H29 Public offering

Introduction

An active-site, which is a local atomic arrangement such as dopant or hetero-interface in materials, or nano-materials, plays an important role in most of functional materials. This innovative area "3D Active-Site Science" is a new fundamental scientific area which studies how the active-site in a functional material expresses the function by revealing the 3D atomic structure around specific atoms by using cutting edge technology “Atomic resolution holography” combined with advanced sample synthesis method and computational science. The subject of this area includes very wide range of materials such as catalyses, solar cells, protein molecules and so on. This area can create a new scientific area of “Local structural science” which can produce an innovative device by an approach completely different from conventional method.

This area conducts research by four project-research groups listed below, and each group collects several new projects from public as listed in the table below.

The aim of this area is to study the 3D atomic structure, the mechanism of functionality, materials design, and device application by revealing the dopant structure, reactive center, interface structure, nano-materials, and active-site in protein molecules and so on. We expect the public proposals of this year to enrich the sample varieties, new 3D atomic imaging techniques, computational analysis and design of active-site, and application study. We welcome new original and challenging proposals from young researchers especially related to the device development and application.

Research group and number of projects