2019/10/02

Discovery That a Blue Pigment Is a High-Performance Ammonia Adsorbent
– Expected to be used for malodor removal, PM 2.5 countermeasures, and hydrogen purification for fuel cells –

2019/09/25

Creating a 3D Nanoporous Alloy with an Environmentally Friendly Vapor Phase Dealloying Technique
– A new recycling-compatible method that does not use chemical etching –

2019/09/10

A Readout Circuit That Drastically Increases the Number of Pixels in Superconducting Detectors for Photons, Particles, and Electromagnetic Waves
– For realizing compact, low-power-consumption, low-cost general-purpose high-performance measurement instruments –

2019/09/05

Development of a Sensor Film to Measure Wind Pressure Distribution at High Density
– Visualization of wind pressure distribution inspired by bird wings –

2019/09/02

Ion exchange discovered in solid-state semiconducting polymers (The University of Tokyo site)

2019/08/28

Confirmation of the Biodegradability of Super Growth Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
– A technique for measurement of carbon nanotube biodegradation in macrophages –

2019/08/21

Elucidation of the Mechanism of Action of Anti-Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) Drug and the Mechanism of Drug Resistance Using HBV Reverse Transcriptase (RT)-Chimeric Human Immunodeficiency Virus RT

2019/08/08

Rapid Development of Insecticide Resistance in Pests via Symbiotic Bacteria

2019/08/02

Development of a High-Power Flexible Thermoelectric Module
Output power of 87 mW/cm² generated at a temperature difference of 70 °C on a curved heat source

2019/07/31

Drastically Improving the Sensitivity and Inspection Area of a Thin Film Transistor (TFT) Array Inspection Technology
– Enabling nondestructive inline inspection of drive circuits for displays manufactured with printing methods –

2019/07/16

NEC and AIST use AI to improve production processes
– Shortening the design and evaluation period of the "multi-product mixed production process – (NEC site)

2019/07/08

Development of a 1200-V-class SiC Transistor with a Built-in Schottky Barrier Diode (SBD)
– For development of a high-efficiency, high-reliability power module for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and electric vehicles (EVs) –

2019/07/05

Development of a Novel Material for Highly Efficient Spin Control by Voltage
– One step toward practical application of voltage-controlled magnetic memory with ultra-low power consumption –

2019/07/03

Development of a simpler, faster and more accurate method of measuring the Seebeck coefficient of thermoelectric materials
– Measurement time cut by 90 % and accuracy improved five-fold –

2019/06/25

Determination of the Planck constant that is to be used as the new definition of the unit of mass, the kilogram
– The Planck constant was measured with world’s highest-level precision –

2019/06/20

Leaf Beetles Digest Food Leaves by Enzymes from a Bacterial Symbiont
– Discovery of a genome-reduced symbiont specialized for pectin degradation –

2019/06/19

A Long-term Follow-up Study of Individual Differences in Arterial Stiffening

2019/06/12

Succeeded in Prototyping Integrated Circuits (ICs) with a Small-Volume Production System (Minimal Fab)
– JAXA and AIST paving the pathway to minimal fab-produced ICs aboard spacecraft – (JAXA site)

2019/06/04

New JIS as Safety Standards for Robot Services Established
– Effort for dissemination of robot services in a safe and secure manner –

2019/05/13

Real-time Observation of Atomic Motion at Solid-Liquid Interfaces
– Expected to elucidate solid-liquid interfacial phenomena related to the performance of fuel cells and secondary batteries –