Research Center for Sustainable Material Energy Integration

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We are promoting integrated researches to solve material and energy issues for the sustainable society, including developments of material and energy integrated technologies to reduce fossil fuel consumption and to promote renewable energy, efficient recycling technologies of base and rare metals, and demand side systems studies with new material and energy technologies, etc.

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July 8, 2026	Report on the 1st Joint Symposium for Materials, Resources, and Energy: Innovations for the Future（8 July, 2026）
	Research Center for Sustainable Material Energy Integration (SUSMAT), Institute of Industrial Science (IIS), The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), and Research Center for Resource Circulation (RCRC), College of Engineering (CE), Seoul National University (SNU), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). To commemorate this milestone, the two centers jointly hosted the 1st Joint Symposium for Materials, Resources, and Energy: Innovations for the Future.

	The Research Center for Sustainable Material Energy Integration established in April 2022.
	The design of a sustainable society through the integration of materials engineering and energy engineering
	Through the successive activities of International Research Center for Sustainable Materials, Integrated Research Center for Sustainable Energy and Materials, and Center for Collaborative Research on Energy Engineering, etc. we have established a core base for researches on "energy, resources and materials" to realize a sustainable society, under strong collaborations between industryies and international institutes. 　In the new center established in April 2022, we focus on the developments of new material processes for carbon neutrality and new technologies for the production and utilization of clean energy. Furthermore, we promote investigations on optimizing the entire system from supply, final use to recycling based on the collaborations between materials and energy researches from a bird's-eye view.

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