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CONTENTS

Featuring Material Science

Insight from Customer (Interview)
Interview with Dr. Gunnar Merz 04
We interviewed Dr. Gunnar Merz, CEO of CFK Valley e.V. in Germany. The CFK Valley e.V. is an established World-wide
competence network for carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRP, German abbreviation is CFK). More than 100
international companies, research facilities and universities are organized in the non-profit association.

Insight from Customer (Report)
CFK-VALLEY STADE CONVENTION 2017/2018:WHEN VISIONS BECOME REALITY 06
CFK Valley hold their convention every year to exchange new ideas among the members, and welcome the new partners
around the world. The convention 2018 will take place on June 12thʵ13th in Stade, Germany.

Article 1 (Material Science)
Development of Solid-State Emissive Materials Based on Aggregation-Induced 07
Emission-Inducible Organoboron “Element-Blocks”
Emissive organic materials are versatile for the application to advanced organic devices such as paper displays, flexible
photovoltaic cells, and printing electronic circuits. In particular, organoboron complexes including polymers have
gathered much attention as a key building block for the next-generation of opto-electronic devices because of their
opto-electronic functions.

Article 2 (Material Science)
Detection of Inclusions in Metal Materials Using an Ultrasonic Fatigue Testing System 10
Generally it is known that with most structural metal materials the fatigue strength lowers until a load is applied 10 6
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times, and from 10 times onward the fatigue limit is reached, at which no fatigue fracture will occur. However, it is also
revealed that with high-strength metal materials that are hardened or surface treated, internal inclusions become an
origin of a fatigue fracture and cause a fracture even at 10 to 10 cycles.
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Shimadzu Selection 12
Shimadzu selected 13 articles for this issue. They derive from application notes related to material sciences, and utilize a
variety of Instruments we produce. Cutting-edge technologies are also included.

Topics
Shimadzu has acquired AlsaChim, a specialist for high-quality analytical isotope labeled 15
standards
Shimadzu has joined forces with the France-based AlsaChim company, an independent contract research and development organization.
AlsaChim specializes in stable isotope-labelled compounds, metabolites and pharmaceutical related substances, and analytical purposes.

Topics
Shimadzu Promotes the Creation of Products Using Key Technologies Through Joint Research 16
and Development Innovation Centre in Singapore in Operation
Shimadzu has established the Innovation Centre in its oversea subsidiary Shimadzu (Asia Pacific) Pte Ltd. (SAP) to manage
most advanced joint research and development with local researchers, and started operations on November 17, 2017.

Topics
Shimadzu Donates Mass Spectrometer to the International Atomic Energy Agency Supporting 17
developing nations by applying nuclear technology to food safety
Shimadzu Corporation and the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency, headquartered in Vienna, Austria) have agreed
on the donation of a Shimadzu LCMS-8060 High-Performance Liquid Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer to the agency.

New Products
HITS-TX (High-Speed Impact Testing Machine), MALDI-8020 (Benchtop Linear MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometer Microscope),
Polymer Additives Library (GC/MS Mass Spectra Library for a wide range of Additives utilized in polymer materials), 18
IRSpirit (Compact Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrophotometer)