Research Equipment
Center
The Research Equipment Center secure and efficiently operate advanced equipment and devices, indispensable to cutting-edge research, and improve effective equipment services to researchers within the University.
Center Aims
Several executive board meetings held serious and lively debates about specific ways to plan and implement improvements and reforms, and the outcomes for the Research Equipment Center were set out in the October 4, 2007 document titled, "Towards significant strengthening of the research environment at the Tokyo University of Science" (Tokyo University of Science, Organization for Research Advancement, Research Equipment Center Reform Report). The aims which the Research Equipment Center should achieve are broadly summarized under the following headings.
- Strengthening the research organization at TUS
- Building a research environment through acquisition and effective utilization of advanced equipment
- Centralization of the research organization
- Efficient operation of facilities, equipment and devices
- Efficient utilization of research resources within the University
- Management and operation of equipment that reflect the purposes of the whole university
- Operational jurisdiction, co-ordination, maintenance and management of controlled equipment
- Far-sighted introduction of strategic equipment from a university-wide perspective
Equipment Registered at
the Center
- Mass spectrometer
- 16 Units
- NMR and other (nuclear) magnetic resonance equipment
- 13 Units
- X-ray analyzer
- 13 Units
- X-ray fluorescence analyzer
- 3 Units
- Scanning electron microscope
- 5 Units
- Transmission electron microscope
- 4 Units
- Atomic force microscope
- 4 Units
- Laser system
- 2 Units
- Spectrophotometer
- 10 Units
- Others
(analytical equipment, etc.) - 13 Units
- Others
(Biomaterial analysis equipment) - 24 Units
- Others
(pecial measurement system) - 12 Units
- Utility-related equipment
- 4 Units
