Overview of Graduate School

Center for Science and Technology for Designing Functions

The "Center for Science and Technology for Designing Functions" was created to initiate a new academic discipline of new functions by a breakthrough from the conventional barriers between science and engineering, and between physics and chemistry. The study of materials has always been an important research field, but academic approaches separated into independent fields. In physics, to date, research has mainly focused on the characterization and estimation of materials. In chemistry, focus has been on the synthesis of materials. There has been little positive exchange of ideas between these fields. Thus, the primary goal of postgraduate study in the Center is to create novel materials and characteristics featuring new functions by interdisciplinary mixes, and, of course, to educate our students in such a research approach.

Key words: New function design, New material design, Function assembly