Institute for Materials Research

Institute for Materials Research (金属材料研究所, Kinzoku zairyō kenkyūsyo), abbreviated IMR or Kinken (金研, Kinken), is a research institute for material sciences in the Tohoku University, Japan. It is one of the most advanced research organization in the world. In 2001, it is ranked as no.1 in the field of material sciences by ISI, Philadelphia.

Outline[]

The institute is the oldest of the five research institutes of Tohoku University. It was started 90 years ago by the late Professor Kotaro Honda for research on KS steel. In 1987, it was reorganized into its present form, a national collaborative research institute, and designated as a Center of Excellence (COE) for material science.

Its research field is diverse materials as well as metals. As recent creations, new types of materials, including high performance, high quality and multifunctional materials such as with complex structures, bulk metallic glasses developed from amorphous alloys. And multicomponent intermetallic compounds, quasicrystals, oxides, ceramics, nanostructural controlled metals, semiconductors, crystals for solar cells, biomaterials, organic materials, , and , etc.

Former institutes[]

The name of the institute was consequently changed to the present one, Institute for Materials Research (IMR).

April 1, 1916: the 2nd Division of the Provisional Institute of Physical and Chemical Research(東北帝国大学理科大学臨時理化学研究所第2部)
May 21, 1919: the Iron and Steel Research Institute (ISRI)(東北帝国大学附属鉄鋼研究所)
August 8, 1922: the Research Institute for Iron, Steel and Other Metals (RIISOM)(東北帝国大学金属材料研究所, 東北大学金属材料研究所1947)
May 21, 1987: Institute for Materials Research (IMR)

Research results[]

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People[]

Presidents[]

1st Kotaro Honda(本田光太郎)
2nd (石原寅次郎)
3rd (村上武次郎)
4th Kotaro Honda(本田光太郎)
5th Torajiro Ishihara(石原寅次郎)
6th ??(増本量)
7th ?? Ohinata(大日方一司)
8th (広根徳太郎)
9th (神田英蔵)
10th ?? Takeuchi(竹内榮)

11th (渡辺浩)
12th (田中英八郎)
13th (鈴木進)
14th ?? Hirabayasi(平林眞)
15th (増本健)
16th Kenji Suzuki(鈴木謙爾)
17th (藤森啓安)
18th (井上明久)
19th (中嶋一雄)

Researchers[]

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Many world-famous researchers have belonged to here. , who was the president of Tohoku University, is well known for his invention, bulk metallic glasses of recent years.