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The power to see what was invisible
strengthens technology again.

Competitiveness in manufacturing is no longer determined by experience and intuition alone.
Materials, structures, interfaces, reactions, degradation—how deeply and accurately you can capture information about "things" makes the difference in R&D.

Why NanoTerasu Now

As technology becomes more advanced,
development difficulty and costs rise.

As products and materials become more sophisticated, development challenges become more complex, requiring more equipment, personnel, time, and expense. However, companies and regions capable of massive R&D investment are limited.

Even with excellent seeds of technology, without the infrastructure to verify and refine them into a form that can compete globally, it becomes difficult even to stand on the competitive stage. NanoTerasu is a platform for companies and researchers to share an advanced analysis environment that a single company or institution cannot possess alone.

"The power to know" is directly linked to "the power to create."

A synchrotron radiation facility is not just a large-scale experimental facility. It is an R&D infrastructure supporting the foundation of next-generation industries such as materials, semiconductors, energy, food, pharmaceuticals, and environmental technology.

Countries, companies, and regions with advanced visualization data gain an advantage at the starting point of R&D. NanoTerasu is the foundation for Japanese companies to compete globally again.

What is needed in the AI-driven R&D era

AI should be taught with
high-precision data rooted in reality.

The era of AI-driven research and development is arriving. Using simulation, machine learning, and generative AI to accelerate material design and experimental planning is spreading.

To connect simulations in digital space with reality, high-precision visualization data approaching the true form of things is essential. The synchrotron radiation data generated by NanoTerasu can serve as the ground truth in AI-driven R&D.

How much and how high-quality unique data a company can possess will determine its future competitiveness.

AI and Ground Truth Data

Wishes embedded in NanoTerasu

From the Great East Japan Earthquake,
taking Japanese technology to the world again.

The concept of NanoTerasu began just one week after the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. Amidst the "lost decades" and the pain of the disaster, there was a wish to create a new R&D base in the disaster area and a platform for Japanese technology to soar globally again.

NanoTerasu is a symbol of reconstruction and a place for challenges that support the industries of the next era.

NanoTerasu at Sunrise

To make full use of NanoTerasu

From a "usable facility" to an
"R&D foundation that leads to results."

To turn an advanced synchrotron radiation facility into a company's competitive advantage, practical support on "which challenges to use it for" and "how to interpret the data" is necessary. That mechanism is the Coalition.

Coalition Support System

What is the Coalition?

PhoSIC's Coalition is a system for connecting NanoTerasu to industrial use. Companies bring their own challenges and work with academic researchers and experts to solve them using synchrotron radiation.

Becoming a Coalition member is not just about gaining rights to use the facility. It is about standing at the entrance to using advanced R&D infrastructure as part of your company's technical strategy.

Value of Becoming a Coalition Member

Find solutions to challenges you couldn't see alone.

Visualization

Precisely visualize internal structures and interface states of materials and products at the atomic level.

Accelerated Problem Solving

Approach the root causes of degradation and failures, and dramatically speed up hypothesis testing in new material development.

AI & Digital Foundation

Accumulate high-quality measurement data as company assets to improve the accuracy of AI and simulations.

Co-creation with Experts

Receive advanced analysis and insights from academic researchers and professional concierges.

How to use via the Coalition

Maximizing Speed, Security, Synergy,
to provide an industrial platform with Flexibility, Accessibility, Sustainability.

There are four main mechanisms available for using NanoTerasu within the Coalition framework.

Coalition Membership Sharing 2000 Friendly Bank High School Education Use
NanoTerasu

NATION x TOHOKU

Public-Private-Regional Partnership

Integrating private and regional perspectives into a stable national foundation. This is what has enabled a
"speedy, highly flexible system optimized for industry" that breaks with conventional wisdom.
This partnership transforms NanoTerasu into an Innovation Platform that delivers tangible results.

Nation

National Government (QST)

As the national entity, QST is responsible for the construction and maintenance of the world's highest performance accelerator, and for promoting its academic use. It supports the foundation of science and technology with a mission to enhance Japan's international competitiveness.

Tohoku / Private Sector

Regional Partners (Miyagi, Sendai, Tohoku Univ, etc.)

Proactively driving industrial use from a "private-sector perspective." By implementing speedy and highly flexible operations that bypass traditional constraints, we provide a support system tailored to the actual needs of the business front lines.

Take Japanese technology to the world again.
Building the R&D foundation of the AI era together.

NanoTerasu is a common platform for Japanese industry to show its presence globally again.
By companies with challenges coming together and making use of it, the possibilities for new industries will expand.
Join this challenge as a Coalition member of PhoSIC.

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