http://www.nims.go.jp/ You can read NIMS' news at a glant. http://www.nims.go.jp/eng/news/press/2012/04/p201204131.html?rss NIMS and JAXA issued a new Data Sheet on Space Use Materials on March 30, 2012. Press Release 2012-05-11T14:00:00+09:00 http://www.nims.go.jp/eng/news/press/2012/04/p201204133.html?rss NIMS recently issued a new Corrosion Data Sheet, “Data sheet No. 4B on atmospheric corrosion properties of Fe-P and Fe-Cu binary alloys.” Press Release 2012-05-07T18:00:00+09:00 http://www.nims.go.jp/eng/news/archive/2012/04/hdfqf1000000t3ja.html?rss On 18th April, 2012, The High Temperature Materials Unit, NIMS, concluded a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) concerning “Development of High Entropy Alloys for High Temperature applications” with Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan. News Archive 2012-05-07T18:00:00+09:00 http://www.nims.go.jp/eng/news/press/2012/04/p201204130.html?rss NIMS recently issued two new creep data sheets, “NIMS CREEP DATA SHEET No. 48A and No. 49A.” Press Release 2012-05-07T14:00:00+09:00 http://www.nims.go.jp/eng/news/press/2012/04/p201204120.html?rss NIMS has selected the winners of the NIMS Award for 2012, and will hold the Award Ceremony and Memorial Lectures by the award winners at the NIMS Conference in June. Press Release 2012-04-26T18:00:00+09:00 http://www.nims.go.jp/eng/news/press/2012/03/p201203280.html?rss The High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), an Inter-University Research Institute Corporation, recently joined to TIA-nano as a new core institute, in addition to the existing core institutes, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), and the University of Tsukuba. Press Release 2012-04-11T14:00:00+09:00 http://www.nims.go.jp/eng/news/press/2012/03/p201203190.html?rss A team headed by Dr. Kazunari Yamaura, who is a Principal Researcher in the Strongly Correlated Materials Group, Superconducting Properties Unit, National Institute for Materials Science and Jun Li, a graduate student in the NIMS Joint Graduate School Program, in joint research with NIMS Special Researcher Dr. Yuan Jie and Principal Researcher Dr. Huabing Wang, both of the Electronics Group, Superconducting Properties Unit, and Professor Hideo Hosono of the Frontier Research Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology, succeeded in the development of strong, tough high temperature superconducting nanowires. Press Release 2012-04-05T18:00:00+09:00 http://www.nims.go.jp/eng/news/press/2012/02/p201202220.html?rss A team headed by Dr. Masamichi Nishino, a Senior Researcher in the Computational Materials Science Unit of the National Institute for Materials Science, discovered a new process which had not been known until now in the nucleation phenomenon, and a principle explaining that process. Press Release 2012-04-04T18:00:00+09:00 http://www.nims.go.jp/eng/news/archive/2012/03/hdfqf1000000qpek.html?rss Nano Characterization Unit of Advanced Key Technologies Division in NIMS and the State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Zhejiang University agreed to a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the research and development in the field of novel low-dimensional nanomaterials on March 19th 2012. News Archive 2012-03-29T18:00:00+09:00 http://www.nims.go.jp/eng/news/archive/2012/03/hdfqf1000000qq7w.html?rss On 5th Mar, 2012, The High Temperature Materials Unit, NIMS, concluded a Memorandum of Understanding MOU concerning "Protection of materials against oxidation and hot corrosion" with DECHEMA Forschungsinstitut (DFI), Germany. News Archive 2012-03-29T00:00:00+09:00