Supporting Manufacturing with Globally Top-Level Analysis Capabilities
Ever since its founding, JFCC has positioned microstructural analysis and computation as one of our priority research fields, with significant results in microstructural analysis using transmission electron microscopy as well as material design simulations of various materials and devices.
Based on this history, the Chubu Nanotech Promotion Conference of the Chubu Industrial Promotion Council proposed the idea for the creation of a public research institute that would serve as a center for nanotechnology development in the Chubu region, a manufacturing hub. Working jointly to realize this vision, the JFCC and the Chubu Economic Federation decided to expand the pre-existing Fine Ceramics Center rather than establishing a completely new center. In April 2007, the Nanostructures Research Lab was established as a second research laboratory with support from government agencies, local governments, universities, and businesses.
The Nanostructure Research Lab is helping to enhance the efficiency and competitiveness of new materials development to meet industry demands through theoretical elucidation and predictions of phenomena from the perspective of atomic and electron structures, based on both microstructural analysis technology using transmission electron microscopy and computational materials design technology using first principles calculations.
