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We would like to acknowledge the financial support by NEDO/RITE in the framework of the International NEDO-project Device for hydrogen production" and also by the DFG (SFB 480, project Cl). We are also grateful to Claudia Koenig and Bettina Thiiner for excellent technical assistance. 

The use of such natural hydrogen production machines in combination with the natural process of photosynthesis is the topic of an international NEDO project for the development of a semiartificial device for hydrogen production. On the occasion of the second meeting of all groups involved in this project, an international symposium on Biohydrogen was organized in Kyoto 2002. The state of the art of biohydrogen production from participants of this symposium is summarized in the chapters of this book. 

This work was funded by the NEDO project from Japanese Government. 

This work was supported by a NEDO project, a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) 14350010 and a Grant-in-Aid for the creation of innovation through business-academy-public sector cooperation from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture. 

Eisenreich, N., Sakai, T., Eckl, W. et al. Practical research of wood-Uke thermoplastic using Ugnin extracted by high pressure hydrolysis process, NEDO project G-02 Registration number 2002GP008, http //www.nedo.go.jp/content/100084713.pdf (accessed 22 June 2013). 

Jinli Qiao is a professor, PhD supervisor, and scientific core-competency leader at Donghua University, China. She earned her PhD in electrochemistry from Yamaguchi University, Japan, in 2004 before joining the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan, as a research scientist. From 2004 to 2008, Dr. Qiao carried out seven fuel cell projects including two NEDO projects in Japan on the development of novel proton-conducting membranes, new binders for membrane electrode assembly (MEA)... 

Acknowledgments Financial support by the current NEDO project Development of System and Elemental Technology on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC) is gratefully acknowledged. We thank Associate Prof A. Hayashi and WPI Assistant Profs. S. Lyth and S. Bishop in Kyushu University for carefully reading the manuscript and Ms. A. Zaitsu in Kyushu University for her editorial work. 

Okuda M (2010) Solid oxide fuel cell demonstration program. In Proceedings of the report symposium of NEDO projects on fuel cells and hydrogen, Tokyo, July 7-9, NEDO, Kawasaki, pp 141-148... 

The research of this chapter was partially supported by NEDO projects of Nano Structure Formation for Advanced Ceramic Integration Technology in Japan - the nano technology program . 

We have conducted this research within the Project of Micro-Chemical Technology for Production, Analysis and Measurement Systems financially supported by the New Energy and industrial Development Organization (NEDO). We would appreciate the Micro Chemical Plant Technology Union (MCPT) for their support. 

NEDO (1991) Geothermal development promotion survey project — the Hishikari area. Tokyo New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, 982 pp. (in Japanese). 

This work is partially supported by a grant from the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) to a collaboration project between Seiko Epson Corporation and JSR Corporation. 

We thank Dr. M. Hirano at Toray Research Center, Kamakura for providing us with the purified PS II. We also thank Dr. H. Minamikawa for the synthesis of Maln(Phyt)2 and Dr. K. Kawasaki for the FFEM experiments. This work was performed as a part of a R D project of AIST (subject Physical properties of membrane protein/lipid assemblies) and of International Joint Research Program FY 2001-2002 supported by NEDO. 

The development of bio-based succinic acid production was carried out as the NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, an implementing agency of METI in Japan) project from 2004 to 2006, and the possibility of bio-based materials was confirmed. 

R D on Lithium-ion Battery for FCVs. In order to complement fuel cell development and to advance efficiencies of FCVs, this project focuses on the commercialization of high efficiency and high-power rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. Work is conducted by METI/NEDO. The budget allocations for 2002-2003 total 2.9 billion the 2003 allocation is 1.95 billion. 

The authors would like to thank our project members ftom National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Toppan Printing Co. Ltd, Sharp Corporation, Astellas Pharma Inc., Tokyo University of Technology and Kumamoto University. This work was financially supported by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), Japan. 

Acknowledgments The present author would like to thank Drs. T. Tanaka, E. Kokufuta, M. Tokita and S. Gorti for valuable discussions. This work was supported in part by a Grant for International Joint Research Project from the NEDO, Japan. 

The authors acknowledge T. Sekitani, H. Kawaguchi, S. Iba, Y. Kato, Y. Noguchi, and Y. Murase for their invaluable contribution to the projects on large-area sensors. They also thank Professors Yasuhiko Arakawa, Hiroyuki Sakaki, and Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami, University of Tokyo, and Mr Tadashi Kobayashi, for fruitful discussions. The projects are partly supported by the IT Program, MEXT of Japan, NEDO, and MPHPT. 

This work was supported in part by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project No. 01-03-32045, and NEDO International Joint Research Grant Program (project 011MB9). 

This work was supported in part by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (No. 13853009 to SS Nos. 16380060 and 18380057 to MK). This work was also carried out as a part of the Project for Development of a Technological Infrastructure for Industrial Bioprocesses on R D of New Industrial Science and Technology Frontiers of the Ministry of Economy, Trade Industry (METI), and the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) (to SS). 

This work was partly supported hy Project to Create Photocatalyst Industry for Recycling-oriented Society supported by NEDO, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) (General) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan. 

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