Symposium K:
Functional Materials Research for Social Implementation

National College of Technology (NIT), called KOSEN was established in 1961 in response to a strong demand from the industrial sector to foster engineers. There are 51 College of NITs in Japan. Approximately, 10,000 students graduate from NITs every year. The NITs provide five and/or seven years engineering education from 15 years old and they have various departments in the college related to many material chemistry and technology. The college students who have completed the 7 - year curriculum, acquire a bachelor degree. In the field of material science, research team consisting of faculty members and students works on research and development with a view toward practical application. In this symposium, we welcome the presentations from researchers and students belonging to the NITs concerning research and development aimed for the practical application, especially selecting six topics such as energy, material engineering, recycling, structural materials, biomaterials and tribology from the materials science field. Of course, we are expecting a lot of participation from outside filed and member.

Topics will include:

• Energy materials

• Materials engineering 

• Recycling 

• Structural material

• Simulation

• Polymers and soft matter

• Biomaterial

• Biomedical materials

• Agriculture

• Sensor materials and technologies

• Processing and manufacturing

• Social implementation

• Application materials