1. Suppression of Thermal Expansion by Negative Thermal Expansion Materials

 

  1. Understanding of Anisotropic Microstructure Development and Material Properties through External Field Support
 

  2. Control and Manipulation of Microstructure in Magnetic Materials for Functional Devices
 

  3. Novel Electronic Properties of Transition Metal (including Rare-Earth Metal) Materials

  4. New Developments of Hard (Tool) Materials

  5. Recent Advances of Materials and Technologies on Additive Manufacturing

 *  With the rescheduling of this meeting, two themes (No.4 & No.5) will be added to the special session.
**  Details on these themes are available on this site. (However, only in Japanese)