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TIA Nano-Green

Open Innovation Platform

November 27, 2012

Jun’ichi Sone

National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)

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Content

1. Brief introduction of National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)

2. Industrialization of research achievements for green technologies

in NIMS

SIALON phosphor for solid-state lightings

Ni-based super alloy for gas turbines for jet engines and

thermal power plants

Nanofiltration membrane for water and organic solvent

purification

3. Open-innovation research platform in NIMS for green technologies

Establishment of “Tsukuba Innovation Arena (TIA) Nano-Green”

4. Summary

National Institute for Materials Science

1. Research on material science, nanoscience, and their engineerings

2. Dissemination of research results and promotion of their applications

3. Shared use of NIMS facilities and equipment.

4. Training & fostering of researchers and engineers.

Mission

3 Sakura Site Sengen Site Namiki Site

Operational Income@2011 : 20.1 Billion Yen

•Subsidy : 13.6 Billion Yen

•External Fund : 6.5 Billion Yen

Number of Staff @2011 : 1454 (278)

•Permanent : 542 (38)

•Fixed Term : 912 (240) ( ) : Number of staff from overseas

Technologies for Energy, Environment,

and Natural Resources

We are facing serious global issues of energy, environment,

and natural resources, such as a global warming, exhausting

available fossil fuels, consuming scarce critical materials, and

polluting precious water. Material science and nanoscience

and their engineerings are highly expected to provide solutions

for them.

NIMS is strengthening the research and development of energy

and environment technologies to respond to such social

demands. Some of the technologies have been already

successfully industrialized and some are under development

through collaboration with industry.

Energy-Saving Solid-State Lighting

Demands for efficient white LEDs used in the backlights

of LCDs and solid-state lightings

Merit : Low power consumption and mercury-free

(Presently, lighting consumes 20% of total energy in Japan)

Long life time LCD LED lamp white LED

White color

Blue Green Red

Red phosphor

Green

phosphor

Phosphors along with blue GaN LEDs are key

for solid-state lightings and displays

Requirement

Efficiency to generate bright light with low power consumption

Reproducibility of a wide range of white light

Thermal stability and long lifetime

Blue GaN LED

Development of highly-efficient phosphor materials for a white LED

named SIALON, using SiAlON base material

SIALON phosphor has a nm-scaled cage structure of SiAlON

with optically active rare-earth elements (Eu) inside

Excited states of d-electron of Eu can be modulated by

the crystal-field produced by SiAlON frame structure

SIALON phosphor enables to emit any colors, and

provides long lifetime and high temperature stability.

Already commercialized by LCD and LED lamp makers.

SIALON Phosphor

β-SIALON phosphor

α-SIALON phosphor

CaAlSiN Daylight

color Day white

color

White

color

Warm white

color Lamp

color

White LED (Changing light color by phosphor mixture)

Light emitting

center ion

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Silicate green

phosphor

Temperature stability

Heat Resistant Ni-Based Super Alloy

Turbine blade

Propeller

Turbine

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m

Outside air is taken in and is compressed by propellers.

Fuel is injected in combustion room to cause gas explosion.

The heated gas collides firstly the turbine blades to drive

the turbine to rotate

Fuel efficiency increases with increase of combustion

temperature (around 1600~1700℃).

(Almost yearly 1M$ fuel cost reduction per airplane

with increase of combustion temperature by 40 ℃)

Fuel efficiency of jet engine

Combustion room

Aircraft jet engine Large-scale gas turbine

of thermal power station

Increase of fuel combustion temperature in airplanes and

combined-cycle thermal power stations is highly demanded

to reduce the fuel use and CO2 emission

Development of heat resistant materials for turbine blades is

a key

Jet

Engine

Ni基超合金の整合組織 高温クリープ下のラフト化組織 γ/γ'界面転位網

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Ni基超合金の整合組織 高温クリープ下のラフト化組織 γ/γ'界面転位網

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NIMS Target

Super Alloy with World-Highest

Heat Resistant Temperature

The developed super alloy consists of

two phases of γ (Ni solid solution: fcc)

and γ’ (Ni3Al type crystal structure).

Fine dislocation network produced at

interface of γ and γ’ phases due to the

addition of various elements such as

Mo, Re, Ru prevents dislocation

movements, resulting in superior heat-

resistance characteristics.

NIMS successfully developed Ni-based single crystal

super alloy with world-highest operating temperature

with a specified reliability exceeding 1100℃

Dislocation network

at interface of γ and γ’ Te

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Nanofiltration Membrane Technology

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Seawater desalination and purification of polluted water

Treatment of waste water containing environmentally-burdened substances

in oil industry

Organic solvent recycle and separation of various chemicals

in chemical industry

Increasing demands of nanofiltration membrane technology

Robustness against chemical attacks of acid or alkali solvent

Stability under high-temperature operation

Thin film with high mechanical strength to achieve high solvent permeability

Discrimination of molecules depending upon their sizes

Membrane with excellent filtration capability is required

to fulfill the demands

Toluene (Molecular weight 92)

azobenzene (molecular weight 182)

DLC membranes are successfully developed with extremely high solvent

permeability and high mechanical strength. Science, 335, 444-447 (2012)

The membranes can separate organic substances at a rate three orders of

magnitude larger than that of commercially available membranes.

35 nm thick

Young’s modulus: 90 – 170 Gpa

Diamond-like carbon membranes with excellent filtration performance

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Hydrophobic pores

・Size : 1nm on average

・Porosity : ca. 12%

（Top-view）

Nanostrand film consiting of

fine inorganic fibre on AL2O3

ｆilm with opening of 0.2μm

Diamond like carbon

membrane produced

by plasma deposition

Removal of nanostarnd

Film by acid treatment

Wide view of DLC membrane

主要な６４大学・公立研究機関

External Funds from Industry , Patent applications and License Income

NIMS

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TIA Nano-Green Open Innovation Plarform

Technological innovation for serious energy and environment issues cannot be achieved by a single research organization

Implementation of Open Innovation Research Platform for nano- green technologies named TIA Nano-Green where collaborations among industries, AIST, and Univ. of Tsukuba centering on NIMS are conducted

Needs for an open innovation research platform aiming at establishing common basic technologies and challenging high-risk targets through collaboration of industries, universities, and public research institutions in a membership framework

NEEDs for diverse technological expertise and knowledge covering multiple discipline

NEEDs for expensive characterization & fabrication equipments with atomic-level precision along with professionals capable of handling them

TIA Nano-Green Research Platform

Device Companies

System Companies

Components Companies

Equipments Companies

Privileges to members

Closed

Collaborative

Research

with a member

company

Industrialization of

innovative technology

for energy and

environment

accumulated fundamental technologies for material science

Capablity of responding

to a higher level of

industrial needs

Expansion of the fundamental

technology portfolio by public

competitive funds

Expansion of the

technology portfolio by

research collaboration

with companies

Application Oriented Research

Expansion

★Participation in open innovation area (Research at Open Lab) ★Privileged license of IPs created at Open Innovation Platform ★Timely and detailed research reports ★Research using accumulated knowledge, technologies and the most advanced facilities ★Participation of young talents from universities (graduate students, post doctoral fellows, etc)

・Special Members

・Ordinary Members

・Associate Members

・Academia Members

・Basic Members

Member companies

NIMS

Univ. of Tsukuba

AIST

Tools for Materials Science research

Informa-tion

Know-How Shared use of advanced facilities

IPs

Human Resources

Expansion

NanoGREEN/WPI-MANA Building, NIMS

*)TC: Technology Committee

Academia members

**)SC: Standard Committee ***)OL: Open Laboratory

Universities and research institutes

NIMS

Univ. of Tsukuba AIST

Executive Council

Steering Committee

Industrial Committee

To determine the operation policy and

the roadmap of research and standardization

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Generic and Fundamental Research

SC** TC TC TC* ・・・

OL ・・・ OL*** OL OL

NEW

Open Innovation Sceme

<Merit> To be able to create technology seeds which lead to the future business, by working with researchers of academia and industry and by gathering wisdom and knowledge globally.

Closed Collaborative Sceme

TIA Nano-Green

Open Collaboration (Open Lab. level):

・Information will be shared among members ・Free license of patents created at the open lab. will be given to the participating members in the lab.

IP belongs to NIMS (Free license to members)

Collaborative Research

NIMS

Member company

Academia members*

(Membership)

NIMS

(Charged)

・Information will be kept confidential ・Handling of IPs will be defined in the contract

<Merit> To be able to accomplish a development goal directly by keeping research content confidential and carrying out research intensively between two parties

Best Mix

Academia members*: including AIST and Univ. of Tsukuba 14

Member company

Closed Collaborative Research

based on the bilateral contract

Member company

Collaborative Research

The Best Mix of “Open” and “Closed”

Jointly created IP is shared by both parties

(Free use of shared IP)

(in case of NIMS)**

**AIST and Univ. of Tsukuba has similar scheme

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New Building for Nano-Green and MANA-WPI at NIMS just open

New Nano-Green Building

(GREEN, LC-net, Open-Lab) New MANA-WPI

Building

Interaction

Space

Construction was completed

in the end of March, 2012.

(JX Nippon Mining & Matals)

Industry members as of October in 2012

Leading edge facilities in NIMS, AIST, and Univ. of Tsukuba are

available to be used for participating members

Available Leading Edge Facilities

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(Main facilities of Platform for Green Functional-Oxide Nanotechnology)

・high intensity slow positron beamline for defect characterization ・X-ray photoelectron spectrometer ・ECR sputtering device ・Thin film X-ray diffractometer

・microscopic Raman spectrometer ・X-ray nanostructure measuring device ・FT-Raman spectrometer ・Photoelectronic spectrometer ・Ultraviolet-visible absorptance and reflectivity measuring device

930MHz NMR Magnet, High Magnetic Field Station, NIMS

SPring-8, NIMS maintains a dedicated Beamline (BL15XU), Beamline Station, NIMS (©RIKEN/JASRI)

Scanning Helium Ion Microscope, Low Carbon Research Network, NIMS

Ultra High Resolution TEM, Transmission Electron Microscopy Station, NIMS

Time of Flight SIMS (TOF-SIMS), Low Carbon Research Network, NIMS

User facilities of NIMS（showing some examples below）

User facilities of AIST User facilities of Univ. of Tsukuba

Technologies to solve environment and energy issues

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Electric En

ergy

The

rmal En

ergy

Next generation Power transmission

EV/HV

Fuel cell bus

Safe battery

Smart City

electrolysis

Hydrogen

Green Building

Photovoltaics

Heat resistance materials

Secondary Battery

Fuel Cell

Artificial photosynthesis

Thermoelectric Conversion

Solar light

Thermal power station

Thermal Insulation/ Conducting

Fuel

Environmentally friendly materials

Saving En

ergy

Mine

Critical metal free (Pt etc.)

Precious rare earth element free

Research Themes

Materials for Secondary Battery * Enhancement of performance and reliability of Lithium battery * Development of Lithium air rechargeable battery Materials for Fuel Cells * Enhancement of performance and reliability of fuel cells Common Fundamental Technology for Battery Materials * In-situ observation and control of interface structure and chemical reaction * Modeling and simulation for interface structure and chemical reaction

Materials for Thermoelectric Conversion *Development of thermoelectric conversion materials with higher ZT Thermal Management Technology *Development of heat-resistance & thermal insulation materials and their coating tech. *Development of analytical & simulation methods for thermal properties

Control of Electric Energy Flow

Control of Thermal Energy Flow

Energy Saving Technology

*Spintronics Materials for Electronic and Magnetic Applications

OL Open Laboratory

OL-A : Materials for Battery

OL-B : Materials for thermal energy conversion

OL-C : Energy-saving magnetic materials

Research themes in Open Lab.

Based on deep understanding of dynamic phenomena at solid /gas,

solid/liquid and solid/solid interfaces in batteries with use of in-

situ observation and modeling & simulation techniques,

1) To solve common basic problems related to the performance

and reliability issues of batteries,

2) To challenge high-risk targets aiming at future applications

Ex. Lithium air rechargeable battery, Solid-state electrolyte LIB

Efficient non-Pt catalyst for fuel cells

Materials for Batteries OL-A

Objectives

Dynamic simulation at the interface of TiO2/Dye

and electrolyte under light irradiation

Light source

Gas

Electrical measurement

TEM X ray SPM

Chemical Analysis

Gas Atomosphre

Measurement

Light

Sample

Environmental

cell

In-situ characterization of chemical

reaction at interface of solid/solid, gas, liquid

automobiles

Total energy

supply in Japan

2.4×1019 J

in 2005

Need of efficient thermoelectric conversion

factories incinerators power plants

Electricity!

Effective energy : 34% Energy loss/wasted heat

Highly-efficienct TE materials composed of nontoxic and naturally-

abundant elements to replace Bi2Te3 , PbTe

High-efficiency TE thin films with ZT >2~3 to expand device applications

High temperature TE materials for large-scale power generation to utilize

factory wasted heat, combustive thermal power, and solar thermal power

Thermal insulation and heat resistant material, thermal prop. charac. & simu.

Focused Areas

OL-B Materials for Thermal Energy Conversion

Expectation of technology

innovation owing to the recent

progress of Nanotechnology

and Material Science

How to Determine a Laboratory Research Subject

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Industry & Academic Candidate Members

Directors of Open Lab Director of Platform

(TIA promotion office)

NIMS

Proposal of expanded

subject Judgment by Steering

Committee

Background patents that NIMS owns prior to the start of TIA

open laboratories will be granted to member companies paying license fees if they need

Specific research subjects will be determined based on the core subjects proposed by NIMS through discussions with industry & academic members.

Proposal of core subject

by NIMS

Accept (Subject)

Reject (Subject)

Final form of laboratory

subject

Laboratory core

subject

Laboratory core subject

Expansion of subject

Discussion

•to hold hearings for a candidate member

•to have discussion and coordination with directors of

open lab and a director of the platform

•to judge suitability of the proposal for open innovation

platform

•to determine the expanded subject

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Summary

1. NIMS is playing a central role in the research and development

of material science in Japan. It is strengthening the research on

material science and nanoscience related to energy and

environment technologies. It is also promoting actively the global

collaboration not only with academia but also with industry.

2. Efforts of industrialization of NIMS technologies are shown with

several examples, such as SIALON phosphors, heat resistant

Ni-based super alloys, and nanofilttration membranes for water

and organic solvent purification.

3. Open-innovation research and development scheme newly estab-

lished in NIMS as TIA NanoGreen was just started with 10 partis-

pating companies. We would like to pursue the possibilities of

open innovation scheme with increase of participating companies.