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Dec. 02, 2016 【News Release】(Nikkan Kogyo) An article related to Prof Riichiro TADAKUMA who participated in Yamagata University's new project OPERA titled "Utilize 4 elemental technologies, Create innovative soft robotics using organic materials" was released.

We are making something absolutely new using world-first combinated materials, what is an aticipated works for 5 or 10 years later,  a trustee and vicepresident of Yamagata University Yoshihiro OHBA who unifies this research field said, explaining the direction of this project. The university will intergrate each elemental technology, which has improved the function of organic materials in Organic Electronics field to the utmost limit, aiming to realize a new research field "Soft Matter Robotics" as its goal.

 

The key technology includes Soft-device, Soft-sensing, Soft-mechanics and Soft-storage battery 4 parts. The utilization of these 4 elemental technologies will finally link to the robot technology, soft matter robotics structured by world-first soft components using organic materials and thus is the 5th research subject.

 

 

 

The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun       December, 2, 2016       Friday

 

 

2016 List of News

Dec. 26, 2016
 Web Release 
(Nikkei Technology Online) An article related to Tokito Lab titled "From ink to electronics (Part I and Part II)" was released.
Dec. 26, 2016
 Web Release 
(Nikkei Technology Online) An article related to Tokito Lab "The revolution of equipment design without substrate (Part I and Part II)" was released.
Dec. 20, 2016
 Award 
Rei SHIWAKU, 1st-year doctoral student of Tokito/Kumaki/Matsui Lab, won the Paper Presentation Encouragement Prize 2016 of Technical Committee on Electron Device (ED).
Dec. 13, 2016
 News Release 
(Nikkei) An article related to Associate Prof Hiroyuki MATSUI "4 researchers from Yamagata University have been selected as Excellent Young Researchers by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology-Japan" was released.
Dec. 05, 2016
 Paper 
Prof Junji KIDO was selected as one of "Highly Cited Researchers for 2016".
Dec. 02, 2016
 News Release 
(Nikkan Kogyo) An article related to Prof Riichiro TADAKUMA who participated in Yamagata University's new project OPERA titled "Utilize 4 elemental technologies, Create innovative soft robotics using organic materials" was released.
Dec. 01, 2016
 News Release 
(Nikkei) An article related to Prof Junji KIDO, Prof Shizuo TOKITO, Prof Hidemitsu FURUKAWA, Prof Hideya YOSHITAKE titled "Venture companies of Yamagata University were established in succession" was released.
Nov. 29, 2016
 News Release 
(Nikkan Kogyo) An article related to Yamagata University's new project "Program on Open Innovation Platform with Enterprises, Research Institute and Academia (OPERA)" titled "Create world-class industries" was released.
Nov. 23, 2016
 News Release 
(Nikkan Kogyo) An article related to Future Ink Corporation, a venture company of Tokito Lab, "Printed sensor going into commercialization with the fund-raising from JST etc." was released.
Nov. 20, 2016
 News Release 
(Yomiuri) An article related to Associate Professor Yoshiyuki SUZURI "OLED -the next-generation lighting-" was released.
Nov. 18, 2016
 News Release 
(Yamagata) An article related to Yamagata Employers' Association who visited Smart MIRAI House was released.
Nov. 16, 2016
 News Release 
(Yamagata) An article related to Future Ink Corporation (venture company of Tokito Lab) "Got 177 million yen fund-raising" was released.
Nov. 16, 2016
 News Release 
(Nikkei) An article related to Future Ink Corporation, a venture company of Tokito Lab, "Toward practical trial production 'attachable sensor'" was released.
Nov. 15, 2016
 TV Broadcast 
(NHK, TUY, YTS) The news related to Future Ink Corporation (a venture company of Tokito Lab) was broadcast in TV programs of Yamagata Prefecture in the afternoon of Nov, 15, 2016.
Nov. 15, 2016
 Press Release 
The venture company, Future Ink Corporation, established by Prof Shizuo TOKITO and Associate Prof Daisuke KUMAKI raised its funds about 170 million yen and the research development is going into full swing.
Nov. 15, 2016
 News Release 
(Nikkei) An article related to Prof Hidemitsu FURUKAWA, titled "Establishing venture busniness using 3D Gel Printer technology" was released.
Nov. 11, 2016
 News Release 
(Nikkei) An article related to Prof Fumihiko HIROSE, titled "Making film on precision component, at room temperature", was released.
Nov. 10, 2016
 News Release 
(Yamagata) An article related to Prof Fumihiko HIROSE, titled "Adopted by JST program, significantly advance toward industrialization" was released.
Nov. 10, 2016
 Paper 
A paper written by Daobin YANG, a postdoctoral researcher of Kido/Sasabe Lab, has been accepted by Journal of Materials Chemistry A published by Royal Society of Chemistry.
Nov. 10, 2016
 News Release 
(Nikkei) An article related to Prof Hideya YOSHITAKE, titled "Commercializing the electrically-powered agricultural equipments", was released.
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