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Bridgestone Teams up With Tohoku University to Develop Innovative Materials

on December 19, 2023 in Industry

Bridgestone has formed a research and development team with Tohoku University to develop innovative, data-driven materials by utilizing Nanoterrace, a next-generation synchrotron radiation facility being built on Tohoku University’s new Aobayama campus. The base of the team will be the Green Cross Tech Research Center established by the university. The research center is an industry-academia co-creation innovation center with the...

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Sumitomo Rubber Succeeds at Visualizing Sulfur Compounds Used in Li–S Batteries

on September 15, 2022 in Industry, Innovation

Sumitomo Rubber has used the SPring-8 synchrotron radiation facility in a joint project to create what it is calling a Tender X-Ray Nanoscope, the world’s first technology able to analyze a substance’s structure and chemical bonds at the nano level. This has then been used to successfully visualize the sulfur compounds employed in lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries. The project comes as...

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Sumitomo Rubber Succeeds in Experiment to Improve Natural Rubber

on July 6, 2022 in Industry, Materials

Sumitomo Rubber Industries, in collaboration with partners including Tohoku University, Kanazawa University and Saitama University, has succeeded in an experiment leading to the improvement of natural rubber varieties. The experiment identified the section of a natural rubber synthesizing enzyme that is important for controlling the chain length of natural rubber. By incorporating the section into an enzyme derived from tomatoes,...

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Sumitomo Rubber, Academic Researchers Use Tomato Enzymes to Shine Light on Natural Rubber Synthesis

on March 17, 2022 in Industry, Innovation

New findings from a collaborative research project involving Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd. (TYO:5110) could lead to an improved supply of natural rubber. Working in collaboration here with Tohoku University, Kanazawa University and the Riken SPring-8 Center, Sumitomo Rubber has managed to elucidate the structure and modify the functionality of cis-prenyltransferase NDPS1, a tomato-derived enzyme with a structure similar to that...

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Toyoda Gosei Invests in Tohoku University Startup for Chemical Sensors

on December 23, 2020 in Industry

Toyoda Gosei Co. Ltd. (TYO:7282) recently announced that it has invested in Ball Wave Inc., a Tohoku University startup company engaged in the development and sale of chemical sensors. By using surface acoustic waves (SAWs) – a physical phenomenon discovered by Tohoku University researchers – Ball Wave is working to commercialize what are called ball SAW sensors. Such sensors are...

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Major Research Seminar Looks at Natural Rubber From Biomaterial Engineering Perspective

on August 29, 2019 in Industry

The Japanese rubber industry, and tire companies in particular, are carrying out a flurry of activities with regard to sustainable natural rubber. This saw a recent research seminar held to think about natural rubber from the perspective of biomaterial engineering, with backers for the seminar including the Riken Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS), the Kyoto University Research Institute for...

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