Tsukuba Research Center for Interdisciplinary Materials Science (TIMS) was established in the University of Tsukuba in April 2003 upon the achievements of Dr. Hideki Shirakawa, an emeritus professor of this university （Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2000). The aim of TIMS is to create future-oriented functional materials and to construct innovations for cross-disciplinary research on materials science through collaboration and integration of engineering and science. Recently our research objective has been focused on developing energy and environment-friendly materials. We are also intensively pursuing collaborative researches combined with different scientific fields to promote TIMS to a core center of materials science in Tsukuba Science City.
