AsianScientist (Oct. 17, 2016) – Leading research institutes from France and Japan have launched a joint laboratory in Sendai, Japan to study the behavior of materials subject to extreme and complex stress.
Tohoku University in Japan has been collaborating with research teams in Lyon, France for more than 30 years, leading to the creation in 2004 of liaison offices at Tohoku University and Université de Lyon, along with numerous academic agreements facilitating the exchange of students and young researchers between the French and Japanese teams.
The research conducted at the newly-formed ElyTMaX laboratory (CNRS/Université de Lyon/Tohoku University) focuses on the behavior of materials—and the systems they form with other structures—under extreme and complex conditions (pressure, temperature, radiation, or highly corrosive environments).
Among the research areas being developed at ELyTMaX are the analysis of the evolution of materials used in industry; study of microsystems used for the conversion of energy and their resistance to pressure and electric fields; and the study of the ageing of materials used in biomedical applications—for instance, in prostheses or bone substitutes.
Each of these research areas aims to elucidate the behavior of materials subject to complex stress beginning with their production and implementation, in order to assess their life span.
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Source: Centre Nationnal de la Recherche Scientifique; Photo: ELyTMaX Laboratory.
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