JSPS Core-to-Core Program

The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Core-to-Core Program; Advanced Research Networks (A) is designed to create top world-class research centers that partner over the long term with other core research institutions around the world in advancing research in leading-edge fields, on issues of high international priority. While advancing research in these fields and building core research, the Core-to-Core Program also concentrates on fostering the next generations of trailblazing young researchers.


Our 5-year project “Solid-state chemistry for transition-metal oxides: Exploring for new materials with novel functionalities” was started in April, 2016. The consortium consists of materials chemists and physicists in Japan, UK, France, Germany, and Taiwan, with common interests in materials science and solid-state chemistry and physics. The program core institute is Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Japan (Coordinator: Prof. Yuichi Shimakawa), and the partner institutes are Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions and School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, UK (Prof. J. Paul Attfield), Institute Charles Gerhardt, University of Montpellier, France (Prof. Werner Paulus), Max-Planck-Institute for solid state research, Germany Prof. Hidenori Takagi), and Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taiwan (Prof. Ru-Shi Liu).

The counter program “EPSRC-JSPS Core-to-Core Collaboration in Spintronics and Advanced Materials” (Principal investigator: Prof. J. Paul Attfield in University of Edinburgh) supported by EPSRC, UK was also adopted.