The Institute for Molecular Science is currently promoting the following projects in collaboration with other institutions.
Project
“Development of Cold-Atom Based Quantum Simulators and Their Applications to Quantum Computing” within the Framework of Japan’s Flagship Program on Quantum Sciences and Technologies “Q-LEAP” by MEXT and “PRISM” by the Cabinet Office of Japan (2018–2028)
https://www.jst.go.jp/moonshot/en/program/goal6/69_ohmori.html
“Large-Scale and High-Coherence Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer with Dynamical Atom Arrays” Supported by the Cabinet Office/JST Program “Moonshot Goal 6”: Realization of a Fault-Tolerant Universal Quantum Computer That Will Revolutionize Economy, Industry, and Security by 2050
https://ms-ohmoripm.ims.ac.jp/en/
Inter-University Network for Common Utilization of Research Equipments
It is highly important to improve instrumental supporting environments for research and education in the field of science and engineering. Nowadays, advanced research instruments are indispensable for conducting researches and educations with high standard quality. To install such sophisticated instruments, tremendous amount of budgets would be necessary. In 2007, for constructing a national-wide network to provide easy accesses to high-level equipments to researchers and students in universities all over Japan, the five-year project “Functioning of Inter-University Network for Efficient Utilization of Chemical Research Equipments” was launched. The network maintains an internet machine-time reservation and charging system by the help of equipment managers and accounting sections in each university.
Since 2010, the project has been renamed “Inter-University Network for Common Utilization of Research Equipments” still keeping the original strategy and stable functioning.
MEXT Program Advanced Research Infrastructure for Materials and Nanotechnology in Japan: Spoke Organization in Advanced Materials Recycling Technologies and Representative Organization in Cross Sectional Technical Domain of Materials Synthesis Process
Since 2021, ARIM (Advanced Research Infrastructure for Materials and Nanotechnology in Japan) program supported by MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) has been conducted, succeeding to MEXT Nanotechnology Platform program that was completed in March, 2022. In this new program, seven “key technology domains” are set. Each key technology domain team consist of one hub organization and several spoke organizations, with the center hub of National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS). The hub & spoke networks for collecting, accumulating, and structuring research data that are created from observation, measurement, synthesis and fabrication equipment and facilities, were launched in order to strengthen AI-driven materials & device R&D using informatics techniques. IMS belongs to one of the key technology domains of “Advanced materials recycling technologies” led by the NIMS hub, together with the spoke organizations of Nagoya Institute of Technology and The University of Electro-Communications.
