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Lecture Title: Tribology and Materials for Hydrogen Energy Society |
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Biography: Joichi Sugimura graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1981, and obtained a doctoral degree in 1986. He has been working for Kyushu University since 1986. His research areas are tribology and machine elements. He has also been working for research and education on hydrogen as an energy carrier, and he now directs Research Center for Hydrogen Industrial Use and Storage (HYDROGENIUS). He is also a principal investigator in International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (I2CNER) at Kyushu University. His current research interests are tribo-interface in hydrogen and various environments, sealing mechanisms and failures, greases, and modeling of surface microgeometry. |
