• Design of environment-friendly thermoelectric materials
• Heat resistant alloys based-on intermetallic compounds
• Phase equilibria and atomic diffusion for alloy design

1.   Yoshisato Kimura and Akihisa Zama: “Thermoelectric Properties of P-type Half- Heusler Compound HfPtSn and Improvement for High-Performance by Ir and Co Additions”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 89(2006), in press.

 2.  Yoshisato Kimura, Tomoya Kuji, Akihisa Zama, Yasufumi Shibata and Yoshinao Mishima: “High-Performance of Half-Heusler MNiSn (M=Hf,Zr) Single-Phase Thermoelectric Alloys Fabricated using Optical Floating Zone Melting”, MRS Symp. Proc., Vol. 886, Mater. Res. Soc., Pittsburgh, PA, (2006), pp. 331-336.
 3.   Yoshisato Kimura, Kiichi Sakai, Fu-Gao Wei and Yoshinao Mishima: “Extra Ordering of Carbon Atoms and Mechanical Properties of E2₁ Co₃AlC Based Heat Resistant Alloys”, Intermetallics, 14(2006), pp. 1262-1269.

 4.   Yoshisato Kimura, Masaharu Komiyama and Yoshinao Mishima: “Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of MoSi₂/TaSi₂ Two-phase Alloys”, Intermetallics, 14(2006), pp. 1358-1363.

 5.   Yoshisato Kimura, Kiichi Sakai and Yoshinao Mishima: “Revolutionary Microstructure Control with Phase Diagram Evaluation for the Design of E2₁ Co₃AlC Based Heat Resistant Alloys”, Phase Equilibria and Diffusion, 27(2006), pp. 14-21.

 6.   Yoshisato Kimura, Hiroaki Yamaoka, Nobuaki Sekido and Yoshinao Mishima: “Processing, Microstructure, and Mechanical Properties of (Nb)/Nb₅Si₃ Two-Phase Alloys”, Metal. Mater. Trans. A, 36A(2005), pp. 483-488.

 7.   Yoshisato Kimura, Tatsuya Shimizu, Sachiyori Shiina and Yoshinao Mishima: “Atomic Diffusion and Phase Equilibria at the Interfaces of CoAl/Ir Multi-Layer on Nb₅Si₃-Base Alloys”, Metal. Mater. Trans. A, 36A(2005), pp. 591-599.

 8.   Yoshisato Kimura, Fu-Gao Wei, Hideyuki Ohtsuka and Yoshinao Mishima: “Magnetic Properties of E2₁-base Co₃AlC and the Correlation with the Ordering of Carbon Atoms and Vacancies”, MRS Symp. Proc., Vol. 842, Mater. Res. Soc., Pittsburgh, PA, (2005), pp. 395-400.