically converting into methylcyclohexane (MCH), a hydrogen energy carrier, storing and transporting it, and generating power with a hydrogen co-firing engine generator system.

AIST developed a novel mouse model of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The developed AD model mice are transgenic mice (Aβ-GFP mice) that express only oligomers of amyloid-β protein (Aβ), one of the causative factors of AD, in neurons and exhibit early stage of AD.

AIST has investigated changes in the neural pathways of the brain during the process of motor function recovery using model animals with permanent lesion in the brain. As a result, it was discovered that a new neural pathway was formed.

AIST and Tohoku Kogei developed a clay-containing nanocomposite protective layer that will widen applications of Tamamushi lacquer. The surface coated by the protective layer is less susceptible to scratches. Rakuten Baseball, Inc. decided to adopt helmets coated with the Tamamushi lacquer nanocomposite.

AIST has developed a one-step synthesis of gold nanomaterials using a succinic acid derivative. It has discovered that the succinic acid derivative rapidly reduces gold ions and that the bilayer membranes of this compound act as a template for controlling the direction of crystal growth.

AIST and others have shown the likelihood that the Earth had a magnetic field about 4.2 billion years ago. They have shown with a high degree of certainty that this magnetic field was recorded in zircon crystals that were formed immediately after the Earth’s formation.

AIST developed a surface profiler for planar substrates. The profiler directly measures the surface profile without the need for a reference plane, and can measure the profile of planar substrates with a diameter of up to 600 mm to an absolute accuracy of 5 nm or less.