lqr-J NEWS@Vol.17 No.2 May 2005
To the Overseas Members of MRS-J
ĄFarming&Hunting: Material&Informationcp.1
Akira KINBARA, RCAST, The University of Tokyo, Professor Emeritus
of the University of Tokyo
@In the history of mankind, people are sometimes divided into two categories,namely
farming and hunting people. Similarly in our time, at least researchers
might be classified into material and information people. The researchers
of information nowadays seem to overcome those of material in the favorite
feeling of young men and women. But it should be emphasized that the informationis
memorized and transferred by the material. The researchers of material
are always doing a thankless task.
ĄTokyo Metropolitan Industrial Technology Research Institutecp.2
Kazuo MORIKAWA, Researcher, Tokyo
Metropolitan Industrial Technology Research Institute, Research and Development
Division, Precision Engineering Technology@Group
Tokyo
Metropolitan Industrial Technology Research Institute undertakes researches in
demand either from small and medium-sized enterprises or from public. Testing,
research and consulting for solving technical problems are important works for
us. The activities of the institute, and history and research projects of the
Precision Engineering Technology Group are briefly
introduced.
ĄR&D of a New Surface Generation Process gEG-Xhcp.4
Dr. Kazutoshi KATAHIRA, Dr. Hitoshi OHMORI
(RIKEN), Dr. Jun KOMOTORI and Dr. Masayoshi MIZUTANI (Keio
University)
@A new electrical grinding method h EG-Xh for the fabrication of machined
surfaces with desirable characteristics is presented. The proposed method
will give the surface of metallic biomaterials a stable oxide layer by
electrochemical reaction during grinding processes, and the possibility
of coloring by controlling the layer depth is in the process of being clarified.
Also, the basicresults are introduced in the production of modified surfaces
having improvedadhesion and outstanding chemical affinity with advanced
coating layers such as DLC (diamond like carbon).
ĄSession Themes and Chairs Are Recommended-The 16th Annual Symposium of the MRS-J-cp.8
@The 16th Annual Symposium of the
MRS-J will be held at the Ochanomizu Campus of the Nihon University, Ochanomizu,
Tokyo, on December 10 to 11, 2005.
@The symposium includes a number of
sessions. The symposium committee will cordially invite you to submit your
application to the session themes and chairs in order to make the best Symposium
of the MRS-J.
Applications can be downloaded at http://www.mrs-j.org/