Tomonobu NAKAYAMADeputy Director and Administrative Director

Welcome to MANAInternational Center for

Materials Nanoarchitectonics

MANA Now

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World Premium International (WPI)Research Center Initiative

1. Top Quality of Science2. Achievement of Breakthrough by Fusion Research3. Globally Visible Research Centers4. Break of Administrative Limitations

Purpose: To create world-top-level international research hubs in Japan

Organizations & Projects selected in 2007

NIMS Nanotechnology – Materials Univ. Tokyo Astrophysics Kyoto Univ. Stem Cells Tohoku Univ. Materials Science Osaka Univ. Immunology

Period: 10 years Funding: 1.4B JPY (18M US$) a

year per center Matching fund scheme:

Each center has to earn the same amount of research funding

MANAInternational Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics

MEXT has established the WPI program in 2007

MANA performs research on the concept of “nanoarchitectonics”.(New materials and functions are created by rationally integrating and organizing nanoscale parts.)

“Nanoarchitectonics” has grown into a concept that is accepted around the world.

Kyushu Univ. in 2010, others later…. Currently, 13 WPI centers ….

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Present Situation of MANA

Completed the 10 year WPI project in March 2017 Sustained as a WPI center One of seven research centers in NIMS

Present research organization in NIMS• Research Center for Functional Materials• Center for Green Research on Energy and Environmental Materials

• Research Center for Magnetic and Spintronic Materials• Research Center for Structural Materials

• Research Center for Advanced Measurement and Characterization

• Center for Materials Research by Information Integration

• International Center for Materials Nanoarchotectonics (MANA)

(as of October 2018)

Fundamental research, bottom-up type

Tomonobu Nakayama

Deputy Directorand Admin. Dir.

Takayoshi SasakiDirector

Yutaka Wakayama

Deputy Director

Executive Advisor

MANA Top Management

MasakazuAono

Yoshio Bando

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Workforce and Internationalization of MANA

MANA is said to be the most internationalized

institute in Japan

Non Japanese Researchers

47%

FemaleResearchers

15%

Number Non Japanese Female

Principal Investigators 23 9 2

NIMS Faculty Scientists 78 10 8

Postdoctoral Researchers 50 40 8

Graduate Students 42 32 10

Technical & Administrative Staff 68 2 48

Total 261 93 76

(as of October 2018)

Administrative Support

Clean roomFacility

Culture Class

Melting Pot

TechnicalSupport

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• From 23 Principal Investigators (PIs), 7 are affiliated with satellite institutions• Satellites provide support for joint research in fields that can’t be covered by NIMS alone• Satellite PIs act as mentors to young researchers at MANA

7 MANA Research Satellites

(as of October 2018)

Satellite PI J.K. Gimzewskiin Japanese television

Satellite PI Z.L. Wangas mentor of Dr. Fukata

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Construction of Nanotechnology Network

The Nanotechnology Summer Schoolencourage and stimulate PhD students from Japan, Canada, USA, Australia and France.

Prof. R. EstebanDIPC, Spain

May - Jun 2016

Dr. F. BoulmedaisCNRS, FranceApr - May 2015

MANA Short-term Research Program

★Invited young scientists to stay in MANA

★Dispatch program to develop collaboration and to train young MANA scientists

International Joint Graduate School (NIMS)Internship Program (International/domestic)

Research collaboration and human-resource networking

23 Europe22 Asia8 North America6 Oceania2 South America1 Middle East

MANA has concluded 62 MOUs

with institutions from 21 countries

International Research Collaboration under MOUs

Thailand (2016)

Australia (2016)

MOU Signing Ceremonies

Artificial Synapses

Perceptivesystems

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MANA’s Research Results● 4,741 research papers

● Average journal impact factor: 6.23 (in 2018)● Internationally co-authored MANA papers: 70.9% (in 2018) and 50.9% (in average)

● Patents from MANA: (between Oct 2007 and Dec 2017):

MANA has registered708 patents

538 domestic 170 international

• ISI Highly cited researchers 2018:

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2021

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France – Japan Workshops on Nanomaterials

Purpose: ・to exchange researches by leading experts・to enhance collaboration and new links・to foster young scientists since the 5th workshop

Aug 28-29, 2000 1st & 2nd Workshop (Tokyo)Oct 10-12, 2001 3rd Workshop (Paris)Mar 3- 5, 2003 4th Workshop (Tokyo)Oct 11-13, 2004 5th Workshop (Bordeaux)Mar 6- 8, 2006 6th Workshop (Sapporo)Oct 24-26, 2007 7th Workshop (Strasbourg)Jun 15-17, 2009 8th Workshop (Tsukuba)Nov 24-26, 2010 9th Workshop (Toulouse)Jun 6-9, 2013 10th Workshop (Kyoto)

- 1st WPI-Workshop on Materials ScienceMay 26-30, 2015 11th Workshop (Rennes)

- 2nd WPI-Workshop on Materials Science- NanoMat 2015

May 17-19, 2017 12th Workshop (Kyushu)- 3rd WPI-Workshop on Materials Science- NanoMat 2017

Thank you

Thank you for your kind attentionご清聴ありがとうございました。

MANAではNOに対しNOと言おう。

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