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Introduction

The assignment of the Material Processing Department is R & D of metal-based multi-functional materials including composites, which comprises an inevitable part of the inorganic material research in the National Industrial Research Institute of Nagoya.

Multi-functional materials have several excellent simulteneous properties which have hitherto been difficult to make to co-exist, such as light weight and good properties at high temperature, tough and recyclable, and so on besides partial hardening only where it is abraded and partial strengthening only where it is strained.
Development of such superior new materials can contribute not only to initiation of new industry and solution to energy and environmental problems but also to advancement of prevailling industrial technology.

More information about the research of the Material Processing Department is available on each of the items in the research field row of the following table.

Research in Material Processing Department
Area	R & D of metal-based multi-functional materials including composites
Field	Advanced usage of distinctive materials	R & D of new material processing technology	Development of multi-functional processing technology		Advancement of prevailling industrial technology
Target	Solution to energy and environmental problems	Initiation of new industry		Necessity in aged society	Renewal of fundamental and basic technology

We have four laboratories in the Material Processing Department as listed below. Original and innovative researches have been conducted in every one of them.

• Composite Materials Laboratory
• Advanced Processing Laboratory
• Innovative Materials Laboratory
• Interface Control Processing Laboratory