NGK Material Innovation Laboratory (NIL)

Members

Director

Prof. Hideki Mori

Deputy Director

Project Prof. Shuichi Yoshida

Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITech)

Professors:

Yo Ichikawa
Masaki Tanemura
Tomokastu Hayakawa
Akinori Takasu

Associate Professors:

Noriyuki Sonoyama
Kalita Golap

Assistant Professor:

Reona Miyazaki

Coordinate Associate Professor

Takuma Yano (Organization for Co-Creation Research and Social Contribution)

NGK INSULATORS, LTD.

around 21 researchers

Theme

NGK Material Innovation Laboratory (NIL) is working on the challenging development of innovative products for next-generation semiconductor materials and next-generation battery components.

Target of researches

(1) Next-generation semiconductor materials	Oxide materials for light-emitting devices
(2) Next-generation battery components	New separator materials with high Li-ion conductivity, New electrode materials with high capacity

Fig.1 Oxide particles with a hexagonal
plate-like shape

Fig.2 Oxide thin film with a columnar
structure

NGK Material Innovation Laboratory features the collaboration of the professors of various specialties (materials, devices, processing, and simulation chemistry) from NITech with the researchers from NGK R&D sections to accomplish the challenging goals by consolidating university's science and industry's technology. This scheme makes it possible to conduct researches on multiple tasks in different technical aspects simultaneously, which further enables rapid implementation of a series of R&&D from fundamentals to mass-production techniques.

Contact Us

Address	Takuma Yano, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Organization for Co-Creation Research and Social Contribution

(establishment date: April,2016)

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