High-value materials from incineration residues of burnable garbage

−124− Synthesiology English edition Vol.11 No.3 pp.124–132 (Feb. 2017) AIST took on the challenges of finding solutions to topics such as “achievement of high efficiency in garbage treatment by local governments (improvement of prof itability)” and “further use of distributed energy facilities” as new research topics. When the project is organized into Fig. 1, one realizes that when research results progress to the next stage, collaboration with human resources with different specialties is important, and it can be seen that the key point is to transmit the significance of the research results in a comprehensive manner when building such collaborative relationships and to have the results be recognized widely throughout society in the process of “result dissemination.” Since the field of specialties were totally different among the specialists who had the knowledge of plant operation for waste disposal plants at Mitsui E&S, the researchers working on chemical reaction and molecular design at the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Catalytic Chemistry, AIST, and the researchers studying chemical engineering or surface chemistry at the Research Institute for Chemical Process Technology, AIST, there was no opportunity for these people to directly exchange opinions in usual activities such as at academic meetings or at paper presentations. As R&D specialties become more diversified, it is becoming difficult to scan other fields or even science and technology in general. Therefore, events such as the Techno Bridge Fair in which AIST’s technological potential is introduced to people of industry are important, so they can get an overview of the research conducted at AIST and to transmit the results widely and systemically. Looking back, it can be said that the breakthrough point of this research was the matchmaking