2011 年 32 巻 5 号 p. 262-269
Several R & D topics related to surface science in automobile industry are reviewed in chronological order from early 1970s, including topics on instrumental analysis of surfaces, sputtering and plasma processing, birefringent thin films, all optical sensors, transient analyses of surface chemical reactions in automobile catalysts, recordable CD-Rs which can be played in DVD-ROM drives, solar cells and photochemical reduction of CO2.