The 69th Committee on Materials Processing and Applications

Materials and device processing is one of the technical fields that have greatly contributed to the establishment of the present fruitful and highly sophisticated technological society. In recent years, such process technologies have been applied not only to the production of materials from natural resources but also to materials recycling and waste treatment. Various processes have been proposed and developed as environmental technologies. The principles of most of these processes can be explained reasonably well by chemical thermodynamics or electrochemistry. However, researchers in different fields do not adequately recognize this fact, and mutual understanding among researchers appears to be insufficient.

The international conference '16th IKETANI Conference 2006: Electrochemistry and Thermodynamics on Materials Processing for Sustainable Production: Masuko Symposium' was held in the period 12-16 Nov., 2006 at the convention hall of Institute Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo. This conference, which was supported financially by Iketani Science and Technology Foundation and Japan Society of the Promotion of Science, aimed at reviewing materials processing from the viewpoint of electrochemistry and chemical thermodynamics. This conference was chaired by Prof. Museum Maeda, Director of IRCSM and Prof.Nakamura , Head of Sustainable Engineering Research Center, IMRAM, Tohoku University, held in honor of long-term contribution to the progress of this field by Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo, Noboru Masuko who is a former director of Institute Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo. There were 230 participants, 69 oral and 30 poster presentations, including a plenary talk by Prof. Masuko. The presentations covered many fields such as novel processing, electrochemical processing, corrosion, environmental science, nanoionics, etc.

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