Message from Director

　Greetings from Director

Director
Materials and Structures Laboratory
Institute of Integrated Research
Institute of SCIENCE TOKYO

Prof. Yutaka MAJIMA  

Materials and Structures Laboratory (MSL) was established in 1958 as the Research Laboratory of Engineering Materials, which was originally Research Laboratory of Building Materials (1934) and Research Laboratory of Ceramic Industry (1943), Tokyo Institute of Technology and has since been reorganized as the Materials and Structures Laboratory (1996), Laboratory for Materials and Structures, Institute of Innovative Research (2016), and Materials and Structures Laboratory, Institute of Integrated Research, Institute of SCIENCE TOKYO (2024). MSL has a history of more than 60 years. The mission of MSL is to “create materials with innovative properties and functions based on mainly inorganic materials, and metallic/organic materials through the fusion of materials, to explore new scientific principles related to these materials, and to contribute to solving problems for humanity and society.” MSL was originally established in the research fields of inorganic materials and building structures. Still, it now covers a wide range of research fields, including metallic and organic materials. MSL has become a center hub laboratory that handles materials from basic research to practical applications.

MSL is characterized by being full of energy and being open and natural. MSL leads Collaborative Research Projects (CRP), “Joint Usage/Research Center Research Center for Advanced Inorganic Materials”, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) program, serving as a hub laboratory for the domestic and international community of researchers in the fields of inorganic materials and building structures. MSL promotes research to create new value in advanced inorganic materials ranging from nanometer-sized atoms, molecules, and devices to kilometer-sized structures, each of which is 12 orders of magnitude different in size, and fosters the next generation of human resources. With its unique human resources and extensive facilities and equipment, MSL promotes industry-academia collaboration and expands the network of researchers in industry, government, and academia around the world.

MSL will continue working toward convergence science, in which multiple academic fields are fused to discover and solve unknown social issues by creating new academic fields to realize a sustainable society.

We are deeply grateful for your continued support and cooperation. Your partnership is invaluable to us as we strive to advance our mission and contribute to the field of materials science and engineering. We look forward to our continued collaboration in the future.