Sep 28, 2018
In the concept car, which is jointly developed by Toray, Mitsubishi Chemical, Sumitomo Chemical, AGC, Bridgestone, polymers will constute 47 % of the car, reducing the vehicle weight to 850 kg. The car has an egg-shaped cabin and a separate front wheel cover, a large...
Sep 28, 2018
By combining molecular design and structural analysis supported by universities and proprietary nano alloy technology owned by Toray, a research team at the company succeeded in uniformly dispersing a polyrotaxane circular polymers in the matrix resin of CFRP at the...
Sep 27, 2018
The wearable sensor was jointly developed by a team at RIKEN and the University of Tokyo. A periodic nano-grating structure was achieved on an ultra-thin substrate with a thickness of 1 μm, a height of several tens of nm and a period of about 700 nm. This periodic...
Sep 26, 2018
The Tokyo-based startup company, has developed glucose-modified polymeric micelles that interact with glucose transporter 1 (GLUT1) and thus allow to transport drugs through the BBB to the brain. Braizon Therapeutics URL...
Sep 26, 2018
The Tokyo-based company was established in November 2016 with the aim to find new therapies based on low-molecular weight drug discovery targeting nucleic acids. Investment is from several Mitsubishi Group companies. VIS URL...
