About CEMS

The Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) brings together leading scientists in three areas—physics, chemistry, and electronics—to uncover the principles of emergent phenomena and to open the path to potential applications.

CEMS carries out research in three areas: strongly correlated condensed-matter physics, supramolecular functional chemistry, and quantum information electronics. It incorporates more than 150 researchers from around the world, organized into about 40 research groups, teams, and units. In order to create a sustainable and environmentally conscious society, cooperation between the fields of physics, chemistry, and electronics is critical. Bringing these three areas together allows the emergence of unpredictable breakthroughs within the center’s research.

The goal of CEMS is not to develop technologies that can be immediately put into application. It is not to push existing technologies forward, but rather to pursue radical new technological principles that will contribute to human society for decades, or even a century, in the future. To do this, it focuses on basic research and the development of new theories.

Researchers who have pioneered these three fields have been brought together along with young scientists who are not held back by existing theories, to work as a team to take on this challenging research. This is the real work of CEMS.

  • From the Director

    Message by Takahisa Arima, RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science Director

  • Introduction to EMS

    “Emergent matter science” is a new field dedicated to developing new materials with unique functions

  • Our Mission

    The purpose of the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science is to contribute to society by helping to maintain a harmonious, sustainable environment.

  • Organization

    The RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science is composed of three divisions and one program

  • CEMS Printed Materials

    Pamphlets and other publications in PDF are available here

  • Researchers and Staff

    Search for researchers and staff of the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science