Japan’s first public road test of in-transit power supply for EVs has begun at Kashiwanoha Smart City in Kashiwa City, Chiba Prefecture. The technology for supplying power to EVs while driving has been studied since 2018 by a joint research group including the Fujimoto-Shimizu Laboratory of the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences at the University of Tokyo, Bridgestone, NSK, Rohm,...
Using tire rubber as a sample, a joint industry-academia research group has succeeded in measuring the movement of carbon particles, one of the fillers used in tire rubber, and polymers with a time resolution of 890 nanoseconds (one billionth of a second), the fastest in the world. The group includes Hiroyuki Kishimoto, Director of the Analysis Center, Research and Development...
JSR Corp. (TYO:4185) recently announced that it has formed a comprehensive collaboration with the Department of Physics at the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Science. Joint research here started up on April 1. The first initiative under the tie-up is to establish a collaborative research base for bringing together physics and chemistry. Named the “JSR–UTokyo Collaboration Hub, CURIE,” this...
The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) has worked with the University of Tokyo to develop a rubber composite material that offers heat conductivity on par with that of metal. This was achieved by dispersing two kinds of carbon fiber – specifically carbon nanofiber (CNF) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) – as fillers throughout polyrotaxane, a type of...
Toyoda Gosei Co. Ltd. (TYO:7282) and Advanced Softmaterials Inc. have concluded an exclusive licensing agreement for the use and sales of Slide-Ring Material, a key material for e-Rubber. The agreement is limited to applications of the material in dielectric actuators and dielectric sensors. Advanced Softmaterials, which was established in 2005 with the aim of commercializing the Slide-Ring Material developed at...
