**Meet the editors**

Toshio Fukuda graduated from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan in 1971 and received the Master of Engineering degree and the Doctor of Engineering degree both from the University of Tokyo, in 1973 and 1977, respectively. Meanwhile, he studied at the graduate school of Yale University from 1973 to 1975. In 1977, he joined the National Mechanical Engineering Laboratory in Japan. From 1979 to 1980, he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Stuttgart, West Germany. He joined the Science University of Tokyo in 1981, and then joined Department of Mechanical Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan in 1989. From 1996 to 2002, he was Professor of Center for Cooperative Research in Advanced Science and Technology, Nagoya University. From 2002 to 2008, he was Distinguished Scholar of Institute for Advanced Research, Nagoya University. From 2008, he is a program leader of "COE for Education and Research of Micro-Nano Mechatronics". From 2009 Oct., he is a director of Center for Micro-nano Mechatronics. At present, he is Director of Center for Micro-Nano Mechatronics and Professor of Department of Micro-Nano Systems Engineering at Nagoya University, where he is mainly involved in the research fields of intelligent robotic system, self-organizing system, micro-nano robotics, robotic system under hostile environment, bio-robotic system, neuromorphic intelligent control, fuzzy control, control of mechanical systems and technical diagnosis.

Dr. Tomohide Niimi received his M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Nagoya University in 1974 and his Dr. E degree in mechanical engineering from Nagoya University in 1989. He became an associate professor in 1990, and a professor in 2002 at Nagoya University. His research interests are "High Knudsen Number Flows" including rarefied gas flows and flows around micro- and nano-devices, gas-surface interaction, laser-based measurement techniques for high Knudsen number flows such as REMPI(Resonantly Enhanced Multi-Photon Ionization) and PSMF(Pressure Sensitive Molecular Film).

Goro Obinata received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Tohoku University, Japan in 1974 and 1977, respectively. Since April 2003, he has been with EcoTopia Science Institute, Nagoya University, where he is a professor of integrated research project division. During 1983-1990, he worked as an associate professor at mechanical engineering for production, mining college, Akita University, Japan, and as a professor during 1990-2001. During 2001-2003, he was a professor of mechanical engineering department, graduate school of engineering, Nagoya University, Japan. His research interests are in the areas of control theory for electro-mechanical systems, analysis of human sensory/motor systems, and assistive devices and robots for human activities. He is currently the editor-in-chief of the JSAE International Journal of Automotive Engineering.

Contents

Preface IX

Chapter 1 **Research and Technology on Micro-Nano Mechatronics 1**  Toshio Fukuda, Masahiro Nakajima and Masaru Kojima

Goro Obinata, Hitoshi Hirata, Chikara Nagai,

Shigeru Kurimoto, Shuichi Kato and Tomonori Nakano

Eiji Shamoto, Norikazu Suzuki, Takashi Kato and Burak Sencer

**Between Peripheral Nerves and Electrical Control Devices 13** 

Chapter 2 **Neural Interfaces: Bilateral Communication** 

**Optical Diagnostic Techniques 33** 

**Methods and Mechanical Devices 49** 

Tomohiro Kawahara and Fumihito Arai

**by Solution Plasma Processing 109**  Osamu Takai, Maria Antoaneta Bratescu, Tomonaga Ueno and Nagahiro Saito

Chapter 7 **Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine 123** 

Chapter 8 **Electronic Structure Calculations for Nano Materials 167**  Nobutada Ohno, Dai Okumura and Yusuke Kinoshita

**Mechatronics for Biomedical Applications 77** 

Chapter 3 **High Knudsen Number Flow —** 

Tomohide Niimi

Chapter 4 **Precision Micro Machining** 

Chapter 5 **Micro-Nano Robotics and** 

Chapter 6 **Synthesis of Nanomaterials** 

Minoru Ueda
